The Personal Blog of Dr Banksy*.

Started looking into more inspiration for my photo media project and have come to David Hockney , a British photographer and painter who, like David Bailey, has a distinctive style in his pictures. I had previously studied Hockney's work as part of my GCSE Art course during the cubism segment and loved this style. Hockney begins by photographing a landscape as it would be seen, then prints the photographs. Another photographer my call this a job well done, but Hockney is just getting started. He then takes the printed photo and cuts it up into squares, rearranging these squares to created a distorted but still recognisable image. I'm inspired by this technique because I think it really adds another dimension to an already-impressive photograph. Some famous examples (and my favourites) are shown below: I'm currently working on some of my own Hockey-inspired pieces, and will be uploading them soon.

"No. You're wrong. It's not about the poxy clothes. It's about the street, in actual fact. It's about - the noise, it's about that drunk guy over there. It's about the steam! It's about that, big plastic sign that says 'Twist', which will appear three to four inches above Jean's head in a magazine spread. It's about - the vibe !" - Aneurin Barnard as David Bailey, We'll Take Manhattan (2012). Wow. I have just started my new Photo Media project on the Art Foundation course and I am already absolutely buzzing. I have always had a somewhat hidden passion for photography, and I delighted to finally have the opportunity to realise it (in all it's glory, to be modest :P).  As you can see from above, I adore the work of David Bailey and Jean Shrimpton. They may not be household names (or even that popular with the photographers of today), but oh my, they should be. In 1962, Shrimpton and her then boyfriend/photographer Bailey trave...

And we have come to the end of Visual Communication. It's been a pretty crazy ride, but I have thoroughly enjoyed every second of this double-project, um, project. Found myself working backwards at times (having to complete some artist research halfway through), but I am massively pleased with the end result of both projects. I had to scale back my graphics ideas in particular, using less detailed drawings and more shapes to give a better "graphic" and "branded" feel, which made my packaging look more official, professional and a lot less cluttered. Then there was the little hurdle of Creative Suite, where I had to frantically remember everything I'd learned from my work experience in order to get the final design I was looking for. I still think I could've made a tonne of improvements, but three weeks is not a long time, and graphic design is hard . As for my editorial illustration, things were pretty smooth from the off. It was great coming up with the...

Haven't posted anything for a couple of weeks, mostly because my new course project has kicked off with all guns blazing - Visual Communication. A mixture of graphic design and illustration, it is proving to be my favourite part of the course so far. Having to juggle two different projects at once isn't nearly as hard as I thought it would be. This is mostly due to the fact that graphics and illustration bleed into one another quite nicely, so I have been finding myself taking elements from one project and flipping it into the other when my imagination level starts to run dry. The two projects are relatively simple to describe. The graphics project involves designing the packaging decoration for a carton containing a certain commodity, which should be influenced by a specific location (both of which we were given at random). The illustration project's aim is to provide the illustration for an editorial. Really quite simple briefs indeed. I had "Australasian" for m...

I had the ultimate surprise when the tutors announced that we would be visiting Dismaland. I hadn't been able to get tickets for ages, and there was some really inspiring artwork on display. Here is a link to my Flickr account - I could just talk, but photos speak louder than words.