#ben branagan

[eimearkeys]

Week 5:

During this week i experimented on previous process i learnt to create better outcomes and started to look through old club settings to explore further.

Print 1:

In this session i feel i used an appropriate way of allowing the paint to free run i have a couple attempts to try and recreate the setting. I focused of ‘Pablo Picasso’ who creates a setting of dimension. By the continuous lines it created a dimension that can also be seen in the photo. I feel i could have done this sample better as the colours do not match but feel the shapes are of a similar outcome.

Print 2:

During this session i took and image that the printer messed up and through it would be a cool way to show how the club can be distorted. This relates back to the artists ‘James Bartalocci’ and his whole concept of the nights ‘Hallucinatory impact’ i feel this picture that printed incorrectly displays this concept.

I used different colours and a paintbrush to create this print and then heat pressed it into a material. I feel that this attempt was successful over an accidental print. I feel it allowed something different to be created and i feel the colours that became vibrant after the heat press matched the colours in the image. I feel i picked the colours well before hand

Sketchbook:

In this session i created a distortion of abstract collages where i removed all the faces of the people in the picture to just leave a faceless picture. The negative space is important as it shows the crowd is more important than the face which is what the crowd is about. I felt i was successful in this attempt and was basing my sample of ‘Ben Branagan’. In his pieces the individuals are faceless being your attention to everything but the question of identity.

[gabriellefap204]

Starting point…27/09/2023

I decided to collect some newspaper and cover them in white emulsion paint, this is purely because I did not come prepared with materials to start any work. I tend to start collages, brain storm or paint from images I have collected when I’m out of ideas.

I was inspired by Ben Branagan whose open studio I visited last month. He showed me some of his 2D and 3D collages and sculptures he was working on; he was also kind enough to show me a selection of painted newspaper and magazines that he likes to incorporate into his collages. I really liked the textures and transparencies he was able to achieve as well as the rough finish and bits of text peaking through.

Ben Branagan- Weekend Scenes

I’m not sure what I will make with these yet. I’ll probably paint on top of them, intrigued to see what effect I will get or if the paper will actually hold up because they are very thin and fragile.

[iconist]

[phyrm]

http://benbranagan.co.uk/projects/monuments/

[thesourceofeverything]

http://benbranagan.co.uk/

[tnnkmm]

 Aggregated Figure by Ben Branagan, 2020

[yes-lukewinter]

Ben Branagan - Possible Disasters Vol.1&2

[emmaklee]

(via Sculptural Vases With Scholarly Origins - Sight Unseen)

Ben Branagan : paper-pulp sculptural vessels made from deaccessioned library books

[ceramicceramix]

Not Clay But... | Ben Branagan: "Monuments" from Pulped Books | CFile - Contemporary Ceramic Art + Design

[onlyyyariii]

Danielle Marie Braxton

Name: Danielle Marie Braxton

Nicknames: Dani, Bruckerman, Hudaxton, Brevans, Branagan

Age: 17 (season 1)

18 (season 2)

19 (season 3)

26 (last season)

Occupation: After graduating from McKinley, she went to UCLA and got her degree in education to come back to teach at McKinley, where she is reunited with Noah Puckerman who she rekindles her relationship with.

Relationship(s): Noah Puckerman (dates; later marries)

Finn Hudson (ex-boyfriend)

Sam Evans (ex-boyfriend)

Rory Flanagan (ex-fling)

Family: Uncle Ben (mothers brother; who she lives with in Lima)

Mother (dead)

Father (jail)

Friends: All of Glee Club (Mercedes, Britney, Santana, Kurt, Blaine, Rachel, Rory, Sam, Finn, Quinn, Puck, Tina, Artie, Mike, and others)

Enemies: Sebastian Smythe, Coach Sue, choirs they’ve faced.

Physical Description

Hair:

Face & Body Claim: Laurel Thoma/Toma

Height: 5’6

Weight: 168

Eyes: Brown

Natural hair: Dark brown, now dyed (picture of hair above)

Personality:

She’s a bit of a rebel child, she’s more of a bitch than Santana, and when she wants something, she gets it.

Her mother died from a drug overdose and her father is in jail for selling and growing drugs.

She moved to Lima at the beginning of season one and is one of the last people recruited into the Glee club.

Mercedes is the one who recruits her. Mercedes and Dani are partners in a class and when the glee club needs members, Mercedes asks her to join and sway in the back or lightly hum, but she needs to try out.

