Illustration Friday- Cultivate

Here for the word cultivate, i've gone for the whole cultivation of the change of music, & it's influences. At completely opposite ends of fashion, stereotype & style, is a so called 'chav' & and an 'emo'. Classed 'chav' for always wearing a hat & hoody & tracksuits, & 'emo' because of hairstyles, tight clothing & slim most of the time.

I've looked at a few pictures of chavs and drew out a few drawings & finalized with the one above on the left, & same with the one on the right, & picked out the light and dark & stenciled.

Illustration Friday- Stir

I took a picture of myself, and cut me out, and the same with the spoon & coffee cup & plate. Using photoshop filters and layer overlays, i created the above.

Here's a photoshoped looking stencil i did of the above image.

Illustration Friday- Warning.

So with my first idea i wanted to originally do a a huge stencil and graffiti it somewhere nearby my neighborhood, but realized it's against the law, unfortunately. But i then decided to do it A4 size, first painting the whole page black with stroked edges, and the two warning signs stenciled with a sponge, to make it look like a sprayed effect.

Here's a digital image of my interpretation of Warning. I decided to use Adobe Illustrator to trace a politician, then replaced his facial features with a warning sign, to symbolize that the government, or politicians, or highly looked upon people are people who are causing damages, so it's a 'Beware of ...' kind of image.

The lyrics are taken from a song from Green Day entitled 'Warning.' The song is about not listening to the warning signs that country leaders give out, or that society are making out is bad for you, and to defy them just to be rebellious and do what you will. My own interpretation of the lyrics used on this image, is that instead of learning about everything, and taking everything into consideration, just get on with it, and if not, be prepared for a lot of authority to be thrown right back at you.

Artist Review: Francis Bacon

Francis Bacon, lived a 82 year long life, from 28 October 1909 to 28 April 1992 & was born into Dublin. Bacon is well known for his raw & graphic imagery he shows in nearly all his self made images. Most ways of which people describe or portray Bacon's work is as if he always paints them within cages, or in a box like shape & also with a totally different background from what he was drawing from.. Or so it seemed.

Also many peoples opinions leaned toward the fact that he had a cruel mind for his characters in his paintings, or images, as though they were all a victim of something terrible. All his paintings were in some way or another emotional, which is hard to put into anything really, especially from someone who comes from designing & decorating interiors and furniture & rugs.

''Bacon visited Paris in 1935, purchasing there a second-hand book on 'Diseases of the Mouth' containing high quality hand-coloured plates of both open mouths and oral interiors, which haunted and obsessed him for the remainder of his life''


The above played a great importance in Bacon's life, because if it wasn't for that, I more than likely wouldn't be writing this.


Even though Bacon rumored never really went to school, his works shown a lot more potential then those who had O levels and diplomas. Bacon started by copy other artist but using different media such as water painting. Then many years passed for him, and worked his way through a lot of media which he named as 'meaningful experiments'. Using a lot of oils in the more later life of his, is when his artwork really peaked in  my opinion.




http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Bacon_(artist)
http://www.francis-bacon.com/
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/exhibitions/francisbacon
http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=JBISnNM1gr4C&printsec=frontcover&dq=francis+bacon&source=bl&ots=FqRZHFA5OU&sig=8Blwp28s6lhBn7KdyxopQdlPE4I&hl=en&ei=miB0Ta-RLs6XhQePo52GBA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=5&ved=0CEIQ6AEwBDg8#v=onepage&q&f=false

Illustration Friday. 27. 02. 2011.

This weeks illustration was Swarm of which i first thought of a swarm of birds or fish. So i originally drew a Shark and thought of someway of putting it into the image of the swarm of fish, which then i decided to do a digital version of the Shark, which i overlayed on the fish, to try and make it look like it was underneath. Then i placed the word SWARM ontop of everything & again overlayed that.

Illustration Friday. 18. 02. 2011.

Layers.
Here's a meaningless, thoughtless image I created using layers of pieces of paper i found around the house, ripped & stuck onto the paper using masking tape. And finally drenching the paper in different coloured water based paints, then splattered with various colours again.

Artist Review: Lucian Frued.

Lucian Freud was born into Berlin, Germany 1922. Freud has been reconised to be the greatest figurative painter of all time. Using famous people, people he knew, family, friends & didn’t use so called ‘profetional models.’ His reasoning for not using models was such a good reason, explaining that he‘d rather use someone who actually wanted to be in pictures for a reason, rather than someone who wanted to get paid. Freud studied at the central school of art, East Anglian school of painting and drawing, & Goldsmiths’ College.

Freud’s first exhibition was in 1974 at, Hayward gallery in London, & his first ‘sell out’ exhibition was in 2002 at the Tate Gallery. Freud was extremely into comic strips, which reflected into his work massivly. As all great artists, he started out copying the work of Ingres, in the same style and media chooice.

Ever snice Frued’s work first began, his work has changed quite alot, come from Surrealism, & mixing it with realism & expressionism. Also starting off his career by drawing simple objects such as plants, people or animals. Around 1950 he started to really focus on thick impastoed portraits, using real life imagery, with his own genred touch to his pieces.

After 1956, he stated creates his images so much in his own way hat it was hugely reckognisable, using stiffer hogshair brushes instead of his fine pointed sable brushes.

Using any of his later, more recent work, and comparing it to his old work, you can see blatently the difference & just how he’s changed his work. Such as now his work is much more realistic in his own way, wheras before his work was, as i’ve previously stated, alot more surrealism.

During an undated interview i’ve read, he said ‘if I could give anyone a tip for painting, is that you should always sit down & paint.’






http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucian_Freud
http://www.answers.com/topic/lucian-freud
http://www.leninimports.com/lucian_freud_bio.html
http://wwar.com/masters/f/freud-lucian.html
http://www.encyclopedia.com/topic/Lucian_Freud.aspx