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3d wire sculpture research

St. Louis, MO, United States

Craft Alliance is a non-profit art center whose mission is to inspire and educate the community in fine contemporary craft. This is accomplished by presenting innovative exhibitions of artists working today in wood, clay, fiber, glass and metal and this is one of the pieces created by Elizabeth Kiethline. She creates woven 3d wire pieces in an array of poses that really look like human poses..

Some of them are frozen in crawling positions, walking and running ectcetera.

I don't really like them though they're not interesting or doing anything that stands out and has no real artistic value other than that it is a 3d piece.

Andrea Kirkham.

An art teacher who posts her artwork online. 

This is called "In the mind of a.." I really like this

 piece and think it's artistically and aesthetically 

pleasing. It's small, messy and somehow creatively 

cute...  It doesn't appear to have much thought put into it at first

 glance but if you look closelyespecially in the leg or head 

region there are parts that look focused on with all the 

detailed spirals and details in the feet and torso there is 

definately alot of detail put into it which are lovely..

Here are some images of wire sculptures that I couldn't find any information about but I think are aesthetically pleasing and creative.

Rodchenko

Aleksander Rodchenko

Born on 23rd November 1891 in St. Petersburg, Aleksander Rodchenko was to become a huge part of the Russian constructivism movement and created art for a reason, with a purpose and not just to sit there and look pretty mainly to be a symbol for something important or to convey a certain message. Alongside another great artist of their time, Liubov Popova they began to re-form and re-shape Russian art for the future generations to come.

Rodchenko was a very skilled and educated individual when it came to art, he studied a wide range of artistic subjects. He studied applied arts in Moscow, he helped found a museum and become the first director, he also taught high grade art, illustrative work in theatre included costume designs for many theatres... here is an example (to the left) of one of his designs for a play called "The Princess Padua" in 1914, his designs are emotional, dark, detailed and unusual.                                                                     , films typography and advertising, provided cover designs, photography was one of his passions, shot afew short movie reels, photo reporting and as you can see the list can go on and on... so it is clear to see that he is an experienced expert when it comes to things to do with art.. even in his first job (an assisstant to Tatlin at a 1916 futuristic exhibit in Moscow) ten of his pictures were shown there at the exhibit, so even at a young inexperienced age his talent was quite apparent.

But the most outstanding and most recognised of his work are usually his posters because they have their own style, he uses very few simple colour techniques, he only uses block colour usually no more than 3-4 on a typical poster. This image to the leftis a very well known poster of his that has been re-done/ re-coloured/re-designed so many times by so many artists... the simplicity of the piece is effective with the bold block lettering and the use of words in the design that they are in start to become part of the image itself instead of just being plain writing ... this was believed to get the message across and captivate the onlooker of the poster into reading what it has to say because ultimately it has become more interesting- these sort of posters were used for many things in Russia eventually by the government simply because the message was conveyed more clearly by the way the writing was displayed.. people obviously wanted to read it and eventually was used as propaganda, advertising, and much more...

Townscape research print!

Ewa Kienko Gawlik- I have researched her work in the past for her beautiful figure paintings and drawings- she is a very talented artist from Poland and is very much focused on the female body which is clear to see when you look at these drawings of "old streets" which she seems to like to do every now and again.. They aren't very detailed and look like they haven't had much time spent on them but they have a charming quality that is continued throughout her townscape images...

This image wouldn't be as good if she hadn't have made the darker areas that dark, it adds more of an eery atmosphere to go with the dark road that is slowly disappearing down the page.

This is probably one of the more detailed of her townscapes and even this isn't that detailed.. I like her use of the perspective and the single dark character in the distance it gives the image a more mysterious atmosphere, and I love the selected detail in the cobbled walls and I can only describe it as cute. I love the rough lines of shade she has used in the corners of the walls and floors...

