Jasper Johns - Numbers in Colours 1958 - 59

I have worked in the style of my chosen artist Jasper Johns, I have experimented the use of contrasting colours making very expressive marks and symbols. As I have been exploring the ideas of Bags Of Interest, I was undertaking observational studies of bags of money. This is were these Pound, Dollar and Euro currency symbols come from.

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Duncan Grant-Rug Design 1913

This bag is made out of an old vest of mine,
I snipped off 42 centimetres for the width to be 20 centimetres as 1 centimetres is used for the seam allowance and I snipped off 26 centimetres for the height to be 12 centimetres, as again the 1 centimetres goes to the seam allowance.

Artist Influence: Duncan Grant (1913)

Title: Rug Design
Materials and Techniques: Hand-knotted woollen pile 

Duncan James Corrowr Grant was born on 21 January 1885 and died on 8 May 1978. He was a British painter and designer of textiles, pottery and theatre sets and costumes. He attended school in England from 1894, where he was educated at Hillbrow School,
a preparatory school in Rugby, and St Paul's School in London.
Reference: (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duncan_Grant)

In 1913 Roger Fry founded the Omega Workshops, a group of artists designing furniture, pottery, carpets, textiles and stained glass. Duncan Grant designed pottery and textiles, like his carpet, for the Workshops. The outbreak of war… 

( http://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O89728/carpet-grant-duncan/ )

I have analysed the tiny repetitive lines on this Rug Design, which I consider very powerful visually because of the quantity of it on overall. The long stretched rectangles covers up half of the overall design which balances the equation of half long stretched rectangles and half repetitive small dashes.
There are seven overall long rectangles three in the middle with same colours and two on each sides of the middle three. Again this balances the look of the design.
All the slanted dashes are slanted to the same direction which is quite significant, as it can indicate the signal to walk on the right side of the rug when people walk pass each other coming from both directions.

I have picked up the technique and applied it onto my own work.

As I had taken photographs of wallets with bank notes and coins previously, to get some observational studies of bags of interest. The money currency caught my attention, which I have obtained and applied it onto my bag. 

I have employed the stretched rectangle also, to give my bag the balanced equation.

Artist/ Designer: Loretta

Title: Euro and Global Gladstone Bags in Green Geo

Artist/Designer: Duncan Grant
Title: Rug design

http://www.carpetbags.co.uk/bags/euroglad_greengeo.php#

Here is an image of a carpet design bag, which I found it on an online shopping website called “Carpet Bags”. I found this quite similar to the Rug design work produced by my artist Duncan Grant. A technique I used to compare the two designs at the very beginning is by squinting my eyes to match the two designs by two different designers. The colours in both textile designs are very similar despite Grant’s Rug Design has more portions of red (colour).

Loretta and the influence on carpet bags:

“In 1974 I was asked if I had any ideas for items for sale for our local charity stall that friends were setting up together at a local country horse fair. It didn’t take much thinking about........”

(http://www.carpetbags.co.uk/about.php )

Bags Of Interest

First off, I sketched a quick observational drawing of my wallet with a blue pen. I figured, it wasn't a creative piece of work and so I took a photograph and edited the image on a photo editor.

- Photo image edited on photo-editor app called Aviary.

The colour of the ink worked well on the background as it spread around the wallet giving it a new advanced look.

I went back on my sketchbook, then I decided to replace the pen drawing with collage technique, as I had done quite a bit of collage techniques on my last project I felt that I quite confident with collage technique.

I used a bag of cookies from Sainsbury's as the material to assemble the collage.

The cookie bag is also a "bag of interest" which is my starting point theme.

The two bags above, both are bags of interest.

Here is the assembled collage so far.

Matisse- Project for "The Strana Forandola 

Digestives Biscuit Packaging (Bag) 

KFC Spicy Wings Bag

As I reviewed my ideas on this piece of work, I asked for suggestions from my teacher, friends and families. I received the same feedback from all of them. Then I decided to refine and develop this particular piece. I covered up the text "Ernest Jones" by layering with bits of Nuneaton newspaper & applying acrylic paint over it.

Artist Influence Experiments

I stared off with an observational drawing of a camera which sat next to its bag. I desired to make my bag of interest study a creative concept, this then led me to draw the bag so it looked like the camera was in the mid air. For instance while I am taking the camera out the bag.

I studied the bag inside and out to consider how I will put together the two objects, while I held the camera in the mid air, I captured the existence vividly in my mind.
I fired off with full concentration holding the still memory that I captured in my mind's eye of the bag and the camera in the mid air.

Bag of Fish (Rainbow Trout)

I first started off with the theme "Tradition" before I got the options to choose from the controlled assessment booklet.

As I had decided I wanted to explore my ideas entering the path "bags of interest".
I used white emotion to cover up the annotations of the tradition concept o the fish.

Here is an observational drawing of a shopping bag.

This piece needed refining, so I decided to add a plastic bag over it.

I refined this piece of work again and I completely changed the appearance but keeping the same intention, "bags of interest".

Very first thing I did was, I took the bag of, then

I added bags of texts and prints of bank notes on top of the drawing layering with some white emotion to blend everything in.

Observational drawing of a money bag.

I have carefully choosen this particular object as the money bag is a bag of interests; Bank notes, identity cards, bank cards, access cards and many more interests.

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