I mainly
gather inspiration from Friday drawing sessions and, in this unit, I had
a chosen image – Picasso, Family of Saltimbanques. With this image, I am
reflecting the colour mood on to my samples and using it as a starting point. I also gain inspiration from my surroundings,
for example found objects and natural objects in everyday life.
Looking at a blank sheet of
paper or fabric, sometimes I found it difficult to start, but then I looked at
Mark Hearld’s works, how he uses storytelling as his templates, and I started
to think about the connections between my motif designs and creating my own
narratives.
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My hand painted designs - Overlapping. |
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| My hand painted designs - Overlapping. |
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| Mark Hearld – Garden Birds. |
I enjoy
working with found objects, mark making and accidental stains that are made
during the process of drawing and making, and looking back at my hand painted
designs, they are more abstract compositions compared to Mark Hearld’s print
designs.
With my hand
painted designs I am more interested in working with movement and mark making,
because when I look at the colour mood of the image, Picasso, Family of
Saltimbanques, I am also looking at the brush strokes, and that inspires me to
overlap colours using paint.
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| One of my Photoshop digital print design. |
My digital
print designs include more linear elements. They also contain more objective
drawings, less mark making and no accidental stains. The designs made in
Photoshop are cleaner.
With
Photoshop designs, I am able to work in a more controlled way and adopt the
layouts in Mark Hearld’s works, to achieve
clean cut designs. I am able to remove any unplanned accident and make each design more individual.
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Fat drawing by Daksha Patel
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My hand painted design – Collage.
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I have signed up for Daksha Patel’s drawing workshop on
27/1/14.
The idea of this workshop was to use imagination to make
connections between objects, in a way that is unlike museum displays that
create exhibits and group objects together in categories.
After speaking to her about my project and struggling to
relate it to Data, she inspired me to think of ways of composing and
representing my collections.
As a starting point, I adopted the scientific way of
drawing by using golden rules. I
experimented with drawing pigeons and tigers, and then I developed to include
organs and skeletons within my designs using my imagination to make connections
between them.
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Mark Hearld’s work in printed fabric for furniture.
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Even though my hand painted designs are not figurative
like Mark Hearld’s, the similarity of the elements within the composition makes
me think about the marketing area and companies that I could be involved with,
such as St Jude’s. St Jude’s is a company that adopts and transfers print artists' designs into textiles
productions. I imagine my hand-painted designs being transferred into a
repeated pattern or a one off mural print as wallpaper, greeting cards and
printed fabric.
Furthermore, the relationship of my colour mood, designs and process could be displayed as a series of works in an art gallery as I related my project with data and adopted Daksha Patel’s way of thinking by making connections between my objective drawings.
My designs are flexible in relation to different types of
audience, but I would focus on illustration, as objective drawing and
observational are my strong point.
I would place myself as an exhibition artist, specialising
in textiles, print and
embroidery. I also see myself as an illustrator for both hand-made and digital for St
Jude’s.
This unit forced me not only to
experiment but also to put more time into the making and designing.
However, I realised that I have not done enough new research
using my own interests, and this is something I need to improve.
