Exersize using the photocopier

Instructions to creating my image (above).
End product of exersize (above).

Further experimentation

Keith Haring working with body paint on Grace Jones.

My response below:


Exploring line on the human body inspired by Keith Haring. I have used masking tape on the legs and have created an abstract skeleton-type illustration on the surface of the skin.

Work head

What goes on in my head when I am thinking about this current art project. My mind can get cluttered so drawing a diagram helps relieve the stress.

Photo's.

Here are some of the photo's that I took of the character which I created named Fred. Fred is made of two pieces of paper cut out glued together with wire on the inside for functioning bendy limbs.
Freds 'look' is inspired by David Shrigley's style of illustration. He is a simple character with a blank face who expresses his emotions through body language.
I set fred up in a series of comical poses in different scenarios. For example in this photo, his nightmare's have come true, scissors chasing him who wants to snip him and shred him into pieces, hence Fred looks frightful.

Richard Long

I then started to explore other artists who look at line in a different form to Shrigley to enrich my source of inspiration. I found an artist called Richard Long who took a series of landscape photographs that have some symbol of line e.g. 'A line made by walking'.
I decided to merge the two artists styles together by working on top of a Richard Long poster of a poem based on line and continuity. I used fine liner and tipex roller to create marks of line and illustrations inspired by Shrigley.

Gallery visit

After visiting the Tate Modern and Britain, I came across a new artist that I had not previously known; David Shrigley. All his drawing were simple line drawingd usually produced with black ink pen or pencil. I then decided that this would be the beginning of my project in terms of having a refined theme of line.
This is one of my gallery sheets from my project, an untitled piece by Shrigley displayed at the Tate Modern.

UNIT 3, LINE.

My project began with the idea of looking at line and how it can create, affect and transform art. To explore this idea I experimented with adding line on top of existing work in order to see how it changes the emotion from the original form to the transformed product using line.
Here is one of my experiments where I have worked with a darker medium (black ink) on top of a pencil life drawing.