Year 2
Year 2- (October 7th 2019) Art Research: History of Urban Drawing
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In my second year at the University of Cumbria, I've been working on new research on new projects. What I researched is Urban drawing. Because when I was started the second project, (the location in Carlisle - Market Hall), I needed to learn a little about live-drawings in the outside world. Urban drawing is an art technique for sketching, “as a hobbies go urban drawing gives people a lot of bang for your buck”, with nothing more than a piece of paper and pencil, you are equipped to start drawing your city or village, with the people who live there and the things that are happening in the scene of the area. The good thing about urban drawing is that it's almost in definition. Drawings can be completely simple, quickly or perfect as you like it, it could take up to almost ten to fifteen-minute sketch from views of a window, sitting outside of a building, spending an hour or two capturing what’s happening in front of you. Either way urban drawing can stop the clock and let your minds be turned off to whatever's happening around you. Most artists use field sketching in their work. I did that once or twice in my own artwork, but I think urban drawing could be fun. So in my second year this is going to be a challenge for me to do in the Location project, “a chance to step away from computers and just draw for the sheer joy of it without deadlines and objectives. It has the power to turn a moment of boredom into a creative pastime.” If I was doing urban drawing for most of my time I would be going places I’ve been (at my home, where I work or where I go out with friends and family) and where I want to go (like going out for a day or a holiday). Urban drawing can be continued with your travels or you’ll only end up with work full of art in your hands, “the sketches bring back memories in ways a set of photos can’t, evoking the sounds, smells and recollection of the places in which you want to create them in.”
How to do a Urban drawing
1. Picking a location, whether it's indoors or outdoors, capturing what we see directly. Urban drawing is a raw and pure form of art that requires drawing from life, as much as taking photographs or your imagination. Urban drawing is mostly practised on streets of paper to wherever you go. You can sometimes lean against a tree or the corner of a building, or sitting on a bench and can spend time doing the work during the day or during the night whether it’s hot, cold, rain or shine.
2. Urban drawings can tell a story of what's happening in your surroundings, places you live, and where you traveled to. Drawing the environment produces more than a hand-drawn representation of the places you’re at. Behind each drawing is a story of what’s happening before your eyes.
3. Urban drawings are a recording of time and place from where you've been in your life. It's the same way as a diarist dates a journal entry, urban drawings are often have the date on them, sometimes going as far as to write down the exact hour and minute they were finished. It captures the moment, that can’t be repeated over again and because it takes time to draw instead of taking a photo, the sketch has the power to bring back sharper memories of what is happened in the area.
4. People who do use urban drawing are truthful to the scenes of what they witness around them. An artists practises urban drawing interpret the reality before them, from their own point of views. Being truthful doesn’t mean drawing every window in a building or keeping lines straight. Every artist is free to infuse each sketch with their own personality, some like detailed artwork by spending hours on the main subject, others would synthesis the essence of the area with in a few simple strokes in their artwork.
5. We can use any kind of media and cherish our art-working style. Pencil, pen, fountain pens, markers, colouring pencils, crayons: the media sketches are used endlessly, as are the possibilities, from where you can combine the drawings in any kind of paper, whether they're in paper or in a sketchbook.
These are the things I'm in with my own artwork, before I started university, it'll be good to do some more in the future.
How to do a Urban drawing
1. Picking a location, whether it's indoors or outdoors, capturing what we see directly. Urban drawing is a raw and pure form of art that requires drawing from life, as much as taking photographs or your imagination. Urban drawing is mostly practised on streets of paper to wherever you go. You can sometimes lean against a tree or the corner of a building, or sitting on a bench and can spend time doing the work during the day or during the night whether it’s hot, cold, rain or shine.
2. Urban drawings can tell a story of what's happening in your surroundings, places you live, and where you traveled to. Drawing the environment produces more than a hand-drawn representation of the places you’re at. Behind each drawing is a story of what’s happening before your eyes.
3. Urban drawings are a recording of time and place from where you've been in your life. It's the same way as a diarist dates a journal entry, urban drawings are often have the date on them, sometimes going as far as to write down the exact hour and minute they were finished. It captures the moment, that can’t be repeated over again and because it takes time to draw instead of taking a photo, the sketch has the power to bring back sharper memories of what is happened in the area.
4. People who do use urban drawing are truthful to the scenes of what they witness around them. An artists practises urban drawing interpret the reality before them, from their own point of views. Being truthful doesn’t mean drawing every window in a building or keeping lines straight. Every artist is free to infuse each sketch with their own personality, some like detailed artwork by spending hours on the main subject, others would synthesis the essence of the area with in a few simple strokes in their artwork.
5. We can use any kind of media and cherish our art-working style. Pencil, pen, fountain pens, markers, colouring pencils, crayons: the media sketches are used endlessly, as are the possibilities, from where you can combine the drawings in any kind of paper, whether they're in paper or in a sketchbook.
