Once Upon A Time : Clarification

My Idea for the Story teller project was initially to combine the themes time and beauty and the beast to create a book showing symbolism of time with in the story. I now have expanded my idea to be from my initial theme of story teller to Once upon a time to include 4 stories from my childhood e.g Tortoise and the Hare, Little Red Riding Hood, Beauty and the Beast, Alice in Wonderland.



Lasercut - Handwriting sample "Once Upon A Time"

Chair Yarn Bomb

Screen Printing - Hand dyed and Trapped fabric sample

Heat Transfer Sample

In the gallery I would like to produce a book with the ideas and concepts stated above and a rocking chair mostly to emphasise my theme of Once upon a time and how I used to experience sitting down listening to my grandma read me a story in her rocking chair. I want to allow viewers to get a chance to sit down and experience that feeling. I will add to the chair carving into it, sanding adding bits of yarn bombing but still allowing it to be comfortable to sit on.

 

Loppy and Sprinkles

Two very wonderful bundles of wool.

Sketch Dump

“Undine in the Wind” By Arthur Rackham

 Undine, a water spirit, marries a knight named Huldebrand in order to gain a soul. It is an early German romance, which has been translated into English and other languages.

Arthur would first sketch an outline of his drawing, then lightly block in shapes and details. Afterwards he would add lines in pen and India ink, removing the pencil traces after it had dried. With colour pictures, he would then apply multiple washes of colour until translucent tints were created. 

Undine appeared around 1811 And I can only assume it was made in london. Arthur's Illustrations are for published books such as Undine this is not the only book hes illustrated but mainly they are fairy tale style stories.

Rackham's work is often described as a fusion of a northern European 'Nordic' style strongly influenced by the Japanese woodblock tradition of the 19th century.In 1909 he finished his illustrations  for the book Undine By Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué.

*NanoMortis

*NanoMortis On Devianart  

Her work is inpiring and simple just using watercolours and inks to then edit using Photoshop. 

" I use a colored ballpoint pen- a V128 1.0 Mm ,Colored pencils,White gel-pen,A touch of water colors"

I wish to see more of her work and just how much she'll improve over the years when her illustrations are so impressive now. Check out her other illustrations on her Deviantart page.

*Nanohikakou On Devianart

Yoshitaka Amano

Well known for his beautiful illustrations and his character designs for the final fantasy series. 

I find his illustrations breath-taking.

All of his work has an element of "fantasy" within it and uses his imagination to create bold and complex drawings.The way he draws seemingly looks quite traditional but there is also great elements of pattern that almost make me think of Alphonse Mucha.

Studio 89

Studio89 is the textile group that I'm involved with and will be posting my developments of final major project as i continue with the theme Once upon a time.You can also look into other students developements to we have choosen a variety of projects which will all eventually be place in a galley setting so please take a look.