Firstly, we looked at illustrators that used tools in the past that we were used to develop various illustrations.
She’s an English illustrator and author who publishes amazing illustrated children’s books and has made her own worldwide recognised style of hand lettering.
Marion’s children’s book illustrations are extraordinary. I think these are so trendy and are very different to most children’s books. As they’re made up of simplistic hand drawn shapes, with personality added to them.
We watched a short video taken from “The Me Book” showing how to make a leopard using your handprint. I found this video fascinating how she comes up with these ideas that can be easily approached for younger children.
Although, he is known for his large life-like paintings using bold acrylic paints. He became intrigued with technology and different ways of creating art, this brought him to using the Xerox photocopying machine. This gave Hockney a fast technique of printing, he could build layers, textures and colours.
I don’t know how to feel about this type of work, it is very unusual to look at. I prefer the living room scene compared to the self portrait, as there’s too much going on. There’s a variety of materials used, and I don’t think it works well together. The living room scene, using the one material colouring pencil is more appealing to look at.
Kurt’s concept behind his collages is that he collects rubbish from the streets and incorporate this into his work. His arrangement is important part of his work, while adding in printed media.