Skip to main content

Piranesi

Giovanni Battista Piranesi. 

Instead of looking up his history/ who he was / what he was about, I decided to look at his work first.

The Sawhorse, ca. 1761
From the series Le Carceri d’invenzione, pl. xii

I find this etching very absorbing, i find the use of light and dark tones very attractive. This etching really pulls me in, because i find it quite cryptic / mysterious. It makes me want to ask a lot of questions...

It actually makes me think of a game a play called Skyrim, and I think this is why I am so drawn too it.



I wonder what drew him to create these. I also find these oddly peaceful in a way to view, because of the detail and also because of the tonal use, it makes it appear Very still and quite.

I have been thinking a lot about etchings and now I have tried it out myself a little (not with the same technique) I am finding an immense appreciation for the process of it. The amount of pure skill I have seen while writing these reports has been eye opening.


I think the thing that really interests / excites me is the fact you are carving into something, scratching and taking away but, can create images that express light, air and space. The purity of line, also I think is astonishing, it gives me the freedom to have more confidence in the marks I make, compared to say a pencil, that i can rub out because a scratch is permanent. But I can see the finished result can resemble the marks made by a pencil or even chalk in some cases because it can be so light or dark, i thought this one below was a great example of this!



I learned he always considered himself half an architect, i can see why. The skill this man had was just breath taking! I would really like to expand on the etchings i have done after seeing these, and try something like an scene or a still life.

I found out he is more well known for his etchings of buildings, but i find the interior etchings more interestng

i have really enjoyed looking at these etchings and it has made me really want to expand and try to do more of my own etchings and really considering the shadows. 



Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Alice Potter

. Digital Media . Illustration . Surface Pattern . Alice Potter   I decided to start my research with Alice Potter. I was interested in Alice Potter's work because it is very different to what i usually look at.  Potter is a London based freelance illustrator and children's wear print designer. Design is something i am not sure i have an eye for, i do appreciate it but i don't tend to find myself attracted to it, or give it as much thought as i probably should. http://alicepotter.co.uk https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/AlicePotter I love the colours in this one above, i like how simple it is, but it still translates as an apple. I like the dot print i think it adds a kind of sweetness to the design as well as add something to the flatness of it. I really like these, i love how happy they look because of the use of colour.  Potter draws her work out in her sketch book and then moves onto illustrator where she uses the pen ...
Post a Comment
Read more

Typography Investagation.

We have started a new unit, typeface and letterforms. I found this very daunting, because, it is a completely new, huge world to me that i have never explored... We watched a film about Helvetica and it was very interesting but like i said i feel really overwhelmed. I wanted to know what happened before more in depth and really look into it as best i could. I decided to calm my nerves by looking into the history of type face, and to, i guess start at the beginning... for myself. while researching i found out that a lot of people agree that the creator of typography was a German man named Johannes Gutenberg. But before he came along books needed to be scribed, by hand. Obviously this was very time consuming, So Guttenberg created Blackletter. I think this was modeled after the scribe's. It has thick vertical lines, and thin horizontal connectors. This was hard for printing, as it looked very dense and squished together. So then came Roman Type, the first roman type was cr...
Post a Comment
Read more

Art & Design Portfolio - Sam Cornwell (Digital)

I decided to start my research on paper based and digital portfolios by first looking at a digital portfolio. One artist who came into the college to do a talk was a photographer called Sam Cornwell, he took us through his digital portfolio. I wanted to think about why his portfolio was digital and not paper based. One of the biggest advantages of a digital portfolio is the accessibility of it. It is easy to send out to employers or people wishing to view it. It is digital so it can easily be send to someone via email or put on a USB and accessed that way. Another reason is unlike a paper based portfolio there is more than one, it is easy to dispatch without spending money on paper to print. It is also instant, you might have to wait a few days for a paper port folio to be sent by mail or spend money on travel to bring it to the person wishing to view it. With a digital portfolio one click and it is sent! I went onto Sam Cornwell's page and found out his portfolio is on his web...
Post a Comment
Read more