Thursday, 15 May 2014

'Star' Photo Shoot

As Primary research I decided on taking photos of the night sky and any visible stars.

These photos also remind me of light polution so I wonder if it would be a good idea to but some focus into that or if it would be to much of a diversion to my project.

This also shows me a range of colours I can incorperate into my experiments.

 
 
 
 
 
I wasn't able to get super, great, clean photos of the stars however it still looks looming and has that effect of 'small' making us feel tiny in comparison to every thing else plus it shows me that using large amount of black can have a good effect, It can also be more visually apealling than you would realise.
 
 
 
 
 



Seb Jarnot

Another Illustrator that I believe would work with the star theme is Seb Jarnot. He has a very free style using mostly line and dot based art work to a comical effect.

This could work with constellation drawings where I could join the stars plus the comic aspect is something I've already worked with, with my illustrations. I also like the idea of implementing one colour but maybe trying to move away from 'Poster Art' style.

 
 
 

Thursday, 8 May 2014

Isabel Bostwick

Isabel Is an Illustrator that uses very line based fantasy drawings that look almost primitive.

I believe her work could work well with my star themed work, the idea of of keeping simple outlined base work focused around fairy tails and myths along with animal and people could work very well when trying to illustrate the zodiacs and other constellations.

Using few pale colours as well has a nice feel to it, it's as if she is taking real life  scenes and putting them into these story book scenarios.

 
    

Theory Illustrations

I wanted to take this project with a Illustration aproach so I decided to create Illustration interpretation on theories on what people use to believe stars were from greek and indian mythology.

 
 
From ancient Indian believes there was a common theory of stars being giant crystals/diamonds in the sky, this is where the nursery rhyme originates from.
 
I like the comecial concept of this illustrastion and using a combination of heavens mythology and what stars are to create an element of fantasy in this and then surported with the stick characters with no facial features.
 
 
 
 
This theory is from Greek mythology and the belief was that the night sky was a giant greek bowl hoovering over the world filled with holes that the gods had poked in to watch down on man.
 
I also like the ridiculousness of this illustration using a common china plate you would find in any household and once again using combination of heaven being above the plate and the earth being flat to once again reinforce the fantasy element. 
 

 


Thursday, 1 May 2014

Roger Hiorns 'Crystal Room'

Roger Hiorns created this very experimental piece that surprised everyone, he went to a building schedulded to be demolished and took a very run down apartment and sprayed the thing with copper sulphate in hopes it would create a crystal wonder land.



After four weeks of drying out the place he was left with a beatiful crystal palace, this blue building reminded of me the night sky and the greek theory of stars being crystals and diamonds in the sky, I think I will try my own crystal experiments using salt crystals to create a shine on paper and maybe even add colour and trying to draw with this solution.



Final Major PROJECT 'Stars'

My next project is my 'Final Major Project' this will be my last art project for this course and I have chosen 'Stars' to be the subject of this last leg of this course.

I've always wanted to do an Art Project around 'Stars' the big spacey kind not the X factor kind. I've decided to start this project off by looking at some other famous art works around stars like Van Gogh's 'Starry Night' and then do some research on astromony, constellation and even astronaught quotes and facts.


 
 
This work reminds me of some other work done by Roger Hiorns and his crystal room, I may do some further research for inspiration for my art.