Windermeres old signs

So my day in Windermere turned out to be a bigger sucsess than i thought! i went for the day to get some photographs of the old rowing boats and piers, and i found myself in a new bistro renevation with a guy who had bough old vitage signs and objects from auction for years.
these are just what i have been looking for so here are some of the best.

As i am now . . .

so after reviewing my rather sparse sketchbooks and many loose cut outs and photos and sketches i think i need to recap on what my project is actually looking at.
i think the main thing here is, Age! a lot of what i have been looking at deals with age in one way or another. Whether its about traditions and old fashioned culture, or an ageing artifact and derelict, abandoned looking sculptures, or elements from a very young age, the way children play and what they notice around them and i suppose how innocent things are at a young age!

OK so i hope that makes sense and i will keep up to date with this theme and hopefully i wont change it again!

film photographs (pictures of)

OK so iv finally got my photos back from developing and most of them are not bad at all! i used my film camera because it was a perfect opportunity to get back into actually taking a photograph. having to frame it having to set up your camera and take the shot exactly how u want it, instead of pointing and clicking, not using the view finder, and using auto settings and getting thousands of photos and knowing you will probably get a few good ones.
so here are a few of the best at the moment but the quality is not as good as they are only photographs taken of them as i don't have my scanner with me. Sorry!

Eleanor Wood - College

i found these images on the Brighton University blog and again they are beautiful, the first thing i noticed was the different textures and patterns used for the college which is also kept very matt. most of these give the idea of dreams ans so i like that the images of the people are kept grey scale.
it did first remind me of Chloe's kind of work but these particular ones have influenced me further for the summer project as i'm struggling with any illustration.

nearly 2 months in and . . .

Right most of the photographs iv been taking are on my film camera so im waiting for them to be developed but in the mean time these are a few images iv been looking at to help with this project, im still on this idea of used, derelict feel and childish fun and bright colours! still dosnt make sence much but i will figure it out!

how cool is this! firstly l love collage witch makes this seem more cheerful with the different yellows and oranges, and i love the cut out lettering aswell, i think this really makes u want to smile a bit! and thats always good.

This was a bit of everything for me really, i first saw the frames or at least the top right one which has a very traditional look to it and they all look quite dull and used, as do the pictures inside them. but the images look hand drawn and quite random so this idea of kids drawings aswell.

BEAUTIFUL, i love this sort of thing, this is the sort of images iv been trying to capture with my camera.

A New START

ok i know i havnt been blogging at all latley but i have been doing work, taking pictures and making notebooks mostly so here are a few pics to show you where i am at the moment.

iv tried to set myself sort of themes to help me keep all the books as a 'set' and it took me a while to figure out what kind of things would interest me recording all summer. so the first theme is to do with fun and colour and children, more so to do with their games and toys and the bright colours and patterns associated with being young. Also me being a big kid with loads of usless toys already had this image of the fridge magnets.

The second theme is a old and traditional objects and derelict and the idea of used things, used and worn and tattered. i know its not the best explanation of it but ill keep posting images that will hopefuly make it clearer.
This is one of my faviourite places, its at Aira Force in the Lake District, and basically this is a tree that has fallen down and over the years visitors have imbedded coins into it and now it is covered but i managed to find a spot for my penny. it looks amazing from afar and when you get up close you can see all the pennys and where they have come from, we found one from Russia, at least we thing thats where it was from!