Introduction

During this project i am aiming to produce a 3D sculpture inspired by insects and reptile forms. At the Natural History Museum we photographed and sketched a range of creatures recording their structure, form and surface texture, which will inform the development of the sculpture.

I will explore a variety of techniques and processes in my drawing, print, frabric manipulation and 3D model making sessions to help me create my sculpture.

The development of my 3D insect will be documented in my sketchbook through detailed annotation, sketches and samples, using photography to record the building process. I will illustrate clear links to design research, explaining how it has informed my design concepts.

URBAN LIFE

Hey my name is Sami Khan and i'm doing Level 2 Art & Design at birmingham metropolitan college. My blog page name is Urban life. Urban life is a style of art that relates to cities and city life and the city i have chosen to base my art work is my hometown birmingham. Urban art combines street art and graffiti and is often used to summarize all visual art forms arising in urban areas, being inspired by urban architecture or thematizing urban live style. I have chosen Urban life art because most of my work is based about urban life and everything around us. most of my work that i learn at birmingham metropolitan college is going to be on this blog. so if any of you young artist that want to do art & design as your career this is the blog for you that will help you threw college and give you a taste of what you learn in the Art & Design course.

cloth book 2014
 

A cloth book exploring loose threads and colour.

Artforms / type of project

Book Works, Drawing, Illustration, Mixed Media, Textiles

Tags

clothbook, textiles, fibre art, fabric, cloth, stitched, embroidered, needlework

 

Talking the thread for a walk
 

 A series of stitched drawings of people walking. Mounted on to card as a stand up concertina.

Artforms / type of project

Textiles

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Drawing

Mono printing

Mono printing uses printing materials but only produces one image. There are two techniques.

 

Technique one

1. place glass on top of an image
2. trace the image onto the glass using paint
3. lay paper over the surface and smooth the back with a roller
4. peel off the paper to reveal your image

Explore the different thicknesses of ink and try scratching into the ink.

Technique two

1. roll out a layer of thin ink onto a surface and then place paper over the top
2. draw onto the back of the paper
3. peel off the paper

Try different tools to create different thicknesses of line, or use your fingers to create shading techniques

polystyrene printing

1. Mesh is stapled to a wooden or metal frame
2. Masking tape stuck around underside of the screen
3. Stencil design cut
4. Stencil placed under frame but above paper
5. Line of ink placed at one end of screen
6. Use squeegee to draw ink across screen, pressing firmly
7. Carefully lift screen
8. Evaluate and repeat

 

Fauvists

 

 

Fauvists used exaggerated colors when painting subjects. In fact, color was the most important aspect of a fauvist painting, with the subject taking a backseat. For example, when painting a portrait of a woman with very dark hair, a fauvist might choose to use blue in the hair to show just how dark it was. He might use yellow for the skin instead of a carefully mixed bronze. Shadows might be drawn in greens and purples instead of grey.

Impressionism

The style was called impressionism because the artists were not as exacting about painting a realistic picture. They used many short brush strokes, applying paint thickly, to create the idea, or impression, of a subject. Vincent van Gogh is a good example of this technique. The paint on his canvases is often so thick it looks 3D. Look at this painting, Starry Night over the Rhone, and notice the short brush strokes. Also, the painting is so thick that you can see the shadows from the paint. Because of the quick, short strokes, if you stand very close to an impressionist painting and look at it, often the painting won’t look like anything but a bunch of paint blobs. When you back away from it, though, you can see the whole picture.

Pointillism

Pointillism is a painting technique which involves adding very small dots or dashes of color to a canvas. The term “pointillism” was actually a pejorative coined by critics of this style of painting in the 1880s; technically, pointillist artworks are considered to be in the Neo-Impressionist school of painting. One of the most famous examples of pointillism can be found in the painting Sunday Afternoon on the Island La Grande Jatte, painted by Georges Seurat in the late 1880s. Pointillist works are quite distinctive, and optically they are very interesting because they rely on tricks of the eye and mind.

