amy mac: January 2008

how i would recreate existing work in my own style...

ideas... cow jumped over the moon... using a plastic toy cow and a moon shape cut out of black paper with light shining through.

humpty dumpty..
who would be sat on a wall? could it be a potato, does it have to be an egg?

moving the ostrich idea further

i am going to devlop this idea further and build it out of plastacine

The use of silhouettes and again the slight shadow that you see when they are photographed brings a fantastic quality to the work of rob ryan. i'd like to use silhouettes, and shadows alot more in my work... and combine the two.

shadows

i was really impressed by the john lewis christmas advert and their use of light and shadows

or researching further into this i discovered it was sort of a ripped off idea from the work of artists tim noble and sue webster...

I really like shadows and would love to experiment with them more in my own work. i played around a bit in 2nd year with cardboard cut outs and shadows, and the shadow quality was something that stood out over the cut outs themselves. i must learn how to light my photographs much better!!

idea

generating more ideas..

who lives in a shoe like this?? - ideas

thinking about nursery rhymes and poems, i thought about the old woman who lives in a shoe, who is typicially pictured living in an old tatty boot. i wondered who would live in other types of shoes, so i collected pictures pf shoes from magazines and came up with a few ideas.