Week 2 - learning an understanding the module for professional practice

Our group looked into Acquisition of skills, to do this you need to know....

communication skills with contacts and professionals within field
recording a lesson order to re-visit in depth analysis
evaluate yourself and other people
keeping a method journal -show communication and emails and photograph development

Alphabet of jobs in the industry

A - advertising - animation - app designer

B - book maker

C - children books

D - designer

E - executive illustrator - editorial illustrator

F - fashion illustrator - freelance illustrator - forensic portraiture
G - game designer
H - home ware merchandise e.g. mugs, tea towels, aprons
I - interior illustrator
J - japanese brush painter

K - kite designer
L - life drawer
M - manga illustrator
N - novelist
O - other
P - painter and decorator - pattern design - packaging - printmaker
Q - queen painter (historic illustrator)
R - rotoscope animator
S - set design - surface design - scientific illustrator
T - textile designer - typographer
U - upholstery design
V - vector designer
W - woodcut illustrator
X - xylophone designer
Y - yarn user
Z - zoologist illustrator

inspiration - fashion photography out of vogue - women - shapes curvy and beautiful

berlin wall - thousands of people tearing down the berlin wall- the movement of water and expressions create a pattern of thoughts

Hvar - Croatia - interrailing around europe summer 2014 - painting watercolour on the beach of the beautiful scenery - deep blues - baby blues - translucent - vivid greens - tranquility

retro badges - hvar - idea for setting up panels - storyborading

hvar - typography - red and yellow - striking primary colours - selected centre - shape - square

cotswold pottery - abstract female figure - shapes - sharp - pastel colours

cotswolds pottery, metallic, rusty earthy blue, shapes within shapes, female

rosa, logo idea, rosa turner illustraions, influence lady aiko nakugauva

vogue magazine, salon, black and white and striking yellow, leading colour, female figure, elegant, pure form, shadow and angles, duchess - sequential illustration ideas

me, nude modelling, cheltenham fine art school, learning how to pose, anatomy, listening and understanding how to teach (life drawing lecturer - viv ayres), contacts in the art world of cheltenham, artists, illustrators

Fabian Perez, black and white, Argentina nightlife, female figure dancing, flowing movement within the watercolour he uses "his atmospheric
portrayals of life after dark in Buenos Aires,
as ‘emotionalism’.

http://www.fabianperez.co.uk/biography/salida-the-beginning/

Jim Mitchell, 90 year old fine artist, studies the female form, his studio in his basement, focuses on colour and quick brush strokes within his work, dynamic, i see him twice a month and nude model for him and see how he documents his work

over a decade of painting of nudes, Jim Mitchell, based in Charlton Kings, Cheltenham , work experience, seeing how another artist works

fiery colours, shadow and space give a surreal feel to this painting

Jim's painting of a nude women, deep purple, electric greens and deep reds, the beginning of the painting, elegant pose. i have learnt as a nude model it is hard to hold certain poses for a long time but you meet inspiring artists who influence my work by stories, mark-making, use of colour and the way they work. Jim has 3 models in a day and works on big canvases and paper with enthusiasm and energy that you an see in his mark making, very direct.

Dani Bower - photographer at University of Gloucestershire - shadow and fluid - pattern- expressions and body language - reminds me of stairs and connection

Fumio's work "the Call"

Ben Breading - photographer at University of Gloucestershire- - primary colours - portrays fashion of youth of today 2014 - quifs - smart

Week 3 - Fumio's work (9th october 2014)

Background - comic books - visual influence - manga
born in Tokyo
come to UK 3 years ago - Glasgow School of Art- tutors there found it hard to work with Fumio because his work involved manga
The Initial Approach - children's books
started experimenting - collage - digging around skips with friends
went back to sequences - he found patterns in his work and took what he learnt and went back to character based illustration
Theme- Present- combining Japanese and European aesthetic
http://www.fumioobata.co.uk/portfolio.php
His strong artistic outlet is charcoal due to the medium creating density and being a weapon for him to release his thoughts and ideas from his head freely
some of his illustrations have been used in concept and background design
for example Manga background is cinematic therefore works with scripts
from studying in the UK he has learnt about composition and colour that have influenced his work a lot
he uses colour, shapes and composition for perspectives and emphasis on movement
as a result from experimenting with these characteristics of his work he became good at photoshop
good at expressing characters emotions by practicing looking at gestures of himself in the mirror
Illustration - how do you become recognised? 1) composition and movement 2) individual methods and applicaiton 3) both organic and digital format 4) organic things will stay! 5) what makes one so unique?
Getting into the industry - Fumio did stage projection - Animation for Duran Duran but only had 2 weeks to do it!
then he went to artist residency at the media museum at Channel 4's Aiv Scheme
joined studio in Edinburgh - learnt about good teamwork
worked in animation for 7 years
Animation - storyboarding- how to communicate - short synopsis - planning - how to co-operate with one practice
2008 left animation - he fond the industry was becoming too much about software
so he went to France to do graphic novel and worked as the artist residency for comic art at the world of Bande Desinee Angodene
For 7 years now he has lived in the UK due to the comic world moving into the UK and lots of festivals that happen
Guardian - Jonathan Cape and Gailkinard BD 2014 "just so happens" - started working with publishers - graphic novel e.g. bao publishing, Milan
Do lots of books - promoting yourself - good money earner if they become popular
comic book - industry is growing
ELC - Edinburgh League of Comics
March 2011 - Earthquake, Tsunami Fumio created a book from the events
he wants to show emotions and wounds "inspiration come from cultural differences and social issues in his surroundings."
Book making - you need to know your market - Internet - working with publishers, as well as individually- gain audience
function and developing characters - SIMPLIFICATION (how much detail to reduce?) DEFORMATION and PERSONALITY
How characters influence stories - 2 ways - they create memorable characters then a story OR story before characters e.g. gladiator
themes can be crossed over in stories e.g. teenage angst and action
Animals and people resemble - get rid of details and simplify it and pick up personality of person
with three FUNCTIONS on how to design characters you can con very feeling by composition, shape and feeling

Cotswold animals in charcoal and ink on big canvases going to be sold at the West country Equine Fair 2014 in Exeter December - trade stand and selling as Rosa Turner Illustrations

Inspiration from Salon where i work at part time.. for next narrative story - a girl that lived in a tiny doll house - objects - surreal - feeling about her childhood

Week 4 - Georgina Hounsome work - illustrator, designer, printer and lecturer

(top image) Newly Fish Festival 2014 books (bottom image)Remembered Islands, a print and drawing based project looking at the role of memory, the imagination and intuitiveness within image making. The Islands are memories from a residency in Kristiansand Norway in May 2013. Silkscreen monoprints with graphite drawing.

Illustration Synposium

Will Morris - studied M.A.Camberwell College of Arts -lives in Scotland - medium- fine liners, indian inks, washes and digital illustration- first graphic novel "Silver Darlings" published by Blank Slate Books

Ben Newman - works as a part time art director for Flying Eye Books-his clients have been Tate Modern, New York Times, BBC Radio 4- recently done a children book called 'Professor Astro Cat's Frontiers of Space' (above) published by Flying Eye Books - his style has a mixture of boldshapes,bright colors and playful characters 'bauhaus fuzzy felt'.

Week 5 -slideshow on my degree plus and cv building for work experience

The Cheltenham Illustraion Awards at the Wilson Museum. versatile work shown from Shaun Tann to Students (above, Dans Des Eynon, the beekeeper, Falmouth University) from all over the country.

