Rob Hodgson
Rob's 'Funny Buggers' zine is full of basic shapes married with texture to create a set of quirky and endearing characters. Each one has their own personality through variables of facial and body features; altering where the elements are placed will give a different personality. A big nose, big ears or a big smiley mouth present a silly and likeable character. A character with a tiny face and a large body equally has a sense of charm about it! I really like how basic texture, mark making and shape has created a breadth of characters for a zine and I can really get a feel for Rob's tone of voice - experimental, nonsensical at times, delightful, eccentric.
Eric Carle
Who doesn't love The Very Hungry Caterpillar? It has been one of my favourite children's books for a very long time and has a wonderful sense of nostalgia and sentimentality attached to each page. As I've grown older, I have begun to look at the work differently and appreciate Carle's practice and way of working. His bright saturated paints sing against the white backgrounds he uses, and the slight variations in paint thickness as it has dried gives a sense of light and shadow. This is particularly charming when considering subject matter of delicate petals or butterfly wings where sunlight may be poking through. There is such a crafting with care and labour of love quality to the pictures which really shows in the precision and execution of the pieces.
No comments:
Post a Comment