FMP refinement

This is the image I had planned to use as my final piece but it didn’t take me long to realise that more was too much, so I took a step backwards as the slightly more simple image that is below looks much better. This is something I need to keep in mind for the future, less is sometimes more.

Artist research: David Welker

This image is from a magazine named Juxtapoz, I thought I could go for it and research this as magazines are something I don’t show interest in, but very clearly I should as I must say this illustration is beautiful. I’m interested in this illustration because i find the cold colours work well together because it gives the fish a marine or aquatique style.

Artist research: Salvador Dali

Dali is an artist I felt the need to research as he is one of the only artists that inspires me, even though I try to get out there and discover new artists, my interests in them are very minimal and that is why Dali is special to me. His style of art is absoluetly insane, the way he has done this painting is in a very strange style that gives it a weird feel to it,and to me, the paintings that make you feel thing(in good or bad)are the ones you should keep in mind and in my case, research. As much as i love this painting in particular, the movement of surrealism in general is a style of art that i find very interesting, it is completely crazy and does not look normal.

website

So I used wix for networking to meet new people and to get my designs out there for sale. I have already started doing album covers for bands and logos for companies, and I have been selling t-shirts with my designs on them.

My Final Piece

Artist research

Munch, The scream

this image is very inspiring to me as it is full of movement and feeling as it has a very wavy texture to it, so I though I would also try and do a painting with this sort of style or at least something similar to it, using splashes of colours. This painting has all the elements that are hard to get on photoshop, like the livliness which is why I have researched this artist to try and include them as much as possible. The image at the bottom is my work using some of Monks techniques to give the painting life.

 

Experimentation

Just trying out some other media to see how it looks, and its rather nice actually, the really bright vivid colours from photoshop are not here but you do get a lot more movement and flow from the paint brush strokes. It looks much more alive and i also like the unclear lines that give it a sort of sketchy look.

Experimentation

Just trying out some different styles and media as I love photography and thought I could show how I love to use colours and crazyness through photography, if you think about it,this image is very similar to my fmp.

Artist research

As much as I would love to be inspired by  artist’s around the world and in my surroundings, I am just not I’m afraid, however it’s the little things in life that seem to do the trick, like nature music and maybe the people around me and the way they are. Some of the people that have inspired me this year are the people in my class like Cait and George. Cait always has great ideas and an amazing style which is always good to give me ideas. George helped me get the idea to print my designs of clothes and maybe sell them, I though I could even design some bags or hats and patches.

Theory

I have been struggling to get inspired for so long now, and would seem that the reason for that is that when a deadline is involved, I feel like my work is being rushed, but I have finally managed to come up with some ideas that I am actually going to choose and use. So I know a lot of people have used the mental health theme but I also thought it was a good idea which is why i have done a crazy interpretation of mental health. The other reason I chose to do this is that I have had a big problem with this; not exactly me but people around me and that has definitely affected my art and inspiration but also my life to be honest. One of the things I wanted to explore through my work was showing people how you can be ”crazy” without having mental problems. This is actually what I would consider myself to be like as it describes my personality – It’s visible through my style of art and dress sense and most probably a lot of other things. My final piece that I have produced is to interpret as one likes, whether the viewer thinks It’s a representation of real illness or just ‘craziness’ as I explained before. Either way, I would like to explain that it is indeed a self-portrait, as insane as it may seem.. Which it really is, and believe me even if you think it doesn’t look like me (which it does) thats what the inside of me looks like. It’s all messed up weird and f*cked up, but I accept it and embrace it and as you can see in the image, the pink, ugly, strange creature is still smiling and is perfectly OK with that. He understands who he is and adapts to his surroundings even though you can clearly see that he is in the wrong place maybe even on the wrong planet. As much as the creature looks like he is one of a kind, you will understand that he isn’t alone in my work to come in the future – the project itself becomes a storyline.
For my second year FMP, I will aim to develop the next chapter to what I have just explained… So get ready, it’s going to be a very long book…