Meat Market

Prints of cows with and without the red added in.... seeing them now printed I would have liked to have changed the background to red and the highlights to the pink.

Sexy Cows

So I kind of drifted away from the animal fur protest partly because it seems alot of the class has an obsession with fur. I did mostly change my idea slightly to suit silkscreen because the previous drawings did not suit the layering technique. The cows that i'm am drawing now still has to do with how animals and how woman are being treated. The windows represent butchers shops in comparision to red light district windows.

Humour and Protest

I wanted to look at protest for animals that are unable to protest for themselves. Specifically looking at the fur trade. Any of the advertisments from organisations such as peeta who are against this never use animals in their images and always tend to stick to naked woman. So here are some of my first drawings on how animals would protest the use of their fur by wearin humans.

Photography

For my photography project I was influenced by the woodcuts by Christiane Baumgartner whose work starts off from photography and video and are cut to look like a sequence from a video very similar to cctv this allowed me to push the concept from tabloids of the pictures taken of celebrites who are carrying out mundane tasks and who also might not be aware their photos are being taken.

Working on prints

These are two of my lithos that I've worked on top of one where I stitched into the print to play on the idea of the cuts on the face from the Black Dahlia and other where I used lipstick to add colour.

Litho bit more

So this first image is my sketch for litho. Sticking with the lipstick idea as a methopher for more serious or even violent news I created these lips with smudged lipstick. The Black Dahlia was cut from mouth to ears creating whats known as a glasgow smile. And these other pictures are my drawing on the stone and my first litho prints.

Little bit o Litho

At first seeing what the first groups lithos entailed I was hesitant about using the headlines and stories brief for this and thought I would have preffewred to change to stuctures and systems but after my standstill a couple of weeks ago I'm now on a roll and definatly obsessed with the whole idea of the Black Dahlia and cant wait to continue this idea.
The Black Dahlia murder was very grusome especially for its time but over time it has become over-dramatised in films and we jus start to look at it as entertainment and a subject to get obsessed over rather than the serious subject of news that it is and that is murder.