Brainstorm

Wednesday, October 8, 2014

Donovan- mixed media fashion collages

Now York based artist and fashion illustrator Bil Donovan, uses brush and ink and collage in a number of his works for high end fashion, advertising and editorials. His collages are magnificently detailed and awe-inspiring!

Couture Girls- I love the shapes and resist squiggles!!

Collage LnT- Absolutely love these colourful collages with the clever use of text

Collage Salon Mag

ChaCha

NYTalk 80's

Two Blue Guys- Loving this collage concept

Elle Germany

Paris M.A.G.

T and CAD

Saks-Tst- Love the silhouette look..

Thursday, July 31, 2014

Em's recent works

I have been experimenting with different techniques and medium as part of some extra practical art study I have been undertaking. Here are a few recent experiments and workshop outcomes..

Charcoal and eraser- my new favourite technique

First go at watercolour

Pages from my book made from transparent paper, drawing and mark making- This was lots of fun to experiment with all types of mark making things (rubbings, stamps, stencils etc)

Summer Workshop

Summer: This is a number of my final outcomes for a summer workshop.

I wanted to portray the heat of summer along with the Aussie bush and kids playing

Monotypes, prints and stamps with things such as wallpaper, bubble wrap and leaves.

Monumental Workshop

We drew an object many different ways and get to know it and then divide one of our images into 9 and draw each square in different media. I chose a stapler.

Coloured pencil, collage, ink, graphite pencil, chalk on black paper, charcoal, pastels, paint on newspaper and ink wash over wax candle (each segment is A3 size).

We had to choose three images, one architectural, one 2D pattern and another image, and then combine them into a new composition. It was the most challenging workshop as it was hard to get all three images working together well. But I got to experiment with lots of watercolour techniques.

Source images I used

Watercolour, salt, coloured pencil and charcoal

Charcoal and eraser

Image I love: Watercolour, salt and freezer paper used as stencil.

Friday, June 20, 2014

Confetti

I would definitely make my own confetti with a hole punch and whatever coloured paper I wanted but you could also use different shaped hole punches.. hearts are an obvious good one, snow flakes for winter, leaves for autumn, music notes or other shapes to connect with the couples interests. You could also recycle different types of paper this way.. newspaper, books, music sheets, even dried leaves..

But you don't even need to use traditional confetti or paper.. what about.. rose petals, dried autumn leaves, pom poms!, sequins, streamers, ribbons, 100 and 1000's, herbs, popcorn, paper cranes!! and of course bubbles!

I am liking the idea of recycled paper into shapes like hearts but I think I may need to do a few experiments on how different papers fall. Tissue paper may be good if it floats down..

Paper cranes and petals

Bubbles

Autumn Leaves!!! This could work for me!

Pom-poms (69)

Gold confetti- love the colours!

Recycled paper hearts

Comic book hearts

Rosemary

Watercoloured dyed confetti- great blog too!

Sunday, June 15, 2014

Em's other colleges

Since our first attempt at college I have had more of a play in some art workshops I've done. Here are some outcomes. I found when trying to do abstract/chaotic images I was very rigid and orderly and found dropping scrap pieces onto the paper created a nice bit of haphazardness (my solution to creating chaos). I love mixing different textures, shapes and edges of paper into an abstract image and then finding the familiar in the abstract images.

Friday, May 2, 2014

Yard Games

Outside games a heaps of fun! But what about classic games made giant to play outside, and I'm not just talking about giant chess sets, but giant Jenga, Yahtzee, Dominos, Scrabble, Connect-a-4, Pick-up-sticks, Kerplunk, Battleship as well as real life Quidditch and Angry Birds! I want to have a summer or spring party just so I can play them! Some would even be fun at a wedding reception!