Week 6 - work experience with Freida Hughes

Sunday 2nd November 2014 i went to view Frieda's private exhibition that was full of rich colour from her influenves of living in the Australian outback.

i have emailed her ........

Hey Frieda

I really enjoyed seeing your work on Sunday and would love to see it all again very soon! Really inspired me and i especially liked your giant owls.

If possible i would really appreciate if you could answer some questions for me about your work? It would really help me for part of my work experience for my Illustration degree. so when you have a few moments to spare i would really appreciate it!

how did you became successful? - what has influenced your art work? - what are the major sources of your art work? your preferred dissemination of your images? - is there any ethical or philosophical standpoints to your work? - have you had any controversial aspects to your work? - is there any particular techniques you use in your artwork?

Many thanks

Emily Turner

stepping stones oil paint - media coming out onto the edges of the frame

influences for my artwork - leloir and moreno in les femmes savantes by toulouse lautrec

1896 Toulouse Lautrec

Dance at the Moulin Rouge by Toulouse Lautrec

sketch of man and horse by Toulouse Lautrec

Auguste Rodin black chalk on grey paper

Email reply from Frieda Hughes

how did you became successful? Delighted that you think I am. Worked very, very hard. Not much sleep. No drugs – ever, why muck up the brain that you want to work well for you? Not much alcohol and never NEVER when working. Some luck. More hard work. Some talent. Yet more hard work. Self-belief. Love of painting and love of all that I paint.
- what has influenced your art work? Nature and a love of colour; especially trees and rocks - what are the major sources of your art work? Nature and a love of colour your preferred dissemination of your images? Not sure what you mean…but basically, watercolour on paper, oil on canvas and any means that engages the physical touch and real sight of a real human being rather than anything virtual, insubstantial and unsustainable. is there any ethical or philosophical standpoints to your work? Only that I like to draw almost anything – but never want to actually PAINT man-made objects, although I’m happy to paint all over them. - have you had any controversial aspects to your work? Yes, once painted two life-sized men in a changing room having just finished a game of tennis. One was black, one was white, each had taken off his clothes and each was half way climbing out of his own skin – under each skin they were the opposite colour. White people didn’t mind this, but a black visiting tutor at St Martins was so excoriating about it that he wasted an entire lecture on why a painting that made black and white men equal was BAD. Eventually, I painted an aerial view over it (wish I hadn’t) because it made my black friends so uncomfortable. The moral of this story is, keep everything,b ecause what seems awful now is different later. is there any particular techniques you use in your artwork? Anything that is appropriate to the image that I’m trying to create; building up layers with a palette knife, slim strokes with a brush in diluted paint, chopping up oil paint skin to use to give texture……..

All Saints Design (a graphics company) i contacted to get some work experience but unfortunately they don't have the space.

Hi Emily,

Sorry for the late reply, been a bit manic lately.

Unfortunately as we now almost exclusively work from the home office (which is tiny) there really isn't the room.

But stay in touch as you never know.

Best

Jonny

Temple Guiting School i have been in contact with and i am doing work experience there in January for a week, teaching and learning how to teach art activities.

Emily
That would be fine. Your sister can sort out the details.
I look forward to meeting you.
David Ogden

-----Original Message-----
From: turner [mailto:turner19@hotmail.co.uk] 
Sent: 09 October 2014 12:19
To: head@templeguiting.gloucs.sch.uk
Subject: work experience

Hey

I contacted you before the summer holidays to discuss work experience..i am
Kate Siller sister and you have daisy at your school. I am a second year at
University of Glos studying Illustration and wanting to become an art
teacher in the future.

Would it be possible to come and do work experience for a week 19th-23rd
January? 

Many thanks 

Emily Turner

Next Friday (14th November) i am going to do some reportage  illustration for Gloucestershire Rugby Club collaborating with Heather Stanley (a photographer) and Charlie Beeson (a graphic designer) and present it at some point to the company to see if they would like to put our images into their magazine.

http://www.gloucesterrugby.co.uk












 Rosa Turner Illustrations













From growing up in the rugged countryside of Devon. I have
always been intrigued by intricate forms. 
Sitting and sketching in my tree house and putting my senses and
emotions into drawings has made me into an expressive illustrator through
subject matter and mark making.  

My work is organic and sensual to look at with pattern being
the main feature. I love to experiment with ink, fabrics and acrylics to convey
my main topics women, symbolism, animals and documentation.  

My aims for work experience 

·      
Learn how to present my work 

·      
Learn how to market your work 

·      
Learn how to present myself as an illustrator 

·      
Learn how to manage my time efficiently during a
brief 

·      
Learn how to co-operate with the client in a
professional and creative manner

·      
Learn what additional skills I need to know to
be a successful illustrator

·      
Understanding and knowing which market I’m going
into

5 Artists/ Illustrators contact for interviews 

·      
Freida Hughes (Fine Artist/Poet)

·      
Amanda Clark (Interior designer)

·      
Rebecca Denyer – White (Graphic designer)

·      
Simone Lia (authorial illustrator)

·      
Jonathan Horn (Graphic designer)

Work Experience 

·      
West Country Equine Fair (6-7^th
December)

·      
Temple Guiting School (19^th- 23^rd
January)

·      
Pink Sky Design Group

·      
Kevin Dursley – designing and painting walls for
his BandB

·      
Gloucestershire rugby club – documenting a rugby
match – collaborating with graphic designer (Charlie Beeson) to create work
potentially for their magazine

What I want to become

·      
Secondary school art teacher (after degree onto
pgce)

·      
Masters in authorial illustration  (Cheltenham or Falmouth)

·      
Childrens book illustrator

·      
Art therapy for the disabled

·      
Reportage illustration (the guardian or the
independent)

·      
Have my own exhibitions

·      
A book published

i have also been setting up my own website ready for the Westcountry Equine Fair 6th & 7th December 2014 where i will be selling my love scenes and cotswold animals

http://rosaturner.co.uk

Week6-7- Cv Development - Pauline Ascroft

Think about YOU – skills, experience,

knowledge, quals, interests and ‘gaps’!

• Consider where you may want to be in

future – 2,5,10 years’ time?

• What type of organisation would you like

to work for in future? Maybe yourself?

• What counts as ‘experience’ for you?

Assignment criteria?

• Are you ready to apply?

what experience- what counts?

Formal experience

informal placement

Work shadow

informational interview

internship

networking

short course
voluntary work
competitions

do you want to?

create illustrations
Commission/promote/'know them'
teach illustration
research illustration
branch out a little

some future options?

Children’s book illustrator /Medical illustrator/artist Forensic artist /Archaeological illustrator Teaching /education

Picture researcher /In-house designer /Design agency  /Concept artist

Publishing/magazines/comics Greetings cards/posters Animation/computer games Web design

· Picture agencies

· • Self employment

· • Printing

· • Freelance

· • Advertising

· • Arts events work

· • Architectural illustrator

· • Art Therapy

· • Visual Merchandiser

· • Artist in residence

· •Postgrad

Where to look?

Schools, colleges, day centres, community centres,hospitals (Create,teach,therapy)

• Art galleries, museums, exhibition centres (selling and promoting)

• Large companies, institutions, cathedrals, hospitals (artist in residence/paid commission)

• Art galleries and shops, card/poster producers (creating/commissioning /buying art)

• Book publishers, educational publishers, ‘art’ websites, magazines , journals, auction houses , picture researchers and editors, archivist (know art)

• Festivals, arts events, arts administration etc (branching

out)

Making contact

Do your research on the organisation/ individual

• Get a name!

