Second Body of Work

Ink and pen developments each 60 X 80 Cm

I have started the week by experimenting with ink and the way that it moves when dropped and splashed onto paper, you can never predict how it is going to fall so it gets rid of all the certainty and engineered from the forms that are made. I also experimented with throwing water at the fresh ink which created a really interesting and unpredictable splash mark that was also larger. I really like the direction in which this was going so I started two bigger pieces one where the dripping was done flat. The other when it was on a wall and thrown at, as you can imagine this created some very different outcomes, elements of both I quite liked.

Close up of pieces below 

On the wall one I particularly liked the small sections that the drips created where I could then work into which then created this waterfall effect, but then on the one that was on the floor I liked the way that the larger splash created which when I worked into it created a form that looked like a swarm or something growing. This week I have been looking at Diana Al-Hadid, Vlad Kulkov and Cameron Robbins because of the process that they use in there work.

Ink with marker and pen development both 70 X 150 Cm

I think that to move on from this I will try and incorporate the two ways of making this into one and go it very much on a large scale so I can really experiment with the process.

Experimenting with shape

Charcoal on paper 30 X 42 Cm

I have continued to experiment with shape this week, and the figurative shapes have now developed into more organic shapes, however I'm not sure that this is the way forward I think that the scale of the figures need to be figure and maybe just one to a page. I think I need to take a step back and almost go back to the drawing board and not get carried away perusing something that isn't working.

Pencil on Paper 30 X 42 Cm

I think that the earlier pieces that involved ink drawings where the most interesting and that this is what I should try and develop and to look at more artists that work in a similar way to inspire me on what I could do with my project. I also need to really think why I am doing what I am doing and put my work into context; I think that will really help me move forward.

developing bigger Pieces

Charcoal on paper 60 X 85 Cm

This week I have been experimenting with scale and composition, I have been using varying sizes of figure to try and create distance and space in the drawings. I think that I have been able to do this, however I think that the process works better with a white background and bold figures because they both stand out more but they also look more ghostly and almost out of place as if they shouldnt be there and I really like that.

Charcoal on paper 60 X 85 Cm

I have also been looking at rubbing and smudging to create movement in the drawings something that was inspired from Gerhard Richter's drawings I have been looking at this week. I have also been looking at Kara walker because of her figures and the monochome palette she uses. I think that next week I'm going to continue to play with shape, to see if I can get it to work better.

Developing my work Further

Leading on from last week's work I have been looking at drawing with ink from those projected photographs and double line drawings. I haven't been to precious with the drawings that I have created, they are quite expressive and simple, I like some of the forms that I make, but some of them are quite bulky and I'm not sure that the in fact work as well as I wanted them to, I really want them to flow into one another, almost as if they are all one line or are all drawn at the same time like my other drawings of if I played around with scale.

 Also I would like to experiment with charcoal this week and maybe create some large scale drawings or a series of small ones. This week I have looked at the artists Dove Allouche, 
Tony Cruz Pabon and Kira Lynn Harris because of there use of tone and shades, however I think that next week I need to again take these artists into account when doing my work because I think they will be useful with how I plan to develop my project.

Developing my second body of Work

Example of Frank Auerbach's work

Biro on paper 42 X 60 Cm

Biro on paper both 42 X 60 Cm

I have been experimenting with drawing more than one line at the same time this week, varying the pens and shades. These came out with some really interesting drawings that explored shape well because it was harder to draw with the pens the shapes sometimes didn't turned out how I planned them to, but by using this method the shapes seem to be more organic and very light.This week I have been looking at the drawings of Frank Auerbach and Alberto Giacometti both draw in a very interesting and similar style which I think is something that I need to experiment with next week. I think that need to continue to move quickly with this and start experimenting with ink.

Frank Auerbach and Alberto Giacometti

Frank Auerbach

The Magdalen Laying Down her Jewels 1955

Auerbach is both a painter and a drawer who works in an abstract and expressionist way. Auerbach was originally from Germany, but escaped to England when the Nazi's took over where he attended boarding school and then St Martin's college in London to study art. When he first started showing he got allot of criticism about his application of paint, but it was soon recognised as a new type form of up and coming artists.

I wanted to look at Auerbach specifically for his drawings, some of them self portraits others are of figurative scene. I like the sketchy look of them and the pace that they looks as if they have been drawn at, they look really quick to do. I is really interesting how they are done, Auerbach uses the process of building up layers of the charcoal and pencil to give you the final finish on the work. It's really interesting because you have to look really close to the drawings to realise this, however it is the same method that he uses to create his paintings. The layers create depth to the work because of the different tones.

All the works are very abstract and the lines are very expressionist there seems to be a lot of movement captured in the drawings because of this it's almost as if the figures are vibrating, it is quite chaotic. The layers in the work suggest that he's never quite happy with the image and a way of masking this is to add another layer until it does become to Chaotic to notice. There subjects in the work don't always know that they are being drawn they are often memories of something Auerbach sees in the day and wants to keep to draw later, which could maybe fuel this frustration with not being able to get it right because he can't quite remember what it looks like.

I think that this is something that I should try, working from memory it might bring out more movement and expression in my work.

http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/frank-auerbach-676

Alberto Giacometti

man lost - 1947

Giacometti is a sculpture, printmaker and painter from Switzerland who studied sculpture in Paris he had a fascination for the figure and human form. I have a particular interesting his drawings, but since looking at a wider arrangement of his work I really like his figurative sculptures. His sculptures tended to be in bronze and the surface had a rough texture as if it had been eroded away as if he was trying to turn back to their natural form. Something that he did do with some sculptures, he reworked them turning them into something completely different.

His drawings are really interesting, most of then sketches of ideas for sculptures and future projects others self portraits, but the self portraits where in different styles they seemed to me realist and representational of a real human form. Whereas the other drawings are obviously representational of the human form they aren't as you would usually see it the shape different it's a bit like and alien to us, but Giacometti believes that this is what he looks like he was trying to educate the work on this expressing his ideas on the human form and why it is this way.

There are a lot of lines in the drawings and they are very concentrated in specific areas creating a focal point making you concentrate on that part of the work the most, making you completely appreciate the form of the face. I really like the work and I think that I would like to reflect the use of line in my work.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alberto_Giacometti

Developing My Initial Drawings

Pencil on tracing paper 14 X 21 Cm

Marker on plastic 14 X 21 Cm

Biro on tracing paper 14 X 21 Cm

I have been experimenting with adding tone and colour to my figures this week, however I felt that they didn't really work that well because they lost the delicate feel that I wanted them to have. Without the tone they had a creepy, almost ghostly feel to them and I think by working on tracing paper they became a lot lighter than working on normal paper. So now that I have figured out that isn't the direction I want to go down I decided to draw on acetate because that has very similar qualities to tracing paper.

These turned out quite well  which then lead me onto the idea of projecting them onto paper to get larger shapes, but when I did this the shapes became blurred and unreadable. I photographed these and they are really quite beautiful and something that I want to push on with next week. These photographs reminded me of Michal Rovner's work because of her use of figures, but also of Henry Michaux who works with very similar forms.