#artist research

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Movement Project - Artist Research, Q Hayashida

Q Hayashida is a Japanese manga creator known for her works such as Dorohedoro and Dai Dark.

In one of her rare interviews, Hayashida reveals that she is a mixed media artist who uses whatever media she ‘feels like in the moment.’

The chaotic, sketchy, raw and colourful look to her art works harmoniously as she depicts her gory and dark but funny stories.

I love her usage of gouache, watercolour, ink and pen, majority of the time mixing these media together in the same piece creating a layered texture reminiscent of grime, reflecting the apocalyptic settings often found in Hayashida’s manga. Matching her colours, line weight and compositions to fit each scene and its tone is highly impressive and a source of inspiration for myself since I first read her work Dorohedoro many months ago.

Her character design is also equally interesting. Dorohedoro’s cast including the protagonist, Kaiman, a man with a lizard head searching for the sorcerer who cursed him, mypersonal favourite being Jonson, a giant realistic cockroach and plenty others, diverse, well-written and designed human characters. I can’t forget the monsters, each with unique personalities highlighted by their designs, brilliantly adding to the horror aspect of her works.

Lastly, my favourite technique Q Hayashida uses to instil discomfort, is her use of repetition and massive spaces, infinite crowds of monsters showing the viewer how powerlessness feels and drawing giant empty settings, such as a department store where the protagonists are stuck in devoid of all life, which perfectly matched the unease the characters she wrote were feeling.

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Artist Research: Anna Atkins

Anna Atkins was a botanist and a photographer Giordana had suggested as my project was about flowers and I was quite intrested in cyanotype. She had used photography and cyanotype for scientific purposes and created the book ‘Photographs of British Algae: Cyanotype Impressions’. She was considered to be the first woman to publish a book with photographic illustrations.

I like that the algae themselves are always the counterpoint even thought it was made with scientific intentions of documentation, I do find there is still quite a bit of artistry in the way Atkins presented the algae always in the center with the nameplate near by but never taking the attention alway from the actual subject itself. I also find the calligraphy that the nameplate to be really pleasing as it makes the algae seem nicer or more elegant than it actually might be.

Sources:

[Images taken from The New York Public Library exhibition page]

Link below:

https://www.nypl.org/events/exhibitions/blue-prints-pioneering-photographs-anna-atkins

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Week 6 LSAD 24/10/2024. Brief 2 "Assemble"

Secondary research

1. Ann Goddard’s work amazes me with how it uses different materials to show the delicate and fragile side of nature.

2. Katie Spragg’s porcelain plant sculptures are so detailed and beautiful, making me feel connected to nature in a new way.

3. Phoebe Cummings creates clay art that captures nature’s patterns and history, blending modern and old styles in a really unique way.

4. Leonardo da Vinci’s studies of nature are inspiring, showing his passion for understanding the shapes and details of life around us.

5. Alice Fox’s art uses materials found in nature, and her stitching brings out a gentle beauty that feels grounded and real.

6. Michael Canning’s plant paintings are striking, with plants set against dark backgrounds that give his scenes a dreamlike feeling.

7. David Lilburn’s art really draws me in; he uses maps to bring out memories, identities, and a strong sense of place, making each piece feel like a story about the landscape.

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“I want to play God” is a series of sculptures by Chinese artist Cao Hui in which he combines everyday objects with human flesh. His sculptures are unnerving and grotesque as they closely resemble the human body. In his approach to this series Hui said “ It seems artists are no longer happy just being artists, but are driven by their inborn love of performance to try out new roles, such as philosopher, scientist, doctor or perhaps even engineer. I think artists really want to play god more than anything else, and will stop at nothing to construct a truth that validates the self.”.

I personally believe his really does convey that some artists wish to achieve the impossible, to create miracles, something only able to be crafted by god himself. Huis work perfectly portrays that as ,really, only god would be able to create such alive objects of the mundane. The sculptures look as they can breath, move, live.

There’s also this great video that, although briefly, does talk about the artist as well as comparing the series to other works with similar themes. I highly recommend it as well as the video creators other works as they are incredibly interesting and well made.

It won’t allow me to link the video but it’s called “Gross games about flesh and stuff” by Jacob Geller.

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movement - artist research: Ohayō by Satoshi Kon

Paul recommended I rewatch Satoshi Kon's short film おはよう - Ohayō . (meaning "good morning" in Japanese. It's a great example of "mise en scene"

The characterisation given to the girl from her surroundings is something i'd like to emulate even slightly. I don't have the time to create similarly dense, heavily detailed backgrounds but they're something I really like in this short film.

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cecil beaton study

been looking through cecil beaton's photography today since im focusing on bright young things as part of one of my portfolio projects! soft faces and dramatic makeup are visually my favourites but technically my most challenging subjects LOLOLOL (more examples below)

also cleaned up the miles maitland profile from last night. figures i would have made a few questionable proportion choices seeing as i blasted through most my research last night 💔💔

ykw. at leasy im getting the hang of mouths. that is all i can really ask for.

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Research on Solarpunk

Today I am reading sources about the Solarpunk movement in order to write an article about it. I found those 3 sources that are very insightful:

This last source is particularly relevant as it is an academic paper that, among other things, shows how literary imaginaries influence real life social changes and build communities.

I also thought it was funny to see the same Tumblr post referenced in multiple articles, which goes to show how the internet can be a significant way to build a community.

