Visual Journal

Peer Feedback of my sketchbook from over summer:

• GOOD USE OF REFERENCE BUT MORE AMBITIOUS TRANSLATIONS AND VISUAL DEVICES. - (I need to think more about concept, meaning and imagery behind my pieces!!!)
• Love the amount of media you've experimented with. Line size, washes, heavy colour - amazing. 
• Love it, super great, quite fine arty, good use of colour.
• Use of water colour and fine liner is just wow.
• Sick how you use colour against fine liner.
• I love how you've utilized your sketchbook, its just so experimental and good use of space.
• Love your sketchbook- great colours and style. 
• Your media and use is super so so so good!
• Details are amazing, lovely paint work.
• Such beautiful colouring and detail!!!
• Unbelievable. So fucking good. 
• Really beautiful drawings.

I am so grateful to this feedback - it really motivates me to continue experimenting with colour and line and to continue pushing myself with details. However I definitely need to really think about concept even more and how I can use visual devices like symbolism/metaphors to create work that has a strong message/meaning to it... not just something that looks nice but something that can be used to say something.

VISUAL JOURNAL - based on Shakespeare. 
Honest + Authentic!

• Develop a broad and exploratory range of visual responses.
• Media investigation.
• Thematic drawing.
• Practical and conceptual investigation.
• Tangible - The physical world around you such as character, locations, motifs, objects, people and those aspects of the world that you can visually evidence through drawing, media and visual language. 
• Intangible - The unseen, emotional and conceptual phenomena that affect the way we see the world such as moods, atmosphere, humour, fear, touch, smell and sound. 
• Find ways for the two above to collide.
• Generate a wealth of visual material, rich in potential concept, visually diverse and exciting, enhancing the content of your imagery production. 
• Avoid 'stylization' - 'with the consumption of imagery speeding up... the appetite for the next 'trend' is potentially altering how we value images, and illustration.' and he goes on to consider the extent of the authenticity and honesty in the Plains Indian Drawings 1865-1935. 
• Find the authenticity and openness in your image-making for your visual journal during this module. Continue to research and explore as you begin to solve problems visually. 

DONT STOP INVESTIGATING AND EXPERIMENTING!

Serendipity - the occurance and development of events by chance in a happy or beneficial way.

ARTISTS...

• Andy Martin - ideas have legs, honesty in drawing, full of meaning and content, The Indian Ledgers Drawings - socially very important drawings.
• Roderick Mills (Heart Agency).
• Matt Ernst- Dada and Surrealist - subverted and challenged everything they came across. Rubbings and Collage, MoMA.
• Sol Steinburg - photographing playful objects.
• Micheal Borremans (book in library 759.92 BOR) - photographic reference but distorts scale!
• Arnulf Rainer - drawn onto photographs, collage and photography. 
• Aude van Ryn - concept, collisions of scale - adds power to relationships. 
• Mark Manders - several drawings on top of each other- extremely experimental - puts drawings together on light boxes. 
• Andy Martin Vs Ian McMillan - mini novels for the busy teen. 
• John Clease 1991 lecture on creativity. 
• Noma Bar - concept 
• Peep Show Collective - Chrissy Macdonald.
• Henrik Drescher - turbulence works with his son - texture and atmosphere- exploratory.
• Sue Coe - Atmosphere and mood
• Andrew Ray.