Urban Influences, Part 2.

Figure 1: Painting onto bricks.

After realising that my drawing skills would not improve by just drawing from photographs. I am not just copying but trying to learn how to use more media. I have started drawing on the spot, but I did not start with paper  I have started with a brick  during the process, I have ran out of white paint, so I used yellow to replaced it. I like the texture of the brick it gives to my painting, but maybe, I need to go over that paint again, so that my painting stands out more from the background. This is also quicker than paper as the brick soaks up colour. I would need to mix the colour tone if using paper.

I want to be able to move with my work. 

Figure 2: Sketchbook

  Drawing on the spot, I tend to use blind drawing, because it records what is happening around faster on the page. Afterwards, I would go over it with more planed lines and adding colours.

What I think worked the best for me is that I think using a sketchbook to capture the moment then work on that on another piece of paper. The sketchbook is more of a blue print where I play with scales.

Figure 3: Sketchbook

 

Sometimes, I don’t even stop walking, I carry on walking and draw at the same time. Making myself uncomfortable can surprise myself.

Figure 4: Sketchbook

As I found my subject matter, I concentrated on it, cars.

Figure 5: Ink drawing of a car

 

I enjoy working with colours as well as black and white, I need to divide my colour palette such as try and use white ink only to draw to create a more interesting background to draw on.

I don’t like working with sketchbook because I feel like I am being limited in scale and pushed into filling the pages.  I have just been working on loose papers, to improve I will cut up more papers in hand and carry my pocket sketchbook and record, but look for subject matters, cars.

Urban Influences.

Figure 1: The Printworks, Manchester, 2014.

Instead of selecting drawing buildings at random I have decided to create a storyboard.

I drew all the restaurants and memorable places that my boyfriend and I have visited in Manchester.

At the beginning I worked from photographs and not on the spot, which because camera lenses show everything and I got nothing from my drawings but disappointment. The way I see things is not everything but the way I see things. That is the difference.

I did not try to draw everything I see within the photograph, I have selected the building outline and filled in the details. However, I have blinked out everything else. I do not see why I should draw thing that does not interest me. In a way, I see it as torturing myself. 

Figure 2: Piccadilly train station, 2014.

  In most of the drawings, I used either ink or pencil, I want to keep it black and white, therefore, there is no way of telling what time of the day is it, or the weather. Simply, I just want to draw the building structure design.

Figure 3: Painting onto a street mirror: Step by step.

  After this, I moved on from paper and worked with an urban found object, because I was getting tired of drawing buildings. Subject matter is very important to me, for I have to be interested in the subject matter, to make it interesting for myself. I started with my surroundings, dogs. I painted over the mirror and scratched the paint off in order to draw.

Figure 4: Drawing of Ruby.

 

From working with buildings and mirrors I wanted to draw from a different aspect.

Overall, the drawings that I did, I realised that working from photographs are more detailed. I don’t think I used enough media to experiment, but I have narrowed down my subject matter and decided that I need to experiment more with scales.

Summer Project: Part two, Inspirations

During the summer holiday, I have looked at a few different artists for inspirations, in order to help me to develop new ideas. Such as Picasso and the idea of using colours to represent the mood. E.g. The Old Guitarist, 1903- 1904.

For the experiment, I have used black papers, instead of my usual choice white paper. I tried to use colours express how I felt toward this person in the painting. However, I felt like I am still trying to paint photographically, so I had a second attempt.  

 

Figure 1: First attempt




Figure 2: Second attempt

I feel good about the second attempt, because I have gained better control of using colours to representing the mood and border movement within the stroke.





Figure 3: Sketchbook

In order to help with the creativity, I have purchased Wreck This Journal, 2007 by Keri Smith. In the book, there are tasks and one of them is ‘collect outdoors objects only’, I have combined this with another task ‘collect circle objects only from outdoors’.

I not only collect, I have also created. Using daisy chains to create circles.





Figure 4: Magpie painting

To improve and bring the found objects to another improvement, I have used found object as the background for me to paint on. Out of interest, I have painted a magpie, I like the textures of the found object on the paper, and instead of using paint only, I have found a nail vanish that match the feather colours of a magpie. Therefore, when looking at the painting in different angles, the colours changes on the wings.

Also, I have involved text work within the painting for composition, ‘One for Sorrow’. Bringing the context of the magpie rhythm.

 

 

 

 



Figure 5: Kelly Chun, 2014



Figure 6: Kelly Chun, 2014

 

 

In the summer, I was working in a nightclub in Blackpool, called Domain. The expectation of the job brief is very different from Manchester, (For in the past I have worked at a few events in Manchester.)

