Love and Story Telling

Taylor, A. and Taylor, J. Roffey, M. (2001, p.6) “And each one screams, when bricks and beans Come tumbling on their heads;”

This drawing is moving the story on as it shows the evil watch’s entering the town. They have come to take over and make everyone work for them. If the town”s people try and stop them they will kill them. Later in the story we see that the town’s people will not stop with out a fight.

The purple haze would has entered the town is what the watches have come to this world through. I have made it bright so the viewer notices it. The focal point of the work is the watches as they walk down the street. The one in front is the leader, the other two follow her, even through they feel alone. The head witch, this is the one with the most skill and power. We can see the shop windows as they are walking down the street. The objects in the windows have interesting shapes and their is quite a lot of detail, as the viewer can see what each one is.

Kaoru Arima’s drawings of females betray a quite simple but effective feel to them. As they get you interested in the drawing. They feature strong images of women, in a basic prose, like in my drawings they have simple positions, but their is meaning. As they are a threat to the town and as they move closer, they are coming to destroy it. They have hidden meanings. Dexter (2006, p.22) “Arima’s drawings are sustained by their firm grounding in everyday imagery and themes.”  They show women going about their everyday lives and they show the problems which life unfolds on us. Fitting in and standing for what we believe in. The other two witches stand by her, as it is better to be with her, than alone. My work covers these themes as it shows the witches trying to fit in with a powerful witch and the town people standing for there home town. They are going about their everyday lives, when they are coming to attack.

Montrie reports that “what their reasons were for engaging in sabotage.” (2003, p.1) I have been looking at the real event of August 1968 when four men went to a mine and take the guard, and blow up  the building with the company’s explosives. No one knows why they did it to this day. This links in with my own work as the town is under siege.

I feel that there is not a lot happening in the picture, but it is effective as it shows the evil coming to town. I like the use of pastel against the monochrome, as it adds a interesting contrast. I like the way I have drawing the head witch, as she looks evil.

The work is very basic, and their is not a lot of depth in the shapes and foreground. The figures do not look much of a threat. The viewer can not see much of the shops, as it looks like they are hanging off the page. The witches are going to stop the town people, they are surprising them. They is a scene of unease, as they are going to be attacked, but the image does not show this, no tension in the drawing. Grimm, J. and Grimm, W. (2004, p.148) “Then he was going to creep up after her and gobble her up in the dark.” In the tale Little Red Riding Hood the wolf is trying to eat Red and her grandmother. The wolf is waiting for Red Riding Hood to leave so he can eat them both. The grandmother has figured out what he is trying to do.  So my work links in to this tale and as it is about feelings and themes. As my drawing shows the tension of someone trying to hurt someone. Just as the Grimm’s work does show these themes. This is how the story goes in the Grimm’s tale.

Encyclopaedia Britannica (2014, p.2) “Ipswich is the county town (seat) and administrative centre of Suffolk.”

I am been taking pictures of Ipswich’s main streets. I have been using the photographs to copy the shape and design of the buildings in to my drawings. It has been useful as it has made the drawings more realistic in terms of design.

 

In this drawing I have included the front design of the Ancient House. I have made the building a place for eating in the story. We can see Robert Gold and Lacey about to go inside for a lovely meal together. They are very happy as they are going out again, they are wearing nice clothes and are looking forward to a nice evening. We can see other couples inside, having a good time. I also used the roof design of the Ancient House for the lay out of the the roof. The Ancient House is a nice looking building, so I through it would be fun to make it a nice place to eat.

The next drawing I have copied part of a Ipswich building. This one is of Robert Gold’s House and his garden House, which I used the old windows out of the small houses on Nicolas Street. We can see Robert Gold and Lacey going out of the house. The garden house is quite small, but the mansion were they live is a much larger building. There is not a lot of detail in the work as the buildings take up a great deal of the space on the paper. It is a good drawing to have in the story as he introduces the reader to their home environment.

Also looked at The Regent Theatre as I have placed that in to this third drawing so far with Ipswich buildings included in my work. This image is the front of the Ipswich Regent, I have shown the couple and some of the other characters leaving the building. I have make the sky a big part of it with the sun setting, and the clouds. Also put glass gardens outside the theatre to make it look nice. I have placed shadow on the building were the light has not caught it. This adds a realistic look, and I wanted to add this to the detail of the Theatre.

