BA GMD Year 2 - Authorial Photographer

Another workshop that I co-delivered recently at LCC. This project went over well with the students.

AUTHORIAL PHOTOGRAPHER (50 students)

“The camera is just the pencil we’re working with”

Stanley Donen Film Director and Choreographer
Tableau – Weegee, Stanley Kubrick, Nikki S. Lee and Cindy Sherman
Stage a photograph that tells a story in a single frame (camera/phone required). Can the photographs that you take show your personality and your passions? Can you find the correct photographic language to communicate this using the urban landscape/environment? Working in groups we’ll explore the relationship between objects, subjects and the stories they tell, intentionally or accidentally.

You will need a digital camera and the means to download the data

Tutors: Josh Trees & Karl Foster


Karl

BA GMD Year 2 - Five Frame Sequence

A lot of teaching has been going on over the last couple of months in my new role as a senior lecturer on the BA Graphic Media Design course at LCC.

I wrote a project several years back because something had been drawing me to explore narrative meaning in the abstract. I'm glad to say that I delivered Five Frame Sequence workshop to a group of 20 BA GMD students on Thursday 20 November and with a few exceptions the project was a success. I will deliver the project again next week and then publish some of the results on here.

Here's the blurb for the workshop:

FIVE FRAME SEQUENCE (25 students)

“The ‘infinite canvas’ is a challenge to think big; a series of design strategies based on treating the screen as a window rather than a page”

Scott McCloud cartoonist and theorist

We will be looking at the infinite canvas that allows the designer to control the elements needed for producing time-based outputs. Through the investigation of the works of Hitchcock, Kubrick and Campion you will combine a range of elements to create a compelling story.

You will need a notebook and a camera

Karl

Infographic Challenge

Create an infographic with the following data. Be smart and know your movies.

Sterling Hayden 6' 5"

Bill Duke 6' 4"
Vincent Price 6' 4"
Christopher Reeve 6' 4"

Harry Belafonte 6' 2"
Warren Beatty 6' 2"
Raymond Burr 6' 2"
James Earl Jones 6' 2"
Lee Marvin 6' 2"
Sidney Poitier 6' 2"
Arnold Schwarzeneggar 6' 2"
Carl Weathers 6' 2"

Bill Cosby 6' 1"
Harrison Ford 6' 1"
Burt Lancaster 6' 1"
Robert Mitchum 6' 1"
George C. Scott 6' 1"

Dick Powell 6' 0"

Steve McQueen 5' 10"
Paul Newman 5' 10"
Richard Pryor 5' 10"
Robert Redford 5' 10"
Telly Savalas 5' 10"

Marlon Brando 5' 9"
Tony Curtis 5' 9"
Kirk Douglas 5' 9"
Mark Hamill 5' 9"

Tom Cruise 5' 7"
Martin Lawrence 5' 7"
Al Pacino 5' 7"

Dustin Hoffman 5' 6"

Danny Devito 5' 0"

Bring it on if you please...

UAL MAVA Graduation Monday 14 July 2014

So I am officially a Master of Arts. Or Master of Arts, Visual Arts to be more precise. Specialising in illustration. Walked across that stage yesterday and now I'm a changed man. Check out my more illustrious hero and inspiration in the attached picture. I hope that I can inspire too by my words and deeds. Plus I added a few more for colour.

Thank you to my lovely wife Caroline all of this wouldn't have meant anything without her continued support and true love. Now for something completely different...

Portraits ABC Certificate in Illustration 07 - 08

More portraits by some of my former students. Works by Aleksei Bitskoff, Barbara Ana Gomez, Izzy Jaffer, Irene Sierra, I Hsin Tsai and Victoria Wakeman. Good times.

Portraits of Amy Winehouse

Portraits of Sir Paul McCartney

Portraits of Louise Bourgeois

Portrait of Jade Goody

Portraits on my mind

A selection of portrait images created by students on the ABC Certificate course in Illustration. I miss this project but have the opportunity of working with students on it again this July. Possible subjects this time could be Mario Balotelli, Malorie Blackman, Benedict Cumberbatch, Miley Cyrus, Anthony Gormley and Angelina Jolie. Enjoy these artworks by Mark Caballero, Weir Der Chen, Rebekah Ford, Andrew Hitchen, Manisha Lekprayorn, Fran Lloyd, Martin Nowak,  Karen Raingold, Chandravali Southhall, Stefano Terranova, Krysztina Urveges  and Randy Watson. All talented artists.

Portraits of Audrey Niffenegger

Portrait of Francis Bacon

Portraits of Estelle

Portraits of Jacqui Smith former UK Home Secretary

Portraits of Barack Obama

Portraits of Russell Brand

Portraits of Lord Professor Robert Winston

Portraits of Wonder Woman