When she tries out, she uses the song So What by P!NK.

Mr Schue is shocked by her voice and thinks she’s amazing. Of course she joins the group and it’s up and up from there.

More about her will told as it goes on! If you like glee or anything about show choir let me know! :) I’d be happy to talk about it with anyone!

[mdrnlife]

Ben Branagan

Ben Branagan

Practice; What that might mean. Richard Serra verbs; a useful way to move yourself forward.

Layering and stacking. Similar to some of the ways I have investigated.

Doggerland, reminded me to look at all of the old slides I have, some are very similar.

Italo Calvino ‘Invisible Cities’ vs Derek Jarman ‘Dancing Ledge’

Use of materials and textures in large scale collage work. See earlier tutor comments. There are some nice sketchbook drawings here. Investigate better use of your sketchbook.

Practice Statement is important: What you have done and what you intend/like to do

Narrative: 3 act play – is this the way you practice 2D – 3D – 2D, look at my sketch below here.

[juliakwinto]

Thinking Through Making

Lecture by Ben Branagan

Ben Branagan talk to us yesterday about his practice. He describes practice as a “meeting of ideas, processes and materials” and as “thinking through making”. I found both of those definitions really helpful in unlocking a wider understanding what my own practice is evolving into.

The above image of verb list by Richard Serra used by him to describe his practice. This list provides focus and inspiration, and I started to develop my own list: 

to remember, to recall, to visualise, to pack, to unpack, to transform, to describe, to tell, to speak, to understand, to communicate, to feel, to reconfigure, to change, to inherit, to pass on, to connect, to create, to dream, to reconnect, to leave, to migrate, to abandon, to emigrate, to become ...

Things to follow up on:

Tim Ingold (revisit)

Richard Serra

“Invisible Cities” by Italo Calvino

About practice statement: important to keep balance between what you’ve done and what you still want to make

[iconist]

Ben Branagan

[mayhands]

Installation shots from group exhibition, Chyrsalis, 2020, Wimbledon Space, London.

Ben Branagan, May Hands, Bruce Ingram & Elly Thomas, curated by Bruce Ingram.

Photography by Rob Harris.

[zkklaus]

tutorial with Ben Branagan

31/07/2019

I show him all my drawings.

1. Ben thought now my drawings look like an animation, I should adjust the size of the images to set the reading speed for readers.

He recommended La Jetée ( a book by  Chris Marker ), it uses different size pictures and blanks to adjust the pace when people read.

2. He recommended me to make a graphic novel, like Persepolis Graphic.

3. Think about where to put the text. Now I put the text in the picture. He said maybe put the text outside. 

4. Ending. The story should end when the old man gets on the train, you don’t need to twist it. Otherwise, people may get confused. 

---I explained why I choose this ending in my report.

[quietasamouse5]

Tutorial with Ben Branagan

 21.8.19

A useful and informative tutorial with Ben today. Questions answered, possibilities discussed, and book critiqued. He liked it, liked the artwork, thought I had done well, especially with regard to being a novice before the start of the course. Most importantly he noticed the first gull image was pixelated.

He advised me to reprint it, particularly as it’s the first page. When I checked in the InDesign document, the image was only 300 dpi and was an enlarged image. I went back to the originals and selected a different Tif, (600 dpi) and only enlarged it by 10%. I also used the opportunity to make some changes to a couple of things that could have been better on pages 1,2 and 28.

It was annoying as I had spent weeks ironing out the quality issues and had it sorted by scanning on a high resolution but just used one of the earlier files accidentally. Also annoying as I have completed two hard bound copies with the error. Still, I’ve reprinted 2 copies of the first three pages and I will undo the stitching and bind quickly tomorrow! Better to notice the error now, than next Tuesday!

My questions were:

References in the concluding statement? Yes.

Do the concluding statement and the digital portfolio read together? Yes. Good to have same headings.

Is there a maximum number of images in the digital portfolio? No but 25mb size limit- (use jpg not tif) make sure I have documented all the stages of bookbinding and have photographs of book.

Images in the concluding statement? No.

How should the digital portfolio differ from the one I submitted last time? Alternative images from VN, further annotation, how that book was useful, how that book helped with design etc. clear signposting.

Conclusions and potential applications? What does that mean? Strengths of the book, then push it forward. ie., if you had another 6 months, what would you do. If you were doing it commercially, what would you gain, what would be lost? Bookbinding? Writer, illustrator, designer, printer.