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This week I have finished my sculpture drawings. I did five detailed one and five quick sketches that have been timed between 10 seconds and 45 seconds. Each detail drawing I did I used sharpies but I tried to use another media to give it a pop of colour. One of them I did use just sharpie but started with black and then coloured back into it using different coloured sharpies. I used acrylic paint, sharpies, pencils, ruler, thread, masking tape and needles. 

The first detailed drawing was of my sculpture but I turned into a tower and sewed back into it. I added a umbra sky in the background to make the tower stand out better a lot more. The second was a sharpie sketch with just black sharpie sketch. The third one was a sharpie detailed sketch where I used black sharpie sketch and then I filled the gaps with coloured sharpies.The fourth and fifth one was both quick sketches. The third one was about 30 seconds and the fourth 20 seconds. The sixth sketch was a quick black sharpie that I timed for about 25 seconds. The seventh sketch was just sharpies with different patterns and I used a a colour theme of tonely colours with red to give my work a pop of color. The eighth was acrylic paint, painted over a quick sketch of my structure. Once the paint had dried I used one normal sharpie and a extra fine sharpie to draw lines into each tower. The last two were just sketches that took about 10 seconds. 

Blade Runner 2049 ~

Structures

Powerful

Misty

Intense

Dreamlike

Dan Slavinsky ~

Architecture

Lines

Layered 

Mechanical

Shapes

Alois Kronschlaeger ~

Colourful

Tower

Decorative

Abstract

Modern

Rhonda Smith ~

Machine

Texture

Tower

Expressive

Unique

Viktor Timofeev ~

Abstract

Line

Monochrome

Bold

Forms

Gustaf Miller ~

Buildings

Surreal

Shapes

Modern

Characteristic 

Susan Hefuna ~

Abstract

Line

Average

Dull

Pattern

David Batchelor ~

Unique

Bold

Dreamy

Intense

Dazzling

Antonio Dlink ~

Classic

Layered

Dull

Simple

The Van Gogh Museum

The Van Gogh museum is located in Amsterdam in the Netherlands. It has the largest collection of the famous Dutch Vincent Van Gogh's artwork, it has 200 paintings, 500 drawings and 750 letters. The building itself is huge and has about three floors filled with Van Gogh’s artwork and each floor has a different stage of his life.

The ground floor is all about becoming face to face with Van Gogh and most of his self portraits. On the ground floor it contains an information centre and a restaurant. His work on this floor are mostly portraits of himself as that's what he started painting when he first wanted to become an artist. It shows you portraits he painted from 1886 and 1887. For example, ‘self portraits as a painter’ 1886. There is actually Van Gogh’s palette with tubes of paints that he used which I thought was amazing.

The first floor was his about his life in 1883 - 1889 and his beginning his art journey. There was a lot of information regarding how he started out. I read that he taught himself as an artists and that he taught himself perspective, anatomy and colour. As he got a lukewarm reaction from his painting ‘The Potatoes Eaters’ it made him realise that he had a lot to learn. This floor was filled with all the paintings where he just practised all the time. He started taking lessons and went to the Art academy in Antwerp. Then went to the studio of painter Fernand Cormon in Paris and practise for an entire year. He was inspired by 17th Century masters. He began studying the human body and drawing nudes, copying classical sculptures. He mostly concentrated on still life trying to perfect skills within painting techniques and combining colours.

The second floor was all about Van Gogh in close up and about his life journey. There’s information regarding when Paul Gauguin went to visit Van Gogh and these two artists kept on clashing. Van Gogh is said threaten Paul Gauguin with a razor and Paul leaves. To then return to Van Gogh cut off his ear. It is said that Van Gogh suffered with a series of mental health and mental breakdowns and he went to many doctors but ended up admitting himself into psychotic hospital. However, he remained confident in the healing of painting. This floor also had all of his letters he went his partners and other members of his family and a family tree. 

