Jeremy Deller

Jeremy Deller selected to represent Britain in the Venice Biennale, you can read the article in the Guardian here



Drawing of a Tulip
Time taken: 2 hours (roughly)

I drew this for my Botanics unit. Im planning on designing a calendar with drawings/paintings of flowers,insects and garden birds.
                                                                 What do you think?

mermaid

the original                     the computer edited




this is to do with a project that i am doing
and this is just one of my ideas for my final piece.

Adriana Curcio

http://www.adrianacurcio.com/  a photographer im using for EST.

As part of our Botanics unit I have been concentrating mostly on photography.  While researching, I came across a photographer called Andy Small who specialises in botanical photography. I personally really like his images and was wondering what your opinions are?

http://www.andysmall.co.uk/

Victoria Crowe

Here is another artist to look up for your Botanical unit. Victoria Crowe is well known for her botanically inspired works alongside landscape and portrait paintings

Illustration

When researching for my specialist techniques I found out about the fashion illustrator Stina Persson and her technique of dripping paint and letting the colours bleed together while still creating a detailed and interesting image. I really like her work and am interested in her technique. You can take a look at her website and let me know what you think of her work:http://www.stinapersson.com/

“Go be that starving Artist you’re afraid to be. Open up that journal and get poetic finally. Volunteer. Suck it up and travel. You were not born here to work and pay taxes. You were put here to be part of a vast organism to explore and create. Stop putting it off. The world has much more to offer than what’s on 15 televisions at TGI Fridays. Take pictures. Scare people. Shake up the scene. Be the change you want to see in the world. You’ll thank yourself for it.”

Botanics

As part of my research for Botanics I have been looking at the work of Elizabeth Blackadder.

This watercolour and dip pen is my version of Elizabeth Blackadder's Orchids - hers was an etching and aquatint done on paper in 1985. My plan is to repeat it as a drypoint etching and watercolour.

My apologies for the quality of the image - I always have a problem photographing paintings and would welcome any tips. Hopefully its a topic we will cover in college sometime.