Saturday, April 23, 2011

Art Inspired Food!

Happy Easter!

I don't really celebrate, but I am grateful for the long weekend! We were also blessed with the gorgeous day. I didn't really take advantage of it as much as I should have, as chemistry homework was calling me. I did keep the window open though.

In other wordsm I found this nifty cake on the internet! (Yes I just said nifty). It's inspired by Van Gogh's Starry Night. I love how someone decided to incorporate a famous painting into a dessert. Even thought it's only icing, you can tell that the artist/cook incorporated the brushstrokes on the surface of the cake.

I like it because it is something different and three dimensional. It is not just a paining that has been remade on a flat cake, but this is all around the cake on three different levels.

And that's all for now; I made myself hungry just in time for dinner. I will try to blog again this weekend, as I'm behind on my weekly postings.

Have a lovely weekend!

Wednesday, April 20, 2011

Chair Design - Book Chair

For our most recent art assignment, we were asked to design chairs that exuded our personality. For myself, whenever I sit down I want something comfortable that I could curl up in to read a book or watch t.v.... or just sleep.
Model
I designed my chair to resemble a book. Of course, this is only the model and not the actual chair. We used foam core to make the chairs, and I used paper as well as the upholstery.

I feel like this exudes my personality because it is a book. The word hold many meanings to me, not just that it means reading. I feel like books symbolize knowledge, wisdom, understanding, creativity and free thought. I hope to have at least some of these qualities.

I want it to be very comfortable, because I like comfort and simplicity. I was also debating to have to surface have words on it, but I thought against it because this way it felt like blank pages of a journal. I was surprised at myself for not having done something more technical or geometrical, but I am happier with this than I would have been with a scientific chair.

Orthographic Drawing
The chairs are supposed to be works of art. I feel like my chair is a piece of art. The difference between the curvy and straight lines create contrast. The varied levels of my chair make light and shadow. I feel like the texture on the chair is visible by the paper acting as what I want to be the microfiber. The colours I would want for the chair are just plain white for the seating part, and a customizable solid colour for the back. The colours would be bright or black to create contrast with the white.

Isometric Drawing
I would also add lines on the side of the chair to add the impression of pages in a book. This would make more organic lines to contrast with the straight ones.

My chair is just over a quarter of a meter high off the ground. If I were to sit on it, by feet would just dangle off of the ground. There is a storage area dedicated to books, but I suppose other items would fit as well. The seating area is very soft and comfortable; you would sink in if you were to sit in it.




Sunday, April 3, 2011

Peter Callasen

Time for my weekly blog!  I haven't written about an artist yet, and I just found one now...

Peter Callasen is an artist who focuses on using white paper in many different, interesting and creative ways. He makes miniature sculptures using just white paper and glue!

I thought I would post some of my favourite works by him. He creates powerful images using only paper, but in such a skillful way. Most of his pieces are made from only acid free paper and glue! It's unbelievable how he creates sculptures with such intricate detail using those materials.

"Looking Back"
2006


It's interesting how he uses the cut out space in his paper to enhance his work. In this it is a shadow; I see it as someone who has passed looking back at his life, perhaps regretfully. I get the feeling he did not live as much as he wanted to.












"Erected Ruin"
2007
This next piece kind of reminds me of the first. It feels like an attempt at restoring an old monument. However, the shadow shows that it is not what it once was.

Anyways, have a good week everyone.