The third floor was about his life 1889-1890 where his life was coming to a end. Van Gogh started to create artwork with nature in his finally months of painting. He produced seventy-five paintings in just severely days, he portrayed primary nature such as gardens full of lowers, close up of waving wheat, landscapes filled with emotions. He was familiar with this region of art from the paintings of Charles Francois Daubigny. Charles admired moods and personal sensibility and managed to install that into his landscapes. Van Gogh tried to convey the emotions that he experienced watching the sun rise or looking at a blade of grass or a ploughed field. On the 27th July 1890 Van Gogh shot himself in his chest with a pistol in a field near Auvers. He died two days later, all of his artist friends went to his funeral and it was then when one of his artist friends wrote about him he became a famous artist. 

The Eden Project ~ Spirit of the Rainforest art project

This project invited thousands of children across the world to get creative and to connect to rainforest, by inviting them to submit artwork that they felt connects them to spirits of the Rainforests. 

Their art was inspired by ~ 

Rainforest paintings by John Dyer and Nixiwaka Yawanawa. 

Tribal people and culture

Rainforest plants 

Rainforest animals, birds and insects

Rainforest food

In 1989 British artist John Dyer explored the Amazon Rainforest at the time he was a photographer for Thames TV. At the time, an Amazonian India called Nixiwaka was a small boy who lived with the tribe called Yawanawa in the Amazon Rainforest. 26 years later John Dyer and Nixiwaka Yawanawa met at the Eden project. John Dyer experiences turned his into an artist and painter  but he discovered that Nixiwaka dream was to paint. In May 2015 they brought theses two creative minds together in a unique cultural exchange to create a new exhibition of paintings to inspire the new generation to connect to the rainforest.  

Rare - Spiritual rebirth

The painting above is called Rare - Spiritual rebirth. The one on the Right is Nixiwaka Yawanawa and the one on the left is John Dyer.

'These paintings represent the spiritual rebirth of a person who experiences the Yawanawa initiation into becoming a Shamen.' John Dyer

With my wider world research I decided to research about the Amazon forest because of climate change, materials and deforestation. I researched different articles regarding the Amazon forest and how it effects us all if the forests disappears. 

The first articles I found was from December 2019. It talks about all the reasons why we need to help save the Amazon Forest. There are many different trees that grow in the Amazon Forest such as myrtle, laurel, palm, acacia, rosewood, Brazil nut and rubber tree. All these trees are being cut down for the oils and minerals inside as well as the timber. Brazil has about 60% of the Amazon forest in it borders, about 1,583,000 square miles in 1970. By 2016 there was about 1,283,000 square miles left. 81% of that was covered by forest in 1970. Around about 75,000 fires have occurred during the beginning of 2019. What all of this information is telling you that deforestation is effecting the Amazon Rainforest and it is shrinking. 

The next article I found was WWF article. This article tells you all about climate change and how its effecting the earth and the Amazon Rainforest. The trees key role is to reduce pollutant levels by taking in the CO2 and giving out oxygen so we can breathe. CO2 is created from natural and human resources. 150 years of massive amount of Co2 in the air this is created by burning fossil fuels, coal, oil and natural gas. The whole point of forests is the trees they burn the carbon matter which is CO2 and without the Amazon Forest and the large forests our atmosphere will be polluted. Without the forests CO2 can no longer be transformed into photosynthesis. Industrial pollution and deforestation increases the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere.

One of our tasks this week was to research ideas that are not internet based that support our project. I decided to research more about my penguin book, a poem I found about divorce and some photos I took.

My penguin book is all about two moving stories of love, lose, desire and divorce. Its called The Reckoning by Edith Wharton. This book supports my work because our project was all about typography and we had to base our ideas off of the book we were given. They were all given at random so we didn’t know what both we were going to receive. I tried to base my work on key words I choose out of curiosity in the book and pick out phrases that matched we with artwork I was producing. Some of my artwork is about divorce and love, however in the book it describes different viewpoints. For example, ‘The blue sky with its round clouds shed a brightness over everything, the ailanthus had put on a tinge of yellow-green’ with this phrase I loved picking out the colours so I could base work on just colours and basing work on different landscapes. I didn't really focus my work on marriage and divorce because it’s not something I enjoy looking into. I mostly based my work on viewpoints the characters would describe and colours they would talk about.