These are the things I'm in with my own artwork, before I started university, it'll be good to do some more in the future.
Year 2- (October 7th 2019) Artist Research: David Gentlemen, Gary Embury and James Hobbs
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After researching Urban Drawing I get started in doing other research on some artists that maybe related to the Location project. The artists are David Gentlemen, Gary Embury and James Hobbs.
David Gentlemen
David Gentlemen is an English artist, illustrator, designer and author. He was born in the 1930s with artist parents, who they and he have studied at the Royal College of Art and has lived in London ever since. He's travelled widely through Britain, Europe (Paris and Italy) and India creating sets of drawings and paintings from what he has seen in his life. The work that David Gentlemen has shown are a lot of light and a little of tonal colours in some parts of his drawings, with a mixtures of curved, straight and robust lines around. Showing the scenes of what he saw in his life it's like he can draw an entire area of the scene to what's happening around him, and there's a mixture of thick and thin lines both showing mixtures of what's in front of him up-close or at a great distance. The lines also show a lot of long, straight, uneven and some curved and scribbled around the artwork. And the colours that David Gentleman has created also seems to be done in a mixture of colouring pens and watercolour paint (both light and dark colours). Looking at his artwork made me remember him being mentioned when I was at college, this gave me and my classmate a little inspiration about him.
David Gentlemen
David Gentlemen is an English artist, illustrator, designer and author. He was born in the 1930s with artist parents, who they and he have studied at the Royal College of Art and has lived in London ever since. He's travelled widely through Britain, Europe (Paris and Italy) and India creating sets of drawings and paintings from what he has seen in his life. The work that David Gentlemen has shown are a lot of light and a little of tonal colours in some parts of his drawings, with a mixtures of curved, straight and robust lines around. Showing the scenes of what he saw in his life it's like he can draw an entire area of the scene to what's happening around him, and there's a mixture of thick and thin lines both showing mixtures of what's in front of him up-close or at a great distance. The lines also show a lot of long, straight, uneven and some curved and scribbled around the artwork. And the colours that David Gentleman has created also seems to be done in a mixture of colouring pens and watercolour paint (both light and dark colours). Looking at his artwork made me remember him being mentioned when I was at college, this gave me and my classmate a little inspiration about him.
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Gary Embury
Gary Embury is an illustrator and senior lecturer at the University of the West of England. He's created his artwork for many of his clients including the The Saturday Times, Telegraph and The Guardian newspapers. “Drawing has always underpinned my practice especially primarily on the spot of drawing. I've also currently developed work using mixed media sets, appropriating by imagery, collage, montage, painting, drawing and digital media." Gary Embury’s artwork is very colourful in light and dark sets, and makes the artwork tonal with texture and composition from all sets of colours he uses both pen, pencil and paint. This has made me think that this might be my kind of artist, mixed in several art materials, it’s kind of something I'd do with my own artwork.
Gary Embury is an illustrator and senior lecturer at the University of the West of England. He's created his artwork for many of his clients including the The Saturday Times, Telegraph and The Guardian newspapers. “Drawing has always underpinned my practice especially primarily on the spot of drawing. I've also currently developed work using mixed media sets, appropriating by imagery, collage, montage, painting, drawing and digital media." Gary Embury’s artwork is very colourful in light and dark sets, and makes the artwork tonal with texture and composition from all sets of colours he uses both pen, pencil and paint. This has made me think that this might be my kind of artist, mixed in several art materials, it’s kind of something I'd do with my own artwork.
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James Hobbes
James Hobbs is a book author and an artist with the drawings he's created across the world, that has been in a set of pen and quill ink. James Hobbs has been living in Stoke Newington, London, with his wife and kids. The artwork he's been creating are interesting, because it's look like there are done in colours of black/brown and white (light and tonal dark), like looking at ancient old photographs from 18th or 19th Century. Looking his artwork has reminded me of the comic strips I made in my spare-time, because I've done something that was a little similar when I got the drawing (mixed in pen and pencil) and the photos of the bay in Arnside Cumbria into similar colour and texture (tonal grey with light and dark, white and black), it's made me realise that I should've researched this artist in the comic strip project.
Researching these artists, I didn't quite get to create my artwork in their style but is has help me understand a bit about more of urban drawings. I may have a chance to do a lot better in their style.
James Hobbs is a book author and an artist with the drawings he's created across the world, that has been in a set of pen and quill ink. James Hobbs has been living in Stoke Newington, London, with his wife and kids. The artwork he's been creating are interesting, because it's look like there are done in colours of black/brown and white (light and tonal dark), like looking at ancient old photographs from 18th or 19th Century. Looking his artwork has reminded me of the comic strips I made in my spare-time, because I've done something that was a little similar when I got the drawing (mixed in pen and pencil) and the photos of the bay in Arnside Cumbria into similar colour and texture (tonal grey with light and dark, white and black), it's made me realise that I should've researched this artist in the comic strip project.
