Space

The space in two-dimensional artworks such as paintings, drawings, prints and photographs (flat space) is essentially limited to height and width. While there is no actual depth or distance in such works, artists have created techniques to create the illusion of depth or distance on these flat surfaces. The following represents some of those techniques:

The most prominent of these techniques is the application of linear perspective. Through this application distant objects are rendered proportionately smaller than closer ones. The determining factors of this space depends upon the horizon line and vanishing point.

Form
Form can be described as a three
dimesional solid of contained space.
In this example form has both mass
and volume whereas shape has only mass.

Form helps to build sculptures and detremines thier shape.
When relating it back to my own work, from seems evident within the compositions in my photos.The use of form helps to create dimension, creating successful and intresting photos to work from.

This is an artist study produced over half term. I chose to observe Frontal, an artist who produces abstract work. I chose this artist because I think it related well to my theme, his work his very textured, this is relevant to the texture of fabrics. I think his work relates to fabric because of the movement it creates. In this case the movement potrays anger and fustration.
I get this feeling because the lines are slashed across the page in a careless style.

These are my finished drawings taken from my own photos. They took around 12hrs each to complete. I learnt that it is important to spend time on the drawing because it pays of. The amount of time you spend on a drawing determines the quality of work produced. These are photos taken of fabric. I have created photos that have movement and dimension through the way I have chosen to compose it. In my first photo the fabric, which originaly worn as a womens scarf, was draped over a lamp, when the lamp was lit, it highlighted the dark and lights areas within the creases of the fabric, helping to -portray the areas of movement within the photo. I found it interesting the way the fabric hung over the light, it created and interesting visual effect and looked similar to that of melting wax. This photo connected with the idea that fabric can portray diffent substances, thus creating different emotions.

My second photo uses the same fabric but I have created a different compostion. I have tryed to empahsize the creases and folds of the fabric by scrunching the fabric up. I am focusing on the movement that the frabric produces. The creases and folds will empahsize the movement. This photo created new ideas towards my final piece. It pointed me in the direction of composition and they way it chnages the emotion of the piece. I found this intereseting because the use of the same fabric could create completely diffent photos and potray completly diffent emotions.
It is important to produce quality photos because they are easy to work with. A quality photo can be produced by having the right lighting, good compostion and they must be in focus.

This is an example of how I have made connections with my still life and artists. This process enables me to highlight areas of the photo that are of most use to me. I have also found textual connections to my still life photo, I have expressed this by adding textured matierals to the page, such as leather. The leather has patterns on it which create movement, the movement is fixed and rigid, this relates to the way the feather looks within this picture, it looks slighlty less soft and has a more rigid look.

These are photos I have taken from the still life, I chose areas that had natural light hitting them because the lights and darks come out more defined in the photo. These photos were taken to give us inspiration and develop our current ideas. In my opinion my photos have resembelance to Fabric. By relating these photos to real life objects, it shows my thoughtracking process and highlights my areas of interest. This process helps me to come up with ideas for my theme. I liked the use of line apparent in both of these photos, the line creates structure. The tonal range is evident giving both photos dimension.

Here we constructed our still life.

The still life workshop enabled me to experiment with different textures and designs. I explored rough and soft textures. The idea of textures then developed into fabrics, concentrating on the movement of fabric and the patterns they created. I had freedom to express diffent ideas using differnt medias. I used medias such as chalk, charcol and pencil to express areas of interest and enhance areas of definition. I chose fabric as my focal point because I find the movement intresting, the movement potrays different emotions depending on its fluidity and the way it has been composed.