The creative industries sectors I had research and found were advertising, architecture, visual art, crafts, fashion and textiles, art and design, performing arts, music, software/ electronic, cultural education, photography, film and video, computer games, radio and TV, writing and publishing and heritage publishing. The jobs and vocational roles within the creative industries that interest me are fine art, art therapist and art teacher. 

Fine art can be in any medium, such as paint, wood, metal or textiles. The work with fine art is purely to be a work of art, rather to add visual appeal to something with a functional purpose. For example, making a building, clothing item or webpage to look good. Fine art make money by selling their work and many have another job too give them a regular, reliable income. You don’t have to have qualifications in art to be an artist but a degree in art is a typical starting point.

Art therapist work with people who are facing problems such as mental health, addiction, behaviour and communication issues, or who are recording from illness or brain injury. Therapists encourage them to use art as a way to explore and understand their feelings and find a way to move forwards with their lives. It’s all about using an activity that people may find easier than talking about experiences, rather than training them as artists. You may work in places such as schools, hospitals, prisons and rehab units. You may develop specialisms such as working with children or people with autism. You need a degree in art and design or start out in a career such as psychology, nursing or social work. 

Art teacher can teach art in secondary school or further education college. A typical entry route is to do an art degree followed by a teaching qualification. Alternatively, you could become a primary school teacher by taking a degree in education - there are some courses that will let you specialise in art teaching.

Today, I created these stencil screen printing. I used mixed coloured inks, squeegee, photocopied paper of my penguin book or card, a bucket of water with a sponge, my stencil and a stencil that had been printed by the technicians. 

Firstly, I started by cutting out my stencil using a craft knife, paper and a cutting board. I choose to cut out circles and lines as I really wanted to focus on shapes instead of a illustration of something. Once I had finished cutting out my stencil I choose my coloured ink which was this bright pink and I decided to photocopy and enlarge my penguin book to then print my stencil onto. I added some ink to the top of my stencil and then using my squeegee I smoothed the ink over my stencil to print my stencil. After about two tries my stencil did break so I decided to use a screen-print stencil that had my print by the technicians which was loads of different shapes. 

I started using the shape screen-print, using loads of different coloured inks such as purple, orange, pink, blue, green, yellow and some other colours. I started by creating my own shapes by choosing the shapes I wanted to use on the screen-print design and picking colour themes out for each design. In the end though I started to experiment by placing 3 pieces of A3 card under the large shape screen-print and repeatedly screen-printing over my designs. I kept adding different colours and moving the screen-print design to make sure all 3 pieces of paper have lots of colour and shapes all over them.

Today, I produced these mixed media illustrations. I used words from my penguin book, newspapers and other old books to create my typography mixed media illustrations. The materials I used was collage, acrylic paint, ink, watercolour and sharpies. 

Firstly, I started by getting acrylic black paint and painting patterns on my blank piece of card for my background. I used black as I wanted a gruesome and dark looking background to really make my work stand out. After they had all dried I started hunting through newspapers, my penguin book and old books for words that I could rearrange and create quotes that you question what they mean. 

Next I stuck down all the words I choose on each of the backgrounds and started to think about my typography design. I decided to stick with gruesome colours such as black and red. The reason being the quotes I designed are very creepy and mysterious. I used a red acrylic paint to paint on different letters to match the letters that are in all my quotes. Once they dried I went in with sharpie and drew on bold black letters from  my quotes as well. I made some of the letters overlap, I changed the size and angle of the letters.

David Carson ~

These pieces of artwork are by the artist David Carson. When I saw these pieces of work it made me feel inspired because of the detail of the fonts and how he has made them each unique. The last piece of work reminds me of a magazine because of the barcode and the little white lines which could be mark of where it been folded or even those vintage lines. When I look at these pieces it makes me feel outstanding because I love the collages of text and the boldness of all the shapes. He is one of my favourite artist. 

