I'm busy thinking about my stand (see draft model above) and new prints. Will post more of the process of both over the next few weeks, very exciting and busy!
Wednesday, 14 September 2011
Craft Fair 2011
I'm busy thinking about my stand (see draft model above) and new prints. Will post more of the process of both over the next few weeks, very exciting and busy!
Thursday, 8 September 2011
Handmade Graphic Design Nightclass
Handmade Graphic Design Nightclass
Continuing from last years Graphic Design Nightclass I am running an Adult Learning course supported by Shetland Arts in Handmade Graphic Design.
In this course you will explore handmade elements to produce eye catching solutions to design problems. Learn about research, layout, typography and printing.
Learners will work to set project briefs during the course – prioritizing handmade elements but utilizing computer skills where appropriate. Increased confidence and skills in producing handmade elements in Graphic Design. Increased knowledge about Graphic Design in contemporary and historical context. Use a range of research and thinking methods to develop Graphic Design concepts. Evaluate graphic design elements in context of user requirements
6 weeks from 19 September 2011
Venue: Shetland Arts, Toll Clock Centre, Lerwick
Times: Monday 6 – 9pm
Cost: £54 + £5 material costs payable to tutor. Bring drawing equipment.
Book: http://www.learnshetland.com/handmade-graphic-design
(book by Wednesday 14 September) This course is suitable for Beginners/Intermediate learners.
Tuesday, 26 July 2011
In The Drink
Poison Popcorn - In The Drink from Jono Sandilands on Vimeo.
Daniel gear + Jono Sandilands- Music video for Poison Popcorn "In The Drink"
After years of speaking about a collaboration, good friend Daniel Gear and myself finally found the time (albeit very tight time) to work together on a project. We were both approached to submit artwork to Shetland's Vunk Fest art show at Shetland Musuem in July 2011. It was perfect time to work together and the chance to work with video with an afternoon screening of films already being planned. We put in our proposal and were booked with a rough slot for our as-of-yet-non-existent film.
Although we knew it was in July, it wasn't until mid June we realised how quickly time was getting on and we'd better get a move on with the film. We had some brainstorming sessions to come up with the idea for the film. We agreed it would be a music video most likely for Poison Popcorn. We came up with the concept of almost a reverse green screen using green coloured card as the 'portal' allowing a layer below to be revealed. Proof of concept below:
Rough Green Screen Mouth Test #1 from Jono Sandilands on Vimeo.
We needed people, Facebook has alot of them so I put out a call to anyone interested in helping us make the film. This happened to be on the Wednesday before the festival, so needless to say I was slightly anxious we would be done in time.Thankfully on the night we had a good turn out. Must give out a thanks to everyone involved, it was really great fun making it, and we got some funny looks waving around green bits of card in the middle of the pub. Also must be said at this point, we weren't sure how the final video would look, and knew we would have a busy few days editing the footage together.
Daniel and me called it a night on Wednesday, getting home quite late after some additional footage was filmed (see very end credits of film). On Thursday evening after of day jobs we started the editing process. The first attempt at making the concept work with the footage had us rolling around the floor, amost crying with laughter. Editing at the same time, we managed our workflow to be working on different parts of the video to minimize overall time editing.
We finished the main part of the video at 4am Friday morning, with our day jobs to go to again bright and early. Friday night was spent cleaning up, exporting and producing the credit sequence in time to burn to DVD for Sunday's showing at Shetland Museum & Archives.
Film can now be seen online above, and we are also submitting to this years Screenplay festival. (www.shetlandarts.org/FilmsWanted2011)
Sunday, 26 June 2011
Caring Sunday
Shetland Carers' Cruise 2011
Sunday June 12th 2011
On Sunday 12th of June, along with some friends I volunteered to help out at The Shetland Carers' Cruise. The cruise is a great opportunity for carers and the people they care for to enjoy a relaxing scenic cruise on a ferry around the island of Yell. It was great to hear about some of these remarkable people, most of whom devote their lives to caring for other people. Great way to spend a Sunday.
More information here:
shetland-communities.org.uk/subsites/scg
Sunday, 29 May 2011
Fishbowl
At the start of this year, to get ourselves back into the way of working and using our sketchbooks, alongside Andrew Morrison of New Dead Language / Co:Lab we set out to get back to basics with a week long "Doodle Week". (See post here). Doodle week looks set to become an ongoing exercise.
The rules were simple, each member must produce one sketch per day, with the main objective to get back into the way of working after the holidays but also to have a, lets say, "bank" of possible ideas to take forward and produce into prints.
The rules were simple, each member must produce one sketch per day, with the main objective to get back into the way of working after the holidays but also to have a, lets say, "bank" of possible ideas to take forward and produce into prints.
The original shown above. A few people have asked, "what does it mean?". I'm not ashamed to say it has no meaning, it was totally a case of visualizing an image in my head and putting pencil to paper to make it a reality. I did want to create a sense of spookiness/eeriness/weirdness, I hope it comes across.
