Creative Futures art course at Youth Inspired - week 8

 

 

This week we did an introduction to textiles as an art form and whilst searching the internet for interesting contemporary textile artists, I came across a fantastic designer called Jacopo Rosati, who makes all sorts of images, characters and faces using fuzzy felt. Inspired by this, the group took profile photographs of each other and then chose four colours of felt to create them out of. I find people often don't like the idea of doing self-portraits, it's too personal, so this was a good way of capturing the outline shape of their faces, so that they were still recognisable, but without too much intrusive detail. I think as a collection, they look particularly effective.

Inspiration from Glasgow

I've wanted to go to Glasgow for years and finally got around to it this summer. Such a shame about the School of Art having a fire recently, as that was the main place I wanted to go, but I found lots of inspiration elsewhere in the city. This Art Deco apartment block was simply stunning, if a little run down, and against the bright blue northern sky, it looked even more stunning. There were also quite a lot of run-down, forgotten buildings (my favourite) which I managed to capture. Hoping to find some time over the summer holidays to do something with these and bring them back to life - on the page at least.