February 2012
20 posts
Reflection on this exercise
If I were doing this again I wouldn’t have used as many words, would have had fewer items in it and wouldn’t have added the rotunda at the top or the tree in the middle as it looks out of place. I do like the colours and my choice of a nominal green oblong-ish shape to denote green space and also to detract from the rectangular convention of the paper does work I think, and I...
I’ve realized this exercise to create an illustration for giving instructions doesn’t really work in the way I am dealing with this task. Why? Because its not a ‘how to get from a to b’ type image but rather a plan showing the location of interesting things. Also, having re-read the instructions for the exercise I realize that one of the challenges is to use as few words as...
Wow Chris Harris illustration is amazing →
The Hockney exhibition
I liked Garrowby hill 1998 and the watercolour landscapes. The
Charcoal tree drawings are strong.
He enjoys hawthorn but makes it look like worms and I really didn’t like these paintings. He is so prolific he makes a virtue out of the speedy unfinished appearance of a lot of his work. His
early scratched landscape is great, full of joy. I was ambivalent about fluorescent colours in...
David Shrigley
I took myself to see this exhibition yesterday with low expectations but found it really refreshing and amusing. He makes his ideas and the execution of them appear very simple but in fact the design of many of them is sophisticated and certainly the ideas, though they may be simple, feed and certain 21st century zeitgeist. They take the piss, have a poke at politics, contemporary art, the...
Exhibitions
I have been to a whole bunch of exhibitions recently and failed to blog about them and yet they have all fed my imagination in one way or another. So here’s a brief summary of what I’ve seen and what I thought about them. First I went on an OCA study visit to Liverpool to see the Alice in Wonderland show at Tate Liverpool, followed by Matisse books at the Walker Art gallery. Both were...
