My Banksy

In today's lesson we had to choose an image and turn it into a Banksy style stencil image. I chose Audrey Hepburn as she's such an icon, though to 'Banksy' it up i added Thomas the Tank Engine over her cigarette. To create this image, i just put them both onto photoshop, and changed the threshold levels, and the blur levels, and then sharpened each image a little. After getting the black and white stencil image i merged the two layers together and added a few final touches with the brushes to get the unclean dripped finish.

Once i had done this i had to go around longroad and find somewhere, where i would like to place my image, i took a photo of this and uploaded it onto my laptop. I then dragged my stencil image onto the wall and changed the image to overlay to make it look as if i had actually spray painted it onto the wall.

I am very happy with my final image, I didn't ever think i would be able to create something quite like this.

BANKSY

Banksy, is a British graffiti artist who's identity is still unknown. He was born in 1974 and was born and raised in Bristol, England and He started as a graffiti freehand artist in 1992-1994.

Banksy does not sell photo's of his street art, though art auctioneers have been known to try and sell his work. Though after an exhibition in LA in 2006, both Christina Aguilera and Kate Moss bought, and others, bought some of Banksy's work displayed in the exhibition for thousands of pounds. You can see some of Banksy's work across any major town or city across England and the US.

Below, are a few examples of Banksy's work. I like these as they're quite ironic.

Different Shapes and Sizes

I was looking at what its takes for people to be a model, and it all seems to be one thing - a size zero clothes horse. I came across Gok Wan's 'How To Look Good Naked' and he sends all sorts of women different shapes and sizes down the catwalk and filling them with confidence. This tells me that models shouldn't be a stick thin size zero, they should be able to be short, round, pear shaped, anything: as long as they look good and are able to sell whatever they are promoting. And surely, wouldn't having a REAL sized model appeal to more people?

Eugene Souleiman

Below are a few examples of Eugene Souleiman's work. I first saw his work in 'Fashion & Advertising' by , i liked all his work in there and thought it related well to what I'm thinking of doing for my Extended Project. Though after looking at his work, I'm thinking of going down another route, and looking at teen modeling, and what it takes for young women to be a model.

Reality Show:

Pretty Tough:

Art & Style:

Teen Spirit:

Change of Plan

I've now decided to do an advertising campaign for plus size models, as hannah is already doing a campaign on cosmetics. I came up with the idea, mainly through just general interest, being so fed up of seeing size zero models everywhere. I will just be doing a photograph campaign made up of women/girls of all different shapes and sizes.

Extended Project

Title: Fashion and Advertising

Author: Magdalene Keaney

Place of Publication: Switzerland

Year of Publication: 2007

Published By: RotoVision SA

Why did you choose this book?

I chose this book as it is two things that i am interested in: advertising - something i want to go into after college - fashion something i take interest in outside of college.

What made you pick it up?

I picked it up mainly because of the title, and it's something i would like to look into further, also the image on the cover was particularly eye catching.

What made you take it out?

It was a set task to do - "find a book that will help you with research for your extended project"

Give a brief Summary of what you think the book is about?

Photographers giving lighting tips etc, when doing a fashion photo shoot for a particular advertising campaign, examples of their work.

How do you think it will help with your Extended Project?

Well now I'm looking at fashion and advertising, i think the tips etc will help me when it comes down to thinking about setting and placements of models and props etc.

Saatchi Review

I quite liked the Saatchi Gallery. Though in some ways gallery itself can quite quiet and therefore perhaps not the place you will see a bunch or teenagers aged from 16-18, however the range of modern art is inspiring, and can make one feel quite tranquil, and start to think deeper than what's just there in front of them.

Grazia says, "The art is thoughtful and less-attention seeking than anything seen in the headline-grabbing YBA era" and I both agree and disagree with this statement, although in ways the art in the gallery has a subtle take on it, i believe all art had to have an attention seeking element to it, to make it stand out from the other pieces.

Charlotte Sinclair from Vogue says, "The exhibition brings together sculptures and paintings, photographs and installations that touch on the ideas of class, consumerism and culture." I agree entirely with this statement, i believe that all the art within with Saatchi has a touch of class, and also links with the happenings of today, which the consumer can relate to, making the art a joy to analyse.

Although the Saatchi has had a lot of praise, Richard Dorment from The Daily Telegraph has said, "For all that i loved the work of these several other artists in the show, i felt it was vitiated by the inclusion of a lot of blandly derivative art that seems to be here either because it was needed to fill up the gallery space or because Saatchi or a business partner thinks that even if its not all that good it may have a commercial potential." I think this is also true, although some of the art in the gallery is both inspiring and makes one think, other pieces, to me were dull, and i wasn't sure why they were in the Saatchi, however, i wasn't sure if this was because i couldn't see the link and therefore couldn't relate to it at all, or it was just art which had no point to it?

The Saatchi was a good experience, and opened my eyes up to the different kinds of art of today.