• Prepare your ‘script’

• Keep it focused – who you are/why you are contacting/what do you want/what can you offer?

• Telephone.....or email?

• Managing it all

what to say in 30 seconds.......

· State your NAME
}} Mention your EDUCATION
}} Explain the PURPOSE of your call }} Check they can spare the TIME

· ‘Hello Mr Jones. I’m Adam Smith and I’m a second year Illustration student at UoG. I’m looking for a 2 week placement with a (type of organisation).......... and I am very interested in (the work you sell/promote/exhibit) Do you have 10 minutes to spare so that I could talk to you about the possibility of having some experience with you?’

· Sent CV already?

· ‘Hello Mr Jones. This is Amy Jones. I sent you my CV/portfolio last week and I am hoping you may be able to offer me a short work experience at XXX. Just to remind you,I (pitch your skills).........’

Make the most of placement

· Develop your skills and self awareness
• Keep a diary
• Make an impression/become indispensable • Avoid the comfort zone
• Ask for feedback
• See how the theory relates to the practice • Socialise
• Build contacts
• Update CV
• Promote your successes!
• Develop teamwork skills
• Explore opportunities and keep in touch

Networking - creating your first list

Family/friends/colleagues/societies/previous school/fellow students/tutors/professional bodies

• What do they do/how can they help

• Who may they know? Get them thinking!

• Let them know WHAT help you are looking for – can you be specific?

• Keep notes

• Keep contacts updated on your progress and success

Social Media

Useonly‘appropriate’sites

• Linkedin is professional with 200+ million members

• Facebook useful but check your privacy settings!

• Twitter –great for keeping up with your profession and seeing jobs/placements

• Blogs – useful for ‘alternative’ opinions!

• egAlumnigroups/Societies

• Have you Googled your name (because so will an employer!)

• Consider about.me/ website to promote yourself

http://www.careers.manchester.ac.uk/findjobs/graduatejobs/networking/

Resources

• www.glos.ac.uk/careers

• www.artquest.org.uk great advice for artists on careers/promoting your

work

• The Association of Illustrators www.theaoi.com - advice on starting out in illustration, professional practice and industry announcements.

• The AWN Career Connections www.awn.com is part of the Animation World Network, and contains feature articles, interviews with professionals, galleries, discussion forums and job listings

• Creative Skillset’s website www.creativeskillset.org. good advice for the animation industry

• www.prospects.ac.uk – for a professional insight into the careers in this industry

• www.targetjobs.co.uk - graduate career information and vacancies

• www.creative-choices.co.uk/ info and advice for the creative industries

• www.gloucestershire.gov.uk schools, day centres etc

• Local NHS trusts for therapy/AinR/hospital schools

• http://www.resartis.org/en Info for residential artists

• Google ‘University of Wolverhampton Careers Centre Illustration’ – great leaflet on YOUR profession

Resources

• www.cheltenhamfestivals.com

• http://www.whsmith.co.uk/dept/magazines-art-and-

design-09x00001 List of Art/Design publications

• http://www.pinterest.com/dioncorreia/resume-design-

layouts/ Examples of visual/creative CVs

• http://jobmob.co.il/blog/most-creative-designer-resumes/

#axzz2pjHQ89Vd More examples

• http://community.ucreative.ac.uk/media/pdf/s/b/UCA- PersonalPromotion-2014.pdf Great booklet on promoting self/work

• http://www.n8w.com/wp/552Adviceongettingstarted– from a successful illustrator

6 top tips

Learn to work independently
ü Link up with other creatives
ü Learn to communicate with your clients üü Promote yourself effectively
ü Don’t be put off by low paid projects üü Develop your own style

Week 8 - Papio press - a talk from third years

Zanna and Harry Marshall set up a illustration business in their second year and are becoming successful!

using their illustrations they put them onto iPhone cases, bags, mirrors and prints on etsy and not on the hight street.com
the hardest thing they have found is TAX on the business
always have to think about making a profit on the item! think about buying it in, packaging and post
tumblr - best blogspot not on the highstreet.com - wealthy audience, £200 joining fee, 25% commission

My website - Rosa Turner Illustrations

Over the last week i have been taking photographs with Heather Stanley (a photography student) down at Hardwick studios , of my work to upload on my website, to make it look professional as possible. i have still to write a lot more about my work on the website but it is getting there, alongside with my business cards and posters ready for the West country Equine Fair.

3 questions on what to ask artist whilst interviewing....

1) is there any particular techniques you use in your artwork?

2)how did you became successful?

3)what has influenced your art work?

On friday 21st November 2014 i will be interviewing a graphic designer called Rebecca Deyner- White. I'm really excited to meet her and see her way of working and methods.

Friday 14th November 2014 I went to Gloucestershire rugby club to sketch Gloucestershire rugby club v Harlequins and did some reportage illustration. I tried to capture as much as the match atmosphere as I could with a photographer (who I am collaborating with) Heather Stanley. from looking at some of my sketches and Heathers photography I am thinking we could do thumb nails of the people arriving, watching the match, eating and drinking and laughter and then leaving. But capturing the personality or unexpected! On the other hand I was thinking of using bodyart and taking the colour or glos rugby club and painting an illustration on a rugby man body? (looking quite graphic with Charlie Beeson, a graphic designer, help)

Week 9 - writing a report on a children book we like....

Analysing Zagazoo by Quentin Blake

Quentin Blake is the author and illustrator of Zagazoo that was first published in Great Britain by Random House Children’s Books 1998, Red Fox edition published 2000.

My first impression of Zagazoo is that it’s very funny and makes me reflect on my stages of childhood and what I put my parents through. The synopsis of the story is about a young couple Bella and George that are happy with their lives doing lots of different activities together. But one day a patterned package comes through the post that they unwrap to find a baby called Zagazoo that they love dearly. Soon, unexpectedly he turns into a vulture, an elephant, a warthog, a dragon, a bat and a large hairy creature that makes the parents, Bella and George, question, after every unique change! In the end Zagazoo changes into a well-mannered young man and Bella and George have grown old to see their lovely son fall in love with Mirabelle. However Blake gives us a cliffhanger at the end of the story by Bella and George turning into Pelicans unexpectedly.

The book is about showing the stages of growing up and bringing up children through children’s eyes and parents eyes. Blake shows this through metaphorical imagery by playing with each stage of growing up from a baby to a teenager through different animals and their unique traits to convey emotion. For example a bad tempered teenager is shown through a dragon setting things on fire on pages 14 and 15. (1)

The narrative is paced through careful juxtaposition of words and imagery and colour. At the beginning of the story Bella, George and Zagazoo have bright colours however when Zagazoo has his first change that is a screeching vulture, a dark blue background is added that dramatizes the happy atmosphere into a serious one (2). But when another change happens the colours have a high contrast again that lifts the reader’s mood (3). When the story nearly reaches the end, the colours have a low contrast that makes the reader think things are slowing down (4). Until Zagazoo colours contrasts with his parents that makes the reader feel uplifted (5). Therefore the emotional pace is very up and down.

