Life Drawing

Today's lesson in life drawing. 29th September 2016.

Julia Sent - Photographer

Julia Sent is a still life photographer, who takes photographs of everyday things from fruit and vegetables to seaside shells. This photographer links to my studio artwork, I am doing currently over the next few weeks.  Also, Julia Sent inspires me in how to use the black background represents the negative space, as for the positive space, I use a variety of bright and dull colours to represent the positive space.

Julia Sent website:

http://juliasentphotography.com/artist.asp?ArtistID=21629&AKey=V9MPW2H6

One key inspiration point by Julia Sent, is that with my own photographs and artwork I got to make should that there is a balance between the positive and negative space. As keeping this balance will allow me to add depth and contrast to my pieces of art.

Future Practice Thoughts

Writing about a professional jounral to inform me about my future practice?

Details:


Name of the margazine - British Journal of Photography
                                         (Established 1854)
                                         Modern Myths
                                         Issue: 7849
                                         July 2016


The margazine is aimed at anyone, who has an strong interest within photography and within the magazine there are articles and photos by some photographers taken around the world. For example in the July 2016 article; pages 52 to 65, the Olympic task where Camille Vivier's photographs of the Olympic Boulevard, Los Angeles on about the architecture and sculptures.

In additionally, this magazine is clearly aimed at the Photography Industry in mainly Arts, Crafts and Design, although could be aimed at people in Media Industries.  As this magazine would give advice and inspiration to the magazine's readers, as to help them in a range of ways, like ideas for taking their next photograph or new ways of taking photographs.


What made me be attracted to the magazine?


The front cover of the margazine, is the main attractiation that pulled me to look at the margazine.
As the still photograph of the flapping colourful bird caught my eye as I was interested to found more information about the front cover photograph.

Also, another way that I was attracted to this magazine was when I was having a quick look through the pages inside the Photography magazine. But then I stopped at to look at the variety of camera shots on pages 22-23, showing the representation of life and nature in Shanghai, China. Furthermore the front cover image of the flapping, colourful bird was also on these pages too, as I found out more information out about this animal.

Writing up an article in the magazine.

In the magazine, (pages 30-31), talks about Jordan Madge and his photography. I have learnt from reading the long article on these pages, that the rural outer suburbs of Melbourne, where Jordan Madge lived, had a big influence on the way, he takes his photographs.
As Jordan Madge is a graduate in documentary photography, he takes his approach is 'slow-burning' with 'an appetite for Victorian landscapes'. For his latest project, he reflected this 'Victorian landscape' background, by using the real-life disappearance of a girl in central Victoria as his starting point.

The project 'Red Herring', Jordan Madge developed his interest to 'in found imagery' to make the project to explore the process of visual storytelling, that the viewer has to piece the imagery together to tell the 'fragmented' narrative of the 'real-life mystery'.

Jordan Madge made the narrative to this project 'fragmented', as the imagery makes the story go backwards and forwards between the fact and fiction of the narrative to the project.
As he stated for the research of the girl's story and disappearance to collect the facts, he went to different places and taken photos of anything to help with telling the story of the girl's disappearance.

Photo reference
https://s3-eu-central-1.amazonaws.com/centaur-wp/creativereview/prod/content/uploads/2016/08/BJP-Modern-Myths.jpg

Umberto Boccioni

Umberto Boccioni from Shaun Hardwick

H.R.Giger 'Hans Rudolf "Ruedi" Giger

H.R.Giger from Shaun Hardwick

Kurt Jackson

Kurt Jackson from Shaun Hardwick

John Ruskin

John Ruskin from Shaun Hardwick

Jim Dine

Jim Dine from Shaun Hardwick

Anne Strokes

Anne Strokes from Shaun Hardwick

Who are you and where do you come from?

My name is Shaun Hardwick, I have been an artist for the past four years.
I have created a series of artwork for both my GCSE's and A-Levels, which includes drawings and paintings of landscapes, reptiles, crabs, fish and pop cans throughout my time in the four years of art and design education.
My art and design education came from studying fine art for the four years at Tupton Hall School's Art Department. Also, I studied and gain more designing techniques from Product Design and Media Studies.

In my space time, I like to be outdoors taking photographs with my Nikon DSLA camera and mobile phone of everyday things  around me either if its natural or man-made.
Currently, I am on a foundation diploma art and design course at Chesterfield College studying further art and design techniques.

My artwork from both GCSE's and A-Levels has been influenced by a numerous amount of different artists, who has made me to work in new, developing ways. But the main six artists, who has influenced me the most as well as I am very interested in their own artwork personal; is the following:

- Kurt Jackson (AS-Level Coursework Final Piece)
- Anne Stokes (A2-Level Coursework)
- H.R.Giger  (A2-Level Coursework Final Piece)
- John Ruskin (A2-Level Coursework)
- Vincent Van Gogh (A2-Level Coursework)
- Umberto Boccioni (A2-Level Exam Final Piece)