Initial Image
When
beginning the self initiated project it was recommended that we
create connections to the live brief (Wallace and Sewell). The
connections I have made a quite subtle; firstly I have chosen “The
Face” as my theme, inspired by the small figures in Feininger's
painting
and secondly I plan to use a single image to fuel my entire project.
The image I have chosen is one of my own, a simple line drawing of an
emotive face.
Luke Dixon (far left), My Inspired Image and strips (all others)
After
settling on my main image, my next task has been to dissect it; I
have begun this by researching artist that studied the face, and then
impose there style on my initial image. As my drawing consists
heavily of line elements I first found Luke
Dixon, an
artists that used line in a different way his
work was much more textural than that of my own. I began my response
by producing numerous mark making strips and then Photoshoped them
onto my original image. The image that had been created by this
editing was one I could relate easily to weave. To help me analyze
this image further I cut it up revealing only small segments, which
gave me an even greater indication to possible structures and weaves.
My Inspired Image and strips (all others), David Szauder (far right)
The
next artist I researched was David Szauder, his work starts with
realistic images that have then been distorted by code. Although
I could not distort mine with code, Photoshop worked very well, I
morphed and stretched the image and used a technique that burred the
image in a coded fashion. Once again to help me break down the new
images I cut them up, the resulting fragments have inspire me to
incorporate warp distortion weaving and texture creating techniques
such as seersucker into my samples. Also after studying his work I
have decided to introduce colour some how, probably through the warp,
as I believe this will create stronger visual connections to the
face.
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