Finalizing Ideas - Montage

One of my final ideas was to take my texture pieces and cut them up and then take inspiration from Mondrian and work into composition with collaging these cut up pieces into a Montage.

This was alright and had visually apealing quality but wasn't as Bold as I would have liked it to be and didn't involve half of the things I had looed into so was kind of pointless.

So I decided just to stick everything together, by taking my texture, drawing experiment pieces and montaging them I would involve what I had learnt from Mondrian, it would involve the drawing techniques learnt from Claude Heath and blind drawings of rocks and traces would involve my Journey ideas and Ester Roi's concept.
Finally to link it all together I decided instead of using various squares and rectangles I would use circles to incorporate my digital pebbles work and 3D experiments.

I believe this idea came out extremely well and even though it may need a tweek here or there for now it brings all my ideas together and shows what 'TRACES' means to me.

Combination Experimentation

In a attempt to fuel some ideas I tried experimenting with my last two pieces, 'Claude Heath Drawing Technique' and 'Texture works' and entwining them together to create these stand out pieces.

These were created by taking these texture rubbings which I explained in my last post how they were made, and taking a subject to blind draw from 'in my case a rock or sculpture' and then using pens, pencils and fine liners to draw over the top.
Also to give it even more stand out quality I then took it to photoshop where I filled the page and upped the exposer and contrast. 

Claude Heath

Claude Heath is an Artist renowed for his blind studies where he uses one hand to feel the subject and draw with the other hand all while blind folded.
"You create a problem and become fascinated with 'it'. (1) This line is one which feeds centrally into the artist's own work.
Heath's drawings are intense, private dialogues between the sitter/object and the artist. Larger installations and prints require a modification of technique. The artist photographs his work, then projects the enlarged images onto paper, tracing the lines one by one with a pounce wheel, which perforates the surface. He then fixes the colour through the 'stencil'. These images lose the nervy intensity of the drawings, but produce a more clearly articulated line."

The idea that you create a promblem just so you can solve it is what drives Claude to create these amazing pieces using pens, pencils and fine liners.

I still want to incorporate the idea of rocks and traces with in them and I would like to show this with drawing techniques like this and it would also give more of a focal point. I will practise these techniques for now until I can find a way to mix it in with my abstract coloure and texture ideas.

Piet Mondrian

Piet Mondrian is worked with his art through the War which ended 1918 where he then moved back to France Mondrian began producing grid-based paintings in the late 1919, and in 1920, the style for which he came to be renowned began to show.

"All painting – the painting of the past as well as of the present – shows us that its essential plastic means we are only line and color." Mondrian believed all things were simply line and colour and wanted to show this in his work which in the later years became a little more abstract yet with a more focal point to it.

I believe this style will work well with what I am trying to accomplish, no to have lines and primary colours but texture and composistion and there is no one better for shape and composition than Modrian which is why I want to incorporate his style into my work.

Texture

After looking at individual parts of my work what I realised was as indvidual textures my work looked very Abstract and Sureal which produced great quality work.

These pieces came of visually apealing, they were made by using tracing paper and materials like cardboard and wire to create these colourful rubbings with oil pastels, pencils and charcoal.

I plan to take it a step further and cut them up and place them together to create an abstract composition like Mondrians work except with texture rather than primary colours.


example -

pebbles

Taking previous work I've done and working arond the idea of pebbles here was idea I came up with.

Using this certain circles and adding inner and outer shadows to make the m look like pebbles, this is simply an experiment.

Ester Roi

Ester Roi is an Artist and Inventor who has spent time studying rocks and flowers in there interaction with water and is most famous for her realistic drawings of colourful pebbles and flowers with there flow within the water.

She says " I relish the contrast between a solid rock above the surface and its restless reflection below; the realistic depiction of a floating daisy versus its abstract, refracted counterpart. I marvel at how a flower can take on a new identity when floating below the surface and I strive to capture its ever-changing shape".

Ester believes water holds elements of fantasy and imagination so is easy to become enchanted with, where anything can happen and the unusual is never questioned, "The world above water, ever brilliant, solid, and warm, can be at times rigid or harsh, and needs to be tempered by the softness and coolness below. My endless challenge, as an artist and as a human being, is to find a balance between the two".

 

 

 

Her Art works brillantly with what I'm working with now, firstly she uses this idea of untouched potential of pebbles and water with this drawing technique of pastels and pencil, which is something I would like to incorporate into my work, secondly her work is bright and aluring with the colours used, which is exactly what I need in my new work to show that I have implemented ideas from my previous work.

 

New Project/Not really though

Its a new term of work which means New Project which is......The Exact Same THING!!!
The new Brief of work is 'Traces 2' where I will be carring on with my previous  but taking to a new level, so I've started to look into at rocks and pebbles a little more and journeys they take which reminded me of my travels with a Pilgrimage walk I did across France and Spain where you would take a pebble or rock from where you began your journey and then drop it at the Iron Cross at the end of your Journey.

