The Ideal Home Show and Saatchi Gallery

Visited the Ideal Home Show and also the Saatchi Gallery and got some inspiration.

The first was the use of mixed media by the artist Arif Ozakca. I love the use of traditional oil painting with screen prints and pattern. It's combining fine art painting in parts with simplistic child-like figures. It's also impossible to predict the time of the painting because there are figures dressed in robes suggesting biblical themes in front of 20th century streets and men in orange jumpsuits. I'd like to use the combination of mixed media in my work; especially tight fine art painting and possibly pattern.

This piece '409'  by Caragh Thuring is oil and gesso and ink on linen. I'm interested by how the elements are very different mediums, yet they work together to reveal a landscape. Only the most essential elements of the landscape are suggested by the lines and very little colour is present. The layering of white wash (subtly adding depth to the subject) and dominant black line reminds me of some of my previous pieces and it would be interesting to try representing a few images in a simplistic drawing style that could possibly be animated.

Another piece by Thuring is titled 'General Scenes of Unloading' and is again Oil on Linen. This instantly reminded me of my fascination with the dockyards in Falmouth. This made me wonder why particular elements of something cannot be animated solely to illustrate it's movement. I like how none of the elements are within a background, yet their composition makes them seem together and I could instantly imagine them animating together; separate unique parts but moving together to create the feel of a busy shipyard.




Visual Diary Drawing


Although I saw many inspirational sights today, I decided to draw the most beautiful rather than practical. A man in Covent Gardens playing chinese pipes that made a wonderful sound. I could not capture the sound, but I hope I have captured the passion for his music in the man's face.