Researching these artists, I didn't quite get to create my artwork in their style but is has help me understand a bit about more of urban drawings. I may have a chance to do a lot better in their style.
Year 2- (October 12th 2019) Comic meeting with Junko Mizuno
During the comic strip project, all illustrators, graphic designers and fine artists, have gathered together to meet an artist who has come all the way from San Francisco or Tokyo to see us and show her artwork and comic strips she's made at the University of Cumbria as a little art gallery. Her name is Junko Mizuno.
Junko Mizuno
Junko Mizuno was born and raised in Tokyo, but got relocated to San Francisco in her mid-thirties where she currently resides. In her time she self-taught on how to create her artwork and comic strips by her own. As a self-taught, Japanese artist, she works in American pop landscapes both by cultural reference points that can be found in her truly unique style. An abiding motif in Junko's art is the female goddess and she has also created a whole universe of them. Her work celebrates the energy, spirituality, creativity and power of women - a force that can be depicted in her work as destructive as well as life affirming. Junko's artwork takes inspiration from Japanese folklore than a range of pop ephemera; fetish art, pin-ups, psychedelia, advertising, vintage toys, fashion, comic books, food, nature, television shows and computer games. The exhibition in the Vallum Gallery has been curated by the artist and brings together some of Junko's most distinctive work to date (together with a brief commentary on each work), showing the diversity and range of her practice which moves seamlessly between commercial illustration and fine-art practices. Work in the exhibition includes; paintings, comics, gig poster, animation, mural artwork and product design. Junko is an internationally renowned artist, her work has been featured in numerous publications and can be found in stores, museums, and fine art galleries around the world. This venture is part of a collaboration between the Institute of the Arts the Lakes International Comic Art Festival. This was what was mentioned in the meeting and the information about Junko Mizuno at an exhibition in the University of Cumbria. Seeing her artwork is like seeing ancient Japanese moving to the modern world, I even went to see her and show some of the comic designs that I did. She said they are good, it has made me happy to see what she's done in her life. When the time is right I'll be planing to publish my own comic designs, like she did.
Junko Mizuno was born and raised in Tokyo, but got relocated to San Francisco in her mid-thirties where she currently resides. In her time she self-taught on how to create her artwork and comic strips by her own. As a self-taught, Japanese artist, she works in American pop landscapes both by cultural reference points that can be found in her truly unique style. An abiding motif in Junko's art is the female goddess and she has also created a whole universe of them. Her work celebrates the energy, spirituality, creativity and power of women - a force that can be depicted in her work as destructive as well as life affirming. Junko's artwork takes inspiration from Japanese folklore than a range of pop ephemera; fetish art, pin-ups, psychedelia, advertising, vintage toys, fashion, comic books, food, nature, television shows and computer games. The exhibition in the Vallum Gallery has been curated by the artist and brings together some of Junko's most distinctive work to date (together with a brief commentary on each work), showing the diversity and range of her practice which moves seamlessly between commercial illustration and fine-art practices. Work in the exhibition includes; paintings, comics, gig poster, animation, mural artwork and product design. Junko is an internationally renowned artist, her work has been featured in numerous publications and can be found in stores, museums, and fine art galleries around the world. This venture is part of a collaboration between the Institute of the Arts the Lakes International Comic Art Festival. This was what was mentioned in the meeting and the information about Junko Mizuno at an exhibition in the University of Cumbria. Seeing her artwork is like seeing ancient Japanese moving to the modern world, I even went to see her and show some of the comic designs that I did. She said they are good, it has made me happy to see what she's done in her life. When the time is right I'll be planing to publish my own comic designs, like she did.
Year 2- (November 4th 2019) Art and Artist Research: Poster Inspiration, Screen-printing, Frederic Remington and Charles Schreyvogel
From the start of the third project, I went to the library at the University of Cumbria with my tutor and classmates, looking at some poster designs so I could get some idea of what I want to create for my gag band Slab Gammon design on both poster and t-shirt.
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I have really enjoyed looking at these movie posters, they’ve been created in a completed different ways than you see them at the cinemas or DVD sets, so this could help out with what I like do in this project. At the same time, I have been looking at other books to help me with. I've been looking at books about silk-screen printing.
Screen-printing Screen-printing is an art technique where a mesh is used to transfer ink onto a substrate, except in areas made impermeable to the ink by blocking stencil. However if you want to print your work, you must use some paper (tracing paper most likely) to create several layers of detail and colour to make an effective art piece and the colours you use for your print is up to you, whether they're light, dark, or bold. |
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For a short time I have been looking at a couple of artists that may help me out, when I create my own poster and t-shirt design of the gag band, Slab Gammon. The Artists I looked are two American Westerns named Frederic Remington and Charles Schreyvogel.