At the beginning there is use of repetitive imagery of Bella and George throwing Zagazoo as a baby in the air on pages 5 and 7 emphasising emotional intensity of how happy they are with their lives, so Blake makes the reader at his or her happiest point so he can change the emotional dynamic when Zagazoo has his first change (6). The story develops by Zagazoo changing into another animal on every other page and being formatted differently every time using space to show a strong or weak relationship or presenting images on a double spread in 4 boxes that run horizontally. The story is told by Blake (or the first person) that gives us an outside view of family life. Here is an example of imaginary words when Zagazoo as a dragon sets the carpet alight “He scorched the carpet” that is shown brilliantly with vibrant oranges and reds with splatters of ink to convey smoke. (7)

All the characters use diverse poses and expressions especially when different animals are conveying a particular emotion. The baby elephant is stereotypically known to be clumsy and annoying (like any young children) and Blake uses the elephant’s trunk to show this. With other props, like a tablecloth being pulled off by the baby elephants trunk (8). Bella and George are uniformly dressed in specific colours all the way through the story. For example Bella is always wearing pink and green dress and George is always wearing blue or red and yellow stripy jumper that stereotypes a young middle class sensible couple. After every animal change Bella or George question what is going on “This is appalling,” said Bella. “How can we cope” making the reader want to read on (9).

Location is never definitely defined in this story because a white background is always used. On the other hand props are used from the characters to suggest interior or exterior surroundings. Page 16 and 17 represent Zagazoo’s mood changes (that many teenagers have) from a bat, to a warthog, to an elephant to a dragon on a double page in a 4 box horizontal layout (10).

There are no end papers in this book that is a shame because it would give a clear presentational finish. The front cover has big bold black letters saying Zagazoo and Quentin Blake written in blue in his sketchy writing on the top border of the page, with an illustration of Zagazoo being opened up from the zig zag patterned parcel by Bella and Geroge. The back cover is also a white background of the blurb “the day the postman brought the strange looking parcel to George and Bella things started to change, and change and change. In fact, nothing was ever the same again.” Underneath is an illustration of Bella and George throwing the baby to one another with a quote from The Times and The Guardian “His books are skilful, original, exuberant and witty, and three generations of children have loved them.” (11)

The placement of text and image vary throughout the book. There are three key layout Blake uses. One where he formats 4 boxes of illustrations onto a 2 page spread (page 18 and 19) (12), two where he puts 3 boxes of illustrations underneath each other usually when a conversation happens (page 22 and 23) (13)and three where he leaves a large amount of space between characters to show the emotional relationship between the two characters (page 21and 22) (14). Blake has made the text always horizontal and given a times new roman typeface. This traditional typeface and traditional media used (ink and watercolour) I feel, gives a well-alliterated voice to the book, almost an old England tone.

The book could be read wordless because the images have space and composition to let the reader convey the narrative. The images have a bright use of colour at the beginning and low contrast of colour at the end (Bella and George uniforms) to show change of mood and movement that text wouldn’t be able to describe.

I feel that Blake depicts positive and negative space on each page that then changes the dynamics of text and image to emphasise the message he is trying to get across on that particular page. For example when Zagazoo changes into an elephant and explores various activities text is shown horizontally underneath each image so the reader looks at the illustration first then the text (pages 12 and 13) (15).

The text does not have rhyme but has rhythm mainly in the middle of the book, after Zagazoo changes each time into a different animal a phrase is used “but then….”. The language uses is a bit silly “its screeches were terrifying” (page nine) but most of all the content is funny “George ad Bella got up in the morning and discovered that Zagazoo had changed into a huge baby vulture” due to animals being related to the stages of growing up and parenthood (16). On some pages there are more text than others especially on pages 21 and 23 when Bella and George are having a conversation on what to do with Zagazoo (17). On the other hand on pages 20 and 21 there is a large amount of space between text and images because of the horror of Zagazoo turning into a hairy creature. Therefore Blake has used space to give emotional impact to the reader (18).

The line within the illustrations is angular, fluid, confident, organic and delicate. The tone is bright, dark, contrasting, pale and intense. There is an occasional Zig Zag pattern that is repeated (the parcel has zig zag patterns where zagazoo comes in) that I personally think is done to represent the main character and title Zagazoo. Blake has named the main character Zagazoo because this name can be anonymous and therefore relates to the story of constant changing into anything. However the textures are flat and soft within the book. (19)

Overall Blake has used metaphorical imagery to get his message across about the ups and downs of parenthood and childhood. He has done this by using animals to convey the stages of growing up. Through anthropomorphism he shows the highs and lows of bringing up a family that makes the reader relate to the characters easily. Due to the content being about family life any age group can relate to this therefore making it a universal book to read. At the end of the book you are left with an important message to realise that as a parent or child your are not the only one going through the same experiences of mood swings and changing physically and mentally. Also the book makes you feel everything turns out ok in the end in life “every cloud has a silver lining”. (20)

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Week 10 - More about Georgina Hounsome and what i have learnt so far from her - http://www.eyecandyillustration.com (georgina's agent - design agency)

residency cold press - learnt printmaking
commission for food magazine - commercial side
Took an MA authorial practice - strong link to making your own books - different way of working - did lots of printmaking - produced a MA final piece by creating 40 sequences herself and arranging it yourself into any story you would like.
she entered the cheltenham illustration awards and folio society competition
things you can be as an illustrator - adaptable - reflective - serious - playful - empathic - honest - subtle - ambitious
looked at typography when she was a child - she puts this typography into her graphic screen printing
general background - BA Sculpture - blockbuster - boots - BA Illustration - Art technician - Freelance - teaching qualification - freelance - MA illustration - Teaching - freelance - lecturing - residencies - freelance - pirrip press - lecturing - freelance
2 years after she has finished her MA she did a collaboration with books
Exchange Gallery/ 2011 - Cornwall - Alex produced a book in 2 weeks - people from the gallery would watch them do the process
a curator in Berlin saw what they did in Conrwall - therefore they did the whole process again Berlin
A lot of stories come from science books - collected objects and visual research - writing ad reading
residency/ Norway/ 2013 finding out the history - with a group of people designed a book there and exhibited there about how light affect sight - printed in Bristol
her and another friend set up own company called Pirrip Press - work in Bristol - Spike Island - 24 hours access to printing - the stock in bristol and London - Pop ups - use Facebook and twitter to market themselves

clean, intricate drawings done in Norway 2013 by Georgina - i need to start doing clean observational drawings like this

Week 11 - My exhibition at Westpoint Exeter - The west country equine fair

6th 7th December 2014 i went to devon and set up my stall with my original cotswold animal canvases (alfred the Owl, Lucinda the Cow, Foxy fox and Posh pheasant) and my love scenes and screen printed cards of animals in various colours. i sold a painting (everlasting love 1mx1m), a few cards and my own screen printed Hardcore Tshirts by rosa turner illustrations. Next event i go to i will be getting digital prints done of my work "cotswold animals" so more things will be sold and its easier and portable for people to take home with them. i have also looked at point to point events in the Cotswolds and festivals in the summer that will have a countryside based audience that will be attracted by my "cotswold animal" paintings (charcoal and ink on canvas). I will also need to invest into a gazebo, a table and print holders so i look professional. Overall i learnt a lot and have potential got a few commissions set in place (the main conference room at west point) and i feel i did well for my first exhibition of Rosa Turner's illustrations.

below are the processes of getting things together for exhibition!

