Wyld's Globe

I was watching QI the other day, one of the new G Series and Wyld's Globe was shown. It was created by James Wyld who was a well known geographer and also a member of parliament.

The globe was viewed from the inside on four platforms.

'The Globe was built at the time of the Great Exhibition. Inside a purpose-built building was a giant globe, 60 feet (18 m) in diameter. The globe was hollow and contained a staircase and elevated platforms which members of the public could climb in order to view the continents and seas, complete with modeled mountain ridges and rivers all to scale.' - Wikipedia.

I think this was amazing but it wasn't up for long, it was put up in 1851 and taken down in 1887. I would have really liked to have been able to see this person most definitely.

Cassie's Project

My thoughts for Cassie's project have changed completely.

I have decided on an idea and actually quite like this.

I've been looking at traditional Japanese Kokeshi dolls which are basically what these new

Momiji dolls are based on.

You can get momiji graphics on just about anything these days including t-shirts and stationary. Hell, I've even seen a Hello Kitty momiji keyring.

So for this project I originally thought about making a room full of Kokeshi ranging from traditional to modern and contemporary.

After a talk with Cassie the title of my project is something along the lines of 'How can I redesign traditional dolls for a contemporary market?'

So I'll look at dolls like soapstone dolls i think they're called, traditional Inuit dolls, Babushka (Russian Dolls) etc.

So, we'll see how it goes <3

Artists for my Fine Art Project.

For this fine art project I looked at a variety of techniques and then artists, some contemporary some not.
I looked at various artists including Turner, Andy Warhol, Ed McCarthy, iLia Anossov and Thomas Kinkade

For this project I have taken inspiration from Andy Warhol's use of multiple images.

I have taken 3 planks of decking measuring 80cm long and 14 cm wide.

I split these into fifteen 14cm x 14cm squares and plan to paint on the wood.

The theme I am going to use for this project is reflection. For this I have taken eyes (which are reflective), and plan to produce fifteen squares, each with an eye on, each differing slightly from the last in various styles including pointillism and sgraffito. I think that to present it I will join them all together to create one big board of eyes, (made from decking).