Friday, 30 December 2011
I love spirals especially when they turn Fibonacci
First I have to share with you this video post from Vi Hart a self confessed Mathemusician whos countless videos on her Youtube channel makes mathematics not only interesting but rather artistic as she breaks down the boredom mathematics provides and gives it an interesting twist with great visuals to help you memorise equations, theories and random interesting moments.
Ive heard of the Fibonacci sequence before most probably in mathematics during high school but it never really sunk in. And again from a classmate but yet again it never fully sunk in or became such a great interest to me. Its not untill i do my own research and the curious number sequence shows up again that I actually can appreciate it, let alone visually understand it.
Vi Hart's video gives a great visual understanding to spirals and the Fibonacci sequence. Something I may just be looking into with regards to my Contextual Studies :p
Inactive much
Tis the season to be Jolly... Hardly in my case Ive had my head stuck in books for Contextual studies Ive let my blogging responsibilities slide.
One upside is that my website is in construction lindsayforsyth.co.uk Still got to start tweeking bits and pieces till Im satisfied though...
Ive still to post my conclusion towards my last project for the Alloa Campus. A lot of the work hasnt been posted so I am contemplating uploading either the whole artist statement about the project of just throw in the final piece and leave a lot of the work living in my sketchbooks or to best treat some of the individual areas as seperate posts about new methods of drawing or indeed printmaking as the case may be.
Till I pull my head out of the books Im leaving you with this video post from the Tate about Maurice Sendak a personal favourite author and illustrator. Ive been thinking about his books this season and all the drawings he creates. He is ofcourse, an illustrator and theres a large gap between illustration and drawing.
Another issue ive decided to deal with is that I often post videos to my Facebook account majority of which are being stalked and passed about not even for the origional purpose. That is being stopped and from now on any posts I find which are of an inspiration to myself are going right here.
simple drawn animation, science stuff on experiments throughout history and theories. Some you may know, others you might not
One upside is that my website is in construction lindsayforsyth.co.uk Still got to start tweeking bits and pieces till Im satisfied though...
Ive still to post my conclusion towards my last project for the Alloa Campus. A lot of the work hasnt been posted so I am contemplating uploading either the whole artist statement about the project of just throw in the final piece and leave a lot of the work living in my sketchbooks or to best treat some of the individual areas as seperate posts about new methods of drawing or indeed printmaking as the case may be.
Till I pull my head out of the books Im leaving you with this video post from the Tate about Maurice Sendak a personal favourite author and illustrator. Ive been thinking about his books this season and all the drawings he creates. He is ofcourse, an illustrator and theres a large gap between illustration and drawing.
Another issue ive decided to deal with is that I often post videos to my Facebook account majority of which are being stalked and passed about not even for the origional purpose. That is being stopped and from now on any posts I find which are of an inspiration to myself are going right here.
Dean Lucker and Ann Wood
Miguel Endara and his pointillism piece called Hero... I love pointillism makes me so happy :D
simple drawn animation, science stuff on experiments throughout history and theories. Some you may know, others you might not
It took Kalle Mattson, Kevin Parry, and friends over six months to create this cute stop motion short, a lot shorter than the time-frame covered in the video! Watch as history is told via illustrated paper, on an ever turning globe that brings it all back around again
sAper awesome illustrator Christoph Niemann doodled his way all through the fecking NYC Marathon... Super thumbs up and awesomeness to this guy :p http://niemann.blogs.nytimes.com/
Amazing Artwork created by Gary Schott
That'll do for now seeing as facebook enjoys being problematic...
Friday, 2 December 2011
Well I certainly hate Photoshop sometimes
It's official, years ago I used to love Photoshop, illustrator and dreamweaver now... Pfft
Wednesday there were the strikes meaning college was closed, it didn't phase me because I worked away in my sketchbook getting some drawing done.
On Thursday I spent the whole day getting frustrated over Photoshop and illustrator trying to replicate a concept which would be digitally easier to increase in size. Tried out 4, 5 different ways and I hate the end result. I'm so much more happier with my hand made piece where I cut and reassembled pieces of my texture recording to create a visual piece.
So with the wonders of photocopying I managed to clean up and increase the size of my collage piece. I can then add more detail, more hand drawn elements and more tonal work even. Before photocopying again to acetate.
The reason for this is so I can see how my piece will look on a very large scale by projecting it onto a wall. I also want to make the piece as a screen print which I can then work on some more.
The whole piece of work is building layers all these layers of processes modern and handwork can be thought of towards alloa. Years of handwork, hard graft and work using some modern techniques with historical ways as well. It's what gives alloa its wonderful history of textures which I'm loving.
As of today folks, another day off as our tutor has personal matters to attend to so I'm reading as much information as my brain can handle. Whilst cleaning up after my nightmare of a dog who, within the time its taken me to type this lot up, has destroyed a stuffed toy leaving its fluffy guts everywhere. Time to crack out the hoover again...
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