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.