Needle Felting

During my research i found a few helpful videos that will help me to produce needle felted sculptures.

(i do not own these videos)

Jenny Saville

Saville has dedicated her career to traditional figurative oil painting. She mainly focuses on large, naked women and how their body visually looks when when pressed against clear glass. Her painterly style has been compared to that of Lucian Freud and Rubens. Her paintings are usually much larger than life size. They are strongly pigmented and give a highly sensual impression of the surface of the skin as well as the mass of the body.

Skelentons

Todays seshion went better than i expected. I really liked the chalk sketches as the chalk creates great shading and preduces good markmaking- although it is very prone to smudging so fixing spray must be used to save the original form. The lines also give the picture movement.
In future I need to practice drawing so that the image fits onto the paper, as I had trouble fitting everything in.

Materials used: Chalk, pencil, charcoal, biro pen

Frank Auerbach

Auerbach is a figurative painter, who focuses on portraits and city scenes in and around the area of London in which he lives. Auerbach is not an expressionist painter. His work is not concerned with finding a visual equivalent to an emotional or spiritual state that characterised the expressionist movement, rather it deals with the attempt to resolve the experience of being in the world in paint. In this the experience of the world is seen as essentially chaotic with the role of the artist being to impose an order upon that chaos and record that order in the painting.

Head of E.O.W 1955

Primrose Hill 1954/55

 "If you pass something every day and it has a little character, it begins to intrigue you."

Anselm Reyle

Reyle is a German artist who uses old, recycled objects to create new sculptures and large scale paintings. His famous works include using neon lights, coloured material and metals.



I came across his work when on a trip to The Saatchi Gallery in London. The untitled sculpture above caught my attention when I entered the room as the light emitted from it was very bright and colourful.

Later on, i researched his work and found that he created 'Project Painting by Numbers', which uses the mapping to create large scale paintings. This was inspired by his childhood as he wasn't allowed to play with such methods. Reyle leaves certain areas clear of paint, and fills others with different material and texture to create an abstract image that you wouldn't necessarily associate with Painting by Numbers.

"When I only pick out one detail from the motive it is possible to focus on the material and get back to the abstract image. This is a detail form the eye, so if you see the whole motive it is possible to recognize the detail"

Science Museum

On the 14th October, I travelled down to London to visit some galleries.A short stop in the Science Museum prooved very interesting and inspired me with lots of ideas. Mainly to do with the human body and all the attributes assocciated and how they work amongst each other.
one piece of work in the 'Exploring Space' gallery, was a Globe. I really liked this as it appeared as if to be floating, and I could not work out how it was being supported. Also, I loved how it was glowing, and the overall atmosphere the globe had on the room. It felt like it was the main attraction in the gallery, even though a lot more items were present. It received a lot of attention, whether that be due to the technical side, or the aesthetic appearance.
When outside the museum, the buildings surrounding it were very traditional, the streets were very clean and it was really bright. I felt like i was in America.
http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/