Artist's idea's and concepts.

All artist's have different ways of generating their ideas and how they get from their ideas to there final pieces, so in this blog post i will try my best to tell you about three artist's and how they do this.


Leonardo da Vinci.

Leonardo da Vinci was and is still one of the most well known artist. He is also very well known for his inventions and even death machines that have in some way crafted the world we all live in today.
Da Vinci may have started his ideas off as rough sketches, then when he decided that his ideas were okay he would then go on to write little bits about the, what they where for and how they would work, he would even write down some measurements and other pieces of writing beside his rough sketches and ideas.
In his art work i think he got his inspiration in his everyday life, then as he made rough sketches. then if he liked his idea he would begin to work on it making it better and more detailed until he was happy with his work, he then might even do a final piece on a bigger canvas making his work look the best it could.


Wassily Kandinsky

Wassily was a famous russian artist he was born 16th December 1866 and he died 19 December 1944. The fact he died also makes his piece of art a bit more expensive because none of his art work can be made again so this makes his paintings and artwork one of a kind.

Kandinsky generated his ideas from his neighbourhood, going into his church and other houses he realised there was a lot of bright and vibrant colours making him feel that he was apart of a painting so he painted these ideas. After he generated an idea he would draw some rough sketches until he had an idea that he liked, then he moved on to his final piece using bigger pieces of paper and canvases.

Pablo Picasso

Pablo Picasso was born 25th October 1881 and he died on the 8th April 1973. He is one of the worlds most famous painters. His artwork is well know throughout the whole world and his work is also very expensive. Most of Picasso's ideas were generated from poets, whilst reading poets' pieces he would sketch down ideas and then if he liked one more that the other he would paint his idea onto a canvas.

Visual Language Exercises

Over the past few weeks on every monday we were asked to make different things using illustrator called visual language exercises.
On week we had to make a YingYang symbol in illustrator so after Our teacher Showed us we were asked to make one on our own. 
This was mine.

Then on another lesson we were asked to create a colour wheel.

Here is mine.

Then on the same day we were also asked to create them as cubes i only managed to do one cube but with a bit more work it could have been better.

Here is mine.

And the last one we were asked to create a simple scene in illustrator with three layers mine is the moutains, the muddy hills and the waterfall.

Here is mine.

Then the last time we had to do these tasks we were asked to create a simple scene of a bird attacking a human but i had very little time to complete this in. But here it is anyway.

Then on another lesson we were asked to learn about Rhythm in art. Rhythm is used is many artist's work. Rhythm is where a sertain patter or object is repeated but exactly the same, but there is also different types of rhythm 'regular rhythm', 'flowing rhythm' and 'progressive rhythm'.

Here are some examples of these in some real life situations.

Flowing Rhythm.
Flowing rhythm is a patter, following a general shape but no exactly the same as the others, here is a good example.

Regular Rhythm

Then there is regular rhythm, regular rhythm is the same shape/object that is repeated so it is exactly the same. Here is another good example.

Progressive rhythm.

Progressive rhythm is where an object or shape changes over time and or space, as shown in this picture below.

Then after learning about it we were asked to create our own types of rhythm.

Here is mine.

Art Work

This image contains grafitti writing on a wall.

I believe that the hidden image is that life goes to fast so if we dont stop to look around we could miss alot.

This image makes me feel really confussed because of the flying bits of paint.

The optical illusion is that it looks like the writing is flying due to the bits of paint smudged along to give the effect of blur.

This image relate to culture today due to the high amout of vadalism and grafitti on our streets today.

This image consists of an old man accidently spitting out his denturs whilst his glasses are falling off.

The hidden image in this image is that your teeth can easily be lost so take care of them.

This image makes me laugh because the face the old man is quite funny.

The optical illusion is the fact it looks like the denturs are flying at you along with loads of saliva.

This image relates to culture and modern society today because of the amout of old people and how they are so clumsy.

This image is of a dinosaur made up of buildings and skyscrapers.

The hidden image is that the business side of life can turn evil and consume and destroy other things such as smaller businesses.

This image makes me wonder about what would really happen if this happened.

The optical illusion is that the dinosaur is made out of buildings.

This image relates to culture today because all today is, is big buildings and landmarks.

This image is of a beheaded animal or thing crawling up the stairs with his head in its a door.

The hidden image is that you can easily loose yourself.

The image makes me feel ill due to the wrinkles of the thing and the beheading part of the neck.

The optical illusion of this image is that it seems as if it is crawling up the stairs and into a door.

The image relates to society today because it is saying that we can easily loose ourselves amongst society.

This image is of a vampire biting on some graffiti writing.

The hidden image is that we all can easily be infected by anything.

This image makes be feel faint because i hate blood and vampires are also quite sickly.

The optical illusion is that it actually looks like the vampire is biting into the writing.

This image relates to society today because of the vampire phenomenon 'Twilight' and how everyone is so obsessed with it.

This image is of a light trial in the middle of a road at night.

The hidden image in this photo is that light goes to fast.

The optical illusion in this picture is that it looks like cars are going into the distance very fast leaving the light trial behind.

This picture relates to society today because we are all very mobile, we tend to travel around in cars and maybe we go to fast, maybe we miss life because we go through it to fast and not to stop and take the time to admire it.

Urban signs and symbols

This image literally means that there are horses being ridden about in that are so go carefully.

this makes me feel cautious, it makes me want to be careful and look out for horse and riders.

This sign literally means no entry, meaning you can not enter.

This image makes me feel like I should be careful not to go down or in that place where this sign is placed.

This sign means no right turn sign meaning you can not make a right hand turn.

This sign means there are frogs about, so you should go careful and make sure you dont hit one or run one over.

Scientific images or optical illusions

This image contains 2 groups of dots.

The scientific effect of this image is that the two middle dots appear to be different sizes but in fact they are exactly the same size.

This image contains a drawing a an animal that can either be seen as a duck or a rabbit.

The scientific effect of this picture is that from different angles and however you look at this image it can either appear to be a rabbit or a duck.

This image contains an elephant.

The scientific effect of this image is that the elephant appears to have more that four feet in fact it looks as if he has eight. It also looks like his front legs are at the back and vies versa.

This image consists of two lines with arrow heads on them.

The scientific effect of this image is that the arrow heads on one of the lines makes it to appears as if the line is longer than the other when it fact there are exactly the same length.

Historic images

This image is a image of JFK making a speech to congress about the space race.

This image make me proud, proud that the human race has accomplished one of its greatest feats, to walk on the moon.

Back then to go to the moon was unheard of, this speech brought america together in a time of crisis, they managed to travel to the moon. 

This image is of President Eisenhower giving a very famous speech after the attack on pearl harbour.

This image makes me feel sad about all the lives that were lost on the attack of pearl harbour.

Back then this was an act of war, this made the american people realise that they could not ignore the war any more.

This is an image/painting of the 'Great fire of London'

This image makes me feel sad for all the homes that were burnt down and all the valuables that were lost.

Back then this image was a dreadful reminder of the catastrophe that was the great fire of London.

This is an image of children running away from a napalm strike in Vietnam.

This image makes me feel very sad for the children that are hurt and burning and the fact they lost there homes in the napalm attack which was trying to flush out the Vietcong.