I think this image is lovely, it's not exciting but it's got great atmosphere. The bare tree and fairy lights make create the illusion of winter or cold weather and the oranges, reds and browns warm the image up. The image is cluttered with restaurant imagery,notice boards, tables, chairs, cute little signs in the windows and this makes the image feel all cosy and homely which I love. As I said it may not be the most exciting but It's a simple painting with a clear and positive atmosphere. I found this painting on a blog, it does not say who painted it, what it is called or any other information but I really like this image.

http://marimbamonkey14.deviantart.com/art/Batman-on-Hallucinogens-60921736      <--- has townscape artist on it !!!

Comic Female Art

I absolutely love the way women are drawn in comic books... over exaggerated facial features such as eyes and lips and overly curvy body shapes, the colours are usually vibrant and colourful and they're always beautiful. I have always practised drawing them, drawing doodles and also very detailed drawings of comic book heroins or characters that have either been completely made up, based on a character or has elements from other characters that I have taken inspiration from...
For example.. here are a few examples of my work and the inspiration that lead to them...

First example: 'Ice cream lady'

I created this image myself, the facial features are based on an image of myself but I have cartoonised them and added my own creative flair by transforming the hair into ice cream. The whole body was created from scratch as you can probably tell because most of it isn't correctly proportionate to the head or other parts of the body but I love this image because it is a creation of my own, I love the ice cream hair and the polka dot bathing suit- it's a curvy girly image that reflects what type of things I like to draw/ create etc... it reflects my personality in a way and that's what I like about it. It's simple but effective and creative and also an example of a self created drawing of mine inspired by the comic book heroin world...

This is an example of a drawing of mine (can be found in portrait book) where I have used multiple origins of inspiration as 'poison ivy' is a very popular marvel character so therefore there are many images, drawings, variations of her and I have collected little pieces of other images and used them on my own... for example the costume, hairstyle, facial features and body pose would be little pieces of other drawings that I like the look of and would use the technique or shape and change them slightly to create my own little variation of her... some people think this may be boring or unoriginal but I like this experimental way of drawing and getting everything perfect so that I can create a curvy, sexy, big eyed, big haired comic book style woman in my own way and I like my way!... Here are some variations of poison Ivy that inspired this piece and some artist information to go with them: 

This image of poison Ivy gave me the costume designs for my image, I added more detailed leaves I think and changed the belly piece but kept the same shape around the breast and leg areas... also I thought her eyes where beautiful so I added the same sort of shading around mine and the vines around the legs and arms... making sure I don't actually copy anything but definitely inspired by certain pieces such as this one by an artist I found on my favourite website "deviant art". This artist specialises in professional digital art and designs these images to be used on websites games and computers and was born and bred in Hong Kong- his main focus is on female characters such as this poison ivy portrait that he has created on his special digital art software and he also creates many other comic book heroins/ villains such as this one..
This is "Black cat"- drawn with copic markers it is a beautiful example of the specific type of images that I like to draw- Images of beautiful comic book women.













Here is another example of a drawing of mine, I don't have any of the drawings that inspired me- I didn't save them because this is a very old drawing but what I can tell you is that it was inspired by a character that I used to read about in comics when I was younger but I can't remember the name of the comic book! She is based on a magician assassin, a villain from an old comic book. I've called this piece 'Martina the assassin Magician'

(This image can be found in portrait book)
It was drawn with graphite pencil, charcoal and small hints of black pen, I remember changing the body shape, outfits, hairstyle, adding in the wand and playing cards and the face is based on angelina jolie (even if it doesn't look like her)... It's considerably mis- shapen and wrongly proportionate and the shading is dodgy but I like this image... I have found some images that link to this subject that are similar to this image.

The images above are similar to the character out of the comics I used to read and are the most similar images I could find to the ones that inspired me to create Martina... They are detailed, beautiful, there is alot of magical imagery, harsh dark lines and tones accent all the necessary features that make these images perfect. They were created by an artist called Marcio Abreu and where found on deviant art.. he is a professional traditional artist who creates comic pencil drawn images such as the above he has worked in titles such as Grimm fairy tales and other big titles... he is from Brazil and is a very talented artist creating thousands of images over the years similar to these which are quite clearly my favourite style to draw in....