Week 11 - we have been given a small project to create an illustration of a typical day of an illustrator - i am illustrating the social media expectations of an illustrator and how do you stand out against other illustrators? therefore Georgina is riso printing and creating a small book of the whole years work of a typical day as an illustrator. (200mm x 200mm plus 5mm bleed)

Week 12 - In week 7 i went to gloucestershire rugby club and did some editorial illustration for them and applied for the unseen and got in, to now have my first illustration published by pitville press

week 13 - Thursday 8th January 2015 Reviewing Typical day of an illustrator in groups

i need to improve on the layout of my piece therefore i am going to take out the top bit, where it says illustrator and browse illustrations etc with the social media symbols and replace the top bit with the grid of boxes that represent individual illustrators profiles. I am still keeping the checking system of the viewer ok ticks and crosses and question marks but i will be adding social media symbols (twitter, instagram, Facebook and Pinterest) into the other boxes. we also discussed getting rid of the enlarges "profiles" with illustrations in and replacing it with more typography. From this i will be doing my second take on social media expectations of an illustrator and how do you stand out against other illustrators?

From analysing Sammi's work (my peer) she has done a sketchy version of her illustration for this topic first, so she got composition and line in the correct place before doing the final draft. i have learnt from her that i need to do more roughs and planning before i do the final piece! Sammi's topic with in typical day of an illustrator was managing your work space, through simple line and an oval composition she has shown this very well. the highlighted blue mug draws your attention and gives you room to create your own narrative.

On Friday 21st November 2014 i went to interview Rebecca (the manager of Redlemon company). The Red Lemon company is a digital marketing company that help all types of businesses creatively through creative branding, graphic design, animation, video, responsive web design and marketing. I learnt a lot from Rebecca due to her varied background and will continue doing so. she was an accountant and hated it but this gave her insight to business, she was striving for something a bit more creative so she went into marketing with boots group. She ten left boots and worked for a software consultancy that was very technical but added more strings to her bow. After she had children she became creative manager for a software company where she organised product design, advertising and anything creative - she learnt all this from experience and various jobs. But now she has her own business Red lemon, where she is always looking for illustrators, graphic designers and animators to do collaborations with for businesses.

http://www.redlemoncreate.com/#projects

It was really great to get her opinion on my new website and what i should do next! she has put me on root with a company in London to potentially do body art for?! however i learnt that i need to do as much experience as possible with anything creative so i can be the best i can be and i learnt a few tips about social media how to market myself and cost of printing from Rebecca.

Example of her work

Week 14 -11th January - We had a poetry anthologies meeting where we brought our roughs, ideas and thoughts. From Georgina explaining that we were creating book cover illustrations to go hand in hand with each three schools from cheltenham area that had created a theme each ("inside our heads" "some of these things are true" and "childhood memories") for their poems they had written themselves. I began to think of my own childhood memories and linked it in with advanced drawing where we looked at a poem called Fern hill by Dylan Thomas and illustrated. Inspired by metaphorical language and Gabriel Morenos work i created this piece for "Childhood memories".

#28 on top 500 poets

Poems by Dylan Thomas : 27 / 100

Fern Hill

Now as I was young and easy under the apple boughs
About the lilting house and happy as the grass was green,
The night above the dingle starry,
Time let me hail and climb
Golden in the heydays of his eyes,
And honoured among wagons I was prince of the apple towns
And once below a time I lordly had the trees and leaves
Trail with daisies and barley
Down the rivers of the windfall light.

And as I was green and carefree, famous among the barns
About the happy yard and singing as the farm was home,
In the sun that is young once only,
Time let me play and be
Golden in the mercy of his means,
And green and golden I was huntsman and herdsman, the calves
Sang to my horn, the foxes on the hills barked clear and
cold,
And the sabbath rang slowly
In the pebbles of the holy streams.

All the sun long it was running, it was lovely, the hay
Fields high as the house, the tunes from the chimneys, it was
air
And playing, lovely and watery
And fire green as grass.
And nightly under the simple stars
As I rode to sleep the owls were bearing the farm away,
All the moon long I heard, blessed among stables, the
nightjars
Flying with the ricks, and the horses
Flashing into the dark.

And then to awake, and the farm, like a wanderer white
With the dew, come back, the cock on his shoulder: it was all
Shining, it was Adam and maiden,
The sky gathered again
And the sun grew round that very day.
So it must have been after the birth of the simple light
In the first, spinning place, the spellbound horses walking
warm
Out of the whinnying green stable
On to the fields of praise.

And honoured among foxes and pheasants by the gay house
Under the new made clouds and happy as the heart was long,
In the sun born over and over,
I ran my heedless ways,
My wishes raced through the house high hay
And nothing I cared, at my sky blue trades, that time allows
In all his tuneful turning so few and such morning songs
Before the children green and golden
Follow him out of grace.

Nothing I cared, in the lamb white days, that time would
take me
Up to the swallow thronged loft by the shadow of my hand,
In the moon that is always rising,
Nor that riding to sleep
I should hear him fly with the high fields
And wake to the farm forever fled from the childless land.
Oh as I was young and easy in the mercy of his means,
Time held me green and dying
Though I sang in my chains like the sea.

"childhood memories"

The second piece i created for "inside our heads" was inspired by shaun tans work and the way in which he reveals the unexpected with the expected. I also used the content from an article we got given in advanced drawing about parents loosing their children in the tsuanmi. Therefore its originally called "the lost children" but i feel it has elements of maps and paths that happen inside our heads and different worlds.

week 15 - 15th January - deadline for the Riso book we have made collectively as a year group - after discussion of my original design i improved it (notes above in week 13) i am really happy with the final outcome because the red spot colour (me) creates a narrative for the illustration.

final draft and spot coloured (on left)

original draft

Week 16 - Work experience - Temple Guiting school in kineton - primary school - i learnt a lot within the three days i did work experience at the school. the pros of teaching is its very rewarding teaching children and seeing them succeed however the cons is its hard work, a lot of responsibility and planning lessons and meeting certain criteria with pupils and paperwork. Within primary school teaching you have to know all the subjects and be able to teach them that i found interesting to know and how the teacher taught differently for different age groups, for example, Miss Hester and Mrs Kendall was more clear and direct and slower at explaining to the class years 2,3,4 and reception as Miss Cheston was more quick but clear with children in year 4,5,6 (mixed classes) so they had to use their enunciative. From teaches knowing i studied illustration and art i was asked to do a few lesson plans for reception, Miss Hesters class (234) and Miss Chestons (456) to teach art linking it to their subject. Here are some of my lesson plans and a few photographs when i taught a lesson to Miss Hesters class (focusing on fairytales that they are reading and mythical creatures like dragons that they has to draw and create and write a story about).

The lesson to Miss Hester's class - i started off with what i do for a living and as a degree (illustration) and showed them my website and explained to them illustrators can create images for books such as fairytales and many other things. i showed them the stereotypical characters and how they make you feel in fairytales and gave them examples that i questioned them about. e.g. the villain - the stepmother in cinderella - evil- nasty. We also discussed colour themes for good and evil e.g. dark colours for evil and light colours for good. I then gave them the task to draw a dragon that is usually the villian in a fairytale and use all the things that we have talked about (colour and facial expression and cross hatching). After i showed them with a work sheet how to draw a simple dragon in shapes on the whiteboard speaking clearly and directly. before hand i arranged feltips and colouring pencils and their art books and a dragon worksheet on each desk for them to do the task with.

