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Appropriation

 For my appropriation project I was originally planning to pick an artist and do an illustration in the style of their work. I have recently been watching a lot of old films so I thought i'd use an old film as one of my themes, instead of using somebody elses style i decided to keep to my own and just use the film subject matter as the appropriation.

I chose to use the Wizard of Oz as my chosen film. It was always a favorite of mine as a child and has lots of interesting aspects to draw.

The illustration is of Dorothy, the main character. I feel she is a vulnerable character, she is a young girl away from her home and is a well loved character a lot of people have grown up with. There are two main witches in the story: the good witch and the bad witch. I have drawn the bad witch on the left side like the devil on her shoulder and the good witch on the right like a guardian angel. 

The emerald city which is behind Dorothy i have drawn a penis shaped tower as a subliminal messages to represent the gay references and metaphors throughout the wizard of oz film. 'Friends of Dorothy' is a known phrase to associate with somebody who is homosexual which originates from the film. It is also discussed that the whole journey of Dorothy coming out of her reality a boring sepia world and embarking on this colourful experience for her and her friends to find out who they really are is a metaphor for somebody coming out of the closet. 

 

 I decided to do a rainbow screenprint as an association to the song 'Over the rainbow' used in the film also as a reference to the gay pride logo.

^Final prints.

^I have also scanned in my picture and started to colour it in photoshop.

Ryan Milner

I have so much time for artist that are amazing at drawing people. Ryan Milner's illustrations are amazing.

He does illustration, fine art and typography. The image at the top has to be my favorite but his typography i find really interesting as that's something I'd like to get more involved with.

Exhibition- Charmed Life.

I went to visit the wellcome collection and came across a charmed life the Ferlicity Powell exhibition.

"Charmed Life: The solace of objects' is the result of the artist Felicity Powell’s engagement with a collection of 1400 amulets assembled by the Edwardian amateur folklorist Edward Lovett. One of the few people to have had access to this curious collection of ‘charms’, once carried in the pockets of Londoners for luck or protection, Powell was intrigued by the silent witness they bore to countless personal narratives, most of which are now lost to history. Despite being long divorced from their original owners, these objects, borowed from Oxford University's Pitt Rivers Museum, seemed to retain an insistent sense that they might yet hold some hidden magic."

http://www.wellcomecollection.org/whats-on/exhibitions/charmed-life.aspx

The exhibition was filled with beautiful small trinkets and these beautiful was painting which were on small black disks. we were able to watch a video on how they were cleverly made.