It could be said the girl takes influence from the twins in 1980 psychological horror film, The Shining. The girls in the film may have been based on a photo by American photographer Diane Arbus - 1967 photo of identical twins shown below:
It may be interesting to make a matching print of the girls twin, but that will be something for another day... For now the final print below:
You can see I kept pretty true to the original sketch, I already had a good idea for how I wanted it to look when I did it, so it was quite a seemless process from sketch to print, just spanned out over a much longer time than I normally work ie not to set deadline, exhibition, client etc.
Sketch produced in January and artwork inked over the next few months when I had a spare moment, to final print in mid May.
Fishbowl
Colour: 2 Layers - black on red
Size: A4
Edition: 10
Stock: Revive 100 325gsm Matt
Signed and numbered
Thursday, 26 May 2011
Sunday, 8 May 2011
The Goodwill Merchant
If you read my last blog post (Printing with a view - 27 April 2011) you would have seen my girlfriend and me were house sitting out in the country for a week. At the end I mentioned I was also working on another print during that week and would be posting soon...
The Goodwill Merchant
About the print
The Goodwill Merchant
Colour: 2 Layers - cyan on cyan
Size: A3
Edition: 10
Stock: 340gsm Revive 50:50 Matt
Signed and numbered (note: not photographed)
Buy Beard Sea on Etsy:
After a bit of internet research about the area we were staying in for the week, I found out about a ship that wrecked in 1976 on the coast nearby - Goodwill Merchant. The article linked mentioned of some the lost cargo of the ship being new cars. All the work that went into manufacturing and shipping the cars, just lost like that. Don't mess with the sea.
The print is also a nod towards how some cars on the islands were disposed of until not too long ago (see youtube video I came across a few years back: !!!)
I began thinking about the amount of car parts at the bottom of the ocean around Shetland.
Process and (lack of) time
So time really went way too fast during the last three days house sitting, and I had to rush away to Aberdeen at the end of the week, leaving no time to update this here blog.
Wed 27 - Research, Initial drawing and layout:
Thurs 28 - Finish Layer 1 inking + Beetle - photographed below, crawled up the leg of my jeans whilst I was inking, aaah!
+ After some heavy inking over the 2 days I finally finish on Thursday night.
Thursday night ends with a late night journey to town to print film positives for exposure to screen for Friday morning.
It was quite strange, after printing the film I drove past this wrecked car, which looked like it had possibly been fished out of the harbour. (poor quality phone pic)
The 2 positive films held together in the light, can kind start to get a taste of how the print will work:
Fri 29 - The main reason we were house sitting was to look after 4 excellent cats. One of which is a natural hunter - he brought us 2 rabbits and on the last morning, this mouse, who had seen better days but survived!
Exposure of screen + printing. Here is a pic of the garage converted to temporary print workshop. Note the bamboo drying racks: its the way forward!
Then there was a mad dash to catch my flight. No time to even blink on the last day! But really pleased with how much I managed to get done over the week.
Well that's my holidays, now back to my day job.
The Goodwill Merchant
About the print
The Goodwill Merchant
Colour: 2 Layers - cyan on cyan
Size: A3
Edition: 10
Stock: 340gsm Revive 50:50 Matt
Signed and numbered (note: not photographed)
Buy Beard Sea on Etsy:
After a bit of internet research about the area we were staying in for the week, I found out about a ship that wrecked in 1976 on the coast nearby - Goodwill Merchant. The article linked mentioned of some the lost cargo of the ship being new cars. All the work that went into manufacturing and shipping the cars, just lost like that. Don't mess with the sea.
The print is also a nod towards how some cars on the islands were disposed of until not too long ago (see youtube video I came across a few years back: !!!)
I began thinking about the amount of car parts at the bottom of the ocean around Shetland.
Process and (lack of) time
So time really went way too fast during the last three days house sitting, and I had to rush away to Aberdeen at the end of the week, leaving no time to update this here blog.
Wed 27 - Research, Initial drawing and layout:
Thurs 28 - Finish Layer 1 inking + Beetle - photographed below, crawled up the leg of my jeans whilst I was inking, aaah!
+ After some heavy inking over the 2 days I finally finish on Thursday night.
Thursday night ends with a late night journey to town to print film positives for exposure to screen for Friday morning.
It was quite strange, after printing the film I drove past this wrecked car, which looked like it had possibly been fished out of the harbour. (poor quality phone pic)
The 2 positive films held together in the light, can kind start to get a taste of how the print will work:
Fri 29 - The main reason we were house sitting was to look after 4 excellent cats. One of which is a natural hunter - he brought us 2 rabbits and on the last morning, this mouse, who had seen better days but survived!
Exposure of screen + printing. Here is a pic of the garage converted to temporary print workshop. Note the bamboo drying racks: its the way forward!
Then there was a mad dash to catch my flight. No time to even blink on the last day! But really pleased with how much I managed to get done over the week.
Well that's my holidays, now back to my day job.
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