Ann Marie Perez

John Busby was a British artist who also specialised in illustrating birds. I researched some of his sketchbooks and found that the way in which he creates little notes on the tones and colours for future reference to be really interesting. Translating the tonality of my sketches to collage is something that I am trying to work on during this unit so to see how other artists do this is very insightful.  

Eric Ennion was a British artist who's sketchbooks I have always been inspired by. I enjoy looking at naturalistic works from the 20th century and I am particularly fond of his initial sketches of birds. He then uses these sketches to create beautiful water colour paintings. I really like the way that he captures the movement and likeness of his subjects. His scientific approach differs from my more stylistic one however I think that a lot can be learnt from looking at the pioneers of naturalistic illustration.  

This was a landscape collage I created based on some of the location drawings I made. I like the way that the foreground is distinguishable from the background but overall this piece lacks the general character and excitement of some of my precious works.

Below are some photos of a mini test collage I made of my plants sat upon my dresser. I don't feel like this piece is my best work as I failed to take the same approach that I do with my other collage projects. It was just a little experiment to see how I could incorporate furniture into the piece as the previous collages have just been objects upon a white background. I don't feel that this piece is a good example of how I tried to achieve this.  

 This poster was part of a commission I worked on over Christmas for a friend. The poster features original watercolour and crayon artwork and can be used as a guide to identify the most common garden birds.

 Below is a work in progress shot of the collage wreath I have been working on. I decided to go with a textured black background to really make the shapes stand out as much as possible. I also like the variety of shapes and lines within the piece, for example some  leaves are small with curved lines and others are large with wavy lines. The boxy shape of the pine sprigs works really well against the roundness of the berries. Overall compositionally I think this piece is quite successful as there are a variety of intriguing shapes for the eye to study. 

  Clover Robin is an artist based in the UK who specialises in cut paper images. I discovered her work whilst browsing on Pinterest and I can see some similarities in both of out methodology and imagery. Robin mainly creates work that is focused around the natural world and various places. I really like her approach to creating the shapes she uses which appears to be heavily influenced by cubism. This is evident through her use of angular lines which often alters the perspective of the object very slightly which is a stylistic trait commonly found within art of the cubism movement. Artists such as Picasso can be attributed to the link between collage and cubistic qualities.  Furthermore, I also really like the colour pallet Robin uses in her works - it is largely earth toned with occasional pops of colour. I also like how pronounced her textures are in the paper she creates - you can literally see the brush strokes in some instances.

 Looking at the transition between object, drawing and then collage

 Bellow are photos of a collage of one of my houseplants. I really like the texture and the shapes I created for the leaves. I also thing the addition of brown textured paper for the straw basket works quite nicely too in adding another element to the overall work that is interesting to look at and draws the eye across the whole piece.