A quick illustration based on the anatomy of a woman’s breasts was looking into the idea of sex being something you’re naturally born with.
Month: April 2018
Personal project: Notes from tutorial
- Subversion challenge imposed sense of normality
- Interview drag queen/kings
- Women pretended to men in the 18th/19th Century to be soldiers and surgeons
- Shirts and blouses are buttoned different ways for men and women
- Mulan – look into the true story
Blue nipple emroidery
Inspired by my recent trip to the Transology exhibit at Brighton museum I wanted to make a response to one of the pieces of photography. The concept of this was based on gender dysphoria and transgender men who have not yet transitioned are disconnected to their breast (and body)
Free Machining: Vaginas
Free machining observational drawings
For these trials I used the free machining technique to create illustrations of the life model. I was interested in created tone and shape with different colour threads.
Clit illustrations
These illustrations are on the female anatomy of the clitoris, I wanted to shed a light on female pleasure and to ultimately empower women to ‘love your clit’ as often throughout history and society women are told to be modest and clean and pure, yet men are encouraged to masturbate and is heavily accepted in society.
Vagina illustrations
These illustrations are the based on female genitalia and all of the different shapes and sizes they come in. I also drew pubic hair onto the vaginas to highlight that hair is also feminine. I then outlined them in pink to highlight the femininity.
(find in portfolio)
Lino-prints of female genitalia
These were further exploration of the female genitalia; the lino-prints are abstract versions of vaginas. I intentionally made the shape of the vaginas bold and strong to highlight the stereotypes behind the colour blue. So again contradicting the implications behind stereotypes to emphaise the injustice of them.
I then layered the prints on pink to highlight the femininity of women.
(find in portfolio)
Personal project: Initial work
Mono-print
These are a collection of mono-prints that I made based on gender, these images are based on the female genitalia. These mono-prints are my further exploration of gender and the stereotypes and restrictions women face due to these limitations.
For these prints, I strictly used the colour pink and blue due to the historical stereotypes behind those colours. By printing the vaginas in blue I am purposely contradicting the ideals implicated on women by society. Blue in way is symbolic of strength and masculinity, whilst pink symbolises femininity and softness. So by using both I am emphasising that women can be both masculine and feminine.
I was trialling with ways that I could create line and shape using mono-print, I used pallet knife to erase the paint to create an inverted image. I also liked the texture created by the pallet knife.
I was also looking into body image and designer vaginas and the way women are restricted by society that they feel like their vagina has to look a certain way in order to be seen as sexy.
(find in portfolio)
(Tele)consequences workshop
This workshop was a part of a collaborative piece using Skype, personally I found the workshop very interesting how we could interact with the other person on Skype to create a piece of work. We were given a themes and ideas to base our illustrations on and towards the end pieces began to get political including views on trump and border control.