Cave Painting

In prehistoric art, the term "cave painting" encompasses any parietal art which involves the application of colour pigments on the walls, floors or ceilings of ancient rock shelters. A monochrome cave painting is a picture made with only one colour (usually black) - see, for instance, the wonderful monochrome images at Chauvet. A polychrome cave painting consists of two or more colours, as exemplified by the glorious multi-coloured images of bison on the ceiling at Altamira, or the magnificent aurochs in the Chamber of the Bulls at Lascaux. In contrast, the term "cave drawing" refers (strictly speaking) only to an engraved drawing - that is, one made by cutting lines in the rock surface with a flint or stone tool, rather than one made by drawing lines with charcoal or manganese.

hieroglyphics cave paintings

All the forms of communications since the dawn of human intellect has always served to transmit human experience. Wall painting is the earliest form of graphic communication; it pre-dates written communication and its earliest example are found in caves. Egyptian friezes made more accurate, methodical and organized depiction of their lifestyle through this same medium.
Egyptian hieroglyphs codified the images into repeatable and easier to reproduce symbols. In fact the proto-writing and the early alphabets, such as the Egyptian Canaanite alphabet, Chinese and Phoenician, also make clear references to their evolution from wall painting.

ANCIENT EGYPTIAN FIGURES

 

Figure drawings were flat looking, with heads and feet in profile, while the body faced forward.

Most important figures were shown larger than others.

 

ANCIENT GREEK AND ROMAN FIGURES

 

Figures were often used in storytelling, especially mythology. 

Drawings were still flat looking, but sculptures were very realistic. 

Figure sculptures showed the classical “contraposto” pose and realistic looking drapery.

 

MIDDLE AGES FIGURES

Figures were beginning to develop a little more in form.

Used in picturing religious and medieval scenes.

 

RENAISSANCE FIGURES

 

With the discovery of perspective, figures had more realistic form.

Figures continued in religious depictions, but also became popular as portraits of the clergy and wealthy patrons. 

In time, portraiture grew to include the middle class.

 

18TH CENTURY FIGURES

Portraiture continued to be popular, sometimes including land, house, pet, or other prized possession. 

Figure painting also provided entertainment or delivered a message.

 

19TH CENTURY FIGURES

 

The invention of the camera had a profound effect on figures in art, especially portraiture. 

Artists began painting “genre” (figures in everyday life situations). 

Figure painting and sculpture changed from realistic to more impressionistic styles.

 

20TH CENTURY FIGURES

Monuments were made to immortalize prominent figures in history. 

A wide variety of art styles create figures that are abstract, expressionistic, or realistic. 

Expensive portraits are usually only painted because of prestige.

 Ed Terpening

Plein air painter with plain good advice and beautiful work
Art is Ed’s third career, which probably explains why he is a prolific blogger on many topics, including business, technique, styles, equipment, traveling and much more. Over the years, he’s been a musician, teacher, software engineer, high-tech manager, and Internet media executive. His artistic career grew out of his desire to leave a legacy to the world that would be longer-lasting than his technical work could ever be. I’d say he’s succeeding, not only with getting his paintings out into the world, but also with his engaging and thought-provoking writing style.

Daymond John

Pioneer of urban, hip-hop fashion and Shark Tank marketing master
Daymond grew up in Queens, NY, surrounded by up-and-comers like RUN DMC, Salt-n-Pepa and LL Cool J in an emerging hip-hop music scene. Daymond had an eye for fashion and the smarts to recognize a completely underserved market. He built the urban clothing brand For Us, By Us or FUBU, from the ground up. He’s since become a marketing and business mogul with a blog dating back to 2006 and two popular books to his credit. You may recognize him from the TV series Shark Tank.

John Virtue

John Virtue is an English artist who specialises in monochrome landscapes. He is honorary Professor of Fine Art at the University of Plymouth, and from 2003–2005 was the sixth Associate Artist at London's National Gallery.
Virtue was born in Accrington, Lancashire in 1947. He trained at the Slade School of Fine Art from 1965 to 1969. In 1971 he moved to Green Haworth, near Haslingden, painting landscapes for two years before abandoning painting in favour of pen and ink drawings comprising dense networks of lines akin to the work of Samuel Palmer.
From 1978 he worked as a postman, giving this up in 1985 to work as a full-time artist. He lived in Devon from 1988–2004.
Maintaining a studio in Exeter, he produced works around the Exe estuary, before being offered the post of Associate Artist at the National Gallery. This scheme engages contemporary artists to produce work that "connects to the National Gallery Collection" and demonstrates "the continuing inspiration of the Old Master tradition".