I kept a diary of notes every day when i was there at the school about what i learn't and what we did in that day

what i learnt about teaching

each child has to meet at a certain criteria or the governors are on your back. The government think a childs progress should be steady but i can be up and down due to family, social or the way they are feeling.
working late - marking
8-5 typical working day of a teacher
children love enthusiasm by a teacher but you have to enforce boundaries
you can do a pace in teaching at secondary level and teach at primary level, but you can't do a pace at primary school level and teach secondary
you can get exercises for the children from books and the internet
plan each lesson
have to be flexible and quick reactions
teach maths, science, english , art, music round a topic

Week 16 - printing the covers for ILLU (our riso book as a year group) screen prints

title of my typical day of an illustrator was - social media

week 17 - 29th January - Helen Ward came to talk to us about her practice

from this i would like to look into fables and get proper good tubes of watercolour to create high defined images. Also practice the way Ward generates ideas for narrative write the story first then illustrations.

Week 18 - in this week i presented my poetry anthologies illustrations to 2 school - gloucester academy and all waits academy - "inside our heads" and "childhood memories" one of the schools (all saints) me and a few other illustration students drove their and presented our work and other illustrators work for the poem anthologies and discusses illustration as a whole to a group of 14-15 year olds. it was interesting to hear the feedback as an illustrator and learn how you have to tailor your work to what audience you are working for. In the end they chose 3 covers for amendments. I learnt how to teach and talk at a higher level to children older and how to generate a group discussion by asking the children questions about their work and our work.

me, illustration student from 1st, 2nd and 3rd year and all saints children and teachers

Week 19 - http://careers.theguardian.com/working-professional-illustrator-insiders-guide

reading this website page i have learnt that getting your work out there is by blogging and using social media and people will eventually notice it

week 19 - Fumio talks about copyright -

what i learn't most from this lecture

try and use your own reference material
don't sell your own copyright
as soon as an artist makes a drawing he, she owns both the artwork and the copyright
if you need to use a reference from someone or something you must ask permission and get it in writitng
if your illustrating for tv,newspaper,radio or magazine raise your price but if you are illustrating for a website,event then lower your price
using collage material - be careful! photographs have copyright so if you need references take your own photographs
where to find copyright free ref materials - wikicommons or wikimedia, morgue file or dover publications

week 19 - 7th Feb - Truebelievers event at the race course - my screen prints from my childrensbook "the lost hearted girl" went into pitville press stall - getting my work out there and getting it noticed! i didn't sell anything but learn't that people usually buy artworks they recognise or have characters they recognise or something they can relate to easily

screen prints from children's book "the lost hearted girl"

Week 20 - 10th feb - printed all pages for the illu book (group year book) and hand coloured them after they had been riso printed as a group

week 21 - 21 feb - poster project -

task 1 - talked about using little illustrations and turn them into the shape of the letter?

looked at nursey art and how they do their text

screenprint posters

pale colours - nursery or children colours - yellow, blue, pink and green -not aggressive colours

dotted border?

text behind text?

white text with pale colour background - but will need a black outline to define it otherwise words could get lost in background?

simple 2 words quotes - so its snappy and remembered and easy for children to read? (depending on what age group) "Be happy" "Aim high" "Smile more" "work hard" "have fun"

task 2 - design and research press ideas - collar of artists - individual logos

week 21 - 21st feb - discussed definite ideas and which direction we were going in as a group - audience key stage 2 children and taking positive inspirational quotes from books that we ready when we were that age - Emily R = Blyton, Emily T (me) = JM Barrie, Emily C = Dahl, Sami = AA Milne, Aimee = Dr Zeus, Naomi = jk rowling

everyone goes away and produces their own A3 personal handwritten type poster of an inspirational positive quote from a children's book and then we would meet up again with 2 drafts (one with a slight illustration in and one without an illustration in just type) and decide which ones were the best to show we are all linked.

linking through pale colours and white text with outline potentially OR having a an overlay colour in parts of our illustrations when screen printing

week 22 - 24th feb - Paul Farrell and Jon Mcnaught came to chat to us about their paths and careers in illustration

Paul Farrell

what i learnt

worked 23 years as a graphic designer in London - foundation taught him freehand
redundant 3 times due to recession but in 2009 but had the chance to move back to Bristol - works at spike island (24 hours facility)
his work is precise and symmetrical from using the computer has his main apparatus for his work
background inspiration for him is bold and bright graphics pop art scene 60s and 70s - being influence by the toy tractor when he was very young - folk- colour - pattern - keep it simple
Present work - illustrating a book at the moment - reminds himself of his core values and what makes him unique
big point "best quality for the cheapest price!"
his work is commercially driven - screen printing - digital colour - foil blocking - aways use four colours (density of the colour when you are relying on transparency)
Retailers - they like new work all the time and always ask of you do it bigger! so create various sizes!
LIST OF CORE VALUES

take feedback

do you follow the herd? or do you do what you want?

set your own trends - strongest people are the ones that can create that in between

make sure people follow you

collect things you are interested in

mistakes are just as good as success

keep drawing and keep creating

have to think commercially in order to succeed

one way of marketing - invites made interesting to your event or exhibition - design beer maps and screen print and letterpress them

Jon Mcnaught

what i learnt

published by no brow press - started out in 2012
works as a print technician at uni of bristol
he does printmaking and editorial work
interested in silent sequences - poets - philip larkin (everyday normal things creating pieces of art) - Stephanie Vaughn - Tobias Wolf - Lorrie Moore (moments in time - capturing it) - Hirroshige (woodblocks) - Edward Bawden (linocuts- atmospheric, depicts space) - Raymond Briggs (magic on the paper like animation through drawing) - Tom Gauld (3 very small comics - dry scottish sense of humour) - Chris Ware (jimmy corrigan - poetry in comics)
at first Mcnaught didn't feel comfortable creating stories - making stuff up - therefore he did lots of work from where he grew up - screen prints - offsted lipos - "snapshots of time" - pink layers and blue layers (magical atmosphere i like)
Purple island ( a comic he created) about his days growing up in the falkland islands and created a narrative from it - he used photographs and colour scheme pink and blue and black
Mcnaught is interested in trying to make something poetic, sincere, quiet narrative
Mcnaught is interested in reflections e.g. puddles and reflections in the window from people playing on laptops on the train
Dockwood ( a comic commissioned by Nobrow) - based on a narrative he created based in bristol and winchester - inspiration for it - Mcnaught use to work at an old peoples home he found it fascinating how every room had a different muddle of things all at once - he was also a paper round boy where observations walking around the city, early morning when the world hasn't woken up, has stuck with him.
Caspar David Freudrick - romantic paintings - influence
"comice build a tapestry of humour/ sadness and different emotions"
Mcnaught does some commercial work e.g. caught by the river illustrations , traditional little vignettes and new york times

week 23 - 26th jan and 2nd march - discussed definite idea for posters (described above) i hand drew the a quote from peter pan that will help in life to give positivity " the moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease forever to be able to do it" by jm barrie - i have experimented with a silhouette of wings in the quote and have given the writing a sense of freeness that relates flying and being free. I'm taken it in next monday for group discussion!

i have already put it on Facebook on our group page for professional practice and Aimee has commented on changing the writing slightly in photoshop so it is slightly more easier to read!

Thurs 5th March - researching artists that have done collaborations for task 2 - http://www.moma.org/learn/moma_learning/themes/dada/artistic-collaboration

i find the quote really inspiring and i feel this is what we are doing for children "The spirit of performance, play, and collaboration remained central to Dada, even as the movement spread outward from Cabaret Voltaire to other nations and continents. Dadaists believed that the value of art lay not in the work produced, but in the act of making and collaborating with others to create new visions of the world.

http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/y/young-british-artists

from this article i find it interesting how they are collaborating but their work and way of thinking is so diverse

showing our group discussion on Facebook for this project "reflections on positive thinking"

7th March - Aimee Sullivan organised "A night for Macmillan" at the frog and fiddle based in cheltenham with the the help of photographers and illustration students. i helped perform and make cakes and gave one of my hard core t shirts as a prize to the raffle ! After the event i thought i need to put a small tag printed on the t shirt with rosa turner details e.g. her website and name to promote me! Therefore next t shirt i make i will be doing this!

