Maps

Drawing Practice

from drawing practice and researching in to maps Ihave started to look at maps in a completely different way to what I have before. I just saw them as something to tell you were to get from A to B but now it has opened a new way of thinking, researching all the different kinds of maps was really interesting and inspiring. Drawing the UK as a map from memory was so much harder than I thought it would be even though every one knows what the UK looks like it still was very hard to draw. I found this a great challenge. Been able to create my own fantasy island map was really interesting.

                                 Sara Fanelli, map of my day, 1995

Tere are so many different aproches to mapping sara fanelli has mapped her day, bright and colourful hand drawn child-like drawing.

                                         Paula Scher, The World, 1998
Uing typegoraphy to fill in the spaces.

               Kisaburo Ohara, A Humorous Diplomatic Atlas of Europe and Asia, 1904


illustrating the world as objects and animals.

Hereford 'mappamundi' 15th century

This map is mappamundi meaning mappa is cloth and mundi is of the world.

Drawing practice

Exploring with ink bubbles, popping ink filled balloons, graphite and inked tennis balls thrown at paper and creating an image from smoke on paper. The ink bubbles were fun to experiment with and I liked the way you could never create the same bubble each one was unique. I also like the effect of the smoked images which was a new and existing different approach for me.

Rowland Flexner-ink bubbles

Anna Barriball- ink bubbles on top of photographs

Henry krokatsis-smoke drawings

Tim Knowles-tree drawings

David Hughes

I like David Hughes work for his line quality and his use of pastel colours and the vintage aesthetic in his work. He also uses a border line around all his work which you don’t normally see other artist work.

Studio aka

Studio aka is a London based animation studio that does personal projects such as lost and found illustrated by Oliver Jeffers and the varmints. They also do commercial projects such as Lloyds TSB and coca cola adverts.

Studio aka, lost and found, Oliver Jeffers

                                              Studio aka, Varmints

Studio aka, Lloyds TSB

Exhibition Review

Manchester Art Gallery

Fantasies, Follies and Disasters, The Prints of Francisco de Goya

This exhibition shows some of the fantastic prints of Francisco de Goya, even thought this exhibition is small there is loads to look at, you could star at one of Goya’s prints for ages to work out what’s really happening in the print they are dark and eerie, but there is more to Goya’s etchings that first meets the eye. There is depth to these prints you have to look closer at them and really look in to the detail of these small prints.

The subject matter of these works is about fantasy, war and follies I like the idea of fantasy and that anything could happen in his etchings but they seem to be horrifying and disturbing. The purpose of the exhibition is to present a surreal situation which you can relate to it involves the audience and draws them to look closer at the etchings.

Francisco De Goya, Disparate de Miedo (Folly of Fear) ,1864.


Some of Goya’s most famous print were war subjects, Disparate de Miedo (Folly of Fear) is also about war and death. Some of his famous war subjects were horrifying they had a representation of violence and torture.

This collection was made up of 30 etchings, he has also used aquatint and dry point, they are all framed at around eye level equally spaced and at the same height, the collection also has a piece in the middle which is by Jake a Dino Chapman, called the Disasters of war this was inspired by Goya’s etchings.

Jake and Dino Chapman, Disasters of War 1993

‘The works are all drawn from Manchester Art Gallery’s superb collections, and have not been exhibited together as a group for over 20 years. It includes over 90 rare first-edition examples of etchings which were purchased in the early 1980s.’ press release,18.03.2010, www.manchestergalleries.org is great that these prints have been shown again in a group to let new generations appreciate them as well.

The display is a great way to look at the etchings and relate to the Chapman’s piece in the middle it lets you look at the work then refer to Disasters of war after looking at each one. This was an interesting way of looking at the exhibition as you have both 3d and 2d illustrations and you are able to look all the way around the Chapman’s piece which gives you a perspective of the work.

The exhibition was disturbing and existing, I like to look at fantasy and the stories behind it I like trying to work out what’s happening in the image, there is a fear corruption and inhumanity which reflects on the war poverty and the hatred. It was believed that this has come from his illness which left him death. He has an extraordinary imagination which he illustrates satire and cruelty which defines his work in this medium.

Francisco de Goya, Modo de volar (A Way of Flying) 1828

MYTHS AND MONSTERS

London vist to the Horiman museum
exhibition - Myths and Monsters

This exhibition was fun for kids the creatures they had on display moved which scared children abit but there was also a dressing up corner so that would take there mind off the scary dragon. I thought that this exhibition would of been bigger since there are so many myths and monster I was a but disappointed at the amount there, but still and interesting way of finding out information.

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Sara Fanelli

Sara Fanelli, Pinocchio, 2003

Sara Fanelli, A Dogs Life,1998

In her work she experiments with text and new techniques, such as collage, she creates her own personal stlye. She usually works on coloured backgrounds, but in much more subtle colours, such as ochre, misty blue or orangey red, often using pieces of paper torn from exercise books, graph paper and wallpaper, frequently stained or marked in some way. On these backgrounds she sticks fragments cut from photographs – eyes are a common motif, as are pictures of herself as a child – pieces of fabric, details seemingly randomly cut from prints of old masters, music and snippets of newsprint, often mixing print in several languages including English, Italian, French and even Chinese.

She plays with different typefaces, superimposing pieces of print on top of her illustrations, or using them as part of a drawing – the body of a butterfly, for example. The use of historical typeface, such as pieces giving price tags in old pounds, shillings and pennies, give an old-fashioned look to the work and hint of influences from Duchamp and other Dadaists. She often draws or prints in black ink on top of these collages, using doodle-like scribbles, which pull the focus of the work back from the adult world to the realms of childhood.

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These are two of my own collages I have made Toto and the cowardly lion I have used grey grass for toto and used a colletion of different furs for the lion using human eyes that have  been used in Sara Fanelli's work.