Artist Inspiration: Lianne Harrison

Lianne Harrison

I like these pieces where the paper people are standing. I think it is really interesting as it looks like a pop-up.

An analysis into the work of Lianne Harrison; an illustrator and designer.

The work of Lianne Harrison has been used for various editorials and publishing and is mainly mix media pieces, using various techniques to create an images. Within her work there is illustration, collaging, paper and layering in order to layout the different materials.

I like this work because it is quirky, but it also appeals to my sense of touch as well as sight. The use of mix materials appear in a way that their are various surfaces which feel different. The body of the person look like felt whilst the beek looks like paper. When I firsted saw this piece I thought about how each section of the character felt. I like that there is a range of materials used because it involves more than once sense of the viewer. If I choose my idea to create an artist book I will take this into consideration, as I want t present my photography in a way which stands out to the viewer. If I am to create an interactive box instead then this idea of a mix of materials will be useful when thinking of surface designs.

The use of colour is important in this piece. There is a lot of green and yellows used to create the person on the page. Greens are also used to colours the title of the article. I think matching the images on the page with the text ensures that the page is not too busy, and it is more easy on the eye. Leaving a lot of white space around the image also contributes to this as the article is more easier to read if the image that goes with it is not too busy. The use of green throughout the page goes with the "theme" of the article which I believe is 'Wellbeing'. When thinking about wellbeing I think healthy and natural, the colour green is associated with these words,

This piece is likely to be used for a magazine because of the way it has been laid out. The text in the bottom-right coner look like the beginnings of an articles, and the larger green text looks like the title for the piece. Looking at this work helped me to see how the layout of work is important, but also how useful it is to have colour coordinationing with the theme of the piece.

My Lianne Harrison inspired work

Below are my Lianne Harrison inspired pieces. First I photographed portrait images, then cut out newspaper pieces, and some of my other photography work to create collaged photographic pieces. I think my pieces are slightly more humorous than Harrison's, but I still hoped to keep the same layered effect. I added hand written text into some of the pieces to try and make Harrison's work into more my style. The mix of colours were to make the piece more interesting, so I used black and white photography and then put coloured newspaper parts upon it. I think this helped to make the piece more dimensional, although if I added different surface textures like Lianne Harrison the work would be more eye-catching, as well as more appealing to the other senses.

I do like collaging and I think this is a technique I will try again, as I like playing with photography that I have done and transforming it into something else.

Photographer - David LaChapelle

David LaChapelle

David LaChapelle's work is very different from what I have seen before. The mix of fashion and the surrealism works well to produce really eye-catching images. I like this work, because it stands out. The colours are bold and bright helping to bring out the images. These series of images are from LaChapelle's "Nuns and Maids" photography series created in 1999.

This image is of a lady dress in black laid down. She is dressed in a nun style outfit which is related to purity and cleaness. It is quite religious, but she is laid on contrasting colours. I really like LaChapelle's use of contrast, as he has put something religious like a nun upon various objects which could be considered less holy. The use of the bright colours such as pinks and red for the background make it stand out from the nun in black. I think this suggests that contrast between the objects and the nun. There is a lot of detail within the image, so when I first look at it I begin to look deeper, spotting more and more objects.

Source of image: http://www.davidlachapelle.com/

Artist Inspiration: Hattie Stewart

Hattie Stewart

Above is the work of illustrator Hattie Stewart, who uses various methods to create interesting and bold pieces. Her clients span from House of Holland to Adidas, to Diesel and Illustrated People.

This is an example of Hattie Stewart's magazine work, where she has drawn onto magazine covers to create a new image. Stewart's work is clever and her style is unique. When I first look at a piece by her I want to move closer and get a deeper look, as she adds smaller patterns and designs to create a bigger picture.

I like the work of artist Hattie Stewart, and was inspired by her style of work so went on to create my own pieces. Using portrait photographs I had previously taken, I black fine liner on tracing paper to draw what I wish to be placed upon the photograph. I then uploaded it onto Adobe Illustrator, so I could further edit the photograph in the style of Hattie Stewart. Using live trace and the expand tool i was able edit the picture I created in the style of Hattie Stewart. Below are my pieces and the final outcome I made through this process. I think this is a great way to design and edit portraits as it look quite skillful.

FINAL

Portraits of me

These are portraits of myself from when I was younger, which I altered in various ways. I used biro, makers, tracing paper and various other types of paper, to add effects onto my portrait. I was inspired by artist Francisco Nicolás who does photography, and adds shapes onto the landscapes. I like the mix of illustrations and photography, so trailing it helped me to experiement with how it would look. I think they turned out well, but could be neatened up.

Photographer

Yousuf Karsh

This is the work of Yousuf Karsh an American photographer, who used film to shoot all of his photographs. During Karsh photography career he was known worldwide, as he photographed dominate figures in politics, music, and media including Winston Chruchill, Grace Kelly, Mother Teressa and Muhammad Ali. Yousuf Karsh is one of the most successful portrait photographers of all time. He was well known and in high demand as a photographer but also a speaker, and his exhibitions of his work were shown all over the world.

I really like his work, and the photograph above is one of Yousuf Karsh’s most famous portraits. The photograph taken in 1941 was for American magazine ‘Life’. It shows the British prime minister of the time Winston Churchill two years into World War Two and said to be one of the most widely reproduced portraits in history. This photograph symbolized Britain as courageous and dominating to the rest of the world during the wartime, and highlights how a photograph can suggest a lot, and have an impact on so many.

The photograph has been done with film and is monochrome, I think it gives the photograph quite a raw effect, and makes it look quite natural. I think the lighting in this photograph has been done well, and really catches the subject in a great way. This photograph depicts Britain as a powerful country during wartime, and showing that they are not fearful against their enemies. I think may have been the aim of Yousuf Karsh and ‘Life’ magazine. Winston Churchill dominates the photograph taking up a lot of the space. Churchill poses quite powerfully and this illustrates him as an important figure.