Monday, 13 October 2014
Monday, 23 June 2014
Going into fashion at university level making and styling would then automatically make people think that my fmp show would be about crating and Making my own garments. As I have never really had any practise within dress making and I am personally not the best person at textiles, it seems like far to much of a jump to go straight into a subject that I am not good at, with all techniques and processes within art and design you learn and progress but for me dress making is far to much of a leap for me to of taken. It would of made Fmp more of struggle than an enjoyment for me. I also personally don't think that I had the right sources and guidelines at college to be able to carry it certain techniques anyway. I felt like the guidance to create this work wasn't really available for me. So I choose to use my situation to my advantage, I deviced to go the best way about it and create fine art orientated outcomes. This then allows me to not only strengthen my skills in fine art which is very important in any aspect of design, but also create outcome that can be late taken and printed onto garments. All of my outcomes are diverse, and print making is very popular within fashion, it is used for interior dresses, etc.. All of initial design ideas I feel could become things like garments or even tea towels and interior based furniture.
Tuesday, 17 June 2014
Noel Badges Pugh
Noel Badges Pugh creates scientific illustrations as well as artwork with a more psychedelic perspective. Inspired by nature and dreams, all's created with an utmost appreciation for the details and structure of each subject.
I've chosen to look at Noel because his work is amazing, not only is he clearly a fine artist but he looks at the scientific meaning within flowers and uses his drawing techniques to express this again similar to Georgia O'keefe he likes to look at the reproductive side of flowers and the biology within it. It isn't rare to find an artist that both shares a strong interest in science and fine art because i believe they both come together as one. He uses allot of colour within his work but doesn't stay true to the colour pallet of the actual flower, he uses fine lines which i use a lot of within my own work, it helps to create lengths of detail and fine marks which i love to create within my own work. His work captures more of the photographic side of flowers, he does this with his expression of detail, it is almost as if he has taken a photographic and changed it with an effect with photoshop the detail is incredible. Although his line work is very minimal if you look up close, which is rather surprising when you see the detail that he does manage to re-create. I have created some post card outcomes using the style in which Noel draws using again minimal line and colour (black and white).
Georgia O'Keeffe
In 1924, O’Keeffe began to make paintings in various sizes, all of which focused on the centers of flowers, and she continued making them for decades.
In 1925, O'Keefees work along with many to follow presented the sexual anatomy of the flower in sharp focus. By drawing attention to the inherent androgyny of this subject, O’Keeffe could have been attempting to contradict the critical notion that her subject matter was related exclusively to her gender.
But if so, the critics in 1925 missed O’Keeffe’s point. They interpreted her flowers as they had interpreted her earlier abstractions, as expressions of her sexuality. In 1943, O’Keeffe finally responded: “Well – I made you take time to look at what I saw and when you took time to really notice my flowers you hung all your own associations with flowers on my flower and you write about my flower as if I think and see what you think and see of the flower – and I don’t.”
I've chosen to look at O'keefee as an artist not only because she bases a lot of her work on flowers but also because she looks at the anatomy within a flower, she bases a lot of her work and paintings trying to capture the beauty of the reproductive organs of a flower,as people we don't really judge certain elements of flowers as beauty we just get attracted by either smells or looks. This makes me relate to how flowers can also be perceived to have human traits, as people we are also attracted to certain scents of one another as well as first impression within our looks.
When i first seen the paintings I did make the misconception of relating the flowers to sexual meanings, O'keefee has strongly denied in her work that it is not what she is trying to portray through her paintings, I think as an artist it came as an offence that some critics would relate her work to her own sexuality when this is not something she is associating it with at all, but actually just the female anatomy of a flower. I think she is trying to take a step back from relating her work to personal notions.
There is one particular piece of O'keefee which really does make me think about how she is unsure about peoples interpretations of her work, it is the rams head with a flower, to me this piece resembles that of a woman's womb, and the flower resembles the egg.
In comparison to my work, i feel that Georgia O'keeffe and I share a lot of similarity's, not in the way we draw because she is much more of a fine art painter were as i don't enjoy to paint but enjoy to capture work through drawing and inks, I think we share the same subject matter which is flowers and not only flowers but the perception we both have on them, I have also tried to capture the beauty and strong essence of the reproductive organs of the flower rather than the beauty of it itself. I have done this by keeping away from things like colour because i see it as a distraction in my work, I like my work to be minimal and speak for itself. I wouldn't want to over power a drawing with overwhelming colour this for me would spoil the message that i am trying to perceive. Yes flowers can be beautiful and come in beautiful colours but for me its not what I'm trying to portray to my critics, i want them to realise the beauty of a flower and how i am able to create that through the use of line.
Monday, 16 June 2014
Flower Wall.
How I displayed my work in FMP is something I have come to realise as very important. Being a passionate fashion individual who wants to go onto fashion at university level it is important that I realise and understand styling and the use of space. I used FMP as my opportunity to take advantage of this and show how I am able to take pieces of work and transform them into a working space, a space that is conversational and compliments the work put up. Visual merchandising is something that interests me so working with space and making work looks it's best is something I will be having to learn to do. So using my outcomes I used the space to the best of my advantage, spending time arranging my work in different ways and angles. I looked at things like scale and shape, I wanted my work to be at one scale and not to confusing. I choose my work specifically, I didn't want to over power anything and take the light of any of the pieces, this meant I had to narrow my prints down a lot so I was only left with a select few, but it worked. This shows my keen eye for being able to style work naturally in order for it to look the best it can be. FMP is also an opportunity for your work to be noticed and maybe bought, I also took this into consdiderstion when displaying my work, just like when you visual merchandise something in a shop window. I saw my boards as my show window and my work as my items.
failed prints
Printing is all about practice and perseverance, it also takes a lot of patience to get results. Sometimes it would take me a week of printing to only get one successful print, but the key to successful and strong work is to not loose heart! There were times were I wanted to throw the towel in because one day the printing press tension wouldn't be right and my prints wouldn't work, or the ink was inconsistent, or I hadn't washed my hands as well as I thought I had and the paper was ruined. All of these factors contribute to how well or bad work turns out. Firstly you need to think a lot about preparation, you need a clear workspace and lots of organisation , this works! Clear a space and get all your tools ready, roll out your ink, and make sure the area is clean, the tension is set and your paper is soaking. Another thing to watch out for is paper packing, paper packing is placed into the printing press to add tension and protect your work from marks and spills, it is important the packing is either made new , in my circumstance it was due to the fact I was create a lot of final outcomes, and I didn't really have time to be ruining prints with dodgy packing. Once all of these things are done you are ready to print. There are many different plates which allow you to print at different scales, this is trial and error, as I tried to print at large scale and no prints worked successfully, it was a massive struggle to get a good print, and after several tries it failed to work. So I decided to stick to small scale prints, which happened to work beautifully and even more effective. It's amazing how one small print can hold so much definition and detail, compared to the work I was creating at the start of the year in printing I have massively improved not only in skill but also mind, this time round au wasn't half as negative towards my own work.
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