Research

Thinking about my current work (which I haven't got around to uploading yet); I've been making a lot of pieces using pro markers and letting them bleed through the page after being inspired by Daniel Eatock. I've gotten to a point with them where I would really like to develop them into large-scale screen prints. I think this method would allow me to re print them over and over possibly in a repeat pattern. I think seeing them this way will allow them to become this kind of all consuming decoration which is what I am inspired by and am aiming for in my projects this year. 

CY Twombly

Although I want to make seen prints I do not want a very tidy, controlled aesthetic. I want it to be expressive and paintilly like my origonal works, therefore I am looking at CY Twombly's work to explore how to capture that expression on a larger scale.  

Steve Wright - The House of dreams

I plan to visit and draw from Steve Wright's piece on its next opening date as it captures this all consuming decorative unpretentious humerous aesthetic I want in my own work.  

Stephen Fowler

I have looked at Stephen Fowler before while researching stamps. Here he runs a workshop on roller printing which looks like a really fun method of pattern making I would like to try.

 Barbara Rae

 Barbara Rae makes expressive painterly prints like I would also like to - in a different style but I would like to explore similar methods such as true grain screen printing.

Research

Pointallism 

I have been working in this way for my course project where I build up marks made by pro marker pens to make symmetrical patterns by letting the ink bleed through the pages. This technique does't work very well when I try to use lines so my images tend to be a build up of dotts. Therefore I think it would be helpful to study the pointalist artists and how they manage to build up pictures using only dots and marks.

Patty Carroll

Continuing my research for my IPS and this idea of method drawing I came across this artist who hides figures in decorated spaces. These kind of overly decorated; patterned creations are exactly what interests me.

Also like the style of this Frida Kahlo vogue cover....

Method drawing artist research

Yesterday a task was set to use method drawing, like method drawing, to research for our IPS projects. I was wondering how to do this with a project all about pattern, then had the idea that I could somehow become the pattern; then came across this...

Artist, Cecilia Paredes paints herself to blend in with the wallpaper:

This technique is inspired by Liu Bolin who paints himself to blend in with everyday things:

Artist Research

For the summer project I have been exploring highgate cemetery; drawing it from imagination; from life and from memory. While struggling to imagine highgate cemetery, I read "My fearful symmetry" for research. The book is a story of two symmetrical(not identical) twins who live by highgate cemetery. After reading the book and following on from my interest in pattern making, symetry and repetition, I want to make symetrical patterns based on my drawings and memories from the cemetery. As the images are reflected I also want them to fade slightly away. This is because of the twins in the book(spoiler alert). The twin Julia dominates Valentina; tries to control her; stops her from going to university because she wants them to be the same; to remain reflections of each other forever. In doing this she pushes Valentina away; and eventually dies trying to get away from Julia. I want my patterns to be a metaphor for the story which is why I want each time symmetry to happen; the image to fade away a bit....The following images are artworks which have used symmetry and processes which I may want to use in this project....

Daniel Eatock - Pen paintings

This is a process I definatley want to explore. Using pro markers he makes repeated patterns by letting the markers bleed through the pages. I like this process because it creates the fading away effect that I want. 

 

Daniel Eatock - Marker Marks

These pieces use a similar process; he leaves the paper on top of the pens and lets them bleed through leaving marks and patterns.

 Christopher Turner - Blots

 What we used to do at pre school - squashing a painting together to make is symmetrical - again this could be a nice process for this project because the more you squash the images together the more it fades from the original image.

Corneilia Parker - Pornographic drawing