digital experiments

This is my monoprint of a design of alice I did along time but I then wanted to see what the design would look like with in the technique of mono printing, when I saw that it came out this well and what I loved with mono printing is the fact that when you wanted to add a shadow effect and get it done well all you have to do is use your finger and rub in as the mono printing technique picks up any marks made on the page.

Exhibition review: The Photographer's Gallery-Perspectives on Collage

To start of this exhibition we had to first find our way to london, the exhibition was at the photographers gallery which is located right next to the oxford circus tube station. One person exhibiting at the gallery that we looked at with great detail was laura letinsky who takes photos of certain objects that relate to the theme and subject mater, and in some of her photos their would be drawings of some objects which gave the image a real serial look on things.

Underneath this text is all the pictures I took on the day when we all went down to the photographers gallery, one piece of imagery I found good was the second image down from this piece of text as it is a since of freedom as its not greatly detailed but has some sort of meaning behind it, but then again I dont like it in away as it is to childish to be in gallery of this high quality, a kid could of done this piece and possibly done it better in some sense but I think thats what its serposted to be.

 One artist I liked at the exhibition was called Geraldo de barros he was born in 1923 and died in 1998, he never wanted to become a photographer and never really wanted to do this as a living and only really took fame when he got to a later age. Basically after a series of strokes and when he was only restricted to a wheelchair he took photography back up. With this in mind his daughter was looking though loads of old pictures and with the two years he had left which he of course didn't know he started the project sobras which of course didn't get finished and in the gallery now and with the rest of the work of sobras, the exhibition at the gallery is called what remains which is a great title for this piece and really has a lot of meaning behind the title alone.

digital experiments

The aim of this piece of work that I did was that of trying to match the work of Ciara Phelan, she works on digitail medium just like what I have tryed to do here. So to start with I had a random shape which in my case is a hexagon but ciara phelan normaly works with circles but in this case I wanted to see what the work would look like if I used I didnt object, I then got one primary photo which is of my sister and put it somewhere with in my work, I then got 3 different primary objects and that was of grass, a building and and chess piece. After I had my images I put them all around my hexagon to make the piece and once I was happy I started to crop things and even cut out things like I did with my sister to give a more random and serial effect in away. 

Colourising and layer blending

This exercise wasn't the best piece of work I've done but I can understand why people would use this type of work with in their work, I think it was because of the images I used but Im just not to sure.

The techniques that I used when making this piece was of course using layering to build up the image its self.The equipment I used with this technique would have to be a camera of course to take the images and then I took it onto a mac which had photoshop so I could edit the images to fit into one piece. When using the techniques I didn't enjoy it as much as I do when Im drawing but none the less i still liked using something different in my work. When it came to working with the images I found it hard to get the images looking good together maybe this is because of the images I have chosen to use in my work. I would like to work with them again but only if I have some good images to work with in the piece of work and maybe a beter theme to the work. With this piece I didn't have any inspired artist in mind as it was tutail.

Chris ede ispired work

With this exercise, I really enjoyed doing as I sort of knew what I was doing because I have done this exercise before in my Btec class's but with those I did animals as the main subject mater but this time I have used my little sister and I also thought I would use a mirror as it is alice and she is going though the looking glass. The techniques I used in this piece of work was mainly layering so by getting loads of colours from the image of my sister and lifting them up and creating more layers. The equipment I used in this piece of work was of course a camera to take the pictures for this piece, I have also used photoshop to bring the technique to the max. When doing this piece of work I didn't enjoy the work as much as I would of liked to do this work by hand. I found the work very difficult to get like to a good level, and I still dont think that I have done very well so thats why Im not doing anything with in photoshop or anything to do with computers. I would not like to work with this sort of thing again as I really didn't enjoy doing this. The piece was inspired by the work of chris ede who does work like this all the time and has put up on you tube a lot of tutorials on how to do this type of work. 

Raphael Vicenzi In-depth analysis

The piece of work was done by Raphael Vicenzi and he lives in Brussels belgium where he does all his work which is all done on advanced photoshop and on that note has been in featured in computer arts, illusive 2 and fashion wonderland. His work most of time conflicts on the fashion world and the beauty industry. The artist is 40 and is still working well with in the art industry. The work is called wolf mirror and is a water coloured painting if you will, and the work was made in 2008 and was made for it to exhibited for his own exhibition and wasn't for any clients or anything which in my opinion makes it better. I have chosen to analyse this piece because It is one of the best pieces I have seen with this artist and with this I would like to work like this but with a fine liner and use the fine liner for the colour shading in away.

www.mydeadpony.com/, this is the artist's website and as you can see is a very weird title of course but I think its great and if it gets people to your website by all means do it.An article/ interview that was done of him was done by one of our teachers that work here and this is how it went.The bits in bold is the whole interview.

CC: How would you describe your work or style?

RV: I think it's a weird mix of fashion illustration, street art, DYI,  typography & collage works. It's just a melting pot of different influences that found their way into my way of thinking. I try to stay spontaneous when I work now, I used to over think what I did.

CC: How do you find work or commissions?

RV: Usually people will contact me directly or go through my illustrator agency Colagene. They find me through my portfolio on Behance for example.

CC: Can you describe in a few words how you make your work?

RV: Either I have a pretty good idea of what I want to do or I just start a new piece and see where it leads me. Thus said the results are always very different from what I imagined. I just draw the woman, I use references a lot, then Ipile up textures & elements until I am happy with it. I try out different things until it clicks. The basic idea helps me to gather different elements that I just place around. Like I said, I try to be spontaneous when I work and hope for the best.

