Thursday 21 January 2010







Yes its definately blog time now. whilst looking through the Gaurdian... i just mainly look at the pictures in all honesty. I came across the Illustrator Grace Dent and decided Wow this is great. Looking through her website i can see she has a great sense of humour that comes across in her work, and i like the fact she has done Illustrations for the soaps like coronation street and emmerdale. They are great and realy capture whats going on in the scene. The thing that works so well in her style is she's very skilled at drawing and she uses allot of detail, but not overly so. I like the use of colour with the black and white scetches and then she brings in some real material for example jeans or a texture or a pattern wow it just works.

Thursday 14 January 2010



Tim Noble and Sue Webster are artists based in England This piece was Inspired by the British Museum’s Egyptian collections, they have painstakingly placed junk to produced a unique silhouette. A simple spotlight transforms a heap of mummified creatures into two silhouettes of the artists' faces.
Tim Noble and Sue Webster’s use of animals echoes that of their Egyptian predecessors. Ancient Egyptians believed that gods could take the form of animals. Cats, dogs, birds and other creatures which were bred to be mummified, then sold to pilgrims who offered them back to the gods.

'Tim’s mum bought some kittens three years ago. The cats started bringing in their prey almost every day. We collected their remains in a box marked with a skull and crossbones, which we called 'Dead Things'. Soon we had a few hundred rotting creatures – mice, rats, voles, even a squirrel and a toad. Walking through the British Museum, we were struck by the Egyptians’ use of mummification, their obsession with animals and animal parts, and how good at sculpture they were. And suddenly we knew what to do with our mummified animals!'

sue



14.01.2010.21:57http://www.britishmuseum.org/whats_on/all_current_exhibitions/statuephilia/noble_and_webster.aspx

Their most notable pieces are made from piles of rubbish collected from London streets. A light is projected against the pile of rubbish, and the shadow on the wall creates an entirely different image.

Tim Noble and Sue Webster
Dirty White Trash [With Gulls] 1998
Six months' worth of the artists' rubbish
Variable dimensions

Wednesday 13 January 2010


This illustration was on one of the many huge banners on Broadway street in New York, however i liked this one the most as it has a certain quirkiness and the juxtaposition of the diamond instead of an egg i also like the style of how it is a combination of photography and then a hand created looking background.