final drawing project ideas

                                                                    drawing project idea

for the drawing project i decided to do a drawing of several objects that are found every day objects and to draw them in a panoramic type view. in the drawing i will use many different shades and maybe even a bit of colour in the objects, the drawings will be done on paper which can role out further in length than height. by doing this i will able to move along the paper through a view finder, in which i will draw the object in front of me. the objects in which i will be drawing will be connected either through back ground or be over lapping each other. this drawing was inspired by artist Stephen Wiltshire who drew a picture of Chicago just by memory of a helicopter ride
























for this i decided to try the idea however on a much smaller scale with A2 paper cut horizontally in half so the paper was much longer in length, and then also decided to cut a rectangle in card board which would be the view finder which i draw in however it was way to long to draw new objects in just a sketch lay out which i roughly copied some of the images i had done before however still added slight tone to really decide if i should use color or not. by doing this i had learnt that in my shading the contrast bettween light and darker shading needs to be greater and when drwaing work with a piece of paper under my had to smudge alot less. also th final piece will end up being alot longer then the test piece however i am not quite sure what length.

banksy

Bansky is an extremely well known English graffiti artist, political activists, film director painter. one of the reasons Banksy has become notorious is because his identity has not been proven, however he is believed to be a man named robin gunningham, a former public school boy at Bristol cathedral choir school.

when Banksy does his work he does his satirical street  art and subversive epigrams combine dark humour with graffiti done in a distinctive stenciling technique. his works of political and social commentary have been featured on streets, walls and bridges throughout the world. banksy always displys his work in places which are very visible such as walls or physical self-made prop objects. he also does not sell any photographs or reproductions of his works. howeve art auctioneers have known to try to attempt to sell his work and leave the problem of removal of the art work to the winning bidder.

Banksy first started his graffiti career as a free hand graffiti artist fro a crew named "drybreadz crew" (DBZ) and was inspired by larger Bristol underground scene with nick walker, inkie, and 3D, by 2000 he started to use stencilling after realising that it took alot quicker. Banskys first well known wall mural was "the mild mild west" painted in 1997 to cover advertising of a former solicitors office on stokes croft avenue, Bristol in which show a teddy bear throwing a Molotov cocktail at three riot
police officers. he often uses images combined with slogans with an anti war, capitalist or anti establishment in mind Bansky is also famously known for the uses of rats, apes, policemen, soldiers, children and the elderly                  

Kandinsky

wassily Kandinsky was a Russian painter and and art theorist born on 16th December 1866 and was credited for one of the first purely abstract works, as a citizen of Moscow Kandinsky, spent his child hood in Odessa.

unlike others kandinsky decided to stay local and attended the university of Moscow and studied law and economics. he then became successful in his profession and was offered a professorship of (chair of Roman law) at the university of Dorpat. Kandinsky began painting studies (life-drawing, sketching and anatomy) at the age of 30.

In 1896 Kandinsky settled in Munich, studying first at Anton Ažbe's private school and then at the Academy of Fine Arts. He returned to Moscow in 1914, after the outbreak of World War I. Kandinsky was unsympathetic to the official theories on art in Communist Moscow, and returned to Germany in 1921. There, he taught at the Bauhaus school of art and architecture from 1922 until the Nazis closed it in 1933. he then live the rest of his life in France and a French citizen, producing some of his most prominent and famous art pieces.  

history of printing

the definition of print making is "the art technique of making, prints, especially as practiced in engraving, etching, drypoint, woodcut or serigraph 

the history of printmaking goes right back to the duplication of images by means of stamps in very early times The use of round seals for rolling an impression into clay tablets goes back to early Mesopotamian civilization before 3000 BCE

168 to 906 
one of the early types of printing wood block printing invented in china which was created around 618 to 906, this technique was created during the T'ang dynasty and was one of there most notable inventions. wood block print making is the process of putting ink onto the wood block with a patten of image carved into it the pressed onto paper leaving a print, by doing this they were able to create the first full length book 

1241
in 1241 korea have developed movable cast metal which they also used to print books 

1300
wooden movable type printing first developed in china, abandoned in favour of clay movable type 

1392 
Korea opens it foundries that can produce bronze casting 

1423 
block printing reaches Europe from china, we then use this technique to produce books 

1452
Europe begins using metal plates for printing, using movable metal type then Gutenberg prints the bible which he finishes in 1456 

1457
the first book printed in more than one color

1660
Germans invent the mezzotint technique 

1725
stereotyping invented in Scotland by William Ged wherein a whole page of type is cast in a single mold to create a printing plate 

1800
the first iron printing press built in Britain made entirely of cast iron 

1819 
the first rotary printing press invented by Napier which is the first rotary printing press 

