I am writing this blog in order to create my own moving and developing online version of a visual Journal. The sketchbook for me is the highlight of a project, from the research and the links forged, through to the journey of an idea, I am happily filled with a sense of excitement and purpose, I revel in the unravelling of information and in the development and articulation of the idea and spend hours filtering through sources in order to explain my intentions and let others know the map I have created in my own mind. The sketchbook process allows me to absorb my environment and contemplate my world, it allows me to grow and changes my path every time. To challenge myself in this final year I am endeavoring to try a new way of sharing and archiving my journey, putting aside the pritstick and Scissors, pulling up my chair and putting on my glasses this will now be my Sketchbook.
So here it begins a diary of the idea, growing and moving as I go forward with the project. It is what it is. What it will become ... I have no idea and to you the viewer I make no apologies.

Joseph Derby

Joseph Derby
Cottage on Fire at Night, oil on canvas, ca. 1785-1793

Thursday, 30 September 2010

Eerie Ambience

The Atmospheric Aesthetic 
While browsing and searching for inspiration I have found some images that I love, but the creators of which are unknown, I will include them as there method is relevant. I have been looking into methods of creating landscape, referring to the Surrealist techniques I mentioned before and ideas across various disciplines.
These images use a reductive method to outline the subject, particularly the last one, I like the idea that the environment is more important than the object.


Larousse Encyclopedia of Astronomy, circa 1959, Lucien Rudaux

I am in love with these photographs, the grainy quality, the colour. Even though they are documenting real life events in astrological/natural terms, they are alien to me - a glimpse at another world. 


John Henry Twacht

Gustav Le Grey (1820 - 1884) 
Invented the idea of combination printing, creating seascapes by using one negative for the water and one negative for the sky at a time where it was impossible to have at the same time the sky and the sea on a picture due to the too extreme luminosity range


Particularly interested in the SUBLIME