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Frederic Remington
Frederic Remington was an American painter, illustrator, sculptor and writer who's specialized in moments of the American Old West, concentrating on scenes from the last quarter in the 19th century from the Western States and featuring images of cowboys, American Indians and the U.S. Cavalry, among with other figures in western culture. The work he creates is very well textured and colourful and the composition is strong to what is happening in these scenes. Charles Schreyvogel Charles Schreyvogel was an American painter from the American Old west, of Cowboys, American Indians and the U.S Cavalry, he was very interested in the military life. The artwork that Charles Schreyvogel has produced is very similar to what Frederic Remington has done in his artwork, so this is kind of the same thing for what I’ll be doing in this project. When I created the poster design of Slab Gammon, I didn't get colour or detail as this guy or Remington's has done but when I was capturing scenes from a movie "Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World", I got the idea and composition when capturing the moment when the actor and actresses are performing their band, this was something to enjoy doing.
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Year 2- (January 31st, 2020) Artist Research: Faith Jaques and Peter Blake
After the Christmas holidays and listening to the briefing of the first project, I immediately get started with some artist research. The artists are Faith Jaques and Peter Blake.
Faith Jaques
Faith Jaques (Born: December 13th, 1923 - Died: July 12th, 1997) was an illustrator and artist, when she was born in Leicester she becomes a prodigious reader and artist when she was a child. Through grammar school to Art College she has studied the history of architecture, furniture and costume, to stand in her own good stead in the years to come. During the time at WRNS (woman's Royal naval service), she took a million photographs (holidays included) of Germany and Occupied Europe with the attention given to pictures of coastlines and villages she approaches to. After World War II, Faith Jaques went to London Central at College of Art and Crafts, for part-time art teaching, including creating over 500 drawings for the radio-times for important patron and for all artists over many years. This gave Faith Jaques to build enough confidence to abandon teaching for full-time book illustration in 1968. She has created many illustrations including Roald Dahl's Charlie and the chocolate factory. She was also responsible for the renaissance of the British picture book during the last three decades. She has a special gift to translate the emotional tone and text into a strong visual atmosphere, created by her pen and quill-ink drawings. During her illustrating, she's also been doing her own writing like Tilly's House (1979), that was one of her first picture books as both author and illustrator and is to be one of the best book on store. Towards the end of her career she has created a series of cut-out picture books. All her hard work in illustration has made Faith Jaques very successful. The lining and detail in her artwork are well described of what's happening in the scene and each illustration shows a mixture of straight and curved lines where the characters and objects are at, added with a little shading where the darkened attitude are.
Faith Jaques (Born: December 13th, 1923 - Died: July 12th, 1997) was an illustrator and artist, when she was born in Leicester she becomes a prodigious reader and artist when she was a child. Through grammar school to Art College she has studied the history of architecture, furniture and costume, to stand in her own good stead in the years to come. During the time at WRNS (woman's Royal naval service), she took a million photographs (holidays included) of Germany and Occupied Europe with the attention given to pictures of coastlines and villages she approaches to. After World War II, Faith Jaques went to London Central at College of Art and Crafts, for part-time art teaching, including creating over 500 drawings for the radio-times for important patron and for all artists over many years. This gave Faith Jaques to build enough confidence to abandon teaching for full-time book illustration in 1968. She has created many illustrations including Roald Dahl's Charlie and the chocolate factory. She was also responsible for the renaissance of the British picture book during the last three decades. She has a special gift to translate the emotional tone and text into a strong visual atmosphere, created by her pen and quill-ink drawings. During her illustrating, she's also been doing her own writing like Tilly's House (1979), that was one of her first picture books as both author and illustrator and is to be one of the best book on store. Towards the end of her career she has created a series of cut-out picture books. All her hard work in illustration has made Faith Jaques very successful. The lining and detail in her artwork are well described of what's happening in the scene and each illustration shows a mixture of straight and curved lines where the characters and objects are at, added with a little shading where the darkened attitude are.
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Peter Blake
Peter Blake (Born: June 25th, 1932) is an English pop artist, he is best known for co-creating the sleeve design for the Beatles' album, "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club band" and for two of "The Who's" albums. He is also known for other album covers of the band aid single like "Do they know it's Christmas?", and the Live Aid Concert poster designs, a lot of his artwork have been done in collage paper of pictures, drawings, photos, etc.. some of the drawings have been done by his own. Every album cover that Peter Blake has created are very colourful, bright and bold, and the composition shows a lot of objects, people and animals all over.
Learning the techniques of these artists including Rockwell Kent and Charles Keeping gave me some thought of which one to use for a final design for creating a couple of book cover design of "The Tree," and "The Chair".
Peter Blake (Born: June 25th, 1932) is an English pop artist, he is best known for co-creating the sleeve design for the Beatles' album, "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club band" and for two of "The Who's" albums. He is also known for other album covers of the band aid single like "Do they know it's Christmas?", and the Live Aid Concert poster designs, a lot of his artwork have been done in collage paper of pictures, drawings, photos, etc.. some of the drawings have been done by his own. Every album cover that Peter Blake has created are very colourful, bright and bold, and the composition shows a lot of objects, people and animals all over.