Frank Auerbach
 

Auerbach is a figurative painter, who focuses on portraits and city scenes in and around the area of London in which he lives, Camden Town. Although sometimes described as expressionistic, Auerbach is not an expressionist painter. His work is not concerned with finding a visual equivalent to an emotional or spiritual state that characterised the expressionist movement, rather it deals with the attempt to resolve the experience of being in the world in paint. In this the experience of the world is seen as essentially chaotic with the role of the artist being to impose an order upon that chaos and record that order in the painting. This ambition with the paintings results in Auerbach developing intense relationships with particular subjects, particularly the people he paints, but also the location of his cityscape subjects. Speaking on this in 2001 he stated: "If you pass something every day and it has a little character, it begins to intrigue you."This simple statement belies the intensity of the relationship that develops between Auerbach and his subjects, which results in an astonishing desire to produce an image the artist considers 'right'. This leads Auerbach to paint an image and then scrape it off the canvas at the end of each day, repeating this process time and again, not primarily to create a layering of images but because of a sense of dissatisfaction with the image leading him to try to paint it again.

Clare Caulfield

 

Clare Caulfield is a Yorkshire based artist and printmaker whose work is inspired by her travels to some of the world’s greatest cities, some of which she returns to again and again drawing on new ideas each time.  Her collection includes Paris, Venice, New York, Rome, Prague, Istanbul and Sydney.  The magic of each location being recreated in Clare’s very distinctive and illustrative style of working.  She produces mixed-media paintings, original handmade prints, limited edition prints and handmade cards which are exhibited throughout the U.K. 

 

What Is Commercial Art?

Commercial art, often called advertising art, is used to sell goods and services. It is different from fine art, which exists for its own sake. Commercial artists are typically employed by advertising agencies, newspapers, magazines, graphic design firms, television studios and similar businesses. Many commercial artists work for themselves as freelance designers.

Overview of Commercial Art

commercial art applies artistic principles to a variety of fields. Commercial artists design advertisements, logos, billboards, brochures, book covers, product packaging and other similar artwork. Their work is often used to sell, promote, explain, narrate and inform.

 

Andy Warhol campbell's soup cans
 

Campbell's Soup Cans, which is sometimes referred to as 32 Campbell's Soup Cans, is a work of art produced in 1962 by Andy Warhol. It consists of thirty-two canvases. The individual paintings were produced by a printmaking method—the semi-mechanized screen printing process, using a non-painterly style. Campbell's Soup Cans' reliance on themes from popular culture helped to usher in pop art as a major art movement in the United States.

Gil Elvgren

Elvgren was the best pin-up artist in the history of American Illustration. His talent was prolific enough and important enough to support a major book. His influence, both as an artist and a teacher was extensive.  After the publication of "The Great American Pinup" the requests for more of his work were overwhelming. A promise was made to the artist by our friend Art Amsie.

 

John Pound

John Pound began by doing underground comix, art prints, comic book covers, and fantasy book covers. Soon after he decided to focus on humor art, Topps invited him to paint for Wacky Packages stickers, which led to his designing and painting hundreds of the popular Garbage Pail Kids stickers, enjoyed by kids around the world. He painted covers for Howard the Duck, Mars Attacks®, and Rhino CDs. His commissioned artworks also include magazine illustrations for MAD, BLAB!, and Business Week, skateboard designs for Shortys, and street fashion t-shirts for Stussy. His art was featured in JUXTAPOZ magazine issue #1 and the street art anthology MORNING WOOD. His personal art projects include the RAN DUM series (randomly- generated comic pages, art prints, animations, and books, created entirely by writing computer code), and the WOO-WOO series (rough cartoon scenes of magic and loss, often featuring the Eyewiz character). Recent WOO-WOO series panorama paintings have appeared in BLAB and BLAB WORLD.

