Month: Nov 2018

I continued developing my ideas and visual work after repsonding to artists and primary research, I decided to further explore paint, print and textiles.
Painted Illustration

I wanted to further explore paint as I only lightly used this in my previous work, I wanted to continue playing around with soft colours and effects attemtping to work up a feeling of nostalgia and time.

I used brusho and acrylic paint to create this piece, I wanted to evoke a feeling of memory and nostalgia. I have been throughout the village of northenden my whole life, this piece draws from my memory of the village. I imagined this piece – applying my experience in the village to the canvas capturing the gaps in between with my memory with emotional nostalgia from when I travelled through the village as a child. I feel this painting provides this sense of imagination. I do feel next time it would be important to ground a sense of the village through earthy tones and colours from by the river and in the village.

Here I used mixed media, a background of brusho, a fore ground of acrylic paint and a final layer of sharpie. I used these methods to play with depth and style. I am pleased with the feel of this piece as it reminds me of traveling through the suburbs of the village though I do feel that it lacks a solid sense of place.

Printing

I developed a design when I came up with the idea of printing, I wanted to involve ideas of community, travel, transport, life, past and present. I created five designs and selected the one I felt would look the most aesthetically pleasing.

I layered my prints in different colours, two in blue, red and white and another in blue, red and yellow. I am pleased with these outcomes as they play around with times and seasons though always remaining is the hussle and bustle of life day or night.

I used an intaglio process through lino cut carving my outlines into the piece. I had some problems printing the text as the font was very small however next time I would use a larger block or a smaller tool.

I used colours in my prints that could refer to time of day, darks and lights to explore life throughout the seasons.

Textiles

I decided to further my textiles development by combining print and stitch, sewing detail and outlines along the printed design.

I feel the sample is good development, I like the idea of print and stitch though I feel next time I would like to emit emotive colours and artistic sophistication.

I then used a sewing machine to add detail and outlines

I used oil paint to print this piece onto felt, applying a light image of my design

I feel it would be important next time to use artistic values such as contrast and quality fabric and thread.

I created some pieces in response to my artist research, exploring processes, ideas and effects to develop my visual work.

Illustration and Paint –

I was inspired by Nanami Cowdroy here, I wanted to explore soft and hard effects together to unite the emotions of the river and urban landscape of the village.

Here I wanted to use an unusual perspective and material to play around with mundane scenery in an emotive manor.

I wanted to pull through northendens features and important visual make up, I decided to create tiled images to explore the real scenes of Northenden Village.

Here I created a range of rough sketches inspired by Bob Dylan and Simone Ridyard exploring urban landscape through characterise style and individual imagination.

I created these drawings to exlpore a variety of illustration effects inspired by the works of Bob Dylan, Simone Ridyard and Nanami Cowdroy.

Textiles

After creating a body of illustrative response work I wanted to further my ideas by introducing textiles, I used a recognisable building on palatine road in this stitch drawing, embroiding areas and windows to push shape and detail through the sample.

Thread Drawing

I was inspired by Debbie Smyth to further my textiles approach and use thread drawings that come off the surface, I used imagery by the river for this particularly the Heron sculpture at the park.

Wood Etch

I had the idea of pulling the river into my work by using nature, I felt by using a wooden canvas for drawing or etching I could explore the urban lanscape in relation to its close rural paths.