Printing: Palm house work

With the last piece I put up on my blog I decide to use that piece and create something new. The piece here is a print of that palm house string work on different coloured pieces of paper and oil pastels. I then decided to create a collage out of the prints. I am quite happy with this piece overall as it shows that I can use a number of different materials. Also the colours of this work really stand out and are very appealing to the eye. However, the negatives of this piece are that it look all a bit crammed in to one page and it look like too much is going on at the same time. Overall this is a fairly successful piece of work.

Printing: Collograph palm house string work

This piece was completed by using string and double sided tape. Firstly I drawn the outline of the external view of the Sefton palm park house. After doing this I used the double sided tape and stuck it on all of my work. This lead to me then using the outline I drawn and putting string on  it. this piece can now be used for printings and so on. I like this piece because it shows that I can use a lot of different materials and tools to create different pieces of work throughout the project.

Still Life: Final Piece

This is my final piece for the first project on still life. I used a limited pallet of paint to first of all create a background a and outline for the still life objects. I then went over this with chalk to give the piece more colour and liven it up a bit. I also made the piece look more 3D by using chalk. I like this piece because of some of the shapes and shadings. However overall for a final piece I am not fully happy with it and I know I can do much better. There are a lot of positives in this work however it is not an amazing piece as some of the colours stand out to much and some of it looks a bit flat. I look to improve in the future from this piece of work, and I can learn from my mistakes in the future.

Printing: Sefton Park Palm House Artist Research

On is page from my sketch book I looked at the artist Pierre Joseph Redoute. I used this artist as he did a lot of his work on plants, which relates to my project of nature and the environment. I like Redoute's work as it is very colourful. On the left side of this page I used the influence of Redoute's work and created my own work using coloured pencils and the style of Redoute's work. I will use Redoute as an influential figure in the future when creating more pieces of work on nature and the environment. Overall I believe this is a successful page in my sketch book as it shows I can use the influence of an artist to create my own piece of work. One thing different with my drawing was that I used a green outline with oil pastel. this added more colour and brightened up my drawing, I also believe it made the flowers stand out more and look more 3D.

Printing: Sefton Park Palm House Sketch book drawings

This is a page from my sketch book. I went on a trip with my art class to Sefton park palm house and took a lot of pictures and first hand drawings. With this I started a new product all to do with nature and the environment. On theses two pages I use the pictures I took as evidence that I went on the trip. I also attempted drawing the external view of the palm house with pencil. These two pages help me to get influence into future pieces on nature and the environment. I like these pages because they show I can use my own pictures as influence to do further drawing on the subject. I also like the line drawing of the palm house as it shows good shapes and it also looks 3D. However these pages are not very neat and just look like I have rushed them and this is a negative from these two pages.

Still Life: Artist Reference Da Vinci

This is a piece of work I completed in my sketch book. This piece is an artist reference and is about Leonardo Da Vinci. Da Vinci is an old master and his work really influenced in my final piece. Da Vinci gave me a clear idea of what I would like to do for my final piece. Da Vinci mostly uses skulls in his paintings which are very dull. However they are very affective as Da Vinci uses a neat style of painting which really shows the objects being 3D. To make this page look old I used a damp tea bag and simply whipped it over the paper to create a really rough and old looking page, which fits in well with the topic, being that Da Vinci's work is from many years ago. I  Really like this page in my sketch book because it looks important as it is old and rugged. I think this piece is very successful as it gives lots of interesting information on the still life work of Da Vinci, and I also explain on this piece how Da Vinci can Influence me in the future. The part I most like about this page in my sketch book is the envelope in the bottom right corner. In this is some of Da Vinci's still life painting. I believe this is very clever as it makes Da Vinci's pieces feel really important and significant. Da Vinci uses lots of skulls in his work and this is what I have looked a lot at in art this year. I will definitely use the influence of Da Vinci in my final piece because of this reason. This page in my sketch book is really successful and very significant as it will definitely influence me and that is why this is one of my favourite pieces in my sketch book.