 

I have looked at John Constable’s Hadleigh Castle (1829) as I wanted to see how Constable had captured buildings in his work. Also wanted to observe his amazing ability for creating the elements and nature in his paintings. Such as the sky and the clouds and were he places the light coming down on the castle, so I could see were the shadows would be. Also how Constable used the grass, which way was it blowing in the wind. So I could see the best way to make my drawings more realistic. Rosenthal (2014, 1) “His landscapes represent a sometimes astonishing capacity to represent natural appearances”. By looking at this painting I can see how to make these elements in my work better. I wanted to look at a building Constable had painted, as it has helped me to see were and how my buildings in my story should be.

All three drawings are created with charcoal. The colour spear is harmony for all the drawings, as they blend well together. There is a good contrast of light and dark. The first drawing has some nice detail work with the charcoal for the roof and the second drawing shows the way the charcoal marks the paper, as there is some nice marks left behind. The third image shows a nice contrast between the sky and clouds.

I really like my drawing of the place were they eat, as I loved the windows, and the fact you could see everyone eating their meal. For the next image I like the fact that the house was close up, so that the reader of the work can see all the brickwork and door framing at the front. For the third image I liked the drawing of the actual building, the Theatre: as it looked quite realistic.

The chairs in the first drawing need to be more accurate and the people need to be more to proportion to their size. The second drawing should have smaller buildings. So the reader can see the hole house, as this would make it a more skilled drawing. The third image is of The Regent Theatre, which the building looks good, but the rest of the piece needs more art put in to it. Twinch (2006, p.126) “The Regent Theatre opened to great enthusiasm in 1929 as a cine-variety hall.” I wanted to use the Regent as it is a famous building of the town. So the reader would notice it in the story.

 

Mulvey (2006, p.11) “human fascinations: boundary between life and death”

This piece is about one of the hero’s who has died. As he tries to defend the town. One of the witches kills him with a sword, just as he starts frighting her. He dies before the other hero’s can help him. The evil witch is then taken down by Robert Gold. Lacey runs to our hero. Our other hero’s are distraught by what has happened. Robert Gold and Lacey join them, even those they have saved the town, there is great grief as there have lost a close friend.

I have been looking at Damien Hirst’s work on the death of animals, as I have now expressed in my story how the hero has died, looking at ways to show the grief his friends are going through. Lisa S. Wainwright (2014, p.1) “His displays of animals in formaldehyde were seen as reflections on mortality and the human unwillingness to confront it”. Hirst’s work is about how we deal with death. How as humans we have to cope with it, even though we don’t want to. In my story the characters will find a way to cope with what has happened and move on, with their lives. This drawing is the end of the story, as I am not drawing the pictures in order, this helps me as it gives me more ideas for leading up to this point, if I do the final fight first.

The image is linear, as I feel you get in to it very quickly. I had to think about how to draw the scene, and the best way to do that. The material is charcoal and it is monochrome. Micklewright reports that “A drawing is an accumulation of many separate observations;” (2005, p.126). The image is harmony colour range, as none of the colours do not go well together.

I felt that they needed to be more people in the drawing, such as the town’s people. As they are shocked to see what has happened to their friend. It may have worked better if I have had made the evil watch bigger, to show how the town people are scared of her and to show the strength of her power. Even through she is defeated. They still  have lost a close friend and need to come to terms with what has happened. I felt that you can see their pain and unrest quite well on their faces. The witch is smiling, I drew her face like that so the viewer would think that this is not over yet and she is going to come back.

The image is drawing like it is from a comic, the people look like they are from a story for children. The man who has died looks like he is just sleeping and not dead. As his eyes look like they are open. The blood around him does not look real, there should be a lot more blood for a wound like this. Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm (1982, p.367) “This is a den of murderers. You think you’re a bride soon to be wedded, but its death you’re going  to wed.” In the Grimm’s tale The Robber Bridegroom a young women thinks she is been taken away to be married but she is really going to be murdered by a group of psychopaths. This fits in to my story as the man is murdered, while protecting his family and friends. This is why I am looking at the Grimm’s tale: The Robber Bridegroom.