Own Photography, encountering culture.

Some pictures i took of my friend, i was trying to capture different culture's. I tried to show the experiences and encounters of different a culture.

My sketchbook #2

Etchings of the skull, I incorporated the Escher hand onto this also as i thought it fitted well with the appearance i was trying to achieve.

This is a double page spread research and images of art history (Leonardo  Di Vinci) I gathered of Greek mythology focusing mostly on the creature Medusa. Inspired by my research I then went on to produce a acrylic painting of Medusa, I really tried to capture the detail in Medusa's face as Di Vinci did.

I then began gathering my own images, I used photo's i'd took on holiday in a gift shop of inspring greek statues and I also took my own images dressed up as a Greek and gathered pictures of famous greek statues.

 

Inspired by statues, I then went on to create a pencil drawing of my own images in the style of a statue. I then went onto research some artists that interested and inspired me I started looking at expressionist work, I really enjoyed the color and how the exaggerated aspect gave the paintings a lot of energy. I tried to recreate the "engery" and heavy brush stokes in this eye I painted.

I also wanted to experiment with different types of paint work so reseacrhed artists in which the paint work interested me, I was really inspired by Belinda Eaton and tried to recreate this effect.

After experimenting with different types of painting I felt confident enough to try and recreate an initial painting I saw from Leonardo Di Vinci. I tried to use different tones and expressive brush strokes.

After experimenting with paint I decided to use a different medium, so i chose to do a boutique wax art of my own image dress as Medusa, where i got to experiment with different materials I then got to die the fabric different colours, I feel this portrays a degree of expressionism. 

I then decided to then to use the sewing machine, i sewed over my own images and my art history images to create a effective technique. 

I then continued with the idea of sewing and keeping with the greek theme i then created a textile art of the famous venus statue. I did a pencil drawing of the Venus statue as i thought the shading was an effective way of capturing the 3 dimensional aspects of the drawing.

My sketchbook #1

Double page filled with art history (Esher, De chirico, Rene magritte)

This is a biro drawing I did, Inspired by the structural lines and edges of De chirico, but I incorporated a hand inspired by Esher to give the drawing a softer more detailed appearance.

   These are a few photos i took of a rams head, a pair of plyers, a skull scarf and a human skelton hand, I placed all these items into a bowl. I think this express reconstruction, i then altered and adjusted these images on Paint shop pro.          

I painted this rams head after taken the pictures of the rams head and items in a bowl, however i replaced the horns with fingers to add some surrealisim inspired by Renne.

            After drawing the fingers in the rams head, i became more interested in the human hand the and the detail of the fine lines and how the can express emotion. The detail in this drawing is inspired by esher.

I then played around  photocopies of my hand and and others to create a Collage.

I then drew a picture of a skull and with the detail of eshers hand, but after i decided the skull needed more expression so incorparated a couple of esher hands to give the skull a puzzled expression.

This is a surrealistic compliation piece i created by using some of rennes art and cutting and swapping it to create an orignal surrealistic piece.

This is a painted I did of a homeless man, i decided to use a newspaper about economical topics to back up my painting and give it more of an impact.

This is just an etching I did of the pencil drawing i previously did, i like this etching as it really captures the detail.

Gabbi :)