Learning the techniques of these artists including Rockwell Kent and Charles Keeping gave me some thought of which one to use for a final design for creating a couple of book cover design of "The Tree," and "The Chair".
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Year 2- (February 28th 2020) Art History: Cabinet of Curiosities and Vernacular Arts
At the start of the 3D project, I made a quick start of doing research before I could do any planning of what I want to do in my artwork. Starting with what me, my tutors and classmates were discussing in the briefing I researched Cabinet of curiosities and Vernacular art.
The Cabinet of Curiosities
The Cabinet of Curiosities are a notable collection of objects. Modern terminology would categorise the objects, included as being belonging to natural history (sometimes faked), geology, ethnography, archaeology, religious or historical relics, work of art (including cabinet paintings), and antiquities. The classic work of the cabinet of curiosities first emerged in the sixteenth century, although more of the rudimentary collections have existed earlier, in Europe. The collections were formed by precursors to museums. The Cabinet of curiosities is like, going into your own little world (like the movie- The Chronicles of Narnia: the Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe).
Vernacular Arts
Vernacular Arts is the creation of photography, that takes a moment everyday's life and common things as subjects. Though it's commonly known as a definition of the word "vernacular", as quality for being "indigenous" or "native", use of words in relation to art and architecture. Vernacular photographs also includes travel, action photos, family snapshots, photos of friends, class portraits, identification photographs, and photo-booth images. Vernacular photographs are the type of accidental art, in that way they are often unintentionally artistic. Vernacular Art is also done with materials of drawing (pen and pencil), and painting (oil, acrylic and watercolour), to get off the artist’s own artwork in.
The research I've done in them looks simple, I’ll see from when I work in the 3D project.
The Cabinet of Curiosities
The Cabinet of Curiosities are a notable collection of objects. Modern terminology would categorise the objects, included as being belonging to natural history (sometimes faked), geology, ethnography, archaeology, religious or historical relics, work of art (including cabinet paintings), and antiquities. The classic work of the cabinet of curiosities first emerged in the sixteenth century, although more of the rudimentary collections have existed earlier, in Europe. The collections were formed by precursors to museums. The Cabinet of curiosities is like, going into your own little world (like the movie- The Chronicles of Narnia: the Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe).
Vernacular Arts
Vernacular Arts is the creation of photography, that takes a moment everyday's life and common things as subjects. Though it's commonly known as a definition of the word "vernacular", as quality for being "indigenous" or "native", use of words in relation to art and architecture. Vernacular photographs also includes travel, action photos, family snapshots, photos of friends, class portraits, identification photographs, and photo-booth images. Vernacular photographs are the type of accidental art, in that way they are often unintentionally artistic. Vernacular Art is also done with materials of drawing (pen and pencil), and painting (oil, acrylic and watercolour), to get off the artist’s own artwork in.
The research I've done in them looks simple, I’ll see from when I work in the 3D project.
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Year 2- (February 28th 2020) Artist Research: Joesph Cornell, Martin Tomsky and Jonas Bergstrand
After researching The Cabinet of Curiosities and Vernacular Arts, I did some more research on some artists that could help me with what ideas I'd like to do in the 3D project. The artists I researched is Joseph Cornell, Martin Tomsky and Jonas Bergstrand.
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Joseph Cornell
Joesph Cornell (born: December 24th 1903- died: December 29th 1972) was an American artist and film maker, one of the pioneers and the most celebrated exponents assemblage. Influenced by Surrealists (known for artworks and writings), he was also an event - grade experimental filmmaker. He was largely self-taught in his artistic effects, and improvised his own original style with cast-off and discarded artefacts. The artwork he's done, has been in sets of small cabinet boxes. The background in the cabinets can be anything like paint, photos/images or news articles. The paint is also used in either (brown, black, white and blue) for background, edges or objects. The artwork is like looking at a 3D movie scene. Some objects in Joseph's artwork are in the middle of the cabinets (like they're in mid-air) with tiny blocks of word to stick between the object to the back of the cabinet, or using tiny pieces of string and hanging in the air. A lot of these techniques are used with the same materials for a background and objects. I've done some artwork of Joseph Cornell's style when I was at Kendal College, in an art project called collections. The artwork I did of his style was a collection of letters, in several types of fonts (in many art techniques and materials) stuck together in a small wooden box, painted and made by myself with my classmates who have done there own collection. I thought it would be nice to improve my artwork in his style.
