David Hockney

After someone suggested I look at surrealism I found that David Hockney's photo montages really fascinated me as the idea of sections is still something that I would like to look at. In particular I like Hockney's 'Blue Terrace, Los Angeles' piece, I love the way the whole image has been separated into sections with a grid as it makes it easier to focus on one section at a time. 

The bottom image (^) is not very clear as it is a photocopy from a book, the separation of the sections makes me want to focus on sections of an image rather the the image as a whole.

Here I have used gouache to create a colour palette for the image shown, the colours are not exact as I was looking the image on the computer screen and when I printed it off the colours were slightly different. The knit sample shown here is an attempt to recreate the image by drawing with the yarns as I knit.

The left side of this image has the same issue as mentioned above, in terms of the colour difference on screen and printed out! The right side of this image was just an attempt to do what Hockney did with the blue terrace image, I quite like the affects it has but I'm not too sure where I could go from this point...

Sheila Pepe

'Mine Ayn, 2006'  Is a collection of work by Sheila Pepe, I feel that using my images of the city I could create some great drawings inspired by the style of these. They are very clean in terms of line quality but at the same time there is a childlike essence to certain parts of each drawing. In particular I like the drawing in Fig.1 as I can relate some of my images of the city to the shapes that are used. (Drawings to Follow)

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Fig.3

I have also looked at 'Detail. Josephine', I feel that this piece has a web like effect and could have some great inspiration towards my work.

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Fig.5

The looseness of this piece is what makes me interested in it, I think this is because it almost comes alive with movement. I created some small neutral coloured samples using some of my collected items, in one of my samples I knitted with string and cable ties, the way I photographed it reminded me of this piece see Fig.6.

Fig.6

Although this is just a sample I believe that it could be a strong starting point for working towards my final outcome.

Langlands & Bell

In one of my lectures I was shown the work of Langlands and Bell, initially I wasn't really impressed but when looking closer at their work I started to really admire the 'air routes' collection. (Images taken from www.Langlandsandbell.com)

I chose my favourite images out of the air routes of Europe collection, from these I did various samples using simple techniques rather than more complex ones. 

Machine Embroidery, straight and satin stitch.

Quick drawing using 4B pencil.

2H pencil lines, Push pins and thin cotton.

Sheila Pepe

I looked previously at Sheila Pepe's work when I was doing the construct world, but because her work wasn't necessarily relevant to my project at the time I decided not to research further. However looking back at her work I feel like there is a connection between my current project and these particular images, I have found the linear elements of these inspirational and think there are some great similarities to my drawings and samples. (images taken from www.sheilapepe.com)

Designers

                                                  
                      Staerk                                                              

When I saw this image it reminded me of my ink and bleach drawings so I did another drawing with a similar pattern, I also thought that it had a similar linear quality to  images that I took of fireworks.








                                                                  
     
                                 

        Ahonen & Lamberg                                                                             I saw this image and immediately thought of crackle nail polish, I initially wanted to paint my nails and photograph them but as I thought about it more thoroughly I realised that a picture might not be the best way to show the technique. A few ideas later I decided to use false nails to paint on to and the outcome was brilliant, the way each nail turned out totally unique was really intriguing to me. From this I had another idea to create 'cut-out' drawings which I did by drawing random shapes and then cutting them out leaving a stencil like pattern.

A3 cut-out photographed on black background.

A3 cut-out pieces put back together,

 photographed with original cut-out placed on top.