Artist Sheets

For my artist sheets I looked at John Tenniel and Sue Walton. I chose these artists as they both inspire me in different ways for the theme of my project.

I looked at john Tenniel as he was the original artist of Alice in wonderland, I loved his used of sketchy lines. For my sheet I used a delicate rainbow background so it didn’t take too much away from the main concept of the sheet. I used print outs of his work and then furthered some of them into my own drawings. I feel the parts I drew I achieved a high standard in reflections of John Tenniel’s work. I used fine liners to create the same effect; it was all crosshatched for details and built up lines for simple outlines. I personally feel this sheet is simple but yet effective and shows the artist that has inspired me.

An artist who has also inspired me is Sue Walton, an artist whose focus is mainly on material such as felt. Recently she had produced an installation piece at an exhibition which was a reflection of Alice in wonderland called “The Jabberwocky.” It was a mixed material/ technique installation piece which was where my main inspiration has come from within this project. Her use of felt really has captured me and it’s made me want to look further into exceeding my skills within felting. She doesn’t use much colour which to me is quite nice as it’s something extremely extravagant but something so stripped back and simple. I would personally like to see more colours within my piece. For this sheet I used to idea of using just two colours, the original colour of the paper with a watercolour dripping of the pink she uses. I experimented on this sheet with paint some of her pieces with gouache and creating small pieces which reflect her work, such as a felt piece with embroidery and added material and the dyed tied fabric. For the felt piece I embroidery with white cotton onto felt adding extra detailing of felt and adding cream muslin to either end of the piece, I feel I have really reflected Sue Walton’s work here, I enjoyed experimenting with the felt in a new way also. For the tied fabric I used cotton, calico and cream muslin dyed with Pink MX5B the slightly stuffed with pieces of felt and tied, I don’t feel I created the same look as Sue Walton but I feel I have come closer to understanding her work and I’m happy with the contextual experimenting achieved.