Friday, 21 April 2017

Skyline

Skyline: an outline of a subject such as buildings defined against the sky. I was fascinated by doing this theme because it made me more aware of the buildings and the landscape around me. I wanted to do something different than drawing or painting an ordinary 'skyline'. This blog shows my progress of how I found my technique and developed into my final piece. When carrying on reading, it presents a quick short summary of my blog;




I was walking outside - when I saw a building which defined skylines. Abruptly I took a picture of the building. Then I used these pictures to help me experiment different ways of presenting ‘skylines’. 




When researching for ideas and inspirations I did some research and discovered a man named Michael Tompsett. Michael Tompsett had been experimenting with a particular painting - using different subject matters, such as portraits and landmarks. It got him thinking about other ways in which maps could be presented (in different - provoking ways). He then found the process extremely interesting and fulfilling, and realized that he had found his niche. He created a positive space of buildings creating a beautiful, colourful skyline.


  
Following Michael Tompsett’s art style I decided to also look in positive space in buildings, and do more experiments - hopping to find my own technique. When coming back from the New York trip I decided to experiment with negative spaces as well as positive spaces.



Finally, going to the New York trip helped me because I was able to experience beautiful landscapes and take beautiful pictures of buildings and sky scrapers, creating a nice skyline for my theme. Whilst going on my trip I made sure my pictures matched the pictures of one of my three main artists which are photographers.




Stephen Wiltshire is known for his ability to draw a landscape from memory after seeing it just once. I decided to try and draw from memory when looking at the pictures I took from New York.










After doing a lot of Stephen Wiltshire techniques and his way of art, I tried doing different things resolving to layer buildings over each other. I decided layering buildings over each other made it look interesting and alive as it reminded me of a movie I watched recently which was “inception.”


After coming back from New York I decided to do a lot of experiments with different colours and trying out different ways to make skylines interesting. Instead of an ordinary image of a skyline I started cutting out stencils and looking at positive and negative space following Michael’s technique.






I started looking back at the pictures I took in New York and tried experimenting with paint even though my artist was a photographer (Ansel Easton Adams). I also started drawing buildings with ink - from the photographs I took in Ney York - to give it a different impression and style.




After repeatedly experimenting, I finally found my own technique within one of my paintings. I decided to zoom in and tried identifying any small mistakes. The technique I found was interesting to me. I decided this technique was what stood out because even though it looked like an ordinary abstract it still reminded of clouds.





















 
I went to another trip which was the London trip. When going there I was able to visit the exhibitions and live theatres. The live theatrical stage was something interesting which I talked about in the blog. I was able to see a lot of skylines and beautiful buildings which was an inspiration for my final piece.








I found stickers lying on the floor in my bedroom, and was very fascinated by the way it was designed. The next image shows a clear image on how it supposed to look like. The artist makes the image pop out by using a sponge or carton etcetera. This then made me do research. Eventually, I came upon artists adding decoupage into my work.


Example from of Decoupage

 
Movie that inspired me creating an illusion in my piece
  Going back to some of my experiments - saying how it reminded me of the recent movie I watched. I realised the movie was all focused on elusion on what is real and what is not. This inspired me into making buildings faded from within the abstract but still able of seeing the buildings outline connoting “skyline.”


 
Going through some of the inspired pieces I found in New York, I also learnt that the artist are related into pop ups, which intrigued me into doing decoupage.



 
Mental image or mental picture is the representation in a person's mind of the physical world outside of that person. After watching Inception I decided to do a little research of the word I heard in the movie “mental imagery.” This also inspired me into creating an illusion in my pieces.
 

 
After all the inspirations (and finding my own technique) I decided to follow one of the artists – Alexander - (who cuts an image from a story and turns it into a decoupage). I loved how my piece looked, because the skylines are still visible in the illusion created by my own abstract.




After all my refinement and adding everything that inspired me (movies,illusions etc), I decided to create my work on a black cardboard and created this final piece.

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