Overgrown // Artists Research // A1
Top Left Drawing: watercolour and coloured pencil on sketch paper.
Middle Textiles Piece: fabric paint and hand stitching onto cotton.
Bottom Right Painting: watercolour and ink pen on sketch paper.
"Ivan Shishkin's oil paintings remind me of an overgrown garden, left to go wild. This is why I picked two of his paintings for my artist research. His paintings are very detailed and realistic. He uses bright yellows and yellows to make the images feel warm, a skill I have tried in my study. I drew a zoomed in version (top left part) of the image beside the study. I used coloured pencils to capture all the details. His paintings also feature weeds instead of flowers, which symbolises overgrown.
Angie Lewin's style of drawing is more abstract that Ivan Shishkins. She creates the overgrown effect by putting flowers and plants of different styles and colours next to each other, as if they had all grown like that in the wild. I chose these images for my artist research board as I think they contrast Ivan Shishkin's well - Angie Lewin's pictures look as if they are in the wild, not in a garden and the shapes are also a lot more stylised. Because of this, I decided to use thread to draw out the lines and shapes on my fabric sample. She also uses block colour, a technique I have applied to my studies. Especially in the image of the study I did in watercolour, there are lots of leaves and stems randomly strewn across the picture, which also creates the overgrown effect. She also uses quite dull and pale colours."
Overgrown // Observations (all my own photographs) // A1
Top Middle Textiles Piece: fabric paint and hand stitching onto cotton.Middle Drawing: coloured pencil on sketch paper.
"Overgrown means 'something covered in plants that has been allowed to grow wild'. I took this to heart when I took these photographs, finding Ivy and other plants crawling up walls, signs doors and trees - basically anywhere they shouldn't be. My favourite image is the one of the door, because to me it really symbolises overgrown."
Overgrown // Development // A1
Top Left Handles: fabric paint and hand stitching onto cotton and satin.
Top Right Textiles Piece: fabric paint and machine stitching onto cotton.
Middle Textiles Piece: hand stitching onto a print onto cotton.
Middle Right Textiles Piece: fabric paint and hand stitching onto cotton.
All other Paintings: watercolour on sketch paper.
"For my initial strap idea (the one on the left) I did a very simply design, that was good as a sturdy handle but not very interesting. For my 2nd idea, I decided to use a string of leaves from my bag as a handle.This was much more interesting but seemed a bit fragile to be a handle for a bag. My final idea is the one on the right - the leaves and plait add interest, but it is also a strong and sturdy handle. The plait also looks like a vine with leaves growing up it, which looks very overgrown.
For my brick design, I used a sewing machine and just black thread to create a very stylised feel, like Angie Lewin's work. For the sample on the left, I was inspired by Ivan Shishkin, so I ironed on half of a photograph from my observations board to get a realistic feel, then stitched over the top around the leaves and on the veins for added definition.
My favourite design is the mint green one, based off one of my photos from my observation board. I chose it because I thought the deep reds and mint greens went really nice together and the plant strewn across it looks very overgrown. The shape of the box (with the indented section) also created a nice background for my bag, and also created a sort of frame for the plant, which the plant comes out of, creating an overgrown effect. The thread makes it look stylised, like Angie L's."
Overgrown // Final Piece // 15 x 24cm
Fabric paint, machine and hand stitching onto satin and cotton.
If video doesn't play (or plays in terrible quality) click here for HD version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pInJ99m4HCM&feature=youtu.be
No comments:
Post a Comment