“The White Frontier”

This was a really interesting piece to work on –  a monoprint based on the Inuit exhibit at Exeter museum – it’s part of  group entry with Double Elephant Studio for a show there. The exhibit is pretty small, but contains amazing things like waterproof parkas made entirely from seal gut, plus toys and artefacts made by Inuit people in the 19th century using tusks and bones. Nothing wasted!

Doing more research online I came to understand the ultimate impact of contact with European traders and explorers which the print I made is based on. The Inuit have lost so much, especially in the past 100 or so years.

The White Frontier – monoprint
Dog sled wooden to
Sealskin toy kayak
Inuit seal-gut parka
Inuit dolls
Inuit artefact
Sealskin boots

Shellies animation at the Beacon Centre, Exeter

Another lovely morning with the families at the Beacon Centre yesterday making a very sweet little shell creatures animation 🙂

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Lumen Nature Prints and Painting

The beautiful sunny weather in Honiton yesterday was perfect for a nature walk and creating lumen prints 🙂

Using just sunlight, the lumen prints were made by exposing leaves, twigs, grasses and flowers onto black and white photography paper for just a few minutes. A quick dip in fixer and the images are set.

The Imaginary Library

And we’re off! I’ve started planning in earnest for my latest project “The Imaginary Library”. It’s a children’s show, and will feature puppetry, projection mapped animation and a live score. I’ve managed to get a crack team together so it’s all quite exciting 🙂

Concept drawings below – now for the Arts Council application. Chocks away!

The Imaginary Library – Concept drawing
The Imaginary Library – Concept drawing
Preparatory drawing for ‘The Library’ animation

 

Beacon Centre Easter Animations!

The lids had so much fun at The Beacon in Exeter last Thursday – here’s your film, guys, I hope you enjoy it!

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Interactive Digital Media at Magic Carpet

An art-technology mashup!

First, the guys drew a jungle-forest backgound, and then, separately, created some fierce  animal characters which we cut out and animated against a green screen.

Then, through the magic of digital media, we overlayed the animation on the background, and projected the whole thing onto a screen and, as you can see,! had a lot of fun interacting with our scary creations!

Digital Media
Interactive Digital Media
Interactive Nicola!

Plus some pics of an interactive shadow puppet and projection workshop I ran with the same group at the end of 2018, but didn’t get time to post..

The guys made drawings of scenes from the Nativity story and black card shadow puppet characters, then I projected their drawings and they retold the story with their puppets on the big screen. We also made animal hats so participants could interact with the screen as a shadow puppet themselves. This was all done in a day – interactive digital media can create magical experiences for people.