Deptford

^{I moved to Deptford from living in Halls at UEL, which I’m so grateful I’m out of them pizza box cells, and into a cool trendy town. The market takes place every Wednesday, Friday and Saturday, from around 7am until 4pm, so I like to stroll down and see what the stalls are selling, items from fresh fish, foods, groceries, to antiques, second hand clothes and collectibles.} 

On Deptford high street there is the many art galleries I didn’t even know about until I really had a look about, also a great art supplier located in a archway under the station It ^{is a space functioning as a studio workshop, materials suppliers and alternative gallery, focusing on work by our staff and emerging south London based artists on an invite only basis. I usually go in there and the artists are working on amazing images.
Another gallery I enjoy visiting just down my road is BEARSPACE usually showcasing artist’s work around the area. I bought a 24 page comic newspaper, on each page has a different illustrated comic usually pretty comical and at the back had the content & credits of the different illustrators. This is a great way to get upcoming artists work out there for only a few price. Other Galleries round Deptford that you must visit is The Agency, APT Gallery, Arch Gallery, Gallop and SE8 Check www.deptfordartmap.com.}

Pigeons and Peacocks

^{My dad works in Soho so I sometime meet him for lunch arrange where he works, while waiting for him a came upon this small corner shop that sold hundreds of fashion and art magazines. I bought my first copy of Pigeons and peacocks which is a fashion and lifestyle magazine and website published by London College of fashion, the magazine is distributed internationally and has built up a loyal following worldwide due to its intelligently crafted inspirational content.}

 ^{The magazine I bought was issue 5 so I searched over the internet to find the other 4 and bought them at a decent price of £15 each. This magazine was the main inspiration and start up to my final project, The images were so strong on there own I wanted to create more like them but with my with style incorporated so I started drawing on top of the images giving the models scars and tattoos making the pretty bright photographs darker and more detail to them. I didn’t want to make it look like I just copied it so I used my light box that my granddad made me to trace over the image to get the basic layout then carried on created the image I wanted, but after that I still didn’t think just a print of that was enough so I though I could change the material I was going to print on. Something that isn’t so common but would work with the image so I came up with wood.}

I also find alot of my inspiration from a website called sweetstation.com It has new upcoming architectures, photography, advertising, random posts and of course art, it updates everyday and I always check it.

 ^{http://www.pigeonsandpeacocks.com/}

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