Vincent Van Gogh

Cafe terrace at night by Van Gogh Portrait

Evaluation of my snowboard design

Evaluation

This is the evaluation about my second assignment brief. Assignment is about creating our own snowboard design. This assignment wasn’t that hard as the first projects because in the first project, it was like the very first experience of making my own projects and analyze about my works and other works. So that time was really hard for me but on this one I kind of know what I should do and need to do. While I was doing my first assignment sheet my teacher told me that next assignment is going to be creating snowboard designs.

I was wondering how we were going to do it our snowboard designs and was very exciting and interesting. I got the assignment brief after the half term, after I got the assignment brief I didn’t know how to make it. I didn’t know how to create my own design as well, but in my 2D lesson my teacher taught us how to make print making. At that time I didn’t know why we had to do lots of print making but I did a lot of print making as I can.

When all the print making dried, my teacher gave us the layout of the snowboard. I cut of the bit that I don’t need and use other bit to get my snowboard designs. I put it on the print making paper, and get the designs. I had 38 designs of the snowboard that I made it. Some are from my print making, some are from magazines and the other bits are I drew it on my own.

Snowboard designs are not easy as the first project, I have to think what kind of designs I should do will look good. While I was doing the projects I didn’t have much difficulty as like the first assignment. I knew that every assignment/projects I need to do research and analyze about the artist and my own works. I looked at the artists’ works, if I’m like their works I started looking for their history, biography and works. I done the research of the 6 artists and I wrote it on my blog http://maymtk.blogspot.com/.

I drew some pictures of the artists’ work as well in my sketch book. My works are not really connecting with my design but the shade, the colors, patterns, lines and structure are kind of relating to them. I am always wanted to improve my works; I never think my works are good that’s why I always try my best to get a good works like others. I am always learning from artists, friends and teachers how they do it to get the great works, good grade etc.

In this project I had learn how to make print making, learn about how to draw with ink and stick together on the paper, learn about shading the right place, I learn a lot about perspective drawing, understanding about the secondary colors, values, tertiary colors, tints and the shades. I also drew some still life drawing in my sketchbook. I am not happy with my designs for this because I didn’t have enough time and I want to do it properly to my final design like on the big paper or the board like my first project.

However I tried my best again for this projects, and I will always going to try my best for my every projects to get the grade that I want. I always spend more time with my works, and thinking what kind of design I should do. I think I done it well on this project even thought I didn’t have my good final design. And I want to do it a lot more and do good designs if I can have an extra time.

I've done my final pieces for my snowboard, I inspired the 2 artists work that I like most. I done one final piece inspired by the Piet Moderian, and the Murakami Takashi's work, I copied some of them work that I like most then I created on my own way and made my snowboard design. I have my own city scape, I done it in many ways first I traced some bit of the building that I like after that I photo copied it. 

After I photo copied it I started shaded in that I wanna cut off, I cut off the bit that I shaded. Then I put it on the color paper, white paper and stick it on them. It turns out really great, before i done that I took some bit from my city scape to create my snowboard design. I done 2 snowboard design which its related with my city scape. This project was not hard as the first one but it also confused to think of an idea to get final piece. I'm kinda happy with my final pieces but I want to improve more to get a better grade and look good.

Piet Mondrain

Piet Modrian, his birth name was Pieter Cornelis Mondrian. He was born on 7th of March in 1872 at Amersfoort, Netherlands. His nationality was Dutch, his art is all about painting. He is the really great artist, his art works are look very simple but hard to draw. He done a lot works in his mother land, Paris, London and New York. I didn't really have much done search about this artist but I have seen all his works.

This is one of his work that I like, a product of his De Stijl period. Also made known to children on the PBS show Arthur in the second episode of the second season "Binky Barnes, Art Expert". This is a really nice picture, painting is really good and neat. The colors are my favorite, looks very simple. I drew this picture same as his in my sketchbook on the last page 80. Many people are using this design for nail art, trainer, clothes, cake, make up box, sock and everything. This is a popular design of his work. Even my final piece of snowboard design is has the same design as his work but I changed the colour different to what I like. I'm gonna improve it to look getting better than now, I'm gonna draw the back of the snowboard as well.

 Piet Modrian's A journey through modern art video. This video is a short stories of his works that he had done in his life while he was a life. He was died on 1st February 1944 at Manhattan, New York United states. He was the really old artist that I know, other artist aren't that old and they are not the same style as his. Every artist has the different style on their own but his art work are really old style and the modern style.

Maurits Cornelis Escher (2D work)

 Maurits Cornelis Escher was born on 17 June 1898 in Leeuwarden, Netherlands. His Nationality is Dutch.
Escher's first print of an impossible reality was Still Life and Street, 1937. His artistic expression was created from images in his mind, rather than directly from observations and travels to other countries. Well known examples of his work also include drawing hand. In his graphic art, he portrayed mathematical relationships among shapes, figures and space. He did print making, reactivity and the natures and architectural stuffs.

His art are influenced by Giovanni Battista Piranesi
This picture is  Drawing Hand, 1948 by Maurits Cornelis Escher.  This is one of my favorite picture of him. I like this picture because it looks like real, the shade shaded perfectly. His art are really hard to draw. He is one of the artist that I like, I like his art works because they are hard to draw and different with any other artist works.

Escher's Relativity (1953) This picture is really cool. It gives me headache first time when I look at this picture because it looks so confuse. But its very architectural and drawing was really great. 
I drew some pictures of his work in my book on page 75 and 77.