Joesph Cornell (born: December 24th 1903- died: December 29th 1972) was an American artist and film maker, one of the pioneers and the most celebrated exponents assemblage. Influenced by Surrealists (known for artworks and writings), he was also an event - grade experimental filmmaker. He was largely self-taught in his artistic effects, and improvised his own original style with cast-off and discarded artefacts. The artwork he's done, has been in sets of small cabinet boxes. The background in the cabinets can be anything like paint, photos/images or news articles. The paint is also used in either (brown, black, white and blue) for background, edges or objects. The artwork is like looking at a 3D movie scene. Some objects in Joseph's artwork are in the middle of the cabinets (like they're in mid-air) with tiny blocks of word to stick between the object to the back of the cabinet, or using tiny pieces of string and hanging in the air. A lot of these techniques are used with the same materials for a background and objects. I've done some artwork of Joseph Cornell's style when I was at Kendal College, in an art project called collections. The artwork I did of his style was a collection of letters, in several types of fonts (in many art techniques and materials) stuck together in a small wooden box, painted and made by myself with my classmates who have done there own collection. I thought it would be nice to improve my artwork in his style.
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Martin Tomsky
Martin Tomsky is an illustrator, for building layers of laser-cut, stained plywood. Martin Tomsky grew up in South London as the youngest of seven children. His childhood was spent surrounded by books. Martin's drawing habits grew unchecked until it was developed into a full blown addition. A lot of his artwork, was done in layers of plywood by using laser-cutting. Before laser-cutting, Martin Tomsky had to draw in the shapes and details of the objects, before cutting them out. Some of his artwork are then painted in several colours, and seeing them is like looking into a new world. Some of the shapes of Martin Tomsky's artwork are done very simple (without any lining/details around). The work has also been created in book-like sets or in large portrait sets. Looking at his artwork seems very familiar to me, because I've met a man that did something a little similar to his artwork. When I was at finishing at Kendal college, starting my first year at the University of Cumbria in Carlisle. I went for a walk around Kendal till I went to the Brewery Art Centre (a restaurant/bar, art gallery and theatre/cinema) where there was an art gallery event happening. When I went in I met this artist and he showed me his artwork. Most were drawings and paintings, others were done in wooden and paper made in large boxes, like visiting the world’s smallest theatre show, I was very impress with his work and he was impress when I showed some of my artwork. I think I might try to do a bit of his style, it would be fun to create a movie poster out of wood and I would soon like to learn more how to use laser-cutting at university.
Martin Tomsky is an illustrator, for building layers of laser-cut, stained plywood. Martin Tomsky grew up in South London as the youngest of seven children. His childhood was spent surrounded by books. Martin's drawing habits grew unchecked until it was developed into a full blown addition. A lot of his artwork, was done in layers of plywood by using laser-cutting. Before laser-cutting, Martin Tomsky had to draw in the shapes and details of the objects, before cutting them out. Some of his artwork are then painted in several colours, and seeing them is like looking into a new world. Some of the shapes of Martin Tomsky's artwork are done very simple (without any lining/details around). The work has also been created in book-like sets or in large portrait sets. Looking at his artwork seems very familiar to me, because I've met a man that did something a little similar to his artwork. When I was at finishing at Kendal college, starting my first year at the University of Cumbria in Carlisle. I went for a walk around Kendal till I went to the Brewery Art Centre (a restaurant/bar, art gallery and theatre/cinema) where there was an art gallery event happening. When I went in I met this artist and he showed me his artwork. Most were drawings and paintings, others were done in wooden and paper made in large boxes, like visiting the world’s smallest theatre show, I was very impress with his work and he was impress when I showed some of my artwork. I think I might try to do a bit of his style, it would be fun to create a movie poster out of wood and I would soon like to learn more how to use laser-cutting at university.
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Jonas Bergstrand
Jonas Bergstrand is an illustrator, born in Stockholm after his twin brother Magus. The creative black sheep in an otherwise medical family, Jonas Bergstrand takes an approach to design and illustration, he thinks behind the surface to problem solving and governing much of the beauty of his work. Jonas Bergstrand has created his artwork in a mixture of 2D and 3D style, in background, objects and figure. All have been made in cube/cuboid sets, and the cutting and detail of them in 2D set. Jonas Bergstrand has used stronger paper (boarding paper and coloured paper) to create his artwork in 3D style. Some of them are mixed together in colour (black and white), paper. Some are separated (black and white) and (other colours) some of them are mixed with images of photos and magazine pictures. Looking at his work was very similar to what I used to do a long time ago. From my last year at primary school to my 8th/9th year at secondary school, I use to make of tonne of models out of paper (trains, dinosaurs and thunderbirds) but they didn’t last long sadly. Because I was doing the artwork wrong or I didn’t have the right materials and equipment to make them the way I wanted them to be, so this was something to think about.
These are the artists I researched for this project, and I'll try to make some similarities in my artwork.
Jonas Bergstrand is an illustrator, born in Stockholm after his twin brother Magus. The creative black sheep in an otherwise medical family, Jonas Bergstrand takes an approach to design and illustration, he thinks behind the surface to problem solving and governing much of the beauty of his work. Jonas Bergstrand has created his artwork in a mixture of 2D and 3D style, in background, objects and figure. All have been made in cube/cuboid sets, and the cutting and detail of them in 2D set. Jonas Bergstrand has used stronger paper (boarding paper and coloured paper) to create his artwork in 3D style. Some of them are mixed together in colour (black and white), paper. Some are separated (black and white) and (other colours) some of them are mixed with images of photos and magazine pictures. Looking at his work was very similar to what I used to do a long time ago. From my last year at primary school to my 8th/9th year at secondary school, I use to make of tonne of models out of paper (trains, dinosaurs and thunderbirds) but they didn’t last long sadly. Because I was doing the artwork wrong or I didn’t have the right materials and equipment to make them the way I wanted them to be, so this was something to think about.