Thursday 12th March - we presented our presentations today with finalised drafts of our design for our posters. we focused and read key stage 2 curriculm and chose books from this and used quotes from children's stories to convey positive thinking! We also analysed posters that are already shown in classrooms for this age group (age 7 - 11) and thought they needed clearer colour schemes, typography and different composition. Deciding as a group to go for pale colour schemes we also brought in bits of a circle into each poster to create a whole big circle to create unity ( we chose a circle because this is part of our logo for the collab press we are planning on creating "sane"). The presentation overall went well and great feedback! i have learnt that i need to learn photoshop skills to help me for future projects, due to aimee editing the posters through photoshop( i learnt a lot by observing her).

20th march - The final year group of all our illustrations was printed and put together to create a fabulous book called ILLU. The spot colouring in the book focuses your eye on specific parts of the illustration on each page creating an exciting journey, we decided this as year group to do this and came up with the title ILLU (a short slogan for illustration). Through working in different groups for the poster project and ILLU book project i have learnt that when you collab everyone can bring unique ideas and skills that enables you to improve on your knowledge and skills. Also learning to be organised and work as a team is vital to success so creating a group page on Facebook and interest that we did is a great way to keep instant communication and new ideas flowing.

Future - Next time i do a group project or collab i would like to have a few more meetings before we start the actual piece so everyone is clear on the idea and message we want to convey.
- more written notes - folder - emails

Future - ILLU will be shown on my Rosa Turner illustration stands and exhibitions in the future to promote my work and my peer work - a efficient way of marketing and promoting through magazines and books as a collective

May 2015 - Interview Adam Tatlow - the cotswold keeper - photographer
http://www.cotswoldkeeperphotography.com/gallery.html

how did you get started with photography?
what was your first publication and how did it come about?
where did you study?
what was the most important thing your learned at school?
how many projects do you work on at the same time?
what is the most projects you have to do at one time?
have you missed a deadline?
what is the shortest deadline that you've had to work to?
How many hours do you work a day?
what other things do you have to do as a freelance photographer?
do you have an agent?
what is your typical day as a photographer?
who or what is your inspiration?
how do you promote your work?
what area of photography have you had the most commissions for?
how do you find new people to work with?
how did you initially promote yourself when you first started out?
have you ever had to deal with difficult clients?
what are the best and worst things about your job?
how do you generate ideas?
do you ever collaborate with other artists?
how long since you left education did it take for your first photograph to be published?

photography has always been an interest to adam just as a part time hobby. Until 2007 after a shoot he would tell people about the wildlife and what they did but people didn't believe him so he took a camera with him to prove his stories. In 2009 his work started getting recognised and people started to buy his work - he got a huge buzz out of this!

he was then encouraged to enter "Wildlife Country File Calander" competition. He came 34 out of 36000 photographers - he got another kick out of this that then started to make him think he could create a business for himself.

he started to produce more photographs and print more and set goals for himself. Trying to find variation in things he does e.g. taking photographs of badgers instead of foxes.

Adam does many exhibitions around the cotswolds for example slower slaughter in June - but has learnt that if people can take a card away for £1.50 (cheapest thing to buy from his stall) for people that can't afford his prints its essentially taking 2 business cards away! so a great way of promoting!
- when he exhibits he takes every bit of his stock....he says his stand looks like a jumble sale! he will put buy 5 cards for £10 to drive people to his stand
- for him to make a card it costs 38p therefore he gets a profit every time someone buys his cards
- he will create a 100 cards for each image
His stand will consist of 5 boards (8x4) one board can fit 6 A3 prints on and 4-5 10x8 prints with 6 easels showing his work!
-in a week he might sell 2-3 prints

signature picture "Fawn in Corn" - this piece was shown in 2009 in the country file calendar

adam didn't study art at school but his mother can draw and use to do pen and ink as a hobbie

90% of his pictures he takes is opportunist- his selling point - is what he sees day to day
2009 - started commercially

ADVISE from Adam - don't slack on advertising
- he can buy new photography equipment but the photography has to pay for it
cards- small item but a mass quantity
- put as much back into it as you can - create a separate account
- look up Jeremy houghton (official olympic painter) potentially consider me as an artist in residency
- use his photos as a reference for my work
- address yourself as we to emails makes it sound like a company
- invited me 22nd 28th April Lower slaughter exhibition (2 8ft boards 4-5 canvases on board £45 for one board) - clientele - weekend holiday makers
- sell and advertise yourself before event - flyers - rosa turner illustrations
the key is to find a subject that everyone can relate to!

Limited and Non Limited - A3 print he sells for £150 but costs him £15-£20 to print
non limited prints 10inches x 8inches (A4) £25
non limited A3 £65
limit 100
limited 10x8inches (A4) £75
limited (A3) £145 - 165
adds £20 if framed

transport purposes - big fleece bags or bubble wrap
Vista prints for sticky labels

inspiration - the wildlife
typical day - takes photos early morning or evening
artist block - struggles with variation of subject matter

exhibitons and fetes adam attends - Guiting Village fete - Severnhampton village fete - farm park - lower slaughter exhibition

have you ever had to deal with difficult clients?
a person bought £25 print of a stout back to him 2 years after they bought it because they contacted Adam and told him that his wife was getting bullied about being called a stout! therefore Adam swapped the print for them!

Inspiration - Elizabeth House, painter - realistic animals
http://www.animalportraits.info

saleable - trust yourself - print it how you would like "your eye is what is being judge"
aesthetically pleasing - people like owls and hares - the subject sells!
a good quality photograph has to be crystal clear - its about what pleases the eye

what i have learnt and taken from this interview - i have created a reliable local contact and inspiration for my subject matter due to me illustrating a lot of countryside elements. i have learnt about how to advertise and where to promote my work within the local area (cotswolds). Need to start logging how much i spend on Rosa Turner illustrations with materials and time to ask myself if i am making a profit with the pricing of my artwork!

commercially what is the way forward for Rosa Turner illustrations? screen printing - limited or unlimited prints?

improvement - maybe put on one - two pages so its clear to read? or make it more visually exciting and about rosa turner!

what does Rosa Turner represent ?

- the cotswolds

- classy

-free

-sophistication

-surreal

-erotic

https://www.pinterest.com/emilyrturner75/illustrators-cv/

illustrating my info into cotswolds images and landscapes with foxy lady that i feel will give a narrative feel to the cv making it visually exciting

March 2015 - Easter Holidays - I have been busy developing my body art and "the cotswolds animal" limited prints and promoting Rosa Turner at points to points around the local area (Paxford and Andoversford) and have learnt that i need to learn different ways of presenting my work for different audiences and need to investigate health and safety (skin) insurance for the body art if i want to make it a business in the future due to having lots of interest from it! i have also learnt that people want portable prints to take away with them not big paintings or originals necessarily. Also to start off i need to start off at reasonable low prices and deals to drive people to buy my rosa turner illustrations, at the moment its just about getting your name known around the local area. When i recently exhibited at Andoversford point to point i have been invited to be interviewed by Cotswold Allure magazine about Rosa Turner illustrations and what she does and been asked to attend lower slaughter, leamington and other exhibitions from going to point to points. Therefore i feel i am promoting myself well around the local area but need to do more flying before exhibitions to bring my specific clientele to the audience. From meeting another stall holder at Paxford point to point i have been offered to attend cheltenham college where they hold art and craft fairs where affluent clientele are .

