Year 1 Art

Lauren Dicuiccio This artists' work grabs my attention because of a few things. The main composition of this piece resembles a newspaper, which inspires my journey as I found an extract from newspapers at the time Rangoon came to an end, and I find the article quite moving, and by using thread to represent it seems quite fitting, as its fluid and delicate, and can easily be destroyed. Just like how Rangoon was burnt down to avoid being taken over by the enemy. Lynn Skordal This is intriguing because the brightness of the red thread to mimic the blood, and then it trails down representing gravity. The old and weathered diagram is slightly stained beige to show how old it is and there's varying thicknesses of thread, to represent different veins and artaries. The piece is called red rivers and the whole piece trails down towards the ground. Kazuhito Takadoi This piece by Kazuhito grabs my attention because of the simplicity and nea...

Yorkshire Sculpture Park On the 15th of November, we visited Yorkshire sculpture park to help get influence for our own journey project, my overall impression of the park was that it was a lot bigger than I was expecting,  One thing about the park that intrigued me was the landscape itself, the wide field of view allowed for almost 360 degrees of nature, without any obstructions of buildings. I took some photos of the surrounding landscape. the water was so peaceful which allowed for the skys reflection to bounce off the water creating almost a mirror effect. This first photo was taken of the river bank, with a sculpture hidden behind a tree, but the trees in the foreground and the bending bank add depth to the photo was a whole.  This photo was taken from the other side of the lake, the lake itself was huge, and the north side had a small river running along it. This photo shows both the river and the lake. But still shows the reflections of the sky too. T...

Over half term I had to create 10 pages of work relating to mark making and to my journey. I found this quite overwhelming as I wasn't sure how I'd start. I began my starting with lines using varying colours of biro. The piece on the left was inspired by maps which I'd looked at when researching my journey. I used contour lines to mimic the mountains, and the red and blue colours were used on some of the maps also. On the right, I used the hatching and two shades of blue biro to create an abstract gemstone from my ring which I'd used to focus on in my matchbox. I positioned the lines to reflect how the light was reflecting off of the stone, the denser harsh lines for more shadowed areas, and either no lines, or light spread apart ones for where more light was. contour lines to reflect a map from 1940s hatching to reflect a gemstone in a ring Next I focused on ink more, I created this one my using just water to wet the paper in squares before drippin...

Russel Mills Russell Mills is an artist born in Yorkshire, UK in 1952, he creates his work of people based on drawings he's layered up into photoshop to create digitally assembled pieces. The majority of his work is monochromatic, which hints of red which could symbolic pain or the likes of something negative, maybe anger. The energetic sharp almost scratchy strokes Russ makes in his pieces add more movement, and the layers build of to create a rather busy atmosphere.  His work gives off a negative feel due to the coolness of the colours, the almost washed out colour palette, the angry flashes of red and the neutral almost lost expression on the models faces in his work. Ian Murphy Ian Murphy was born in Wigan in 1963. His work is mostly drawings, painting and prints. A lot of his work is of landscapes or architecture. Ian focuses of the perspective and depth when creating his work, some of which focuses on close ups or sections of buildings. This example is ti...

Mark making Techniques During a lesson, as a class we were introduced to mark making, to get away from the realistic drawing and focusing more on marks to get our piece across, by creating a piece but not being able to tell necessary what the object was. This page I used a ring as my inspiration. The connection it has to my journey is that my great granddad was a gambler and I found out from my grandma that he went on the Burma Trek with ruby’s sewn into his clothes. I couldn’t find any red gems, but I found a ring with blue, that I included in my matchbox. I used a different mark making technique for each of the sections. The first one it stippling, This technique can be effective but is very time consuming I think is could be effective with wet mediums also. Next was hatching, I decided to leave some blank, partly due to time restraints but I'm pleased with how it came out overall. Next was lines, you can get a variety of depth with these by varying the closeness or darkness o...