For Domain, the focus point are the laser lights. Therefore, I need to capture the lights on camera shots and to make it look more interesting, I have used a fisheye lens and learnt how to use long explosion in the process.

 

During summer, I started painting the environments around me, such as people that I know, see figures 1 and 2. 

I had a moment of working indoor only. When ‘Wreck this Journal’ is all about outdoor experiment, I used that to help me combines my strength in painting and working with found objects.

I had an opportunity to collaborative with Domain, which I have learnt not only working independently, but to fit my clients need and what they ask for.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



Summer Project: Influence and Inspiration 2

Figure 1: Tracey Emin – Everyone I have Ever Slept With 1963-1995.

Figure 2: Inside the tent.

The reason I have chosen this piece is because I like the idea of using already made objects and combining with collage works inside the tent (see above). I like the idea of using personal events as a material to document and making the connection with the artist through the writings / texts.

Also, the title of this piece suggests this particular time period of Emin’s personal life.  I like the message behind each name, as each one suggests a different memory to Emin. I think what makes Tracey Emin’s work unique is that she was able transfer her negative energy into art work and have the confidence to talk about it through her work to the public audience. 

 

Figure 3: Jim Dine – Tools of the Earth, 2007.

I like the idea of documenting, for example, in figure 3 the still life drawing of tools. It demonstrates the artist’s drawing skill and the composition of the work really draws my attention. I enjoy still life drawing but not photographic drawings. I like the idea of drawing the object, but then putting a few artist touches to create a sense of style, like Jim Dine does with the repeated drawing of the same tool. Jim Dine also added non-existent tone to the drawing, which is his style.

 

Figure 4: Jim Dine – Five Paintbrushes, 1973.

Documenting and measurement within this drawing is a way of collecting found objects. I always found myself drawing my surroundings because it is something that I see everyday. I think it’s a great idea to draw surroundings, especially when I don’t know what to draw, but the way Jim Dine did this drawing shows that he doesn’t stop after he finishes the drawing. This image has been reworked from the initial plate several times, which is what I would like to work on. Rather than just stopping when I finish a drawing, it’s better to carry on, because I believe there’s always room for improvement. When I have finished a drawing, then come back to it the next day, I am able to see what needs developing. It is a sense of development in order to improve by going away and coming back to rework it.

 

Figure 5: Picasso – The Old Guitarist, 1903- 1904.

I like the idea of using colours to represent the mood of this painting (see above). I think art should expressing the artist’s personality. I like to look at painters and drawers, like Picasso and Jim Dine for inspiration and I like to draw and paint myself, but then I would transfer those drawings, mood and thoughts onto fabrics, for my passion is embroidery and print.

I would like to be an illustrator in the future, therefore, I have been training myself to draw everyday. Through textiles I am hoping to develop a wide range of ways to present my work through different form and material.

Shoes Drawing

 

I have always been a big fan of Egon Schiele, because of his style, how he uses paint to highlight tone, create depth and his way of addressing twisted body shapes by using expressive lines.

 

In my work I was trying to response to that style, by using different shades of blue paint for blue shoes only, different shades of red for red shoes and so on. In each pair of shoes drawing, I was also experimenting different drawing style. On the left, (blue shoes) I have first used continuous line drawing, then working with different shades of blue to fill in the form. However, I have left it unfinished, because some of Egon Schiele's work was left part coloured in.
In the middle, I have used white paint to highlight the light area on the shoes, but on the right side I have started thinking about using the background itself as the positive space.

 

For example, Russian prisoner of war, 1916.

I thought this way of working draw more attention to the work itself and also showing having the skills of photographic drawing, but having thought about the compostion in another level of working.

Friday Drawing Day 25/10/13

This is a photograph that I have took of the actual objects.

This is a drawing that I have done on Friday. (25/10/13) I have first used blind continuous line drawing to get the basic form of the objects then I have worked into it by using paint. I have chosen to draw as detailed as I can on the first two pairs of shoes, then at the back I have decided to use a paint brush and use continuous line drawing again, but not filling in the details, because I thought the structure of the object itself was rather interesting, therefore, I have only worked on the positive space. I really like the composition in this drawing that I have done, because at the front, the colour red are really eye catching and at the back, (the heels) are rather abstract comparing them to the four shoes at the front.

This is a drawing that I have done at home, I have first used paint to create movement and also mark down the structure of the object, then correcting it with a black marker, because the way I see this object was the diamonds that has been stuck on the front of the shoe was really appearing to me, therefore, I have used line drawing to repersent the form, pattern of them.