I made this animation for www.thankyousoldier.co.uk
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Originally created as the basis of a magazine front cover under the title of ‘Resistance’
I wished to use a universally recognisable signal or sign, that anyone would be able to ‘read’ visually.
I do love the honesty behind the work of Photographer Sally Mann and although I wished to use paint for this, I wished to bring some of her influence to the piece.
The reference material I looked at led me in the direction of children and resistance. It is the first experience we have of this feeling. Children are put into routines, dressed up, made to be quiet, funny or clever as the situation allows and really it’s a lot to cope with. Resistance and it’s signs are at their most basic in children, and I felt that made them a good tool to get the message across.
As I conducted the research for this piece, I came across Handala. He is the creation of Naji Al-ali which resonates with the grateful mother in me. Grateful because he represents things in this world that my children, currently do not have to worry about. The following quote from Naji Al-Ali struck a chord which I felt I needed to somehow represent in my own image.
“His name is Handala and he has promised the people that he will remain true to himself. I drew him as a child who is not beautiful; his hair is like the hair of a hedgehog who uses his thorns as a weapon. Handala is not a fat, happy, relaxed, or pampered child.”
—Naji Al-Ali
Whilst the worries of my own children are few and safe, they still have their own growing to do. Seeking out the who, what & why of their own lives and sometimes we clash. Using paint by numbers as an iconic reference to careful, quiet, ordered moments of childhood, I painted with acrylics, used lots of texture and the wrong colours. This is not a child in her Sunday best doing something well behaved and quiet but a real person, with ideas and a sense of self and this comes through in the image.
An experiment with Photography and Digital Painting after an Open Mike Night out!
This is part of my response to the introduction to sex education in primary schools.
My main objection is not solely based on age appropriate language but the fact that the literature I had seen was incorrectly labelled and in my opinion too much information for the age it was targeting.
Thanks to www.willfordphotographic.com for the photography tuition
has moved on somewhat. When I first built the site in the screen shot, I made it with Flash Galleries. I then updated using a Lightbox based on Java Script. After much discussion about revamping the site with Paul, I am now in the process of moving this site over to a new format.
For Wedding, Event, Portrait, & Corporate Photography www.willfordphotographic.com
I was pleased to be able to offer my service to the Lovely Kate Bedow from http://www.growingspirit.moonfruit.com/
This is one of the labels I produced. Kate offers a variety of services, please feel free to browse her site.
Poster & Menu Design for the Cafe Rickshaw Restaurant in Wolverhampton where they make some of the best food I have ever eaten.
Find them here http://rickshawbalti.co.uk/
Look out for the New Dessert Menu soon.
Make Mine a Builders
This was one of the series of A ‘Text Based Campaign’ to bring Make Mine A Builders Tea to the Nation.
I approached this a couple of ways
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Burton’s Bees began life as a Typography Project.
Using the letter B from a Tim Burton Font, I made digital brushes in Adobe Illustrator and used these to create a stylised Bee and made a brush from that too.
I wished to show the Fear a swarm of bees could create and also the gentle country hum of Bee Keeping as a Juxtaposition.
I hope you like it.
Shelly