1829
Louis braille invents embossed printing

1841 
type machine has been invented for fast printing onto paper 

1844
electro typing has been invented 

1846 
an american inventor named Richard hoe designed an improved printing press that can print 8,000 sheets an hour 

1863 
rotary fed letter press invented by William bullock 

1886 
German inventor ottomar mergenthaler invented the first device that could easily and quickly set set complete lines of type for use in printing presses 

1890
mimeograph was introduced 

1892 
4-color tray press invented 

1904
off set lithography is being commonly used to produce posters, maps, books, newspapers, and packaging

1907
commercial silk screen printing has been developed 

1938 
american inventor named Chester Carlson invented a dry printing process called electrophotography, commonly called xerox 

1953
Remington-rand developed the first high speed printer for the use of a Univac computer

1955
xerox produces the first automatic xerographic printer 

1965 
SATO introduced the first thermal transfer bar code printer 

1969
american engineer and inventor Gary Keith Starkweather invented a laser printer based on a modified xerographic copier 

1970s 
printers that could reproduce digital images generated by computers were developed

1996 
the first major release of 3D printers takes place 

2007
first iPhone released giving less reason for printing to exist 

2011 
first under $1000 3D printer released by rolan 

2012
imaging supply sales decline as there is less use for printing as people have increased using tablets and smart phones 
 

Frank Gehry chairs

Frank Gehrys wiggle side chair 

The wiggle side chair was first designed and produced in 1972. this chair was constructed entirely out of corrugated cardboard, fiberboard and round timber 

cardboard furniture became increasingly popular during the 1960 as the furniture was incredibly light and very cheap alternative to the normal traditional furniture . at this time attempts were made to reinforce the support of the single layer cardboard offered by using  folds, tabs, slots, and other device. however the use of cardboard was unable to compete against its biggest rival plastic, this was because of property's such as the plastics being water proof (meaning the products being able to be used outside) and easy to mold under heat (opening up a greater field of designs) plastic in general was also in general alot stronger and lasted longer. Frank Gehry discovered a process that ensured cardboard furniture-making a new burst of popularity. he said “One day I saw a pile of corrugated cardboard outside of my office – the material which I prefer for building architecture models – and I began to play with it, to glue it together and to cut it into shapes with a hand saw and a pocket knife.”  because of this it was then possible to turn massive bits of card board into sculptures. gehrey named this cardboard edge card board which consisted of layered corrugated cardboard running in alternating directions. in 1972 he introduced a series of works of cardboard furniture named easy edges. these card board designs where exteamly sturdy and due to there surface quality had noise reduction in the room. the "easy edges" did not take long to succeed as they bought Gehry fame over night as a furniture designer. however Gehry decided that he was not a furniture designer but an architect and therefore simply stopped designing the chairs. Gehry made an international breakthrough as an architect in the late seventies, among other things with the design of his private residence in Santa Monica, California, in 1978.

Art Deco

Art Deco 

The term Art Deco refers to a style that spanned the boom of the roaring 1920s and the bust of the Depression-ridden 1930s. It affected all forms of design, from the fine and decorative arts to fashion, film, photography, transport and product design. In 2003, the V&A hosted the major exhibition Art Deco: 1910-1939.Art deco began in Europe, particularly Paris, in the early years of the 20th century, but didn't really take hold until after World War I. It reigned until the outbreak of World War II.

by the 1930s mass production of design ment everyone could live in the art deco style. while travlee become increasingly popular. things such as african safaris were all the rage and animal skins, ivory and mother of pearl, tortoiseshell began to appear in homes across the UK. after tutankhamuns tomb was discovered where pyramids an sphinxes took over everything

the art Deco style incorporated geometric and angular shape,chrome, glass, shiny fabrics, mirrors and mirror tiles, stylised images of aeroplanes, cars, cruise liners, skyscrapers, nature motifs - shells, sunrises, flowers theatrical contrasts - highly polished wood and glossy black lacquer mixed with satin and furs

famous artists who where based in the art Deco periods such as Eileen Gray, Raymond tempiler, clarice cliff, Rene liqueur

Gerrit Rietveld chair research

the famous chair designed and by Gerrit Rietveld in 1917. it represents one of the first chairs made in the De Stijl art movement in a 3-D. the chair was made out of beech wood, however the actual chair was not painted until the early 1920s, before this rietveld decided to keep the chair plain however a memeber of de stijl architect Bart Van Der Leck, saw his original model of the chair and gave him the idea to paint the chair with bright colors. Rietveld then built another new model out of a thinner wood named lacquered wood and painted the chair entirely black with with areas across the chair cover in primary colors aimed towards the de stijl movement with the use of the color scheme of red yellow blue and black with the main colors of red black and blue which gives it the name of the "red and blue chair". the colors had a strange effect on the chair as when it was placed against a black wall the base of the chair seemed to disappear giving an almost transparent look, because of this the chair look as if it was floating.