 

Laura McCafferty

Laura McCafferty is a textile artist, originally from Northern Ireland, now living and working in Nottingham. Her work is a blend of traditional textile crafts and illustration. She particularly loves to document everyday life. She collects printed fabrics and incorporates them into her work.

 

Hyperrealism

Hyperrealism is a genre of painting and sculpture resembling a high-resolution photograph. Hyperrealism is considered an advancement of Photorealism by the methods used to create the resulting paintings or sculptures. The term is primarily applied to an independent art movement and art style in the United States and Europe that has developed since the early 2000s.

Andy Warhol

Andy Warhol (August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987) was an American artist who was a leading figure in the visual art movement known as pop art. His works explore the relationship between artistic expression, celebrity culture and advertisement that flourished by the 1960s. After a successful career as a commercial illustrator, Warhol became a renowned and sometimes controversial artist. The Andy Warhol Museum in his native city, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, holds an extensive permanent collection of art and archives. It is the largest museum in the United States dedicated to a single artist.Warhol's art encompassed many forms of media, including hand drawing, painting, printmaking, photography, silk screening, sculpture, film, and music.

Jenny Saville

Jenny Saville (born 7 May 1970) is a contemporary British painter and associated with the Young British Artists. She is known for her large-scale painted depictions of naked women. Saville works and lives in Oxford, England.

Peter Doig

Peter Doig ( born 17 April 1959 ) is a Scottish painter. One of the most renowned living figurative painters, he has settled in Trinidad since 2002. In 2007, his painting White Canoe sold at Sotheby's for $11.3 million, then an auction record for a living European artist. In February 2013, his painting, The Architect's Home in the Ravine, sold for $12 million at a London auction.

Claes Oldenburg

Claes Oldenburg (born January 28, 1929) is an American sculptor, best known for his public art installations typically featuring very large replicas of everyday objects. Another theme in his work is soft sculpture versions of everyday objects. Many of his works were made in collaboration with his wife, Coosje van Bruggen, who died in 2009 after 32 years of marriage. Oldenburg lives and works in New York.

Swoon

Swoon (born 1978 in New London, Connecticut), whose real name is Caledonia Dance Curry, is a street artist who specializes in life-size wheatpaste prints and paper cutouts of human figures. She studied at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn and started doing street art around 1999 and large-scale installations in 2005.

Red Grooms

Red Grooms (born Charles Rogers Grooms on June 7, 1937) is an American multimedia artist best known for his colorful pop-art constructions depicting frenetic scenes of modern urban life. Grooms was given the nickname "Red" by Dominic Falcone (of Provincetown’s Sun Gallery) when he was starting out as a dishwasher at a restaurant in Provincetown and was studying with Hans Hofmann.

Street Photography

Primarily Street Photography is not reportage, it is not a series of images displaying, together, the different facets of a subject or issue. For the Street Photographer there is no specific subject matter and only the issue of ‘life’ in general, he does not leave the house in the morning with an agenda and he doesn’t visualise his photographs in advance of taking them. Street Photography is about seeing and reacting, almost by-passing thought altogether.

Zack Arias

Most of Zack Arias' street photos contain and undeniable element of humor, which in addition to their excellent compositions, makes them lovable by anyone. His ability to capture the hilarious height of any moment is ingenious.

Anna Delany

New Zealand/New York-based Anna Delany documents gritty street life and urban decay architecturally and in portraits. Anna may be one of the most successful street photographers in terms of her ability to capture facial emotion in a split second.

Ben Rider

 Benjamin Rider, a renowned print technician at Print Club London, is a London-based illustrator and graphic designer who specialises in various print techniques including an unconventional process such as Cyanotype printing which is regularly used by engineers and architects to create blueprints. His time-served expertise in print together with his sense of humour then results in a memorable series of eye-catchy prints.

Blexbolex

 Blexbolex is a multi-award winning graphic artist and illustrator based in Berlin. Born in Douai, France as Bernard Granger, he finished his degree in screen printing and has been working in prints for over three decades. His visual storytellings, which are commonly found in children books and graphic novels, illustrate his experimental approach to blending characteristic hand-drawn illustration with commercial printing techniques and book production.

