2D Flip art

Our class has been working on our simple 2D flip art pieces, inspired by our research last week.We did this in a number of steps.

1) Miss Gardiner handed out books in a random order from a bookshop. 

I got one about super cars (as you can imagine I was thrilled, my list of forms to create wasn't the widest, cars and more cars!*). 

2) We turned roughly to the middle of the book and glued 4 pieces of 

paper together on each side. 

3) Brainstormed ideas and made a small spider diagram to show them. 

We also did a simple sketch of what we thought our final idea would look like.

4) Next lesson we finished off our simple sketch and started 

drawing it onto our sheets (the ones we stuck together).

5) After collecting the knife, we started cutting out our designs, making 

sure we didn't cut the whole shape out completely.

6) When we had finished, we stood the cut shapes up, creating our 2d 

flip art piece.

*when I first got the book, I didn't think much of it as I didn't feel like I had much choice but with help from the people on my table, I put some ideas on the brainstorm. I would have liked to have got an older book as I think they are more effective- simple text, yellowing pages and no pictures.

This was visibly my first attempt!

Here are a few pices which inspired our work:

I really like the way that we can see the shadows- it adds to the atmosphere of the piece.
This inspired me to use layers and different heights but at this stage in the lessons we were just experimenting and, with limited time, we were unable to expand into a more complex piece.

I could have improved by adding more visible layers- I learnt from my mistakes not to make the main focus too big to the front because you cant fit any shorter things around it.

Tom Phillips

One artists who uses books to create art is Tom Phillips. This is an example of his work. 

Tom Phillips was born in London in 1937 and is probably most famous for his 370 paged artwork called 'The Humument'. He first saw a book called the human document. He joined the words together to create a Humument. Using different creative techniques, he covered  the pages, only leaving a couple of words behind, which made sense as a whole.


We did a piece of homework inspired by his style. It was harder than I originally thought to  get the words to make sense and even my finished piece didn't make complete sense. As Mr peacock took in our work and hasn't handed it back yet, I am not able to upload a photo.

Introduction

Rework
Rearrange to
Reinvent

This blog shows my research into some artists who will inspire me in my project-
 recycling books to create a new piece of art.

The following image is by Ros Rixon:

Sachiyo Yoshida

  I think this piece is really clever- the way that the goat is coming out of one page and eating the next.

As I create new posts, I will refer too a wider variety of artists and how they link to my work.