I have taken into account what Adam tallow (the photographer ) has said to me about people buying cards is like people taking 2 business cards and therefore i have created more cards "the fantasy collection" with my stamp with all my details on it (rosa turner, email and website).

Rosa Turner at Paxford point to point

Bodyart for lucy in the cotswolds - painting her lifestyle on her back "you know me but you don't know my story"

Rosa Turner painting a big backdrop to merge model into background for her next body art shoot

Rosa Turner bodyarting "the cotswolds lady"

"the elegant march of the hare" is full of countryside elements, feminity and surrealism... this style is what I'm striving for and to hit the clientele of the cotwolds through rosa turner illustrations.

- also within the easter holiday i had a presentation of my other card collection "the cotswolds animals" and showed them to laptstones, chipping campden (a luxury gift shop in the cotswolds). April kent (head of giftware) greeted me and loved that i had individually screen printed them and handwritten the characters on the back of each card "Davina the Duck" "Rhona the squirrel" Bertie the cocker spaniel" and "larry the longhorn". Also April thought the colours where aesthetically pleasing but said i need to limit my details on the card to an email address or website not both, due to presentation looking too crowded. They are now being sold for 3 pounds at Lapstones!

i learnt about retail price and how each shop have different rules for buying and selling. Lapstones double the amount they buy it off of you so they make a profit!

Evaluating third year work -

The quality of the card for the mask is high due to the colours being matt and clean cut. i think the mask is successful because it fits in well with the her business name "slightly off the wall" alongside the jumbled illustrations. The orange ribbon gives the mask a high market finish and engages the eye quickly. i think digital printing has been used to create the masks and the spot of different colours really catches the abstract shapes within the illustrations. i would personally wear this to a party therefore it would need to be a specific venue and audience where she would sell the masks. I like the idea due it to be quirky and different however i don't think the product would sat very long to make money due to the clientale.

Becky's work is very intricate linework that i think is beautiful to look at you can get immerse in the form and shapes from the buildings. I think the colouring book would sell well to a young adult audience that enjoy colouring in due to the style of illustration. From seeing this product i think it would work well with the type of audience in the countryside i am trying to win over especially when the tourists come to borton on the water and broadway in the summer! However my subject matter would be different to buildings it would be about the magic of the cotswolds with foxy lady and bunny creating mischief around the countryside (comic) therefore children can relate to the characters.

"foxy lady fighting bunny for the dapper countryside gentleman" - testing out "nobrow" colour scheme

this could be one of the pages for a colouring book?

" foxy lady creating mischief in the cotswolds"

i also like that Becky has hand drawn the comic making it look rustic, i could see the product doing well at craft fares in bristol in a city that is art based.

charlotte's wrapping paper is clear and clean illustrations with a graphic response to it. It looks professional due to the tiny details of the title patterned seal on the top of the packet and added pink ribbon to give something unique to the product. She has used photoshop and digitally printed the paper, however without ripping the packaging i can't observe the quality of the product but looks at a high standard from the outside. This product has lead me to think about wallpaper however wrapping paper is a product that can be used more on a day to day basis compared to wallpaper.

The badges seem to have a different theme compared to the wrapping paper however the have pattern in common? therefore as a whole do all the products fit together as one?

28th April - Improving my CV with inspiration from the interested board i created making it more visually exciting and relating to rosa turner illustrations. i have taken foxy lady a key character in rosa turners world and created a comic style cv with colours i have explored in advance drawing,

improvement - need to readjust white spacing and some letters

April 2015 - i have sent an email to John Rawlinson to show my work of the Cotwolds animal originals and love scene originals, who owns a gallery in Gloucester that i met through a life drawing class in Cheltenhmam, to see if he would be interested in exhibiting or selling my work in his gallery. It would be a great way of promoting my art around the local area!

29th April 2015 - Today i was interviewed by cotswold allure magazine at Boston Tea Party in Cheltenham. It was a very positive experience and made me realise what i have done with Rosa Turner illustrations around the cotswolds. He asked me about my life modelling and body art around cheltenham and where i see myself after my degree. Therefore it was a great way to reflect on myself and what I'm doing with my illustration work.
I will be updating my blog when he has written the review about my artist background.

http://www.cotswoldallure.co.uk/drink-to-a-healthy-2015-with-me/
https://uk.linkedin.com/in/davidsavill

Evaluation

I have learnt so much through this module. I feel i am experiencing and have experienced the goals i have set myself at the beginning of the year (teaching, art therapy, exhibiting) through doing work experience at Temple Guiting school, All Saint academy, exhibiting in the Cotswolds and Devon and hopefully working with disabled children and adults teaching them art in America. I have explored commercial art with my cotswold animals and have learn't that large originals don't necessarily sell, more prints do due to people not always being able to afford originals or not having enough room on their walls at home. Therefore i need to look at selling some of my larger works in galleries such as Broadway or Cheltenham where the footfall is higher and different clientele. From experiencing selling artwork i have tired to put some of my artwork on to products such as t shirts but found that i need to invest more into the quality of the top so it fits the person well ...the design and fit are just as important as one another to create the whole look. I would like to explore this more in the future. Also particular products have to suit a particular audience therefore i need to decide on one or two products for rosa turner and drive them forward instead of juggling loads! From exhibiting at point to points and various other events i have created contacts for the future to promote myself e.g. cotswold allure magazine and learnt i need to make my own stall so i know where everything fits and how it looks overall because presentation is everything to show what your company is about!

From talking to Adam Tatlow i need to adjust my prices when i feel I'm getting a large amount of response! I also need to sit down and work out finances so i defiantly making a profit........ it is easy to get carried away with some designs and spend too much. Teaching at various schools has taught me to be patient and more organised. Overall from all my experiences through this module i have learnt about presentation, promoting, decision making and how to be professional!

In the future i would like to explore body art as a type of art therapy for the sick or disabled due to doing it since i have been 15, i have has a response that it is a healing process for the person i have painted on mentally and physically. Therefore going to America to hopefully be with disabled children and adults will enable me to experience if body art could work as an art therapy process.

The illustration industry is a hard industry to break into and be successful at first. However if you can create a certain style or design that can work on most products (usually simple designs do) and fine a way of printing relatively cheaply with a good quality and high presentation with the right promotional skills you eventually will get there. I have learnt this through Rebecca at Red Lemon, Adam Tatlow and his photography, Fredia Hughes and Cotswold Allure magazine. On the other hand the other goal for Rosa Turner illustrations for the future is to create more simplifies designs that can go on various products and make it a "type of lifestyle" a bit like Emma Bridgewater does with her cutlery wear and tea towels etc.
http://www.emmabridgewater.co.uk/en/uk/icat/new

Bibliography

Emma Bridgewater http://www.emmabridgewater.co.uk/en/uk/icat/new
Contour exhibitions and events http://www.westcountryequinefair.co.uk
http://www.cotswoldallure.co.uk/drink-to-a-healthy-2015-with-me/
http://www.westcountrygamefair.co.uk
http://www.friedahughes.com
http://www.cotswoldkeeperphotography.com
http://www.redlemoncreate.com

Emily Rosa Turner

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