Paper folding

Here I folded 3 pieces of paper in differant ways. I then recreated them using shoe polish, thread, cutting, tearing and masking tape.

I chose this as my favourite one that I was going to recreate. I liked the small detailed folds and the shaped area at the top.

Here I used black shoe polish and a piece of paper to creat the lines. I also used a tooth brush to create the grey faded areas.

I cut into the card with a craft knife to help create lines, I loked this effect but they were not very defined. Here i was a cloth to but on the black ink in an even all over tone, I then used the paper and tooth brush to creat blue lines onto of the black.

I loved the effect on this one. I ripped the paper first and then I painted emulion in think rough lines. Once that had dried I used blue and brown shoe polish to create the lines. I really like the ripped areas and the blue and brown go well together.

I also look at artists you use experimental drawing techniques.

Hannelore Baron

She was born Hannelore Alexander in Dilligen, Germany in 1926, to Jewish parents who were the owners of a small textile shop. On Kristallnacht she saw the shop destroyed, her home ransacked and her father beaten with a hammer. A short while later the family was arrested by Nazis. When Baron later returned to the house (escorted by an S.S. officer), she found the furniture destroyed and her father’s bloody handprints on the wall. It was, she recalled later, a more traumatic experience than the actual events. She hated nationalism, hated war and identified with war’s victims. During the Abstract Expressionist years, she painted in tempera. In 1958, she began making collages in which scraps of history, lined and stained with ink and covered with smears, were pasted and sewn together. Baron needed to be inspired, and her inspiration usually came from materials she found in flea markets and junk yards. Her fabrics suggest untouched, raw or burned skin; some are striped like pillow ticking and the uniforms of prisoners. During her life, the ideas expressed in her work grew more complex, introspective and personal; while at the same time they communicated a universal message about nationalism, war, and cruelty. I really love her work its beautfully techinical with the collaging of materials and uses differant processes, but it is simple and deep.

Jennifer West

She is known for her digitized films that are made by hand manipulating film celluloid. "Jennifer West uses standard products to process her films: coal-tar dye, eyeliner, whiskey, hot sauce, urine, deodorant, aphrodisiacs, skateboard wheels. And she likes to finish them in equally conventional ways, either “rubbed with Jimson Weed Trumpet flowers, or dripped and splattered with nail polish, or sprayed with Lavender Mist air freshener”. I love the colourfulness of her images onto the dark quite boring scenes. I really like all the texture thats created from the overlapping of differant materials and colours.

Cy Twombly

Twombly's paintings blur the line between drawing and painting. I love the scribbly lines and the even textured colour of his paintings. The dripping paint and differant types of paint and pencil lines create a really interesting effect. Between 1967 and 1971, he produced a number of works on gray grounds, the 'grey paintings'. This series features terse, colorless scrawls, reminiscent of chalk on a blackboard, that form no actual words. Twombly made this work using an unusual technique: he sat on the shoulders of a friend, who shuttled back and forth along the length of the canvas, thus allowing the artist to create his fluid, continuous lines.

Card with a hole...

In my project I had to come up with as many ideas as possible of what to do with a card with a hole in it.