Skeleton Drawings: part 2

Here I have drawn skeletons using just pencils however instead if standing at an easel , as I normally do, I am sitting on a what is referred to as a donkey. It was strange drawing the skeleton sitting down as I was looking up at it instead of it being straight head and I found I had difficultly with the ribs and the angle of the arm however I am happy with my overall outcome therefore will continue to use the donkey every so often.

Skeleton drawing

Using pencil I have drew the back of a skeleton.

I feel like I have got the proportions of the body correct (or close to) as I measured the skeleton using the end of my pencil and then transferring this onto my paper making sure the measurements of the head make up the body correctly. 

The back of the skeleton is very detailed therefore I have only added a little detail, instead I have the impression of the different bones on the body. 

Another technique i have used is drawing rough shapes of the body before adding in the smaller parts such as the rib cage and spinal cord 

London Trip

Recently we went to London to visit the Design Your Future UCAS fair, Tate Modern and The Natural History Museum.

 

We arrived at College at 6 in the morning and set of for London getting there for around 10am. The first place we visited was the Design Your Future UCAS fair. At the fair were all the university's that specialised in Art and Design courses (Including Art Colleges). With a small group of friends we started at A and followed round to Z, stopping at the stalls of University's that we had previously researched or that caught our interest. The stalls I stopped at to talk to the representatives or collect a prospective were; The Manchester School of Art, Norwich, Leeds College of Art, Cambridge school of Art, UAL Central Saint Martins, Falmouth University ETC ETC....

After speaking to various university's I have chosen some places where I would like to go. these include...

I have also found a few courses that spark my interest, these are Fashion Communication,  Creative Advertisement.

 

Next we went to the Tate Modern.

Last we went to the Natural History Museum, I found this the most interesting because of its interactivity and

Colour Theory

 

Hans Hofmann is, perhaps, best known for his use of brilliant colour, wherein several coloured rectangles seem to float over a background of loosely brushed but heavily built-up colours.Hofmann explained his theory of the use of space in his paintings as 'push-pull' theory of movement. He said that Italian perspective is all wrong. He felt that the illusion had only one direction in depth, and that nothing came back. However, he said that in his paintings space goes in and it comes back. The tensions he creates show shapes that are constantly moving in and out. This "push and pull" leads the eye to each part of the picture, rather than letting it rest on one particular spot.

 

 

Abstract Art

1. Abstract art uses a visual language of shape, form, color and line to create a composition which may exist with a degree of independence from visual references in the world.

 

Surrealism in Advertisement

This advertisement for WWF is quite horrific to look at and I think it's genius. It's pratically shouting the hidden message at you; that global warming is happening, sea levels are rises and if we don't change we'll be living in underwater cities and we'll subsequently evolve to grow fins. Genius.

This is more comic advertisement for ladies razors. To Landscape is to improve the aesthetic appearance of an area normally by adding plants and ornaments though in case the landscape is your body and to improve it is by shaving your hair (like mowing the lawn). Clever.

Here is an advertisement for bottled water. It boats that it is mineral water( hence the mountain) with the tag line 'Dicover your oasis' an oasis is typically an isolated area of vegetation in a desert surrounded by a water source. I do love the quirkiness of this advert though with the bottle coming out the mountain with plush greenness and turquoise water ,which contrasts the dry desert in the background, and the strategically placed rainbow and birds: it's definitely gives the impression that it is freshly sources water

These 3 clever surrealist advertisements by Harvey Nichols show 2 opposing objects, with one being the dominate. moths to a lightbulb(flame) , pin to balloons and blowtorch to ice cubs. 

The first one is for beauty, suggesting that the men(moths) are attracting to this women(lightbulb) for her seemingly good appearance as she applys makeup

The second is for Womenswear as the men (the balloons) are delicate in the eyes of the women(pin) whom feels powerful in her new outfit.

And lastly the Menswear advert which suggests the women(ice)are quite literally melting in the presence of the man(flame).

 

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LSG: Surrealism

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   Surrealism is a cultural movement that began in the early 1920s, and is best known for its visual artworks and writings. The aim was to "resolve the previously contradictory conditions of dream and reality." 

   
   

                              -Wikipedia

   
   

   For my second Learner Survival Guide Idea I have researched into Surrealism.

   
   

   Surrealism paintings are usually made up of an irrational juxtaposition of images that are sought to release the creative potential of the subconscious mind. The surrealism movement grew out of symbolism and Dada and was strongly influenced by Psychologist Sigmund Freud.

   
   

   Most famously, Salvador Dali used  film, sculpture, and photography, in collaboration with a range of artists in a variety of media to create his surrealism pieces. His most notable painting is The Persistence of Memory(1931) which features melting clocks.

   
   

   René Magritte is another artist famous for his surrealist paintings. He began to explore ways of creating a poetic, disturbing effect by depicting recognisable objects in alien settings, by startling juxtapositions or combinations of objects, by inversions of scale and so on.