Remembrance Day -

 These are all images I managed to gather that relate to the war (Remembrance Day) from when I took a visit to the Barnsley Town Hall. The displays they had to gather, I felt it had alot of good information and ideas that would come in useful towards making things for the models & my mood boards etc. The pictures I have taken include images of Medals, Coins, Letters, Ration books, Wills, Uniforms, Important information of people, Weapons, and so on, Items such as Coins, Medals and Weapons, Came in useful as research to items that we created to place on the Metal sculptures we had to work into.

My Remembrance Day Work  - 

This was my mood board that I created based on Remembrance Day, I tried to use different media, as I usually only include one type of media throughout my work. On this board I did the Poppies in watercolour, I also attempted to work in a different style to my comfort zone as I particularly prefer to do my media studies more realistic. The skull and other poppies however i did in pencil first but went over in ink pen, for them to stand out more and include more detail. Overall my board could have been better as there is still alot of white space, the collage of propaganda posters could also have been a better collage; but yet I still believe it came out somewhat successful and got across the sole purpose of 'Remembrance Day'

This is a close-up of the watercolour poppies I did, This was from an existing image from the internet that I have also included on a pinterest board I gathered images together for, for secondary research.

Jewellery Workshop - 

These are the cut outs of metal that I have made for my many dog tags that will contribute to the wire statues. This is before they were filed and shaped. to start off with I had a large strip of brass metal that I used a tracing paper template for to draw out as many dog tags as I could on the metal piece that I had. I wanted them to be of a relative and decent size, as they needed to be seen atleast  but also needed enough space for me to imprint/stamp lettering into for the names/numbers I would be putting onto them. With a file I would smooth out the top into an arch shape each end. 

These were the first 3 that I managed to create in the first session I had in the workshop. These I think were the best out of them all, As they looked more aged and the stamping/lettering was much smaller and better for me to work with. For them to look like they did, I had them under the blow torch flame for quite a while as I wanted them to look burned and damaged. Also adding to the damage I beat the metal for quite a bit with tools within the workshop such as a hammer and a file. For the holes I center punched the top of the tag and used the pillar drill using a small drill bit first, so it would go through neatly and easy, then proceeded to use a large drill bit to ensure the whole was large enough if they were to be placed on some sort of necklace or rope. 

To do the lettering I used my teachers personal lettering box (smaller lettering) as they looked neater and more realistic. 

This is all of them together, the 3 I first started and then the other cluster I managed to make. Again I prefer the first 3 I made as they look more the part than the rest, the others looked more rushed and as though not as much time went into them. 

 This is a picture of the second lot the lettering is much larger because the smaller ones weren't in the workshop anymore, and there wasn't any numbering. So I stamped just names instead and tried to pick smaller names as I didn't want to have to carry the names to the next row. This is how they turned out in the end. I didn't managed to burn them as much with the blow torch but they worked just as well.

This was my clay poppy that I made to include in the wire models, to get the dull colours we needed, (as we decided we were going to make them duller colours) the different oxides, came out in different colours such as blues and greys or even blacks. Whilst applying the oxides you were to brush it on with a brush, but then dap off with a small piece of sponge,as the colour would still take once entering the kiln.

This was it before it went into the kiln, after I had applied all the different oxides I thought would turn out well once it had been fired. 

Wire Sculptures - 

These were the completed sculptures after everyone had applied there contributions onto the statue, Weaved within the wire, (trying to hide the wire as much as we could) were laminated ration strips. among the bodies were metal work poppies placed in the style of a sash. Wooden crosses, Wooden bullets, clay poppies, clay letters, wooden medals, metal work ration cards, metal dog tags, etc.

This were the two models stood together completed, the finishing outcome looked better than I thought it would, but in my opinion working with thick wire sculptures proved difficult as they were just completed in time, but from the beginning not everyone was so keen or sure as to what to do with them. 

This was the other sculpture, this one had more or less the same things within it, but there was a ration book and a flag more visible on this one within its chest.