Broken Fingaz

 Broken Fingaz is a collective of very original street artists from Haifa City who do wall paintings, graffitis and T-shirt designs. Founded over a decade ago by Unga, Broken Fingaz has been painting streets and walls of the world’s major cities such as London, Paris, Berlin, Vienna, Beijing and many others.

DogBoy

 Philip Huntington, also known as Dogboy, is a graduate from Camberwell College of Arts who often incorporates screen print and digital methods together. A series of his detailed and fantastical illustrations is a result of his close observation and experiments in anthropomorphic worlds. Currently, he is part of Dark Matter Collective where he produces limited edition screen prints, drawings self-published zines and numbers of ephemera.

Faile

 Faile is a Brooklyn-based collaboration between two artists, Patrick McNeil and Patrick Miller. Founded in 1999 along with an emergence of street art culture and DIY products, Faile has centred their practice on painting and printmaking but has also been recognised for their wide ranging creative approaches including their pioneering use of wheat pasting and stencilling in street art and their iconic appropriation and collage.


Frida Kahlo, Diary

Frida Kahlo de Rivera born Magdalena Carmen Frieda Kahlo y Calderón; July 6, 1907 – July 13, 1954) was a Mexican painter who is best known for her self-portraits.
Kahlo's life began and ended in Mexico City, in her home known as the Blue House. Her work has been celebrated in Mexico as emblematic of national and indigenous tradition and by feminists for its uncompromising depiction of the female experience and form.

Leonardo da Vinci: Study for the Last Supper

The Last Supper (Italian: Il Cenacolo or L'Ultima Cena) is a late 15th-century fresco painting by Leonardo da Vinci in the refectory of the Convent of Santa Maria delle Grazie, Milan. It is one of the world's most famous paintings, and one of the most studied, scrutinized, and satirized.
The work is presumed to have been commenced around 1495 and was commissioned as part of a scheme of renovations to the church and its convent buildings by Leonardo's patron Ludovico Sforza, Duke of Milan. The painting represents the scene of The Last Supper of Jesus with his disciples, as it is told in the Gospel of John, 13:21. Leonardo has depicted the consternation that occurred among the Twelve Disciples when Jesus announced that one of them would betray him.


textile

Textile arts are those arts and crafts that use plant, animal, or synthetic fibers to construct practical or decorative objects.



Robert Frank


Robert Frank (born November 9, 1924) is an important figure in American photography and film. His most notable work, the 1958 book titled The Americans, was influential, and earned Frank comparisons to a modern-day de Tocqueville for his fresh and nuanced outsider's view of American society. Frank later expanded into film and video and experimented with manipulating photographs and photomontage.

 

Garry Winogrand
 

Garry Winogrand (14 January 1928, New York City – 19 March 1984, Tijuana, Mexico) was a street photographer known for his portrayal of the United States in the mid-20th century. John Szarkowski called him the central photographer of his generation.

 

Lee Friedlander

 

Lee Friedlander (born July 14, 1934) is an American photographer and artist. In the 1960s and 70s, working primarily with 35mm cameras and black and white film, Friedlander evolved an influential and often imitated visual language of urban "social landscape," with many of his photographs including fragments of store-front reflections, structures framed by fences, posters and street signs.

 

Matt Stuart

 

Born in 1974, Matt Stuart was raised in the leafy suburbs of Harrow, North West London. He admits to a less than distinguished school career, but was called upon aged 11 to play a trumpet solo in front of the Queen Mother. Her Majesty’s reaction is not recorded.

 

Eric Kim

Eric Kim is a street photographer currently based in Berkeley, California. An undergraduate at UCLA, He used Sociology to combined it with his passion for photography to make statements about society through street photography.

 

 

 

Adhemas Batista

 

A Brazilian-born graphic designer and artist based in Los Angeles, Adhemas Batista has worked with some of the world's biggest brands, including Adidas, Coca-Cola and Sony. His awe-inspiring portfolio reflects his passion for exploring vibrant and colorful concepts, all of which pop againt a bright white backdrop.

Smart!

 

Smart! is a multidisciplinary team of professionals in graphic design, communication and information technology that have two offices in Buenos Aires and Perú.

Their online portfolio has a simple structure, with the grey turning to full colour once you hover over each project. We love that the selected images from each project are presented in a horizontal line.