Artist Research..

Norma Starszakowna

Developing on from my drawing work, and attending my tutoriol with Lesley she gave me a number of Artsists that she suggested that I look up. One that really stood out for me was Norma Starszakowna, the reason that I found her work the most eye catching and insperational to me was because the mark making techniques that she focused her practice on was very similar to how Lesley and I saw my work going. To research up on an Artsist and to see that they have the same kind of outcomes as your own practice is very encouraging and motivating to carry on in that particular direction.

The two images below are the two pieces of work that caught my eye the most by Norma Starszakowna, I really like her use of media and eye for making marks, I think she has really good compesition skills and an insperational eye for proportion. This is the perfect way of what comes to mind when I think of "Urban Influences".

The images below are two of my own mark making images from my sketch book, in my opinion they arent two of my best drawings, but I feel are slowly starting to link in well with Norma's kind of work, I thought with the same colour pallet and similar markings they have the potential to go in the same kind of direction.

 

Barabara Rae 

Another artsist that I gained a lot of insperation from was a practisioner that goes by the name of Barabara Rae. The two particular pieces of art work below, are two pieces of her work that stood out the most for me. Even though they are very bright, have lots of colours splashed across the page with a mix of big bold shapes and scrawny squiggly lines, and my own practice of work for this project is much more darker shades and tones, with more rubbings and mark making than solid shapes, like Barbara Rae's work, the reason I found a great similarity to her work is because of the use of media and landscape imagination and shapes, this links in very well with how I would like to see my new kind of work going for this project and how im going to continue on.

These two images below were just two of my selected favourite pieces of work by Barbara Rae, because I felt it really gave off that bright light, busyness of an Urban Influence landscape city, in this case Manchester. I also really felt that his style of work really linked in well with my photoshop workshops too (that I can relate back to with my photoshop blog posts.)

 The image below is a piece of work that was actualy a 'happy' mistake, something I didnt mean to do, but by continuing to layer up the drawing, it actually ended up being one of my favourite pieces of work, very similar to Barabara Rae's work, I found myself being extremly influenced to carry on this drawing as I was really exited to see the final outcome.