Still Life: Artist Reference Van Gogh

This is work I completed in my sketch book. I used the influence of an old master, this being Vincent Van Gogh. I used Van Gogh examples to draw my own piece which is on the page on the right in my sketch book. I like Van Gogh's work because it is very colourful and he used a very unique painting style. I used examples of Van Gogh's work, like 'Vase with oleanders', which are very colourful and transferred that into my own work. As you can see Van Gogh liked to paint Flowers and skulls, therefore I decided to combine the two to crate a piece that I believe symbolises life and death. My piece is a skull split into two sections. One section of the skull is dull and dark and represents death. The other section of the skull is colourful and full of vibrant colours, this represents life.
 This is one of my favourite piece of works in my sketch book, because it shows the skill of using the influence of an old artist and creating my own piece. I love the vibrant colours on this page which really stand out and this page really gives my sketch book character and just simply livens my sketch book up. I do think that I will use the influence of Van Gogh in my final piece, because I like the colours in his pieces and he uses skulls, which I have looked at and done on my earlier blogs. I believe this piece is very successful and it is definitely one of my favourite pieces.

Van Goghs work can also be related with my later project Human Condition which canm be seen later on in this blog. My final piece for that project was a theme of life and death and therefore Van Gogh  can influence me in that project as well as this one.

Still Life: Card Relief 2

This is my second attempt at doing card relief. However this time instead of leaving it just on white card I decided to place a piece of coloured paper on the back of it to create a background. By doing this it makes the piece look like more of a finished product. I feel with this piece I am moving forward and progressing in the course. I really like this piece and believe it is very successful and I feel like I have accomplished the skill of card relief. This lead to me further doing card relief in my sketch book as I believe with more attempts I am getting more successful. The only problem with this piece of work is that it is a bit bland. Maybe I could have added more objects around the bottle and I could have shown that it was 3D by putting other objects behind the bottle and so on. Compared to my first attempt of card relief I am much more pleased with this second attempt.

Still Life: Card Relief

This is a still life piece of a bottle and ornament. I made this piece by firstly doing a line drawing with pencil. When I completed this I Then used a Stanley knife to create patterns to make the piece look more intriguing. For this being my first attempt at card relief I believe this piece is quite successful. It shows signs of a good work as I have cut out precise and unique patterns which make this piece my own. The bottle is very successful and on its own I would be very pleased. However in my opinion the ornament next to it is unsuccessful. This was because I rushed it to get a finessed product, but the consequence of this was the ornament not being at the same standard as the bottle. Overall for my first attempt at card relief I am fairly pleased.

Still Life: Bone in chalk

This piece show a drawing of a pelvis bone. I used oil pastels to complete this piece. By using black on white paper it helped me shade easily and create a piece that look 3D. I personally like the shading of this piece because I really have used the paper as an advantage to make the piece really stand out. Looking back at my first piece (the skull in ink) I believe this is as successful. This piece however is still a nice piece and I like particularly like the shading of this piece, however it simply does not stand out compared to other pieces of work I have done in class. The piece does not look complete to me. It shows signs of a good piece because the line drawing and the shading are very successful however if this was just one final piece it would not feel finished. This however can influence me in the future to include a bone like this in other pieces, but on its own it does not look like a finished product.

Still life: Skull In Ink

I completed this piece in class by using green and black ink. The piece is a still life sketch of an animal skull. I like this piece because of the vibrant green and the dark black which show shading and make the piece look 3D. I also like the shapes of the skull which really stands out and with added colour the piece is very eye catching. Compared to the skull I did in chalk I believe this is more successful as it looks like a more completed piece. This piece simply stands out more and is much more appealing to the eye compared to the other skull I did in chalk. This piece links with my old master artist reference because Da Vinci uses skull in some of his work. This piece was a starter to get me back into drawing, but it also influenced me to include skulls in my final piece. Overall I believe this piece was successful for my first week doing AS level Art, However in the future I look to improve and maybe take this and use the ideas of this piece in other pieces.