These are the artists I researched for this project, and I'll try to make some similarities in my artwork.
Year 2- (February 28th 2020) Subject Research: Movie- Little Miss Sunshine
After researching some artists, Cabinet of Curiosities and Vernacular Art, I get started at researching and watching the movie I was given to create a 3D movie poster, "Little Miss Sunshine."
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"Little Miss Sunshine", is an American road Comedy- drama movie, in 2006. The movie is mainly focused on a dysfunctional family travelling across America from Albuquerque, New Mexico all the way to Redondo Beach, California. Travelling in their yellow Volkswagen van (with engine trouble and an uncontrollable horn) where a little girl is competing for a beauty pagean.
The casts in this movie are:
This is like telling everyone that each and everyone has their own issues and yet despite that, they travel across the world, so that a little girl can go and compete in a beauty pagean, in California. A weird but interesting movie to watch for an art project.
The casts in this movie are:
- Greg Kinnear as Richard, who loves winning, hates losing.
- Steve Carell, as Uncle Frank who loves proust, hates his life.
- Toni Collette, as Sheryl who loves her family, hates her family.
- Paul Dano as Dwayne, who loves Nietzsche, hates everyone.
- With Abigail Breslin as Olive, who loves beauty pagean and her Grandpa, hates fighting.
- And then Alan Arkin as Grandpa, who loves Adult entertainment and women and hates chicken.
This is like telling everyone that each and everyone has their own issues and yet despite that, they travel across the world, so that a little girl can go and compete in a beauty pagean, in California. A weird but interesting movie to watch for an art project.
Year 2- (February 18th 2020) Artist Research: Charlie Adlard
In the second term, while deciding on a subject to write for an essay, I was asked to research an artist after writing and learning about comics. The artist I've researched is Charlie Adlard.
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Charlie Adlard
Charlie Adlard (Born: August 4th 1966) is a British comic book artist, he is very famous for doing comic drawing of "The Walking Dead". Charlie Adlard has worked in the UK on White death with Robbie Morrison and 2000 AD series including Judge Dredd and Armitage. He's continued working for them with the series savage. In the United States of America, Charlie Adlard is best known for his artwork on The X files, Astronauts in Trouble and The Walking Dead. In the comic series of The Walking Dead, he's been a penciller from 2004 to 2019. A lot of his artwork's been done in both pencil and pen, there is no colour in any of them including the characters, background, etc... When drawn there is a lot of light, dark and bold in them. There is no sign of any tonal adjustments around the artwork. Charlie Adlard shows a lot of action, horror and drama, in his artwork making him one of the best known comic artists in the world. I've got a collection of all the comics of "The Walking Dead" at home and the work he does is amazing. I'd like to do something like that, when I create my own comic book designs in the future.
Charlie Adlard (Born: August 4th 1966) is a British comic book artist, he is very famous for doing comic drawing of "The Walking Dead". Charlie Adlard has worked in the UK on White death with Robbie Morrison and 2000 AD series including Judge Dredd and Armitage. He's continued working for them with the series savage. In the United States of America, Charlie Adlard is best known for his artwork on The X files, Astronauts in Trouble and The Walking Dead. In the comic series of The Walking Dead, he's been a penciller from 2004 to 2019. A lot of his artwork's been done in both pencil and pen, there is no colour in any of them including the characters, background, etc... When drawn there is a lot of light, dark and bold in them. There is no sign of any tonal adjustments around the artwork. Charlie Adlard shows a lot of action, horror and drama, in his artwork making him one of the best known comic artists in the world. I've got a collection of all the comics of "The Walking Dead" at home and the work he does is amazing. I'd like to do something like that, when I create my own comic book designs in the future.
