May - Line from a poem - Brady Showler

Day dream
(Day dream)

I fell asleep beneath the flowers
(I fell asleep beneath the flowers)

For a couple of hours
(For a couple of hours)

What a beautiful day...

Daydreamin' - Lupe Fiasco.
Brady Showler.

May - Lines from a story - Phoebe Adams

My Wall Calendar Inspires
Line: "He spoke of very simple things - that it is right for a gull to fly, that freedom is the very nature of his being, that whatever stands against that freedom must be set aside, be it ritual or superstition or limitation in any form."
Story: Jonathan Livingston Seagull
Author: Richard Bach

OK so I missed the deadline! I had the idea for a month but it took this long to get an uninterrupted chance to chuck something up. Chuck up is the right expression. I was going for one of those classic quotation calendar images. You know, the inspiration for the desperate and unwilling type publications. I had an awesome pic of a seagull I took down at the breakwater here in Warrnambool. I found a suitably gushy line (that has some resonance actually) in Johnathan Livingstone Seagull. Combine the two and there’s that office calendar image people love to hate. There’s a bit more to this story but then you probably need to do your own interpretation. After all, it’s your right to fly. Don't let me or anyone else tell you what to believe.

Artist: Phoebe Adams Title: "My wall calendar inspires" Material: digital image / Photoshop Size: 800x600pixels Date: 2/6/08 Multimedia Teacher

May - Line from a song - Chisako IshiKawa

The Big Sunflower

I'm just as happy as a big sunflower
That nods and bends in the breezes,
My heart's as light as the wind that blows,
Blowing from off the tree-es.

I'm just as happy as a butterfly That dips and spins in the flowers
My song’s as joyous as the pretty bird's
Singing to us for hours.

Artist: Chisako Ishikawa
Title: Sunflower Fairy
Material: Adobe Illustrator
Size: 480 x 700 pixels
Date: 2nd May 2008
Courses: Certificate IV in Design, Diploma of Multimedia

May - Line from a song -Jason Schmidt

For my Illustration project I decided to make a short animation of "Old McDonald", which we all know. I chose a well known song because I had to tell the story without text. All the drawings were drawn on paper and then coloured on the computer using Illustrator. This is a screenshot of one of my backgrounds

Title: Old McDonald Had A Farm

Artist: Jason Schmidt
Size: 800 x 600 px
Materials: Drawing / Adobe Illustrator / Director
Course: Diploma of Multimedia & Design

May - Line from a story - Jai Lawrance

Title: The Parrot and the Tortoise
Artist: Jai Lawrance
Size: 617 x 872
Materials: Adobe Illustrator
Date: 2th May 08
Course: CIV in Design/Diploma of Multimedia

Story: The Tortoise by Wilma Keppel

The tortoise imagined growing feathers, and living as a parrot. It seemed like a wonderful life. And at first, it seemed impossible.

But then he thought back. Back when he had the heaviest shell in the arroyo, living with a light shell had seemed dangerous and unlikely -- but he had tried it, and it worked. Back when he lived with a light shell, living without any shell had seemed ridiculous and impossible -- but he learned to do it, and that had enabled him to cross the desert and reach the jungle where he found his new friends.

"It may be impossible for me to fly," he said to himself, "but I am going to try it. Maybe I can do it."

May - Line from a song - Nathan Pye

Line: "It's gonna be a long walk home..."
Song: 'Long walk home'
Artist: Urthboy

Phew! Just snuck this one on deadline. Tough topic! My entry comes from an Urthboy song which is (surprisingly enough) about walking home in the dead of the night. It's also about being creative and being inspired, both of these thing rang true to me as on many occasions I have decided to wander home and found myself eager to make work.

Something about the night I spose.

Artist: Nathan Pye
Title: It's gonna be a long walk home
Material: Markers on cardboard
Size: 30cmx20cm
Date: 30/05/08
Multimedia Teacher

FLICKR!
SKETCHY!
Draw More

May - Line from a song - Matthew King

Title: Elder Misanthropy
Artist: Matthew King
Size: 800 x 800 pixels
Materials: Adobe Illustrator/Photoshop
Date: 30th May 08
Course: CIV in Design/Diploma of Multimedia

A little about the work:
For this piece of work, each of us had to get a picture from the internet and "vectorize" it in illustrator with only the "Mighty" Pen Tool and then match it to some Lyrics. After learning just earlier that day from a classmate (Jai) that you can change the way you use lines in illustrator I decided to use this idea and improvise a little changing the way lines flow from one to another and eventually came up with this. Afterwards I exported it and then imported it to Photoshop and cleaned it up to get it to it's current stage.

