Sketchbook Work

Alberto Giacometti influenced sketches done in pencil and pen.

Sketchbook Work

Some initial notebook sketches and photos. First sketches are Christian Holstad inspired drawing using old newsprint, erasing ink and re drawing the image.  

  
 Next is Dafne Boggeri influenced art. His series of manipulated balaclava portraits led me to think of how I could reverse this idea by using masks and darkening out the facial features.

Rik Garrett - Symbiois

Rik Garrett is a Chicago based photographer that uses mixed media to explore the human form. His use of skin coloured tones blend the figures together to create unusual meaty forms. Also reminds alot of Francis Bacons' work.

Jenny Saville

Jenny Saville is modern contemporary British painter and is known for her paintings of the female figure. She links in perfect with my animation project as she manipulates the human figure with extreme perspectives.

Prop

Branded

Propped

More info: http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/artists/jenny_saville.htm

Surrealist Sculptors

Surrealist scuplture a movement which is quite new to me but I found some interesting pieces while researching the topic.      

                                          

 Xooang Choi

'Islets of Aspergers Type IX' by Xooang Choi

'Islets of Aspergers Type  IV' by Xooang Choi

'The Wings' by Xooang Choi

'Lobster Telephone' by Salvador Dali

'Fur Teacup' by Meret Oppenheim

'The Blind Watchmaker' (Artist unknown)

Animation Project Post #3

After researching a number of different artists and movements and I began to notice I was been drawn towards a lot of portraiture and figurative studies. Eventually I came across some work by Alberto Giacometti (1901-1966). His style focuses mainly on surrealist sculpture but also painting and printmaking. He was born in Switzerland and is son to post-impressionist painter Giovanni Giacometti.

I find his sculpture to be most intriguing.Tall, narrow figures with unusual perspectives. He grew disappointed of his sculptures of the human form in the late 1930's, eventually destroying most of his work. Re-approaching his work, he began to take into account how tiny the human figure is in his field of vision and working mostly from memory. His figures are recognised by there rough surface and also the elongated, stretched limbs, heads and torso.

'Walking Man' by Alberto Giacometti

Here is an interesting insight into Giocometti's style and how paints his figures.

Animation Project Post #2

After borrowing a book from the library Vitamin D: New Perspectives In Drawing, I came across an artist called Christian Holstad. He is an American artist based in Brooklyn, New York. His work varies between painting to sculpture but I also found some charcoal drawings that I found very interesting. He uses old newspaper cut outs and erases some of the original ink and draws a new image, incorporating parts of the initial image. I think this style could work well in an animated format.

Defending Decisions by Christain Holstad

Held Hearts and Bated Breath by Christain Holstad

( Vitamin D: New Perspectve In Drawing. 741.9243 ISBN 9780714845456 Author: Emma Dexter)