Year 2- (February 28th 2020) Art Research: Subculture- Steampunk
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During a session for me to write an essay, I was interested in doing a little researching from one of the subjects I was learning from I researched about is Steampunk. Steampunk is a retro-futuristic sub-genre of science fiction or fantasy that incorporates technology and aesthetic designs inspired by 19th Century industrial steam-powered machinery. Its origins are sometimes associated with the cyberpunk genre, steampunk works are often set in an alternative history of the 19th Century Victorian era or the American "Wild West", in a future during which steam power that's been maintained a mainstream usage, or in fantasy world that has similarly employs' steam power. However, steampunk and Neo-Victorian are different in that the Neo-Victorian does not extrapolate on technology while is a key aspect of steampunk. People in the 19th Century may have envisioned steampunk and is like wise rooted in the era's perspectives on fashion, culture, architectural style and art. Such technologies are included in fictional machines like those found in the works of H.G. Wells and Jules Vernes, including the work of modern authors Phillip Pullman and Scott Westerfield. Steampunk may also incorporate additional elements from genres of fantasy, horror, historical fiction, alternate history, or other branches of speculative fiction, making it often like a hybrid genre. Steampunk was first appeared in 1987, though it is now retroactively refers too many works of fiction created as far back as the 1950's or earlier. Steampunk also refers to be any of the artistic styles, clothing fashions, or subcultures that've been developed from the aesthetics of steampunk fiction, Victorian-era fiction, art nouveau design, and films from the mid-20th Century. Steampunk has been modded by individual artisans into pseudo-Victorian by mechanical "Steampunk" style, and a number of visual and musical artists would've been described as steampunk. Seeing a lot of cultures of steampunk, is like we're about to live in a post-apocalypse in the future and it has made me curious, that maybe I could do some artwork of them, next year maybe. Who knows.
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I've also been researching at other subjects, before I could make a decision on what I wanted to write about for an essay. The subject I researched is about subculture.
Subculture A subculture is about a group of people within a culture that differentiates itself from the apparent culture to which it belongs. Often by maintaining some of its founding principles. Subcultures are part of society while keeping their specific characteristics intact, examples of subcultures include hippies, goths and bikers. The concept of subcultures were developed in sociology and cultural studies, the evolution of subcultured studies has three main step:
In subculture, there is steampunk. Researching a little subculture and steampunk looked a little interesting and I was thinking like one day, when I'm creating my own comic designs, maybe I could based one or two on steampunk. |
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Year 2 - (March 20th, 2020) Artist Research: The Great Train Robbery (1963)
In my last project, I did some research on the subject I was given to create a small video design, before I had to change into a small book from the coronavirus.
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The Great Train Robbery, was a robbery of £2.6 million pounds from a Royal Mail train going from Glasgow, Scotland to London, Euston on the West Coast main line in the early hours on the 8th August, 1963. It was a carefully planned robbery, based upon inside information from the individual known as "The Ulsterman."
The robbery was done by a gang of fifteen people led by Bruce Reynolds and Gordon Goody, the other gang members are Buster Edwards, Charlie Wilson, Roy James, John Daly, Danny Penbroke, Jimmy White, Ronnie Biggs, Tommy Wisbey, Jim Hussey, Bob Welch and Roger Cordrey. Three other gang members were part of the robbery, but no one will tell who they are. It all took place at Bridge Railway Bridge, Ledburn near Mentmore in Buckinghamshire, England. The train was stopped by someone tampering with line signal turning the green light to red light. The robbers attack the train driver, Jack Mills (approaching retirement), beat him in the head by hammers and crow bars and other staff members as the robbers fight they way to the high value coach where the money was kept. They take the money and head back to their hideout in Leatherslade Farm.
When the police arrive in Ledburn and took a 30 mile-radius to search for the robbers. The robbers were in their search area in their hide out, waiting for things to calm down the robbers were discovered but escaped before the police arrived. Eventually the robbers were found and arrested by the police one after the other, Bruce Reynolds was the last man to be arrested.
The robbers sent trial and found guilty for their crimes and were sent to prison for 30 years. Frederick Wilson escaped prison in 1964, but got recaptured three years later. Ronnie Biggs escaped a year after Wilson's and has been on the run for thirty years.
No one will ever forget about the robbers and will never forget about The Great Train Robbery in 1963.
The robbery was done by a gang of fifteen people led by Bruce Reynolds and Gordon Goody, the other gang members are Buster Edwards, Charlie Wilson, Roy James, John Daly, Danny Penbroke, Jimmy White, Ronnie Biggs, Tommy Wisbey, Jim Hussey, Bob Welch and Roger Cordrey. Three other gang members were part of the robbery, but no one will tell who they are. It all took place at Bridge Railway Bridge, Ledburn near Mentmore in Buckinghamshire, England. The train was stopped by someone tampering with line signal turning the green light to red light. The robbers attack the train driver, Jack Mills (approaching retirement), beat him in the head by hammers and crow bars and other staff members as the robbers fight they way to the high value coach where the money was kept. They take the money and head back to their hideout in Leatherslade Farm.
When the police arrive in Ledburn and took a 30 mile-radius to search for the robbers. The robbers were in their search area in their hide out, waiting for things to calm down the robbers were discovered but escaped before the police arrived. Eventually the robbers were found and arrested by the police one after the other, Bruce Reynolds was the last man to be arrested.
The robbers sent trial and found guilty for their crimes and were sent to prison for 30 years. Frederick Wilson escaped prison in 1964, but got recaptured three years later. Ronnie Biggs escaped a year after Wilson's and has been on the run for thirty years.
No one will ever forget about the robbers and will never forget about The Great Train Robbery in 1963.