'www.thisiscollosal.com' Bredan Monroe

My attention have been brought to a art like website called thisiscollosal where anything adnormal, comical, illustrative and pretty much anything art related is shown to the world, there are many different artist and creators on this website and so I've just chosen one to show.

Bredan Monroe looks at 'Topography' Map making but in art usaully using a combination of natural and artifical forms involving location in some way.

"Oakland-based artist Brendan Monroe has been on a tear lately a solo show and several group exhibitions featuring his delightfully strange human and topographic forms composed of whirling rivers and swarms of color. The artist says his artwork is mostly rooted in science and then executed through painting and sculpting, which is not hard to see given the flow of energy found in each piece that seems influenced by the flow of water, tornadoes, or the grouping of microorganisms"
http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2013/09/brendan-monroe/

 

 

 

 

This work is inspiring for my own ideas on how to invovle map design and drawing together and I defintely recommend looking at this website for Inspiration, research or for fun.

 

 

http://www.thisiscolossal.com/

 

 

 

Maps

I've been looking at maps of Exeter to start of my project and lead me into my photo shoot of my Everyday Journey in and out of Exeter city. I oviously started with google maps finding my routes around the area, where lived and plain birds eye view images and actual maps.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Continuing from this I decided to practice with my digital skills on photoshop and have a mess about with these maps with colours, contrast and consistinsy. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

These images have certain visual effect that work well with there concept like the first image looking like city lights shaped like lightning hitting the ground and the second giving of a urban feel like complicated graffiti on the wall. These picture are nice to look at but I'd would rather involve some drawing skills ino it weither it by observational or imaginary.

The City

After finishing 'Traces 2' I've moved onto my next brief with a choice of 'Boundaries', 'City', 'Book Makeover' and 'Domestic'. As you can tell by the title I've chosen 'City' as my starting point and I have started looking into Map Art and everyday journeys.

As first Inspiration for this project I've looked at Glynis Tinglof who paints abstract pieces based around maps and cities using warmer colours found on maps of fields or of the place in which the painting is of.

 

 

From here I'll try experimenting with observational drawing and implementing it into other abstact map work, I'll also take a photo shoot of my way into college and my everyday journeys around exeter city.