Final studio practice.

Looking at architectural elements from Renaissance paintings, I have looked more closely at different styles of pillars. The pillar I have chosen to draw was a personal favourite as I liked how even though it was a plain and simple design, it was still effective. To make my design sheet more interesting I have chosen to photocopy the original drawing and colour them in bright colours, attempting to shade. I then placed them in a diagonal setting to fill out the page. 


 

For my Frank Stella artist research page, I wanted to attempt to recreate one of his pieces, or one that would be similar. To do this I cut out similar shapes from one of his pieces and painted them in similar colours. To create the marbled effect he has on se shapes, I used a wooden ball that was dipped in paint and rolled it around the page because I cut the shapes out. I tried to make a pop up piece by cutting a spiral out of the sheet, however if it was stuck to the opposite side and opened the spiral drooped so I left it as it was. For the background I mixed paint to make a lighter blue and yellow, painting the paper blue and scraping the yellow across the page using a piece of card. Originally, I was going to use a sponge to dap the paint across the page but I didn't like the effect it created. I then stuck each shape onto the page overlapping/interlocking some and high wrong others using fixtures on the page. As I wanted this as a pop up page, even though it didn't work out as well as I hoped, for the cover, I wanted it to be a simple title page showing his name and some other examples of his work. To do this I drew two different painting and painted them in similar colours to his work. I then used a font I found on 'da font.com' for his name. 


 

My final artist research page is Peter Dahman. For the background of these pages I used black brusho ink as when he photographs his work he always uses a black background. Because his art is paper sculptures I wanted to create my own. This became more difficult then it appeared to be. It took many trial and errors to figure out how to create a template for this design. My first attempt consisted of a paper made fan that would open when the page was turned but this meant it would be in a straight line, I wanted it to go from corner to corner of the double spread page. Looking more closely at Peter Dahmans work, I experimented with cutting into the paper instead of just folding it. Using the fan template I used before I cut out strips but left a rulers width at the top and half way down the sheet. This templates works how I wanted it to go. Therefore I replicated it two extra times. I then faced the problem it would not stick to the page. I tried to glue it but it kept lifting and pulling away from the page so I used double sided tape instead. This worked. I am extremely proud of this sculpture I have created and I feel it really pushed me into challenging myself in using different medians of materials. 

For the book of images of Peter Dahmans work, I simply printed off images of different sculptures he has created and stuck them onto black paper, again for the same reason as he uses black backgrounds. I then tied them together using string and stuck the bottom image to the page.