As a look into Digital Art I decided to look into programing itself starting with the PDF file.
'Portable Document Format' was originally created as a way to link all file formats from word proccesors to a variety of image and graphic formats. This was due to the early days of the internet and everyone having different programs and files, so weren't able to open documents that would have been sent to one another.
Today Adobe is more of a tool program to help edit certain images, videos/animations and word based documents and this seems to be the direction in which it's taking with portfolio tools and buisness tools becoming a real proffesional and common program.
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.
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 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 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.
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 -
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.
