Hasan Kale

Hasan Kale is a Turkish artist who uses everything from fruit seeds to the wings of taxidermy insects as a canvas for painting Istanbul.

 

 

 

Frames

I felt like my Final Major Project wasn't fully explored and I could have done a lot more with my frames. I decided to do a quick photo-shoot with them as a little project along side my Micro: Macro project to possibly be used in my portfolio for university.

 

Shoot

 

 

Latex Sampling

For some sampling I decided to trap some natural items into a tray of latex. This works the same way as a fossil would be made. To make it a little bit more interesting, I added some inks to the latex. After I left the latex to dry over night I cut out the items and this is what was left.

 

 

I do like this outcome although I dont feel like I can take it any further in my project. 

Starting Macro

To start my micro work, I took a photograph that I took at a local park of trees and put it onto acetate. I then projected the image onto a A2 piece of paper and used a fine liner to draw the image.

 

I love how detailed this piece looks. I was worried that it wouldn't look like trees, but I think it's worked really well and I am pleased with the result.

 

 

I plan on taking this idea a little further with this same image using different medias.

 

I personally find it difficult to draw large scale, every time I tried to draw large scale, it would still be fairly small, no matter what media I used. This happened with a drawing of a pine cone. So again, I printed it onto acetate and projected onto paper.

 

PVA samples

To start sampling I decided to do some work with some PVA glue. Simply pouring PVA onto a flat, even surface and adding powder and ink has a really nice effect as the glue dries clear and you are left with a colourful thin layer of dried glue. The idea behind this was to sort of - create my own leaves. I used earthy, dull colours and crushed some leaves on to the top.

 

Once this has dried over night I then used the free machine foot on the sewing machine to work onto them. I started off by doing some simple leaf patterns and then progressed onto working from a photograph I took of the trees in a local park.

 

*photos to be continued*

Paper Making

For this project I have decided to try to make my own paper not only because I want to keep with the natural theme but because I think working onto my own paper will work well and look lovely in a sketch book.

 

To make paper you simple blend tissue paper and water in a blender until you get a very smooth, runny consistency. You then use a mesh tray to pick up some of the paper, mesh is used so the water runs through and the tissue stays on the surface, you then carefully turn the tray over onto a towel and wait to dry.

 

This technique was fairly easy and I love the outcome.

 



Andy Goldsworthy

I have come across a very interesting artist named Andy Goldsworthy who is concerned with Natural Form. What I find interesting about Andy is that his work is made from 'Found Tools'. He makes art the same was as young children do whilst playing, experimenting with sticks of wood and pebbles etc. and seeing what you can do with it. The only thing we have to appreciate his work is a simple photograph as everything he uses cant really be preserved. Andy has inspired me for the Macro part of this project. I love the idea of using natural object to create art no matter how big they are.