Week 6-8

Week 6

This week I was focusing on understanding Sarah Watson's style of art. 

This was my first attempt at recreating her style. This wasn't something
 i'd done anything like before so i found it quite difficult. I don't think this piece
 was unsuccessful as a first attempt but it does look very flat and lifeless.

This is my second and third attempt. I think i picked a better pose for the dog drawing
and it is more detailed which makes it look better than my first attempt.
 I think the penguin is one of my best attempts so far. I was a lot looser
with the lines and pain which gives the drawing more life.

Week 7

This week I focused mainly on Liam James Cross and Uno Hoffman.

This is my second attempt. This time I have used acrylic for my background
and I think it works a lot better. I have also used some photos of my dog
 as Uno sometimes incorporates photos into his work.

This is my first attempt at creating Uno Hoffman's style.
 I have created a background with watercolour and then added
acrylic and pen on top. I don't think watercolour works well in this style.

This was an attempt of Sarah's style again.
 My lines and paint strokes are very loose
 which is exactly what i wanted.

I think adding a background added a lot
 of interest to the drawing and creates
 more contrast and dimension.

These two drawings look quite boring.
I think they need a background.

Week 8

This Week I focused on looking at and understanding Uno Hoffman's and Liam James Cross's Styles.

For this piece I took a pictures of my paint pallete and used it as a background.
 I then added paint and pen over the top of it. It worked really well and
 you can hardly tell that the background is a photo.

For this piece i used white pen in addition to black pen.
 I think it gives the piece more contrast.

I used a photo I took and newspaper on this piece.
 I wanted to look at using different materials.

For this piece, instead of putting down a wash of watercolour, I put watercolour
around the drawing to make is stand out more and contrast against the background.
 I think this worked but the drawing itself also looks more flat because It has no
colour in it. I also worked on not creating a black outline which i think i did successfully.

I wanted to link Uno and Liam together so i put down acrylic paint as Uno does and
then drew on top of it in pen like Liam does. The idea was to draw animals by
 looking at the way i put the paint down and finding an animal of the same kind of shape.

Mono-Printing

This was my first attempt, I created a background and then tried to
 paint over it with a paintbrush. I don't think it was very successful.

I did this print to look at how the ink
works/looks on different paper. I think the brown
paper adds more interest to the print.

I created a background (which turned out too dark) and then i
 drew a penguin on the back. I don't think it was successful because
 the background is too dark and you cannot see the drawing.

I think this was my most successful print. I did the same as i did
with the penguin but this time i created a lighter background.
 I think it works really well.

I used different colours on this piece. I created a yellow
 background and then drew in black afterwards.
I think this works well also, It has a lot of contrast.

Escape Art

On a Thursday I volunteer at a group called escape art. They do a lot of different arts and crafts projects and this was the first week i took part in the activity they were doing. This is my attempt at needle felting. While its not very good it has inspired me to look at artists that use things other than paint/pencil.

Twycross Zoo

I visited Twycross Zoo during the half term to get photos of animals to draw from. Overall, not a lot of my photos were very good because most of the animals were behind glass or fences. Because of this, i took a lot of videos which seemed to work better.

Artists

Liam James Cross 

I couldn't find much information about this artist because he isn't a very big artist but I love his use of watercolour and pen/pencil. I prefer drawing figuratively so I think this fits my style.

Sarah Watson

The way that Sarah draws is very different to what i'd normally like but i love how simplistic yet detailed her drawings are.

Sarah is inspired by what emotion she is in at the time and looks at creating marks inspired by the outside world. She paints a lot of landscapes that lean to abstraction but her other passion is animal portraiture which is what i'm looking at.

 

Uno Hoffmann

I wanted to look at an abstract artist because its not normally something i would even think about. I want to push myself and look at thinks I've never done before. I'd like to experiment with the way he makes marks and collages photos and materials.

Uno studied architecture and i think that comes through in some of his pieces, he often uses straight lines and geometric shapes. 

Experimenting- Week 4

Drawing On Coffee

I really enjoyed the technique of drawing over coffee, I can see it as something i'll use in the future.

It gives the drawings more contrast and interest. It also makes them look more three dimensional.

Creating Movement

I thought this technique was interesting however i don't think i executed it as well as i could of. I thing the drawing overall looks a bit confusing. It was more difficult to draw than i thought it would be because i couldn't see where all the lines should be.

Creating Contrast

In my free time i worked on building more contrast in my pencil drawings because i felt that a lot of my drawings didn't have enough tone/contrast. I think these drawings were successful in achieving that.

Abstract Piece

I enjoyed creating this piece a lot more than I thought I would. It made me think a lot about being less figurative and worrying less about if something looks perfect. 

Who am I?

My favourite thing is my dog Archie. He's an 11 year old schnauzer. Other than dogs, I really like horses. I've been horse riding for 8 years but still don't have my own horse. 

Something else I'm really into is video games. Mainly on the computer. My favourite games of all time is Pokemon and my favourite games right now is Bioshock Infinite. I play games like Portal 2 and Left for Dead 2 with my boyfriend. I also play a game called civilisation 5 with all of my friends. 

I also love movies, I absolutely love Disney movies and one of my favourites would have to be Brother Bear. I've been obsessed with Disney since a very young age as my mum also loves Disney. I've been to Disney world Orlando two times with my family and it's by far my favourite holiday. I also love Studio Ghibli, my favourite movie being Spirited away. I love Studio Ghibli for its Japanese art style. 

I've been drawing shells because I love going to the beach. When I'm  on holiday in collect interesting shells with my family. I also used to own a giant African land snail so the different patterns and shapes of snail shells facinate me.