Life Drawing 22.2.2012 - Callograph Plate

I really enjoyed todays lesson and starting a new project. Today we started  making are Collograph Plates, we used diffrent materials such as string, cardboard, wallpaper in-grains and netting. We then cover'd it all in PVA glue and let it dry.
Also today we had to creat 6 life drawing on Alison

George Condo Essay

George Condo was born in 1957 – concord, New Hampshire. He is an American contemporary visual artist working in the mediums of painting, drawing, sculpture and printmaking. Condo made the term, Artificial realism, ‘the realistic representation of that which is artificial’, Condo’s work has been influential to many artists of his generation and the generation that followed him, including Nigel Cooke, Sean Landers, John Currin, Lisa Yuskavage and Glenn Brown.

Condo’s first public exhibitions took place in New York in various east village galleries fromm1981-1983, during this time he worked in Warhol’s factory in the silkscreen production, the then moved to Los Angles and had his first solo exhibition. He then made his trip to Europe, Condo moved to Cologne, Germany where he met and worked with several artists from the Mulheimer Freiheit group, including Walter Dahn and Jiri Georg Dokoupil, and then had his first European solo exhibition in 1984. While still in Europe Condo met and began working with American art dealer Barbara Gladstone and in 1984 he had a simultaneous two-gallery exhibition in New York at Pat Hearn and Barbara Gladstone Galleries. Condo then met Keith Haring back in New York, then they both remained long life friends until Haring’s death of AIDS in 1990.

RENEWABLE ENERGY.

Renewable energy is energy that can be re-used or is never ending… this energy is made from natural resources, some of these resources are things that we don’t take for granted, things like wind, water, solar and geo-thermal.

Wind can be used to power windmills, which generates electricity.

water energy also known as hydroelectric, is made by water running down a big dam, the water and its fast current then hits the turbine, the turbine spins and transfers energy up to a big power house to be distributed to houses.

Solar energy comes from the sun, the solar rays hit solar panels and it create electricity, these solar panels can be found on houses or in big solar panel fields.

Geo-thermal energy comes from heat, which comes from the earths core. The heat is then transfer up big pipes under the ground and through to stations, which then turn it into steam. Altogether renewable energy is a good thing and is helping the planet a lot.

But there are a few bad things about renewable energy; one of these things is that the wind turbines create noise pollution, which could get annoying for the people who live in the countryside, they also fill up a lot of space, which could be used to create houses, but that problem as kind of been fixed and resolved by now putting then in the middle of the ocean. Another bad thing is that to create hydroelectricity you need to make a dam, this means flooding a valley, which could destroy habitat and wildlife.
If re-newable energy didn't exist then the first thing to be effected would be the fossil fuels, because people would be more dependant on them, and we would run out of them a lot more quickly.

GREENWASH.

Greenwash is a growing problem for the public and they don’t even know it!

Greenwash is a thing that Advertisement Company’s do to make you believe that their product is more environmentally friendly than the rest of the other company’s and therefore make you by it because you feel bad for hurting the planet, and also want to lower your carbon footprint.

You can find Greenwash on things like food packaging, posters and much more, and it not even real. It’s complete false advertising, and the UK advertisement agencies are getting more and more complaints every year. The way they get you to make you buy it is by using different strategies, like using fluffy and nice words, another way is by using pictures with green flowers coming out of things like airplanes, cars, busses ect.

Chris Thornley - Artist

For the third artist I have choose to do, Chris thornley

Chris Thornley images and amazing professional illustrations, he also enjoys to do photography in his spare time. Chris finds humor in flat depiction of the inconsequential, the unavailing and bizarre. Chris loves realism he uses images with other images that shouldn’t be together and usually you wouldn’t see or think about them being related but somehow out of pure creativeness and imagination he makes it work. E.g –

This picture is of a light bulb with a city inside it at the bottom, the light bulb is a symbol of the sun or power for the city, it’s just a really qwerky way of thinking about stuff (thinking outside the box)

Another design he has done is a picture of 007:

In this design he used the 00 as an 8 on its side which is werid in its self but then if you look and think closer he has made it into the symbol for the number infinity, again its very weird and out side of the box thinking.

All together i think all 3 artist are amazing my favoruite is Olly, i just love his desgin there are no words to describe them, just simple and amazing.

Olly Moss! - Artist

The second artist I am choosing to write about is Olly Moss, this artist is from the UK and he was born in 1987, he is an designer, illustrator and likes to sketch from time to time. He does not do type work, instead most of his images are based around 1 bold bright colour, most of the designs he make say more than what first meet the eye, yeah its looks pretty on the page and old that good stuff, but if you look more closer and deeper into the artist and design itself you will keep on discovering very weird and wonderful thing.

Here is an example: As you can see the design is just of a pair of scissors but when you look more closer at the handle and tilt your head to the side you will see that the handle is in a shape “g”, I like this because its appeals  to all graphic interested audiences, it’s simple to the eye but also very complicated and details to the people who like to look at graphics and designs that way.

If I was to choose who is the better design out of Marian Bantjes and Olly I would say Olly, his designs are just more interesting to look at although Marian Bantjes has some good and unique designs too.

Marian Bantjes! Artists

Introduction -

In this blog I’m going to be talking about 3 different artists from jamie’s blog posts. I will talk about techniques, the style of design I will also be going to be comparing them with the other 2 artists.

Marian Bantjes -

Marian is a designer, typographer, writer and illistrator, she works internationally for her base on a small island just off the west coast of Canada. She is a member of the Alliance  graphiqe internationale (AGI).

In 1984 she worked as a book typesetter, then she moved on to open her own design in 1994 and employed up to 12 people, in 2003 she left all of it be hide and started doing her own she out of love and not money. By making her work highly personal to her, her work became better, even if sometimes It just plain odd and weird. At the same time she was doing this she became making a weblog called “Speak Up” and her articles became noticed by blogosphere, this lead her to be noticed by many art directors in USA North America.

 Marian’s art and design is loved my many all over the world. She is most know for her detailed and precise vector art, she is also known for her amazing handwork, and patterns, she is often hired to create custom type for magazine company’s, advertising and special projects.

The techniques that Marian uses are vector images, this image that I have choosen is very simple, it’s just a feather and the title “The Birds” in the feather, but the simplicity makes it look better.

Most of Marian Bantjes design styles are based around patterns, she think of a simple object like a heart and colours it in with different pattens, the end results looks very effective.