#19
Looked into the possibilities for printing for lightboxes and after what feels like a million tries at finding the right print setting, I think that we’ve found one that works (after spending over an hour doing test prints).
HOWEVER!!
I’m feeling a little conflicted over the display as I have edited the digital images slightly to make them brighter now that I have finished all four.
Might have had a minor panicking session in the studio today over it because I prefer the normal printouts over the prints for the lightbox.
I also haven’t got a clue how to set up one lightbox, let along four. The frame isn’t the problem. It’s the wiring I’m worried about.
I’m having a tutorial tomorrow to sort this out once and for all because it’s stressing me out far too much.
This is all after a failed attempt at going gallery hopping in Colchester, as on the morning of our little excursion (Sophie Evans’ and mine), Firstsite updated their website to say that most of their exhibitions would be closed as they were being changed. But we were already on the train by this point, so we only managed to see their Jim Ede collection.
#18
Had a group crit a couple of weeks ago (I’m playing catch-up again, oops) and was a bit surprised when we spent 45 minutes basically talking about the best way to display my work.
Firstly, I need to plan how the book of my drawings and paintings is going to work – whether I buy one and place the images and stories inside, or to make one myself. At the moment it will come down to how many drawings are finished when I come to make it.
We also talked briefly about where I am going to be able to hijack a char from for the placing of the book – it needs to be a comfortable one!
For my digital work we discussed whether having them as mounted printouts would detract from their quality as they lose some of the brightness that they have on the screen, but displaying them on digital screens is no longer an option because of the costs.
Instead we decided that lightboxes would be the next best thing, so I have looked into whether this will be possible for me to carry out, as this way the images will quite literally be able to glow.
Investigation time!
#17
Quick post for this finished piece.
Forgot to take screenshots of it in process because I was just hammering it out and didn’t really stop to think. Just drew it all in one go. Didn’t even save it until it was completely finished.
Guess all this sun we’re suddenly having is acting as motivation.
#16
I’ve finished the plan for my next digital piece, taking inspiration from Grimm’s tale ‘Jorinde and Joringel’, depicting an old castle surrounded by a forest.
Admittedly the castle in my image is more inspired from one in a photo I took in France a few years ago, but it fits nicely with the surroundings so I see no harm in it.
Hoping to get this piece finished in the next week or so and then move onto the next digital piece so that I have at least four done in time for the deadline at the start of June.
I have also started to draw out some images in my sketchbook of some of the horrors shown in Grimm’s “The Boy who went forth to learn Fear”.
#15
Looked at a few more artists:
Katharine Pyle
Works are largely made up of black outline illustrations to accompany her stories and poetry. She creates highly detailed pieces to reflect the stories she tells and centres much of her work around her love of animals but also works with traditional faerie figures.
Her work has an almost Beatrix Potter-ish feel to it with the way she sometimes depicts anthropomorphic animals.
Her book, “Tales of Folk and Fairies”: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/25913/25913-h/25913-h.htm
For me it seems as if Pyle sees folklore in an almost playful manner from the way that she depicts it. Her works have a contrasting feeling of fun to them as opposed to mine which have an underlying morbid story to them. I felt it best to find an artist who had worked this way to show the direction that my work could have taken.
Past exhibition at the Delaware Art Museum: http://www.delart.org/exhibitions/katharinepyle_folkfaires
W. Heath Robinson and Jean De Bosschère
Both artists have depicted demonic images, however they show them in such a way that the evil is being pushed back and beaten down, repelled by the “good” forced that are shown, be that light, or music, etc.
I wanted to include these two as they are the first artists I’ve seen while doing this to depict demons using such bright colours. They are usually shown in dark and ‘disgusting’ colours that point more towards death, but in these works they are just as bright as the other figures.
