Web Mess

This is another go at attempting to put both a rendered image with the three dimensional aspect. Not completely sure how I feel about it yet, but its going. 

Materials: Great stuff, nylon, hot glue, tracing paper, oil paint

Size: 8"x10"

Layering: Diamond Mining Africa

 

I read about the diamond industry in Africa recently. I read that families are forced to work for the mining of diamonds due to poverty. And many make less than a dollar a day. Many of the people are children who are denied an education. These people are put into theses situations and a forced to adjust to their environments. 

Another layering work. I began with a map of Africa, layered over a diamond design, found my figures, and then  found my text. 

Render of Form

I found this form earlier in some of my line work and was wondering what it would look if I rendered the image. From that I over laid a piece of tracing paper and extended the lines of the figure out.

This bottom image is putting both the figure and the lines on the same level.

Materials: Paper, Pencil, tissue paper, tracing paper, ink

Russian Famine of 1921

I was recently reading about the Russian Famine of 1921 and this idea came about. In the simplest explanation the Russian famine was caused by a drought in the 1920's and roughly 5 million people died.

The top image is a map of Russia, clearly not a perfect map but it was drawn from a map of Russia. Then I took a a sheet of tracing paper and drew the image of below on the left. It was this idea of the weighted atmosphere swarming the land (a.k.a. the famine). Within those lines I then found my figures, drawn on another piece of tracing paper. People who were forced to adjust to the circumstances and were affected by it. The next row down and first image on the left is another sheet of tracing paper. On that sheet, I found text within those lines. The words I found were 5 million, famine, Russia, and drought. And lastly, I took another sheet of tracing paper and over laid it on again and designed one final image, influenced by all the other layers.

Materials: paper, tracing paper, pen

Lines and Forms

Another working idea in my drawing class. Same concept with finding the forms within the environment. However, this time I'm finding those forms on tracing paper. That way I am able to obviously show where the form is, but at the same time I can remove the tracing paper and the form disappears. Meaning, they are there, just not seen.

Materials: Paper, ink, marker, tracing paper. tape