I really like how she uses different layers, especially the printed stencilled layers over the top of her image. I also like the colours that she uses and how they have a vintage feel to them.
Tuesday, 28 June 2016
Research: My Dead Pony
The story so far...
Raphaël Vicenzi is a Belgian illustrator living in Brussels, Belgium with his wife and child.
I really enjoy looking at his work. I also like the use of washed out paint that he uses and how he uses a maximum of 3 colours for each of his works. The way he uses the text, incorporating it into the shape of the girls is also interesting and different.
Evaluation of 'A drawing a Day' Book
What is working:
- the constant theme of symbols from the bible
- the colour palette being limited to only a few colours- reds, greens, black, blue.
- the colour palette being a majority of dark hues.
- the cut outs in some of the pages look very interesting
- collaging with photocopied and found images
What is not working:
there are two pages where i used bright coloured pen and i felt that it didn't work well with the other pages so i reworked it by adding some black and white paint and some fine pen drawings to make it connect with the other pages.
Themes: References from the bible. Symbols such as angel wings, hands, the tree of life and people.
Who else is doing similar work:
Rodriguez Calero
Frida Kahlo
My Dead Pony
Daniel Egneus
What are you making it out of?
- coloured paper
- pen & pencil
- black, white, and silver paint
- felt tip pens
- magazine pages/ found images
- clear plastic sheet
Self Evaluation:
If i had come to class more i wouldn't have stressed out with doing last minute work to hand in. I found that i worked well in class and managed to do more work than when i was at home. Attendance was something that i struggled with that i need to definitely work on for next semester.
I also learnt that i love collage work and creating images that have lots of layers of found images, fine drawings and paint like the work that Rodrigues Calero does. I also learnt that i like washed out colours and doing contemporary and abstract styled art.
Saturday, 25 June 2016
Research: Chapel Art
16th-Century Gothic Chapel Turned Into Starry Night Sky
At a charity event held in the University of Cambridge, Paris-based digital projection artist Miguel Chevalier turned the university’s 16th-century King’s College Chapel into a stunning backdrop for his hypnotizing light show. As each speaker at the ‘Dear World… Yours, Cambridge’ event spoke about their topic, the chapel was filled with projections that artfully illustrated their points.
The projections, specially designed for the famous chapel’s interior, at times either emphasized or hid the building’s extraordinary architecture. The chapel is one of the best examples of Perpendicular Gothic architecture in the world, so its ornate decorations were worth seeing even before they served as a backdrop for Chevalier’s projections.
Research: Early Christian Art
Majority of the very first paintings made were related to christianity, being portraits of God, Jesus Christ or saints.
Research: Abstract with Water Colour Style
Daniel Egneus
I really like how all of the image is in black and white and the heart is the only colour. I also like how the drawing looks like it has been done with a fine point pen, creating a neat look. I also like how not only does the heart stand out because it is a different colour, but the way it is painted with water colour creates a abstract affect. Have the neat black lines in contrast with the abstract heart makes both styles stand out more.
I like the use of fine lines in black and then having the water colour effect highlighting in colour only parts of the illustration.
Mixing what looks like fine pen drawings with either paint or charcoal.
Holly Sharpe
I like the imagery of merging the faces of the women and the different animals. The placement of the butterflies and the birds makes both these illustrations visually appealing to the eye. the composition of the different elements in these illustrations work well- there's a balance.
I like the colours and how the red and the blue colours in the background create the purple colour for the image of the girl in the middle.
I think the messy watercolour style is interesting also.
Judit García-Talavera
I really like the repetition in this illustration and how although the women has been repeated, the different colouring creates three different illustration. I think the colours used in this work well together.
I like the washed out watercolour style of painting. I also like how in the illustration is incomplete in the corners, creates a 'memory' type of vibe.
My Dead Pony
I like the washed out colours and water colour effect.
I also like the combination of text and images . These images are pretty abstract and contemporary.
Friday, 24 June 2016
Research: Frida Kahlo
The tiny figure, fragile as a costume-doll, perches precariously on top of a classical column. Parts of her, the parts used to make art – an eye, a hand – are falling away, and the words, “Yo soy la DESINTEGRACIÓN” (“I am disintegration”) are scrawled above. Yet despite the desolation of the image, you can’t help but notice that its colours sing – lime green, aquamarine and a certain deep, dusky pink. This could be the work of only one artist: Frida Kahlo.
“Work”, though, may be the wrong word here. For this is not one of Kahlo’s oil paintings, the kind found on the walls of the world’s leading art galleries. It is from the personal diary that the Mexican artist kept in the 10 years before her death in 1954, at the age of 47.
This diary, which was locked away for decades (and is now being republished for the first time in 20 years), is of a very particular kind. There are few dates in it, and it has nothing to say about events in the external world – Communist Party meetings, appointments at the doctor’s or even trysts with Diego Rivera, the artist whom Kahlo loved so much that she married him twice. Instead it is full of paintings and drawings that appear to be dredged from her fertile unconscious.
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