"The Journey" drawing proyect

At first i wanted to take this proyect as a way of discovering more about the city.

Everything was new for me, the town, country, language, people... so lots of things were calling my attention.

My main aim was to draw in the street, frome real life, and that´s because i was more interested in the process than in the final result, i really wanted to live the experience, because when you draw a place of a city that grab your attention somehow, you start seeing that specific place in a different way.

Drawing things forces you to really look at what you have to draw and at the same time it´s a kind of meditation, you try to achieve the feeling of a place, or al least, what the place is saying to you.

I try to capture the light and the shadows that it creates, as well as capturing people´s faces, their mood, some bits that were interesting for me; basically, it was all about conecting with my surroundings.

Then we had a class with the tutor and he showed us different approaches to drawing, it was completely different from what i was doing and it opened my mind a lot in that aspect; so i decided to experiment more in that stranger area to challenge myself and see what i could do, but at the same moment trying to make my own personal things. 

Printmaking practice

I have been doing different prints based on ideas i had, as a way of exploring different materials and mediums.

Between all that exploration i found really interesting printing on top of acetate, i really liked the effect i could get using acrylic paint and i used cardboard to help me print the images and bubble wrap too, which i quite liked.

Other type of paper that i found was tracing paper, again i get a watery effect that i considered very interesting so i will definitely be playing more around that.

In  general at this point i just concentrate myself of looking for different atmospheres, sensations and feelings playing with colors, mediums, shapes and i want to investigate more around layers.

The tutor encourage us to investigate with paper, leaving the 2 dimensional things for later, and trying to create something 3 dimensional, as if the paper wanted to say something itself.

London trip. Whitechapel gallery

The last gallery I visited was whitechapel gallery; I found it very interesting because her work is completely different to the one I normally like, but it was refreshing and open minded for me to see this kind of work.

On the other hand I really liked how Sarah Lucas plays with the furniture and make it look like a body, and the gallery itself was very interesting, the way the artwork was set was fascinating too.

London trip. Saatchi gallery

This gallery was really interesting and I think the artworks I could see there were very good quality.

I could say that the ones that called my attention the most were installation. This one for example in from the artist Han Feng and the work is called Floating city. I just liked the idea and the way the artist was able to make it.

This other installation was my favourite one, it was from the artist Marcelo Jacomé and its name was Planos-pipas. It remind me of something I did in the past but of course much smaller.

 Then I saw this room and the feeling I had was so strange that I had to like it.
After a few moments I realised that it was kind of an optical illusion caused by the sumped oil and steel that the artist put on the floor, so the outcome was a quiet space much bigger than what it actually was. The artist was Richard Wilson.

London trip. Jerwood visual arts

I decided to go to visit this gallery because it was interesting for the research we have to do for drawing classes.

I found there very interesting pieces of artists I didn´t know before and I went back home with a notebook full of notes and a lot of artists to investigate.

                                       

This piece for example belonges to Nendie pinto-duschinsky, she has very interesting work and I have seen that you can find her artwork in Saatchi gallery. The reason why this particular piece called my attention was the paper she used for it; I find very interesting drawing in a warm tone paper and I would definitely experiment with things like that for my drawing lessons.

                                                 

So basically all my research with this gallery has to do with different materials and techniques related to drawing. 

In this case this artwork really surprised me; the artists is called Nanako Kawaguchi and she uses tracing paper to create her work, I find it very interesting and versatile, because you can combine different materials like acrilics or markers and depending if you paint in one side or other of the paper you can get different effects. So that was definitely other good idea to try out later in my own work.

                                     

The last artwork I want to talk about is this one from the artist Lottie Jackson-eeles.

Actually, in the gallery I just could see this piece, which is made in a moleskine notebook, but I have found her website and now that I can see her complete work I realised why this piece called my attention so much, we have the same taste in regard to mixing materials and making subrealistic collages, so this last artist was very helpful and uplifting too.

London trip. Bankside gallery

The next gallery I visited was Bankside gallery, where the Royal watercolor society is, aswell as the Royal Society of Printmakers-Painters.

This was one of the galleries that inspired me the most and basically because I really feel identified with watercolor technique and printmaking, so I found this place very usefull for my printmaking class, it gave me a bunch of ideas to work on later, and I could find things related to David Hockney too, one of my major artists.

London trip. Tate Modern Gallery

The first gallery I visited in London was Tate Modern.

Although many of the artists there were really interesting I´m going to talk about those ones that I find help me more in my practice and influence me more.

Those artists are Matisse and Giacometti.

What have always interested me about Matisse is his interest for the colors (fauvism) how he used one color or other depending on the feelings he wanted to transmit and the simplicity of his lines, which I admire and practise.

                                                       

This particular piece is called Portrait of Greta Moll, (1908)

The other artist is Giacometti, and specially their drawings.

I really relate to them when I draw, the way he had to create atmosphere, drawing the person and the space, their surroundings and with a strong sense of line expression.

                                                      

 This drawing is called Seated man, (1949)