My target audience are people who are interested in Rugby League, mainly the age group is 8-16.
I have been looking a some artists that I like and have influenced my work.
Research
Pablo
Picasso
I am
going to look at the artist Picasso because I find his doodles interesting
because of the way that people spend ages making a portrait and then he just
does it in a way where it looks as if he hasn’t even taken his pen off the
paper.
I
like it because of the way he turns some things that would be hard to draw into
simple things. I really like the
way that he only uses one line to do them and I think that this idea of
simplicity would look good and would do well if were to interpret this into something
that people would find complex e.g. a game that people would find hard to get
their head round or something in life that is very complex.
I
also like Picassos other work and I am very fond of Guernica because of the way
that it had a big impact because it was an immediate reaction to the bombing on
the Basque town of Guernica.
I
like the way that it looks random but to him it all makes sense because the
things he created in the painting symbolise the people and town of Guernica and
the things that happened there. My favourite parts of the painting are the
colours because it shows you the dark side because he uses black, blue and
white and there are no bright colours anywhere and I also like he way that he
just does anything and isn’t bothered.
Andy
Warhol
I am
really interested in the work where he uses simple images then he puts colour
over it either by making a colour duplicate then moving it around or enlarging
it behind the original image because I believe that this was his better work.
The way he does his work is so unpredictable because he uses such random things
like he uses shoes, a cross, a gun, knives and a hamburger. If I were to make
my work like Andy Warhols then I would have to use a simple character or symbol
that I could use to stand out and make the image show you what I mean instead
of using lots of writing or phrases. With this sort of wok I really like the
colours in t and would like to do something along the lines of big and
colourful because then it stands out and people notice it straight away. I
believe that the concept of Andy Warhol was to take everyday things that people
use and see and then make it into art
As
well as his colourful work I also really like his Brillo boxes because like his
other work it is just so random and you wouldn’t have expected it, the great
thing about his Brillo boxes are that they are different and before he did this
no one had ever seen it before. The Campbell’s soup tin that he made was also
just as good as the Brillo pads and by making these it shows his concept a lot
more because Brillo pads and soup are something boring that people see quite a
lot.
LeRoy
Neiman
He
was an artist mainly known for his work on painting and screen-printing of
athletes, musicians and sports events. I like this artist because of the way he
uses lots of colour and I could use this on my images to make it stand out. I
also like the way that he shows the person doing the things that they do daily
instead of painting them whilst they are all clean and dressed up.
Dan
McCarthy
I also like the work of Dan McCarthy because I think
that his screen prints are amazing just because of the work he makes by using
it.
I like the idea of screen-printing just because I like
the way that it looks when it I finished.
I like screen printing because its not that hard to do
and it look great on a cool background that has lots going on, the screen-print
I like are of very simple things where there are like 2 main things on the
print and this is what Dan McCarthy’s screen prints are like.
My initial ideas
I would like to do a background that is very simple and has like a
stadium or something that has to do with rugby league and then I would have
like a scrum or conversion screen-printed in front of the background for
example I would have a player stood over the ball waiting to take the
conversion screen printed onto the pitch. I could also do an alter ego idea
where I could use the stages of man with a person crouching down to the way
that a rugby player would so it is like you create your player and then in time
you would become the rugby player and you would start of dressed like a normal
person with a jacket on and maybe a hood up then you could crouch down with a
ball and then you would turn into the player with shorts and boots on with a
ball in your hands.
My ideas now
I have changed my idea because I have thought of a better one.
My idea is to use combat armour from games like Halo and Fallout to then put on a player, This is then showing people that rugby is a contact sport. Here you can see i have done some drawings of the Enslaved Power Armour from Fallout 3.
