Life drawing

Last week I had the amazing opportunity to attend a life drawing class. A bit skeptical at first to say the least as I had never done life drawing before! This opportunity correlates with my new brief 'What is beauty? which is a topic I have always had a passion to explore and research. Life drawing allows you to draw /judge another from just their appearance , you are projecting what you physically see in the outside and portraying their perception on paper. This is what I feel is the beauty of life drawing. It allows you to manipulate a human body how you wish - much like editors do in campaigns in the media today. 

Below is my finished piece from life drawing. I decided to use a different technique to technically challenge myself. 

What am I like?

I've been away for awhile catching up with uni friends and work so excuse the lack of posts! 

So I've been given my first brief of bye semester: what am I like?. Initially I thought this task will be an easy breeze but then I thought what am I ACTUALLY like? Our task was to select 10 topics from a list of 13 and visually display what we feel defines us. I decided to take a different route and ask my close friends what they feel suits me best to each topic. (Which was quite interesting to hear to say the least), I asked 10 friends and wrote down the majority of answers. 

Above is a mind map of what things I will include in my project. I have decided to use real life objects or pictures to create a  visual mood board. Here is some of my inspiration. 

          Development and experiments 

                     My final piece 

To see my final piece or more exams did my work make sure to check out my online portfolio at issuu.com/georgiiasheehan 

City travels

Over the summer I visited two European cities and realised I haven't shared my stories yet! 

First stop was the beautiful city Paris.

Identical cafe tables and chairs. Space invader graffiti. Flowers on Parisian balaconies. The Eiffel Tower and it's lights. Handmade ice sherbets and I've cream from berthillon. Creamy shades of the Parisian walls. The heavy scent of Serge Lutens fragrance in the Palais Royal arcade. 

Breakfast? 

Try Rose Bakery at 46 rue des martyrs, even better than London! 

A quick tea break?

Visit cafe de flore on 172 boulevard saint-germain. Could of spent all day here people watching the streets on Paris 

Handmade ice cream? 

Go to berthillon. 31 rue saint-Louis-en l'ile.

Even though I only stayed 2 nights in Paris, I managed to see all the top tourist attractions and about 10 brides strolling round the street in their wedding dresses! 

Be sure to check out the love lock bridge (just be sure to get the right one! - blonde moment for me) 

I also stayed in Barcelona for 3 nights with my boyfriend. Unfortunately I was I'll the whole time so luckily I have a Spanish speaking bf to get me the drugs I needed! Although I was ill I still appreciated the amazing architecture. As Barcelona is a fairly big city there are lots of tour buses to chose from, which was great for poorly me to have a sit down while getting the breeze blown in my face!