Jan Groover

Jan Groover

To me, Jan Groover’s images create a visual effect, which deceives and causes confusion at first glance.  

 I particularly admire this image although; nowhere near the intricacy of his work personally resembles the MC Escher’s relativity as it shows layer upon layer of similar objects layering and mirroring the other structures.

Edward Weston

Edward Weston

Edward Weston’s still life images, particularly the peppers, show his talent for making ordinary images of everyday objects seem fake and alien, I also admire his photography of the shells and the way he makes something renowned for being well-formed with different unique textures, tones and patterns and made them into flat two dimensional pieces.

The way he captures his images creates the effect of a charcoal sketch particularly the images of the peppers.

Lino Printing

Friday (the 14th) started with an introduction to lino printing and the way the prints work. after which we were lead to the exhibition room on level two to draw four small scenes of the exhibition to fit to the print template, if i had could, i would have changed the angle that I saw the exhibition from although I did get a few interesting views to draw.

another thing that could have affected the printing is the way I have shaded it as there is no shading in the prints.

 This image is of a plain mannequin with two easels and a board in the bottom corner. The image could be difficult to make into a print due to the shading which is why I have added a white line on the left shoulder to distinguish the separation of the mannequin and the easel.

 This is my favourite image for the print work because the angle I have drawn the image in is interest and captures a variety of different objects, something i would do when making it into a print would be to make the clock in the bottom sharper and possibly add some numbers to make it appear more realistic.

This piece is of a headless mannequin with a spine, ribs and hips in the foreground, this image was quite flat, so to make it seam more interesting I have added the black diagonal block in the left, if used for printing I think the ribs and hips will be very difficult to show in black and white

after exhausting the interesting angles I could see from where I was standing with my easel I found myself drawing this image which is quite uninteresting and flat, although it could make an interesting print

My First Post

This is my first post, I'm on an art and design level three course at blackburn college, we have only just been introduced to blogging.

From the start of the year we have been introduced into still life images and sculpting using bird skulls as inspiration, using different techniques and a wide range of media to draw them such as charcoals, biros and conte crayons and using rolled up news papers and gum strips to create the 3D bird skulls, we will later be painting the sculptures in white. 

We have also been sketching using line techniques to draw a scene to scale, using a range of various  mannequins, instruments and other materials and objects using easels. 

http://www.flickr.com/photos/tscarlisle/496691842/

The first drawing using a HB pencil

The next piece using charcoal

The next two pieces using ink

The last using a Biro not taking the pen off the paper throughout the entire drawing 

This is the selection of objects

My sketch of the set up using a HB pencil