The Printed Peanut / Louise Lockhart
Louise Lockhart was a visiting lecturer in my first year of degree 3 years ago and I've been fascinated and has followed her practice ever since. I especially really like her handmade approach and combining that with digital (scanning and overlaying with textures( with give a more modern and contemporary aesthetic white still retaining a vintage and evocative tone of voice. Her process is one that I would like to adopt more as , from my COP research, the element of the hand-made retains a sense of "aura" and ownership of the artist / illustrator. I too would like to mix vintage aesthetics, synonymous with Christie, with a more modern and contemporary execution.
Japanese Notan Art
Japanese Notan art aims to balance light and dark to create harmony within an image and often uses positive and negative images and shapes through paper cutting. With minimal / no colour and texture involved there is no distraction. While I will be using two colours plus stock as part of the brief, I want to be able to create a sense of balance and harmony in my zine composition pages for the most part - or do I? I could turn this completely on its head and create something chaotic. Reverse-Notan for a chaotic train journey!
Este McLoed
Unlike the first two parts of my contextual research, Este is not a college or cut shape artist or illustrator - however these works could easily be translated to that process. There is a sense of balance to these illustrations and I am particularly drawn to the green and blue tones... would I want to use these in my own zine to reflect poisons? The textures give a sense of he old and the vintage. I particularly like the use of repeated pattern and motif and draw home that sense of balance and harmony within the composition. I could create could shapes and repeat them digitally.