Giogio De Chirico (2D)

Giorgio De Chirico is Italian painter and graphic artist and he was born in Volvo, Greece on july 7 1888. He attended the drawing class of the Polytechnic School in Athens, later he and his brother became a famous composer, painter and writer where he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts from 1906 to 1909. He painted fantastic ideal architecture and city and landscapes views, strictly following the rules of perspectives, in them he places single statues.

The artist focused more and more on the artistic quality of his paintings, he made the first painting of the "Piazze d'Italia" in 1912. This is really good picture of his work, I like this picture because it looks like the real picture taken and everything is perfect like the way the colour shade and everything.





This picture is call "Love Song (1914)" by De Chirico, this image is in the public domain in the United States. De Chirico is best known for the paintings he produced between 1909 and 1919, in 1913 his work noticed by Pablo Picasso and Gluillaume Apollinaire, he also sold his first painting, "The Red Tower (1913)". In 1914, through Guillaume Apollinaire, he met the art dealer Paul Guillaume with whom he signed a contract for his artistic output.

He returned to Italy in May 1915, he enlisted in the Italian army, but he was considered unfit for work and assigned to the hospital at Ferrara. He continued to paint, and in 1918, he transferred to Rome. From 1918 his work was exhibited extensively in Europe. In 1919 he published an article "The Return of Craftsmanship", in 1924 he married his first wife and they moved to Paris. 1928 he held his first exhibition in New York City and shortly afterwards London. He wrote essays on art and in 1929 published a novel entitled Hebdomeros, the Metaphysicain.

In 1930 he had second wife and they moved to Italy in 1932,he done a lot of works after the year after 1930. He remained extremely prolific even as he approached his 90th year, he died in Rome on November 20, 1978, his home for over thirty years.
De Chirico's the Red Tower (1913) This picture look simple and easy but it isn't that easy to draw. I don't have much done of his work in my sketchbook but I like his work and he is one of my favorite artist. He has done a lot of architectural stuffs too that is why I like him. I did draw one picture of his work in my sketchbook on page 76.

 This is the slideshow video of De Chirico's works. 

Keith Haring (2D)

Keith Haring was born on 1958 Reading, Pennsylvania, Haring grew up in kutztown and was interested in art from an early age. He developed a love for drawing at a very early age. He was learning basic cartooning skills from his father and from the other popular artist around him.


He graduated High School in 1976 at Ivy school of professional Art in Pittsburgh (commercial art school). While he was in Pittsburgh, Haring continued to study and worked on his own and in 1978 had a solo exhibition of his works at the Pittsburgh Art and crafts Center.
Later the same year he moved New York City and attended in the school of visual Arts. Between 1980s and 89s he achieved international recognition and participated in numerous group and solo exhibitions. His first solo exhibitions was held at the West bath Painters Space in 1981 and in 1982 he made his Soho Gallery. April 1986 he opened the Pop Shop, a retail store in Soho selling, T-shirts, toys, posters, buttons, magnets bearing his images.

     Also held drawing workshops for children in school and in museums at New York, Amsterdam, London, Tokyo and Bordeaux. He produced imagery for many literacy programs and other public service campaigns.In 1980s his work was featured in over 100 solo and group exhibitions. 1986 alone, he was the subject of more than 40 newspaper and magazines Articles. He died when he was age 31 in New York City 1990 on February 16 but his memorial was held on May 4 1990.

In this pictures it looks like each characters are doing what they want to do. Look very peaceful and they seen having fun of what they are doing. He has used different color for each cartoon characters.
I have done the same thing or similar pictures of his work and like his works in my sketchbook on page 71 to 74.  I like his works because his works are about cartoon characters like Malarkey but they both have different style.I've seen these characters of Keith works on the TV advert.
I decided to his work because I think everyone will like it and plus the colours of his work are making people happy.

Murakami Takashi (2D)

      Murakami Takashi was born in Tokyo Japan 1963. He works in fine arts media such as painting and sculpture as well as what is conventionally considered commercial media fashion, merchandise, and animation and is known for blurring the line between high and low art. He received BFA, MFA and PhD from Tokyo National University of Art and Music. He has had recent solo shows at Marianne Boesky Gallery (New York 2003), foundation Cartier Pourl' art comtemporain Paris 2002, Museum of contemporary art (Tokyo 2001), museum of fine arts (Boston 2001), Galorie Emmanuel Peroration (Paris 2001).

"If my art looks positive and cheerful, I would doubt my art was accepted in the contemporary art scene. My art is not pop art. It is a record of the struggle of the discriminated people" Takashi Murakami


Takashi's works has been exhibited in prestigious museums all over the world, including the Tokyo metropolitan museum of art, the museum of fine arts, Boston; and a recent solo retrospective exhibition at the Bard college Museum of Art.
Murakami has also curated "Super Flat" an exhibition of contemporary artists.
From 2007 to 2009, Murakami’s first retrospective Murakami traveled from the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, to the Brooklyn Museum of Art in New York, the Museum für Moderne Kunst in Frankfurt, and lastly the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain. The exhibition earned wide-spread attention for, among other things, including a fully functioning Louis Vuitton boutique as one of the exhibits.
In 2008, Murakami was named one of Time magazine's "100 Most Influential People", the only visual artist included.

In September, 2010 Murakami became the third contemporary artist, and first Japanese, to exhibit his works at the Palace of Versailles in France, filling 15 rooms and the park with his sculptures, paintings, a decorative carpet, and lamps.

This is one of his work. This picture is very famous of his so I drew this picture in my sketchbook but I changed the colour of the background and changed some other bit that I don't like. I have done some works of his in my sketchbook on pages 52,53,56 and 68.  







 This is the video of his works in Japan, so many places and shop has his work pictures toys etc... This is the really great video.