 

 

This is going to be my inspiration for the next part of my Art project with photographs I've tooken and work I've done so far put into more of a 'Focal Point', I also think I will experiment with a few drawing techniques and simply trying to take my work into a new direction.



Digitalizing a Final Piece

After looking at those artist I started to working toward a Final Piece to present and here is one of the ideas I came up with.

 

 

But I am not satisfied and since this is 'Digital Media' I will try to develope this piece into a Profesional piece of Digital Art work.

 

Firstly I changed the Contrast to give it the 'Bold' and 'Standout' quality I wanted for the original piece.



 



Next I messed the Exposer to really stand it out and even leave this nyan feel to this piece.

 

 

Then I tried to give it that 'Modern', 'Abstract' feel by taking certain sections and only making them visable and even giving it depth by adding shadows.

 

 

Finally I added some finishing touches by dying down the shadows and making the image look a little less blury.

 

 

 

 

Overall I think it was a successful experiment into incorporating my Fine Art into Digital Media, It also taught me a little more about photoshop and ideas of pieces I can do in the future.



ARTMP 3

Thirdly I looked into the photographers and creators 'The Boyle Family' a family of artist who looked at marks on roads, paths, walls, traces of man, leaving behind these visually apealing works. Mark Boyle his wife and his daughter and son work hard to find these traces and patterns to then re-create them and display them at exhibitions around the world.

 

 

 

 

Mark Boyle and Joan Hills believed that Art had no restrictions and that anything could be seen as ART, so do avoid drama they took Mark's last name and created this 'Boyle' Art work, soon after they got married and had two children who were eager to join in. So I inspired from this and went out to take my own photos where I then decided to experiment with the things I've learnt from Lucio and Ian McKeever to create some art work from these photos using rubbings of walls, floors and other bits and pieces I found.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



ARTMP 2

The second artist I thought I would share is 'Lucio Fontana' an artist who worked in the physical world of art, creating marks, slashes and traces on what ever he could find.
Lucio Fontana was a WW2 Artist and probably renowed for his 'Slash' works in canvases or metal, but Lucio has done alot more than that and I find it a shame that people can overlook some of his work which has there own unique qualities too.

 

 

 



Lucio died at age 69 during the late sixties which says a lot for his art, being very modern and strange for his time but however is an inspiration for my work and others to this day. 
His work can be oviously related to my subject matter 'Traces' with the marks he makes with paints and metal and also with every day objects, his art can really be inspiring and so I also had to experiment with this, off course with my own touch 'pencils, pens and anything else I could find.

  

 

 

With this and what I've learnt from other artist like Ian Mckeever there could be potential for something great and so I'll continue to share these mark making and inpirational artist.

Artist Relevant to My Project 1

Recently I have been dealing with a 'Work Project' with the subject matter of 'Traces', because of this I have found certain inspirational artists so I thought this would be a great opportunity to share.

The first artist I looked at was 'Ian McKeever' which created many comtempary and colourful pieces of abstract art with the use of layering and painting techniques,
Ian is known for 3 different types of art work through his life time 'Landscape drawings and Photography' then his 'Over Painted' works followed by his most recent works which I am very interested in, his series of 'Door Paintings'.

 

I love the idea of using this door or tunnel to create this visually apealing work yet at the same time it having a ominous feeling about it.

I've also tried experimenting with this 'Between Space and Time' idea and so I tried putting my own slant on this by instead of layering paint I layered pencil drawings, pastels, patterns and cross hatching.

 

 

I believe that Ian McKeever's work, works well around my subject 'Traces', not just because of the use of mark making, techniques used and the layering but because of the messages in his work about Traces that we leave behind in space and time.  

Photoshop Experiments

To show a few things I have learnt 'not much' here are some experiments using curves, hue and saturation, filters and invert.

Curves

Hue and Saturation

 

Filter

 

 

Invert

 

 

WOOO Learning is fun :3



Art Pieces in Different Medias

First is a Fine Art piece created in the first year of my course after experimenting with using strong strokes of colour to create these pieces of abstract silhouettes, This was apart of my life drawing studies which came to me using many different mediums like newspaper, oil paints, charcoal, pastels, bleach and water.

 

Next experiment I worked on was 'Printing' under the subject of 'Waiting', so in experimenting with printing I worked with mono printing, tracing, screen printing ect. The outcome became a screen print of mutiple silhouettes in a line to form a que meaning 'all beleing they're different and unique from one another where infact they are the same, waiting'.

 

 

Then I started to work into Graphic Design, for this project I had to work with the subject of 'Britian in Fashion' so I decided on doing 'Stamp Designs' for a British theme. Firstly I looked at famous British designers such as the illustrator Quentin Blake, after trying to incorporate Fashion, Brtian and Illustration into a design this is what I finally produced.  



 

 

 

The final medium I used was Photography focusing aroung the subject  of 'Reflections around the Home', so after taking many photos around the house of CDs, windows/picture frames and pots and pans I took these photos and had a go with photoshop. After messing around with contrast, applying filters and inverting certain sections of the image, I had created a series of final images, this is one of them.