

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.
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Example from of Decoupage |
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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.
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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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