Lyrics:
"Ageless I remain, beyond the reach of death, indebted by my soul."
- The Black Dahlia Murder

May - Fable - Anthon Suringa

Title: the Frog & the Ox
Artist: Anthon Suringa
Size: A4
Materials: Drawing / Adobe Illustrator / Adobe Photoshop
Course: Diploma of Multimedia & Design

This artwork is a book that contain 8 pages. The purpose was to design something that doesn't contain any words / text. The artwork must speak itself.....Out of many kids stories I choosed the Frog and the Ox. The story is meaningful to me even though its not popular. It has a great message across that invites us to take a board.

May - Story - Nathan Brown

Title:"Tortoise and the Hare"
Artist:Nathan Brown
Size:A4
Materials: Adobe Illustrator
Course: Multimedia and Design Department of Arts

This picture was part of a project i had made for my Illustration class, I chose to illustrate the story of the "Tortoise and the Hare". We where only allowed to use images to depict the story.
The characters and background where created roughly on paper before i replicated them them in Adobe Illustrator.

May - Line from a song - Rylie

Title: "Zombie"
Artist: Rylie Amoore
Size: 490 x 470 pixels
Materials: illustrator
Date: 29th May 08
Course: CIV in Design/Diploma of Multimedia

Song...
In your head, in your head,
Zombie, zombie, zombie,
Hey, hey, hey. What's in your head,
In your head,
Zombie, zombie, zombie?
Hey, hey, hey, hey, oh, dou, dou, dou, dou, dou...

Zombie - CRANBERRIES

May - Line from a story - Andrea Radley

Last week I totally enjoyed a week long oil painting workshop at South West Institute of TAFE with Graeme Ultmann as instructor. This is the first time I have painted in oils and I am not normally a landscape painter so it posed a lot of challenges for me, but I learnt a lot and had lots of fun. I chose this painting that I did at the start of the workshop for this months theme. It is my husband, Ken taking our daughter out for a row in his clinker boat for the first time on the Hopkins River.

In the first chapter of the book "The Wind in the Willows" by Kenneth Grahame, the Rat has just invited the Mole to go for a trip in a boat.
"This has been a wonderful day!" said he, as the Rat shoved off and took to the sculls again. "Do you know, I've never been in a boat before in all my life."
"What?" cried the Rat, open-mouthed: "Never been in a - you never- well I - what have you been doing, then?"
"Is it so nice as all that?" asked the Mole shyly, though he was quite prepared to believe it as he leant back in his seat and surveyed the cushions, the oars, the row locks, and all the fascinating fittings, and felt the boat sway lightly forward for his stroke. "Believe me, my young friend, there is NOTHING - absolute nothing - half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats. Simply messing," he went on dreamily: "messing - about - in - boats; messing --."

Title: "Simply messing about in boats"
Artist: Andrea Radley
Size: 40cms x 70cms
Materials: Photo of an oil painting on board
Date: 12/5/08
Department of Arts teacher

Below is another painting I completed in the workshop week. It is a painting of the rocks near the Passage in Port Fairy.

Carolyn Reed - line from a song

This months theme was tricky for photography. The best idea I had was to take photos at a consent. These photos are of two bands.
Artist- Carolyn Reed
Size:W-6 cm x H- 10 cm
Materials- Digital photos
Date- 2/2/08
Course: Diploma of Arts

May - Line from a song - Simon Greening

So another piece for another month. It's sorta like my first piece i did for the blog, I thought the style worked for it well, so i used it again. The Lyric is from East West - Let You Go. "I wonder if there will be roses in heaven?"

Yet another month of cuttlefish, going by quicker than expected. I'm loving seeing everyone's different stuff, it's good broadening my view of art past what I can think of myself. Keep it up everyone.


Artist: Simon Greening
Title: Roses?
Material: Digital Image, Illustrator, Photoshop
Size: 1024px x 399px
Date: 19th May 2008
Course: Cert 3 Design/Cert 4 Multimedia
Campus: Portland

As always check out my other work here

May - Line from a song, poem or story

Wow! Last month we had the most posts so far. This is great.

Also look out for posters around South West Institute of TAFE that list the monthly themes for the rest of the year so you can plan ahead.

This months theme is to interpret a line from a song, poem or story.

The work can be anything; sculpture, photography, illustration, painting, film etc as long as it can be related back to the topic. Along with the image we also need:
* Size of work
* Materials used
* And a blurb about the work itself
* Artists name
* The date is was created
* Course enrolled or department you work in

Looking forward to seeing your work!