WORKSHOP 1: cockney rhyming slang

To start with i did enjoy this workshop, being able to come up with any design from all sorts of fresh and new ideas that pop into my head. However when it came to thinking about producing a final A2 image i started to get a little bit wary and started to waver away from it. However this is an area i NEED to work on and pushing through, and completing a final rendered image will only strengthen my ablilities.

Also choosing to go for macaroni, a material relativly unused by myself is leading me to broaden my flexability.


I had a look at a selection of artists in my sketchbook, and here i am going to look at materials themselves.

RAN HWANG

Instead of using ordinary buttons and pins to stitch up clothes, Korean-born artist Ran Hwang creates amazingly large installations of birds and cherry blossom trees. When you look up close, the amount of individual buttons is absolutly amazing, but if you look from the distance, the images moves into one jaw-dropping image.

I chose Ran purely because of the amazing detail that goes into her work. Her images are extremely large scaled, showing that to be able to manipulate materials like this, and macaroni,bigger is better when trying to acheive a higher level of detail. I also like the simplicity, with simple backgrounds, ensuring the eye is kept on the main peice itself.

SAIMIR STRATI

Saimir Strati, an Albanian artist creates world's largest mosaics out of nails, toothpicks or wine corks. He hammers thousands of nails or toothpicks on wooden boards to create breathtaking illustrations.

He has his name in the Guinness Book of World Record for creating world's largest mosaics.

Again, i chose this artist because of the vast differences in his materials used. He also works at a very large scale, showing that A2 or larger may have to be the was to create my final piece purely because i would not be able to get the detail into anything smaller.

The first image of the woman is created with just corks. This image is lovely purely because of the illustrational look about it, it manages to still look stylised whilst being a very un - versatile object.

The images of the horse are made from toothpicks, i chose to look at this image because of its reference to Macaroni pony, its interesting to see how the artist has managed to create tone and definition with a relativly unused object.