Felix Naussbaum

Felix Naussbaum is a German painter. 1904-1944.
He was kept at Auschwitz and did most of his art there.
I found this guy in a book at the library and was looking forwar to looking him up on the internet, so Ive done it!
This is one of my favourites. Beautiful detail with an eerrie look to it- of course. This artist is going to feature in my project I am doing throughout the summer.

Prisoner of War art

As alot of people know, that I have a very big interest in the WWII. As i have mentioned in a previos post, I visited the Prispner of War exhibition in Manchester and it left something in me...
In the exhibition, there was plenty of illustrations by the P.O.Ws which are so interesting. Through all that misery, they still managed to spend time drawing and sketching what they saw.
Here is one that I found on the internet that I really like.
Done on notepaper, any paper they could get their hands on, and a sketched image of people in Solitary... I am interested in this art and am going to pursue further in my personal work.

Paper craft!

This is a recent obession that I am interested in. I make a lot of cut out sillouhettes, figures, uniforms and I got a book out of the library on the subject.

During the last part of the 2nd year, there was a presentation we did infront of our group of our own interests. And alot of my class mates had an interest in this, scenery etc.

But I am more interested in the fashion part of it, as above. I had no idea how beautiful this type of art can be and I look forward to pursuing this over the summer- infact, Im going to go home now to get started!

Victorian photo albums

I recently went to visit my dad in the south west of England and when I visited a craft fair, I bought an aurthentic Victorian photo album for a mere 3 quid!

I love the over all, over the top, that these give.

The album is beautiful, with tissue paper seperating the pages. For some reason the make me excited and an urge to get working, which cannot be a bad thing!

Dali

There has been a series of programmes on BBC 1 or 2 about the 'masters' of art. The one on sunday night was about Dali. Of course I had heard of him as my tutors in art college told me about him, but since then I hadn't paid much attention to him- but since sunday, my how that has changed!
All I was familiar with was his melting clocks etc, but this programme introduced me to his talent for drawing and surrealism. It is such an interesting art movement that it is something I would definatly like to look more into.
The image above is a favourite of mine, the use of a womans figure. Some aspects of the face isn't there which interests me with my in depth interest in fashion illustration... one artist to keep my eye on!

Early Andy Warhol

The other night there was this really interesting programme on BBC. Andy Warhol was the artist they were talking about. I obviously have seen his main work- screen prints, Monroe etc, but I didnt really know about his illustrations. When I saw them, they were so good! Such delicate line and colour- almost child like.
There was one technique of his that really stuck in my mind and one that I think suits my way of working... blotting.
I cant wait to start trying it!

Container Plus

I missed the lecture that was held by Container Plus which I do regret. Looking at their website their work is beautiful. The mixture between 3d material and illustration is so unique. This imge above is not too different from some fashion illustrations I ave seen in the past. This will definatly be an inspiration for me!