David Carson uses photography, digital effects, layering, collage and typography techniques. The mediums he uses are black and white inks and colours when he uses digital art. He mostly uses digital apps to greet his work. David Carson has inspired my work because he made me think about my theme or my piece of work. What I mean by that is he made me think more about the font and the colours I should use with the piece of work I am digital editing. He has inspired me to also use more text in my artwork as there are so many different fonts and typography out there by me being shown this artist it makes me want to use more text.

Ben Giles ~

These pieces of artwork are created by an artist called Ben Giles. I couldn’t find any dates or names of these pieces of artwork they were mostly all called Untitled. When I first saw these pieces of work it made me feel excited because of the bright and dramatic layers of flowers. These pieces of artwork remind of a child imagination because of the chaos of the flowers and how he’s used bright colours. When I look at his work it makes me almost drawn to the image as the layers are unique and collage he uses are detailed. 

Fiona Banner ~

Fiona Banner is a British artist and was born in 1966. She produces sculptures, drawings, illustrations and text in her work. Most of her work is based on these huge scale text art, she uses basic colours of black and white in her text artwork. The background is usually a white wall but I like how she adds these almost stains around the canvas on the wall to create that ink fell from the text. 

The colours she uses makes her work look quite dull but when you read her text it turns quite dark and creates this scary feeling. The texture looks smooth but the background looks messy so looks more rough. The form is 3D but does look 2D due to the angle the photo was taken from. She uses these strong lines to cross out words she doesn’t want or spelt wrong which I think gives her work a more dark felling.

I think her work is about communicating a message using typography. Its talking about a girl, describing her and talking about what she sees. With the composition of her work all the different elements it communicates the idea of sadness and depression as the lines of the crossing out words almost show that he wants to communicate something but is to scared to say something. It almost gives that feeling of that he is lost and maybe even in love but too scared to say it.

Nate Kitch ~

The piece of artwork is called Philip Glass and is by Nate Kitch. When I first saw this piece of work it made me feel it made me feel overwhelmed because of all the bright colours and collage. This piece reminds me of a musicians brain because of the piano and all the keys flying around the man. It sort of feel like we can see his imagination and see what he feels when playing the piano. When I look at his work it makes me feel interested as I can see his imagination and see what musician feel and think when playing a instrument. 

Today, I created some more developments of my postcards using work I’ve produced over the last week. I scanned all the work that I had created using a scanner and I then upload it all to photoshop. 

Once I uploaded my work I used one of my collages from a couple of weeks ago as it inspired me to create my own typeface this week and I wanted to use that. First I adjusted the levels of my image by going into image then adjustments. Once levels were how I wanted I then turned it to black and white. After that I Started by using my lasso tool and outline the flower to change the colour. Then I decided to use that peach colour and the blue in my image so I again using my lasso tool outlined the tape and turned it to that peach colour. 

When I added the font I thought it looked plain so I decided to use my lasso tool and outline the shapes in the background and fill them with that nice blue colour. I decided to do it with several to add that nice bright shape in the background. 

The History Of Typography 

We learnt on Monday all about the history of typography. 

In 1400s Guttenburg created moving typefaces to make it cheaper. He created the first typeface blackletter. 

In 1470 Nicolas Jenson created Roman type inspired by text on Ancient Roman buildings. It was much more easier read than blackletter and caught on very quickly. 

In 1501 a man called Aldus Manutius created italics which fitted more words onto the page and was much more cheaper to print. 

In 1734 Caslon created a typeface called san serif which featured straighter serifs and had contrasts of thick and thin lines. 

In 1757 Baskerville created a traditional roman style with very sharp serifs and drastic contrasts between thick and thin lines.

In 1780 Didot created the modern roman typeface which contrasts more extreme and a fresher look. 

In 1815 a man called Vicent Figgins created the Egyptian or slab serif and this typeface had serifs with squares and boxes.

In 1816 Caslon IV created the first typeface without serif. This was the start of the sans serif typefaces. After this type exploded and many were created to accommodate advertising.

1920′s Goudy was the first full time typefaces and created typefaces such as Copperplate Gothic, Kennerly and Goudy Old Style. 

In 1957 a Swiss designer called Max Miedinger created the typeface Helvetica and this was the loved typeface of our time.