Antony Gormley

Kerry, I thought this artist could be useful for you as he stacks his small figures in a way that creates a crowded, uncomfortable enviroment which I found interesting.

Platt fields gallery

I took these images almost a month ago I recovered them from my broken memory card. 

I know it is a little too late to suggest a an exhibition but for those who have not been you should visit for some inspiration.

Andy Warhol

Andy Warhol

As some of us are creating stacking, using colour and hanging our work for exhibition, have a look at Andy Warhol’s work looking at colour.

 His works explore the relationship between artistic expression, celebrity culture and advertisement that flourished by the 1960s. Warhol uses many forms of media that include hand drawing, painting, printmaking, photography, silk screening, sculpture, film, and music.

The aspect that interests me about Warhol’s work is the colour. They are bright hallucinated  colours, which do not resemble any natural colours or characteristics of the people he re-created within his work.

Warhol discusses his choice of colour in this 1981 recording. Press the play button to listen to his comments.

http://www.webexhibits.org/colorart/marilyns.html

A Sequencial development on the first processes

over lined in fine liners

designs in pencil

Here I want to show how long and precious I have been with my work and the lengthy process I have endured during my experimenting. I will put all of my final illustrations up onto my blog on the exhibition date as a final statement because I want them to be shown in their exhibition areas. Overall I am getting the hang of things but I do wish there was more workshops available for this project because of it's collabrative nature.

frist design manipulated in black and white

'photoshoped' white lightening cider into the image

added burberry /chav paterned cap in it's under layers of the image

painted rabbit in the first stages - added brush strokes fro shade and depth 

Paper manipulation

I found an art blog http://artpropelled.blogspot.co.uk/2011/01/folding-unfolding-enfolding.html introducing me to Sarah Mitchell's work. Looking through these pieces of work with paper I think the quantity of folded paper in one piece looks more interesting than just a single accent.What do you guys think?

development of characters on photoshop

pencil layout

starting to layout the solid
black fine liner

I have been designing layout and 'stencils' of my birds and rabbit and then scanning them into photoshop drawing them by hand and then putting them into photoshop is a new thing to me as I dont have that much experience and wished that we have a workshop in something like tutorial. I wish to develop my skills in photoshop. The design is the key to the final execution of the work.

brushes beginning to be developed

What needs to be considered though is that this is going to be a time consuming and in many cases it may not work out well.

development of designs

pencil layout

starting to layout the solid
black fine liner

I have been designing layout and 'stencils' of my birds and rabbit and then scanning them into photoshop drawing them by hand and then putting them into photoshop is a new thing to me as I dont have that much experience and wished that we have a workshop in something like tutorial. I wish to develop my skills in photoshop. The design is the key to the final execution of the work.

brushes beginning to be developed

What needs to be considered though is that this is going to be a time consuming and in many cases it may not work out well.

El Anatsui

 

El Anatsui's large hanging instillation art pieces are made from recycled bottle tops. He uses the recycled bottle tops in such a detailed and selective way to create patterns through colour. There is alot of movement in his pieces, created through folds and waves. 

Ron Muek

 Ron Muek's sculptures are amazing. They are so realistic, if they weren't on such a large scale it would be hard to believe they're not real. He originally started making his sculptures out of latex, but then moved onto using fibre-glass. I find these sculptures quite grusom through the absolute detail of the skin.

Marc Quinn - Self

'Self' is a self portrait by Marc Quinn, a cast made from his own blood then frozen. It is a really challenging way to explore self portraiture. I saw this piece years ago in the Tate Modern London, I remember being drawn to it as it is beautiful and a striking red, then being shocked when I found out it was made from blood. The way he uses his own blood, to make a cast of himself makes it very personal and really explores his own identity through relating everything to himself.

we are more similar than you may think?

Recycling

 

Check out this website;

Artwork re-created by recycling bottles and paper. Artwork including; hanging bottles and re-created light shades.

http://webecoist.momtastic.com/2012/02/27/beautiful-bottles-reclaimed-art-made-glass-plastic/

Space and Place

Doris Salcedo

Salcedo used 1600 chairs were used in the making! This is interesting to see how the chairs are fitted together. The height of the sculpture replacing a space.

She used everyday objects to impress people of the public, making them pay closer attention to things they may not think twice about i.e. positive and negative space.

It would be interesting to see how these chairs looked if they were set alight, to observe all the colours shown from the burning wood.

Again from afar it is safe to say this work is appreciated more, viewers can see the true size of the piece.

Check out her other work on http://whitecube.com/artists/doris_salcedo/

Stacking

These are some artists I have found that use the technique of ‘stacking’ using different materials! As some of us are interested in the using this technique I thought I will show food being stacked.

Stephan Sagmeister 

From afar these pieces don’t look like bananas, showing texture. Even here they look carefully stacked showing repetition, the marks within the peel of the bananas add to the effect of texture. 

deciding an conclusion

For this project I have developed ideas and pushed areas of my work into a discipline(-illustration) that I have never been personally experienced before. I have been trying to finalise ideas which could be presented for my exhibition and at a tutorial it was agreed that some ideas where not as strong or realistic than others.

