COLLECTION.

                                                                           

                                                                      SHOES

My current college project is based on a personal collection of some kind. Due to the large number of tennis, football, rugby, hockey, cricket and running shoes in our household, I have decided to choose sports shoes as the theme for my collection

                  This is just one side of a sports shoe rack housing my families sport shoes.

I always use a mind map to get started. It provides a wealth of information.

                                     I thought it would be interesting to look at sports shoes of old.
           I love the rugby boots. The tennis look good but I wouldn't fancy having to play in them!!!

 

                                                                                   

                               A selection of sports shoes. It reminded my tutor of a family tree.

                                                                                   
                                    Cut outs and car spray used to produce the effect below.

                                                                                

                                                                              
                                            Like the spray effect but the rest is a bit twee.

                                          

TENNIS/ASTRO CAGE NET

This is more like it the effect is bold but a softer finish.

The template for the above after spraying. Like this too!

SPORTS FOOT PRINTS.

Tennis sole print.

Football, Rugby, Tennis, Hockey astro foot prints.

Running very effective, strong print.

CRICKET

TENNIS NET

                                                          Typography from sports past.

Like the energy of this, inspired by bootleg childrens shoe box top.

Have a look at SYNDISO NYONI images.

Take a look at 9 BYTZ.COM.

The next set of images are experimental ideas with sports shoes.

For my final pieces I am using the sports shoe idea to make up three sporting posters.

below are my experimental pieces. There are numerous other ideas in my sketch book, however this is intended to give a flavour of my progression through this project.

                                                                                      

                                                                       
                                                The next set of images are my final images.

                                                                                    

                                                                      

Poem Illustration. The Straight and Narrow by Simon Armitage.

We have been asked to produce illustrations for the Shell House Gallery in Ledbury. The poem is called The Straight and Narrow by Simon Armitage.

When the bearded careers advisor
set up his stall and slide-projector,

something clicked. There on the silver screen,
like a photograph of the human soul,

the X-ray plate of the ten-year-old girl
who swallowed a toy. Shadows and shapes,

mercury tinted lungs and a tin foil heart,
alloy organs and tubes, but bottom left,

the caught-on-camera lightning strike
of the metal car: like a neon bone,

some classic roadster with an open top,
and a man at the wheel in goggles and cap,

motoring on through the deep, internal dark.
The clouds opened up;we were leaving the past,

drawn by a star that had risen inside us, some as astronauts, and some as taxi-drivers.



I loved this poem, it is so descriptive, there are many illustrations I could have done but we only have a week to complete so here are my sketches and finished images.

......like a photo of the human soul,

the X-ray plate of a ten year old girl

who swallowed a toy.

.....the caught on camera lightening strike

of the metal car; like a neon bone,

some classic roadster with an open top

and a man at the wheel in goggles and cap,

motoring through the deep, internal dark. 

WHOOPS Suddenly realised he does not have a cap!

Thats better!