brainstorming..

Ive decided to start concentrating on the hair on the birds. The small/long hairs that create the birds are interesting. The hairs blend together and create pattern and shape. The layers of hair that create the birds is fascinating and i want to explore and experiment this.  This is going back to my landscape images and how the colours in the landscapes slowly blend into each other, but instead i will be looking at the hairs blending into each other. This will be good for my embroidery work, as i can experiment with different styles of lines with hand/machine stitch.

birds.

Manchester Museum.

more planning...

I felt this week i was struggling. Although I had artists that inspired me, i felt like i wanted to move away from the idea of landscapes and focus on the colour, blending, lines and layers. I started thinking of things in nature which had similar colours and i came across birds. The blending, layering and texture of colour that can be found on these creatures is interesting and i would to expand my research on them. I will investigate the line, fine detail, layers, textures and colour from the feathers and hairs on the birds. This week i will take a trip down to Manchester Museum and look at the birds there. I will also research other birds from the library, internet etc.

Drawings from landscape.

I started playing around with colours from the landscape and letting the colours bleed into one another when i was using water colour and seeing how it turned out. The colour i am looking at are quite bright and remind of colours i would find in nature. This could be another aspect i could look further into from this.

Emily Felderman.

Emily Felderman is an embroidery artist, who uses small stitches to create such loud textiles pieces. I like how she using coloured stitches and blended them together. She changes the fabric by creating this layer of stitch on top which i find interesting. This is similar to my images where the colours create layers onto of eachother creating such beautiful pictures. Her work is quite abstract which i like. Maybe the idea of layers and blending maybe something i could focus on.

Kimberly Conrad.

Kimberly Conrad is a fine art artist. Her work is based on abstract landscapes. I feel her pieces seem realistic as though you can feel the heat or weather in the images due to the colours she's using. I like how her middle image is in linear structure and the colours blend perfectly together.

Philip Gray.

Philip Gray is an extreme artist, he paints pictures of his journeys and experiences. I like the quality of his images as they almost seem like photographs. Maybe this is an aspect i could look into as the pictures i took in turkey was my journey abroad and my memories there.  

Planning it out.

From my landscape images i decided to brain storm what i liked about them and why i liked it. I figured the reason i found them intriguing was because of the blending, changing and layering of colours. I noticed how the colours were blending in a vertical line. I started thinking of artists work that was similar which might give me some inspiration. I found some interesting artists such as Philip Gray, Kimberly Conrad, Jan Beany and Pauline burbridge. All these artist look at landscapes in some way whether from a textile point of view or fine art. This week i will start to draw from my landscape images using different blending techniques such as using water colours, using different tones of pencil, soft pastels etc.

Influences and Inspirations task.

During my holidays i started to get interested in artists that focused on line and looked at different ways of creating them, from textiles artists to fine art drawings. I researched into artists such as Andrew Kenny, Emily Felderman and Caroline Andrieu. All these artists use lines but in there specialist areas. I wanted to somehow combine line and colour together for my project. Artist Emily Felderman has done this in her work, where she used small dashed lines of colour stitch to create such an effective but simple piece.  Caroline Andrieu is a fashion illustrator, her work is fascinating to look at. Although she only uses fluid and delicate lines and adds a touch of subtle colour sometimes in her work, her pieces look realistic and seem like photographs. Andrew Kenny is a designer that hand and machine stitches linear patterns onto fashion garments.

This is a selection of my landscape images from holiday. 

Inspirations.

Over the summer holidays, i visited Turkey and loved the scenery that i could see. The colours and lines in the pictures fascinates me and i feel i want to look further into this for my intentions project.