Creative Industries

Creative Industries

Collage

02/03/16

After looking at different textures and photographing them, we then moved on to creating our own textures by creating collages. We also had to find some suitable quotes that we could then incorporate into the collages and into later work.

Qoutes:

"Imagination is everything. It is a preview of life's coming attractions"

- Albert Einstein

"An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all"

- Oscar Wilde

"The painter has the universe in his mind and hands"

- Leonardo Da Vinci

"The chief enemy of creativity is good sense"

- Pablo Picasso

"You can't use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have"

- Maya Angelou

"There is no time for cut and dry monotony. There is time for work, and time for love. That leaves no other time"

- Coco Chanel

"Negativity is the enemy of creativity"

- David Lynch

Before I began to start any collages, I looked into numerous different artists who used collage in their work and how they worked. I was mainly drawn to colourful images as well as quirky ones, and was definitely interested in Ben Giles, who I had previously researched into for another project because of the content of his work.

I like Gossel's work because he takes people or items from different places and uses them in order to show popular culture. I like the almost ripped style of the first piece, and the grainy style of the two bottom pieces.

Bremer's work interested me because of the way he has interpreted collage. Rather than using an actual image of a person, he created an image using small and colourful pieces to create a whole piece. The variation of colour used throughout his work also reminds me of Van Gogh and Picasso.

Hock's work caught my eye particularly because of the quirky nature of the images and how she interprets collage. While very basic, her images hold a certain imapact that make me want to keep looking.
I like how the colours, while bold, are still rather muted, giving her pieces a quite appearance whilst still being loud because of the content.

Giles' work is interesting to me mainly because of the content, and because I can relate to it in terms of interest. It enables me to continue to think about bring forwards my theme of flowers and fashion whilst still incorporating them into this unit. 

My first college was about trying to see how different textures came together into one piece. Overall, I feel like it has an industrial feel to it. I used a mixture of different types of paper, such as sugar paper, a thick brown paper, and normal with printer paper, and mixed it with things such as sand, scrim, a magazine cut out and paint. 

I places them in such a way that it didn't look organised, yet that it was still thought out, and that everything on the piece was equally placed. 

I also added two quotes, one of which that I ripped to make it look rougher, and the other which I burnt slightly around the edges.

Based off of my first collage, I made another on a small scale whilst incorporating some different materials, such as leaves, while mainly keeping the rest of the materials used the same so that they would follow a theme.

This collage was mainly made up using newspaper clippings, brown paper which was covered in footprints, scrim and leaves. I wanted to create a collage that almost looked like a ransom note, which I did by ripping different letters to create one word, whilst also looking quite industrial. 

The content itself was just to test using different materials and how to apply them in a way that would achieve the desired look I wanted, while the materials were particularly chosen to represent different sectors within the Creative Industry, such as Architecture, Craft, Media and Journalism, and Floristry.

Originally, I wanted to see how I could create a raised up effect that wasn't actually visible from a distance. To get this effect, I used a hot glue gun and applied the glue from the center going outwards in varying lengths and directions, however, because of the way I applied it, it was still rather flat and didn't add much texture. 

I then started adding string in the same pattern with varying lengths with PVA glue. The texture was a lot better, since the feeling of the string changed depending on how much glue had covered it, so in some places it was still reasonably soft, while in others it was hard and rough.

To add colour, I mixed ink with white paint and watered it down slightly, and then splattered the paint over the board

I continued adding different coloured paint over it using the same process, and then, to add some more texture onto it, I stuck some tacks in a spiral shape around the board which I then wrapped a different coloured string around.

This collage was simple and muted, and didn't have much physical texture, however, I felt that the different layers of paint added texture on its own. 

To make this collage, I chose some different colours of tissue paper and also used a thick brown paper, simply cut them all to different sizes and stuck them on. I was going for a rough but that still uniform appearence, and so applied them all so that there was an equal amount of each colour and the spacing between each colour was roughly the same. In the middle, I stuck one of my quotes.