Art, as told by the author.

I previously posted a post dedicated to the vibrant photo features in the bottom right of St Basils cathedral is Moscow, Russia. 

This page is designed to lay out reflectively the key similarities between that particular landmark and nature; flowers. The photos on the left show, a birdseye view of a budded flower ( top left), an in-depth tonal study of a renown piece of Karl Blossfelts flower ( middle Left) and a beautiful vibrant drawing of one of my pictures of a red flower ( bottom left) and the photos on the right, mirroring show a purposefully rushed sketch of one of the turrets on st bails cathedral in ink and meant to not be perfect ( top right) a black and white study of one of the turrets on st basils cathedral ( middle right) and a vibrant study of a section of a front view of st basils cathedral ( bottom right).

All these drawings are designed to mirror their counterpart on the opposite page so that it is directly clear as to the key similarities and differences between flowers and st basils cathedral.

After analysing this page I think it is so clear that there are intact hardly any differences. In fact, the turrets on st basils cathedral may have even been designed intentionally to replicate flowers that had not budded yet. 

This photo belongs on a page of work which sets a comparison between the architecture of St Basils Cathedral in Moscow, Russia and nature/flowers. This piece of art particularly stands out to me for a number of reasons.

First off, the technique I used, I feel, is utterly mesmerising and completely unique. I shaded using pencils in such a manner that shows that light is being cast in the centre of each section. The colours used are also extremely lively; fluorescent red, scarlet, rose, vermillion, crimson, sun yellow, flame. I am in love with these colours. They give, life, depth, warmth, tone, contrast and so many other fundamental spices of art to the picture.

Another reason this piece of art stands out for me is the detail. I was extremely precise with every mark the pen made upon the paper and it really paid off. I feel the detail used in this picture allows the art to stop being just picture and transitions it into, what I hope, can be more of a photograph. Of course I understand that it isn't nearly as realistic enough to infect be a photograph but one can only dream.

This post expresses a range of different angles and tonal viewpoints of organic shells. I have decided to let go of the consuming idea that all my work must be consistently perfect and let the pen take control and direct in its path. At first it was a challenge to completely stop perfecting my work so that it look as life like as possible, hence by the the green shell in black and green biro is so well shaded and consists of significantly more depth, but then I came to a realisation that art isn't supposed to be perfect it is supposed to make you feel something.

Art is supposed to make you feel something.

I am not entirely sure what I feel when I gaze upon these images I have drawn without my rules ( don't stop until it looks life like, make it proportionate, sketch it out to scale before going over the top etc...) with child like spontaneity, but I do know that they represent more than just what they look like. 

Here I want to apply science to art, with one slight difference; it is through my interpretation. 

I don't personally feel like collecting photos that i have gathered from a microscope and copying them are beneficial in any way to my project. 

So far the order of my posts are both disordered and not chronological, on this page I am looking at, as obviously shown, close ups of flowers, including what I perceive to be their make up in a very close up point of view, their structure, including 3 dimensional observations. 

As mentioned, I didn't copy these images from microscopes, ( how dull!!) instead, I spent some time observing flowers for myself, with my own eye ( not that of a man made machine), looked up closely and recorded elements that stayed with me. 

Looking at the oil painting in green, a close up view of water dew droplets on a stem. I have drawn out and painted what I feel this looked like. As a reader you probably didnt know that this is what the image is meant to be, and that is what the beauty of this all is. Drawing out exact microscopic scientific studies of the structure of plants is dull, unimaginative and leaves no room for interpretation. 

I feel like these posts should be in order of the placement of my sketchbook but unfortunately I started posting pictures that didn't begin chronologically where my sketchbook began. I guess this could be synonymous for life; things don't always go in the order we want them to or the way we planned; that is so important to remember.

Anywho, these pictures look at how the background of an important landmark makes up just as much of its importance as the building itself. People will have different opinions on this and this is just one point of view of looking at the topic of landmarks. Everyone’s view point is different and valid; hence why opinions are not fact. 

I have decided to make the landmark itself as plain and colourless as possible, the attention of the viewer isn't supposed to be on the landmark, rather the background and the juxtaposition and contrast of the plain foreground and lively background.