Skull designs.

I have decided to go with a "day of the dead" depiction of the skull as it also has a relevant meaning to my work which is; the "day of the dead" is a celebration of life and death and how you cannot have one with out the other, as well as rebirth, so i think that that is a fitting meaning to my work. I am taking old, disposed of, or second hand items (at the end of the life with that consumer) and now bringing it a new life by re-vamping it.

More research into designs

Here i have looked into some existing designs and tried to experiment with them to try and get some more interesting ways to develop on some initial thoughts.

 The larger images i have taken inspiration from a few different tattoo designs from magazines and combined them to quickly make some new original designs, but i need to refine the designs further.

My own design attempts

 From trying out some simple designs i feel there are two in particular that i am interested in try
 ing out. (skull, ace of spades.)

Chris Garver

I first saw this tattoo artiest on a television programme called "Miami Ink" I wanted to look into another tattoo artiest as i really liked some of the designs by Scott Cambell.

 With these tattoo designs they have quite striking images that stand out as well as them being created to look rounded with depth.

 These images are a lot more detailed and have a lot more going on in them so only doing them in black and white means that there is even more depth than before and the images look a lot more realistic. But i think that i would have a hard time producing something of this level of detail but i will not just count it out yet.

Scott Cambell

Scott Cambell is a well known tattoo artist from the USA, but as of late he has been also working on objects to sell. He has been using a laser to burn his designs into and threw the products. I really liked the designs them selves but as an overall product i felt they worked in a powerful captivating way.

Here he has burned into work to create some intricate designs and pattern work as well as doing this onto the green leather of the pillow.

Here you can see that he has painted this period chair black and then laser his designs on the leather which has been upholstered to create a "dark" feeling piece. On the right he has laser another skull threw the first few layers of this warn book which creates this slightly "dark/ neglected" look to the piece.
From looking at Scott's work i feel that i could try to come up with something similar.

Proposal

For this project i intend of finding objects that people do not want whether its second hand found or something i know someone does not want, and turn that into a renewed object that could be sold or has demand for it. I am going to look into some artists and designs who are conscious of the environment when they create there work but also work that i enjoy as a consumer myself.

Project 3, Art and Design negotiated study.

Revamping,

The thing to do these days is to be more green and re-cycle as much as possible as well as make easy consume decisions about what you buy and consume. but even chucking unwanted objects into a recycling bin isn't that great. There is still a whole range of nessary things that have to be done to the product to bring it done to its raw materials and then remade into something agin useable. The other thing to do is instead of throwing out an object is to customise it and revamp the product into something that as a consumer would want, and there fore adding value to the item.