Images for screen.

This is my final A4 illustrator page to go onto screen. I am happy with the outcome and I feel I have learnt a lot in illustrator through working on these motifs. Looking back over these motifs though i do feel as though they are a bit restricted in shape as they are quite rectangular but I am going to try and further develop this and experiment more through my digital work and hand drawn paper prints.

This is my final A4 page of hand drawn motifs to be put onto screen, this is my favourite as I feel I have more variety to work with in the print room but I also feel it is more detailed due to the hand drawn quality. I haven't edited the drawings just scanned them into photoshop and experimented with the threshold tool to darken the colour and enhance contrast between black and white! This week we have had a lot of workshops in the print room, I have enjoyed learning about all the different printing processes but also the dying of fabric and the science behind it all. I am really excited to get my screen back and start experimenting! 

DATA

I am currently in print, I am enjoying this sampling project. There is a lot of drawing which is what I enjoy most and I feel that I am confident in this area. We are currently working on black and white motifs which will then be put onto screen for printing. I began with looking at general data and graphs, I looked at heart monitors and then graphs and data that are used in health care and medicine. I found this quite limiting so I looked at my work further to see what I could develop. I really like the heart monitor drawings and they reminded me of skylines, so I decided to look at city scapes and buildings from birds eye views. This gave me the ability to create geometric abstract shapes that were placed in a structured order. I also looked at the idea of congestion due to the cars looking like shapes, my only problem was the ratio of black to white so I considered this carefully.  I have also quickly looked at the idea of colour, but I feel the colour stripe isn't an accurate representation of the picture I have chosen so I am going to further work on this.

Tate Modern

The Tate Modern is probably one of my favourite galleries to visit in London due to the number of artist work it holds but also the experience of walking around such an impressive and creative space. I also enjoyed the setting as I walked over the bridge at night o I was able to see London lit up. I didn't have much time to look at all the works this time but I took photos of a couple of my favourite works.

Research week.

In the week we were given to do research, I decided to go to London to visit new galleries and exhibitions. I spent four days in London staying with my friends in Camden and Tottenham Court Road. My favourite exhibitions were the ones at the Parasol Unit which is on Wharf Road. There was a solo exhibition on that presented works by painter, sculptor and performance artist Jannis Kounellis. Kounellis embarked on his artistic career by creating some of the most radical works of the 1960s. 

He often combined the inanimate and animate , he boldly incorporated things such as propane torches, plants and animals as integral if not vital parts of his works.

What I enjoyed most about this exhibition most was that it showed the connection between history and modern day, Kounellis work was so fresh and ahead of the time it looked like it was work that had been made in this era. His work was about industry in that time , and he used a lot of the elements such as wood and coal in his work but thus combining them with a minimalistic monochrome theme.