this piece is my experiment with collage techniques and also using ink, PVA and emulsion on my work, if im honest i think its terrible due to it being poorly drawn in the first place, this is probably due to my lack of drawing skills anyway.

life drawing

here's a pencil sketch of the model laying down, i like this one because i think that i have managed to get most of the proportions right

here's another quick sketch of the model in the same position but drawn in charcoal then on over in ink, i did this to experiment with using ink and a stick, i like the effect that it create but i think i need more practice to use this technique effectively.

this is my first try at using chalk and pastel on black paper, i quickly sketched out the shape in charcoal so that i could get the basic shape, then went over the charcoal in white chalk, then finally used my pastel to highlight certain area's.

These are my first attempts at drawing a nude model.

Saul Bass

Saul Bass is a famous graphic designer and a even greater film title designer. he uses a very distinctive almost most monotone colour scheme in most of his work using shapes and outline to give you an idea about the film. Saul Bass has inspired me personally when creating a poster in my recent recycling project which will probably be uploaded later. The image shown above is one of Bass's most famous and controversial pieces of work from the movie "The Man With The Golden Arm" and is probably the single piece of work that made Saul Bass as famous as he is today. Many other pieces of his work include Vertigo (right) and "Burn After Reading" (below).

 

jenny saville

Jenny Saville

Jenny Saville is an English painter that specializes in oil paintings, I will be writing to evaluate and discuss her work and subject matter e.g. large women and her interest in floating genders (transsexuals). Also; I will be looking into her inspirations and techniques.

            Saville’s preferred technique is traditional figurative oil painting, usually on a canvas and tends to be much larger than life sized, also Saville tends to  create a very “warts and all” approach to her work, in other words, she creates a image that in most cases word be considered ugly and disfigured and yet still manages to make it art. Jenny Saville draws her inspiration from Pablo Picasso and from her time spent at the University of Cincinnati where she saw “Lots of big women. Big white flesh in shorts and T-shirts.” Also Jenny spent a great deal of the time she had in New York observing plastic surgery operations. [1]

            In a lot of Saville’s work she ventures not only from the female form, but also into grotesque and disfigurations on the female body, for example her piece “Torso 2” (right)  to me this piece shows the insecurities of women as it resembles a pigs carcass that has been strung up at a butches, this combined with the aspects of the female anatomy (a vagina) shows how women feel about their bodies and that they can feel just like a piece meat or, they feel that their appearance is grotesque.

            In conclusion Jenny Saville is a talented artist that see’s the world how it is, rather than trying to make something beautiful and stunning, she shows the audience how the subject is beautiful how it already is. I am still undecided by Jenny as I really like some of her work and yet some of it I find hard to understand and see where she was coming from, but overall, I can appreciate her as a talented painted.

References

[1] "Jenny Saville Biography". Artbank.com. February 5, 2008

By Sam Parks

NON STOP GRAPHICS

 

NON STOP GRAPHICS is basically a blog that Ive recently become very interested in, they are a American based company that specialize creating custom made hand-painted signs, business logos, Muriel's, T-shirts E.t.c. they take pride in creating all their work using only traditional methods such as painting, and printing. and with high claims of the best quality products, their aim seems to be set of giving customer satisfaction. I will be sure to keep you posted on any intresting work that comes from them.

Album Cover "ATG" part 2

This piece is just the back of the album cover that i have posted previously i just basic petals flowing in the wind to tie in with the rose image that's on the front. Once again i have used GIMP 2.0 to create this image. I like what Ive done but to be honest I'm not as happy with it as i was with the original cover and i would really love any feed back that anyone would like to offer. Finally if anyone would be intrested in me desiging any band artwork, album covers E.T.C let me know and ill gladly help out.

Album cover. A Traditonal Goodbye

This piece of work is something done in my spare time for a friends band, to be honest I'm quite proud of it and it's a definite improvement on the bands previous album cover which had been blatantly scratched up in about ten minuets. Also I'm proud to announce that this piece of work hasn't been done on photo shop or any professional software of any kind, which just goes to show you don't have to pay big money for good results. Instead of photo shop i used GIMP 2.0 which is a free editing sowtare which you can easily download from the internet, GIMP all in all is bassically a slightly downgraded photo shop and slightly less complex but at the end of the day, its great to use, ill probably do a review on it anouther time. Enough about gimp, bassically when the band approached me they origanlly had a vision of a traditional goodbye reprsenting a buriel, but unfortuantly they had gone the totally wrong way about it and designed a cover with loads of grave stones and crosses, this would be fine if they were a hardrock/metal band but they're more of a indie sorta * i loved you and now you broke my heart so my life is over but i dont need you blah blah blah* band. So instead of the morbid approach i went the other way and used the simple symbol of a rose to represent death and all the other wise morbid things that the previous album showed. This is my first piece of proffesional work, and i would be grateful for any feedback. thanks

Greenwash- advertising genius or blatent lie?

The word Greenwash comes from a play on words from the word Whitewash, which usually means to cover something up, Greenwash is exactly the same in some ways. E.G the government would cover up a conspiracy or "whitewash" it and a company would cover up its products failings by "Greenwashing" it. The purpose of Greenwash is to basically make consumers feel better about buying a company's product due to it be "Eco-friendly" this term is a ever more common way to express that the product is helping to save the planet from global warming, these claims usually used by things such as car adverts about their lower fuel emission's or possibly some company's might say that they're using less packaging to reduce waste, but all boils down to the same thing "buy our product because we are nice to the planet, in theory this is a amazing advertising scheme, in practice however this technique could be cataclysmic to all "save the earth" campaigns. At the end of the day, Greenwash could create two things, a world where everyone is happy little snow flakes and only buys products that effect our planet as little as possible or, the public will realise that most Greenwash claims are total jargon and are simply there to sell the product and make the company's money, there for having a negative effect of genuine "Eco-friendly" products and screw up our planet even more. Bassically no matter how you dress it up, a diesle engine will still pump out Co2 into our atmosphere even if it is slightly less that a older engine, this does not make the engine "eco-friendly" this is once gain jargon to help sell the product to a consumer.