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Project : Portrait

Week : 19th March - 22nd March

Artist Research : Michael Borremans

Michael Borremans is a Belgian painter and film-maker, who is influenced by the techniques of impressionist painters such as Degas, Manet, and Goya. But also mirrors the psychological, enigmatic subject matter of surrealism. His melancholic, staged portraits are what captured my attention, particularly the faceless paintings.

Due to the lack of identity that these figures have, they are almost objectified. They feel very lonely and claustrophobic, as they stare aimlessly at the wall, in which they are stood right up against. Almost as if they've been punished and are facing guilt.

I'm influenced by Borremans' range of back paintings, as they allow the viewer to only perceive the body. We can't make out the expression or feelings of the girls. We can only judge based off of their stance, the neutral colour palette and the composition. I'm looking at a similar idea for my concept for 'portrait', by focusing on how what I put on my body can shape a perception of me, allowing for pre-judgement.

Another appealing aspect to Borremans' work is his ability to transform his painting into film.

Based on a series of paintings and sketches from 2002-2005, he produced a film - 'Weight', in 2006. His absurdity in his subject matter translates from paper to camera with ease.

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Iris Van Herpen - Artist Research

Iris Van Herpen is a Dutch Designer who pushes the boundaries in Fashion.Creating these hypnotic garments she uses 3D printing and transparent fabric and her high level of craftsmanship.

I take inspiration with many of her collections and ‘sensory seas’ being one of the three. With taking ideas from animals of the deep she was able to create these garments with beautiful colour palettes and silhouette.

‘Roots of Rebirth ‘ focuses on nature itself and I absolutely adore with the warm colour palette in this collection and her use of organza silk has got me very interested to where I would love to work with that type of fabric

‘Syntopia’, intertwining relationships between the organic and inorganic. Again with herpen using organza i was definitely sold into using that fabric into my own experiments.Birds were her main source of inspiration by collaborating with Lonneke Gordijn and Ralph Nauta they provided a glass bird for the inorganic aspect of the collection.

I am very excited to use Herpen as one of my artist research as this designer was able to push boundaries and created her collection that has never been done before and having her clothes of the catwalk and seeing how it moves is so mesmerising and with my project that an aspect that I want to take and use that to my advantage.

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Artist Research - Typographers

Some interesting contemporary typographers I found while researching! * will update this post with my thoughts later

Ines Davodeau

Ged Palmer

Harald Geisler

Charles Williams - Made Up Studio

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Tucking research

As tucking is a textiles technique I have never used before I wanted to first practice some sample patterns and stitches on a smaller scale.

A book from the library was suggested to me, for example of different types of tucks and how to make them. The book is called The art of manipulating fabric, by Colette Wolff. Along with this book I watched a series of step by step videos on YouTube by Gretchen Halle.

On the page above I have tryed pin, double centred, blind, random and shell tucks.

On this page I have curved tucks, which I really like the effect off but seem to be quite difficult to get completely correct, bow-tie tucks and crossover tucks.

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Artist Research: Shikuri Uraji

Shikuri is an incredibly talented artist who works with both traditional and digital mediums. They have worked on a wide range of things such as logos, character design for video games, line stickers and Tv program illustrations.

Shikuri is portrays both Japanese and Western stories and influence in there art deeply apparent on there website. I find not only there wide range of skills intriguing but also there style and aesthetic. I admire both there cartoony simple illustrations as well as there incredibly detailed 3D renders. I have a particular interest in their pieces that focus on traditional Japanese stories and history as it applies more to my project then his other works.

Some of their pieces hold a story t them as they shoe scenes as though we have just walked into a story.

Gif is self explanatory

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Finished Artist Researches‼️

(quality is shit but Tumblr made it even worse. Please click on them 😭)

Zoom ins of my doodles on Neha's one cause that's what I enjoyed doing the most really. Was an excuse to use my doodle style for work. Cause, usually I don't see it as proper art cause it's easier to do than my other stuff. But I do love doing it. Idk. ↓

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Artist Research: Keem Ooi

Keem Ooi is a Malaysian baker who art always looks really delicious. Chef Keem is a baking instructor with Bosch and tends to host classes around Asia teaching people how to make cake art like her own. She tends to draws a lot of flowers on her cakes or characters such as miffy or labubu.

I really enjoy the vibrant colours in her art and how delicate the flowers look. She also has videos on her Instagram on small parts of her process and I find it quite interesting as she doesn't only focus on the exterior but also the interior of the cakes.

The little 'tulips' made of strawberries and kiwis just makes them all the more cute. I really do enjoy the attention to detail.

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All images taken from Keem Ooi's instagram [keempossible_2]

https://www.instagram.com/keempossible_2/?hl=en

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michael sheen again!

another followup for my cecil beaton studies! not miles maitland this time (surprise surprise) but i feel like the drama of it all fits the beaton theme kind of. anyways i really liked how this one turned out!!

idk why its so blurry when rotated upright 😭😭 makes me want to cry a bit but its ok im a big girl

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The Electrical Life of Louis Wain Documentary

I watched a documentary about Louis Wain recommended to me by Mary, and whilst I was watching this I drew a few pictures of my cats in the style of Louis Wain

The first picture is of ponyo and resembles wains earlier and most well known work.

And the second is of loona mirroring wains later depictions of cats

I throughly enjoyed the film, a lovely watch.

I was really inspired by his artistic journey, resilience, and the way he captured the essence of cats in his paintings despite personal struggles.