Proposal 1: Animation

An animation would have been an ideal way to show off the content of the work and the ideologies   behind it. It would be frustrating to think someone would view my work and not see the purpose of it as a statement of social class and segregations. I have put so much thought into my work I would wish it to be expressed to it's full potential.

So why not?
the problem with an animation for this project and the main reason I can not use it is time. I dont have enough time and I will not be able to achieve the best animation in two weeks. It is pointless in putting time and effort into a concept and not be able to produce something I know I could have done so much better job if I have a longer time limit or planned on the first week that I wanted to do this but its more about the journey.

Proposal 2: Illustrations

I know that this is what I want to do for my final piece but their where two directions I could have gone and it really confused me until I had a tutorial(which we have this weekend) and it helped me clear my mind.

A. Illustrations of the blue tits, pigeon and rabbits to be framed and present as a series on board
-Similar to a newspaper or comic book strip layout,
-however it doesn't make sense in terms of the illustration would not any kind of structure in terms of a story so it could be a little confusing.

B. Illustration to be made into 3D life standing figurines
-hidden within the scene of hotspur house
-photoshop editing
-composition
-playing around with the colours and brushes.
-images mounted on foam/card backing and the manipulated to created a free standing 'card board cut out'

So I am going to develop proposal 2 - B after our tutorial and group discussion.

Susan Benarick

Susan Benarcik is an installation artist and surface designer. Her 3-dimensional sculptural installations and surface designs reflect her concern for the environment. She normally uses recycled materials 

She adds aspects of the natural and man made world into her sculptures and installations and carefully transforms them by stacking, stringing, layering, knotting, and weaving them into dimensional sculpture for public and private spaces.

David Hockney

The David Hockney exhibition 'a Bigger Picture' is on at the RA from jan 21 - apr 9th. If you get a chance over easter to visit London, definitely go.
Honestly i think its one of the best exhibitions i have ever seen, purely because of the profilic way Hockney works. His addiction to detailing the landscape and analysing it through paint is incredible. He studied at the Royal College of Art in 1959 - 62, moved to Los Angeles for a period of time, and settled back to his Yorkshire roots in stints as well. He focuses on representation of space, seasonal changes, representing the natural world and pictorial space. He uses a lot of 'artistic licence' within his work and often has worked from memory within the studio, as well as observation in the landscape.
You cannot question whether or not Hockney knows the Yorkshire landscape well, because its clear from the sheer amount of work he has produced. That he has literally devoted his entire career to explaining it to the viewer through paint. I admire his colour palette and style, for a relatively 'old' painter he works in incredibly modern ways, the vibrant colour is placed almost 'haphazardly' on the canvas. In some instances almost childlike.
In recent times he has begun using his ipad as a drawing tool, and has dispersed with his sketckbook for the timebeing, i personally am not sure what to make of this. Will this be the future for all artists?.......



I admire the fact that he creates his own work and doesnt subcontract his work out. He also still owns a vast amount of his own work. I think this proves hes genuine.........not really it in for the money, its a true devotion.

'The arrival of spring in Woldgate, east yorskire in 2011

 

SouthSide House

My plan for ages was to go down to London to visit Southside house so i can use it as a setting for 'my family' the mill owners to live in. I was blown away by how beautiful it was, the family who still own it dont like to think of it as a museum at all. Youre allowed to touch everything and sit on the chairs, which made it a more real life experience, i could respond more to how they wouldve lived and walked around the house becasue i felt like i was at home as well. Southside had such a nice feel about it, really warm and welcoming, usually with old houses they can feel quite hostile and spooky but this one was the complete opposite. We had a wonderful guide who spoke about the house as if she was a storyteller repeating the vast history of the place, in particular paying reference to the family itself which i was particularly interested in. Regarding the furniture and surroundings I loved the expanse of the fabrics and materials used. Its audacious and cared for. The family havent held back. Money has been spent on luxury and plush interiors. Its great to look at and im so interested in interiors it was great. I really recommend going if you have a spare chance! they opened up an old louis Vuitton trunk and now theyve set up a small costume room where they have displayed the beautiful couture handmade garments that were found in the trunk. Just for the history it gave me a great insight into victorian times. it was like walking  back in time.

Another video...

I have put this video on my personal blog but I think it may also be useful to some of you. Take a look...

Rabbits!

In my work I wish to look at these fluffy animals and put them in situations In our wonderful youth. Rabbits have been portrayed in many different ways for instance in the Alice and wonderland illustration by Ralph Steadman the rabbit it a odd human like character that has some darker, twisted connotations compared to Beatrice Potters sweet Peter Rabbit. I have also looked into one of my childhood memories of the book and the film watership down. It is an incredible story where these little rabbits even have their own language and set off to find a new and safe tranquility of home. I have brought this up because recently the lands in which the author was inspired is now possibly in jeopardy as it may be turned a lovely new housing estate......