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.