As you  can see he is a really cool artist who clearly replays to a lot of his fan base. The quote that came with this piece of work was of course wolf mirror which is basically saying when you look into the mirror most girls always says that look ugly or something that wouldn't be true and that would be the wolf mirror. A good quote from the artist that I found was from the internet although it isn't about the piece of work im looking at I felt that it should be in my indepth analysis; None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free , this quote from the artist is very deep in away and not expected from a artist I fill, I fill the quote is very much him and really does speak about his work in away, Such as this piece "those who falsely believe they are free" this part I think makes a better understanding to the wolf mirror piece as in a way your self as free in the mirror to be who you want to, and this girl in her image is a wolf and maybe in away she doesn't believe that she is free in the real world so their for slaved. I would say that this work is portraiture and makes the work fill like its going somewhere, I think if it was landscape it would make the work fill as if its staying their and not moving but with this being portraiture creates a story about the girl in away and she is getting on with wolf in the mirror.

The theme is of course fashion which in a sense is why the picture is of a girl as you would normal asume with in fashion. With the title I really think it gives a in-depth meaning to the piece, as if you just had the image with no title a lot of people would just asume its a random image and has no meaning, so in away with this piece the title is really important to the piece as it gives the piece a meaning, which is of course the girl looking into a mirror and saying how she see's her self as a wolf, and this gives the view many different meanings behind the work which is great as people can say the work is more in-depth. The subject behind this I think is story based and in away the artist has become a story writer to the views who view the work, so for example I see this as a girl who see's her self as a beast and not very pretty in away and sort of doesn't see her life with much meaning, this is great to see in work these days as anyone can come up with a story behind this work and it would make sense. I think the artist has really found inspiration from the film snow white, as it has a mirror and a woman a bit like the queen from snow white who is jealous of not being the prettiest in the land and goes to the mirror to ask who is the prettest in the land and the mirror says not you of course and maybe this is what piece is about in a way.

The materials and techniques I think have been used in this would have to be paper which is then drawn with pencil to start with and the layered with a fine liner and then I think the artist has used watercolours to get a drip effect with the work. Skills used in this piece I would say is collage which is good as I have been doing collage recently with my work so looking at this artist has really inspired me to think about the space thats being used and maybe not being used to create a better understanding to the work. The artists use of colour starts off with the lines being very primary which then goes on to creating the image which can go back to the meaning as its like she see's things as basica and child like in a way. the colours are very basic other than those five primary colours leading to her head and it fills like its a rainy day so the mix of black, red and light blue almost fills like a murder in a way which goes back to the meaning a story telling. The scale of the work is important with this work I fill, the work is done with A2 and it makes the viewer see a lot more into the work along with the detail behind it and I fill if it wasn't as big the meaning to would have been lost in the mix of it. The formal elements are key with this artist the line making that the artist makes you one know its by the artist as the artist uses this a lot in their work, the texture behind this is all done to the watercolours with the dripping of the colour which once again goes back to meaning behind the work. The lines used also create a pattern which is very fashion based which is how this artist does work.

I have chosen to look at this work because the artist really relates to my work and is very inspirational.
My first reaction of this work was that it has a very deep meaning behind it which made me look at work more and more and learn to enjoy it more. I love the use of colour with in the work and the illustration the only thing that could be improved is the spacing of the word. The work reminds me off work that I have done before or have tried to do before. The only work that it reminds me of is that of lucinda rogers which is basically the same sort of techniques which I will have to do another in-depth analysis on. the work has really inspired me to do work on the type of work and I will have to give it ago over half term break but over all it is great piece of work by a great artist.

In-depth analysis: Julia Pott

Julia potts

The two pieces of work that i will be analysing are done by Julia Pott who graduated from the royal college of art in 2011 and since then has won a MA in animation as she also turns some of her characters that become her artworks.She does most of her work in NY Brooklyn.

The first piece that Im looking at is called here with me. the work is a illustration but in this case she has also made a animation of it which is really cool about Julia Pott, the work was also made in 2010 so this was at the end of her last year of Uni she did this piece of work. It was made for her personal self and is on her website for sale in copes and over forms. I have chosen to research this piece because It is the artist that most relates to my brief and she also sort of tells a story with her animations and it just seems fitting to do this for my work. The scale of the work is also done in A2 size paper .he meaning behind this is that two creatures have found them selfs in a random place in the world and have also come from two different halts of the world but yet can become one and be their with each other. the work was created with pens and fine liners then after touched up on photoshop such, I can imagery the colour would be done on photoshop/ illustrator. My personal response to the work is that it is very random and straight away yu can tell that the work is done by Julia Pott.I love the randomness of the work but yet the meaning behind it to is amazing, The only thing wrong with this would have to be one of the drawings it look like it was done by a 5 year old but I understand that It was surpassed to be like this.

This second piece is called kissed.The work is grab and once again the artist is really random which is right up her street. The work was made in 2012 and once again the work is done for her own work to sell to customers and put in and on her website. The size of the work is once again A2 work so is basically a poster to promote herself and her website. The work is I believe done all on photoshop, but I can imagern her drawing the characters before hand then scaning them in and layering up the photo of the desert and sky behind it. The meaning behind this one is that when two people start being attracted to each other they never find the right moment to kiss in away. Then when you finally go out with person you say to each other their was moments when could of kissed.My personal response to this work is that it is well done and the meaning behind it is deep and is well worth the work she put in this.One thing I really like is the colour range and the techniques behind the work, the only thing wrong with this is the darkness behind it is not great and would priffer her to do happier work.Over all the two pieces of work are really good and I really like the first one called here with me, the meaning behind it is much better than the other one and is much better done in the sense of technique and style.Other all she is a great artist and I will have to keep an eye out for her work in an exhibition.