All of the lesson notes I would incorporate into my final work assessment handing, if only I didn’t forget to submit them.

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The inspiration behind my live drawings.

Sasha is a super model, artist and a mother. Her connection with art within all of her three roles describes one out of numerous examples how flexible women artist can be, incorporating all of these tasks and roles they represent into their art work and life. Her art drawings are an astonishing example of how sketches can be elegant, freely hand drawn with the most possible aesthetic look.

Why has art always been a passion for you?

I’ve been doing art all my life. I just never stopped. Every child can draw. But at five years old, some kids start to play with cars some kids start to play with dolls. I just never stopped playing with paints. I love the different colors. I grew up in the Soviet Union, the grayest world you can imagine. No color at all. The blue was only the sky, the yellow was only the sun. Basically, growing up in a gray world I appreciate color so much. I love beauty, I love fashion. There was not many nice, beautiful items so I would pick up stuff from my mother’s wardrobe, redesign it… All my life, I need to express myself through some creative medium, so basically this exhibition is an expression of my world. Everything I touch has a Sasha stamp on it. – Sasha Pivovarova https://www.lofficielusa.com/art/sasha-pivovarova-dior-art-interview#image-7523

By her art work I would like to support my live drawings for graphic arts practice. It was a captivating proccess for me, the natural flow of drawing my face sketches. I was creating them with only one continues line, thus I could see how much I can adapt and simplify he drawing and push my creativity in means of the starting point of my sketches. Every time I started drawing a new face, I would think about the previous one, where I started my sketch and what I was able to draw by one line without crossing the face too much. Thus, I could get more elaborated sketch of the face when taking the previous one as an experience. To clarify, I still kept the drawings simple, so the faces together would look like a collection, neither as a bunch of faces in various developing processes. I am attaching here also few photographs of my own live drawings.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxrXQZAdztw

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The book called MARÍNA by Andrej Sládkovič is one of the most beautiful romantic poems about and for a woman that recognize the whole Slovak Nation.

This book is our natural pride. Marína as one of the longest romatic poems, is for over 160 years are kept in our minds and I bet every Slovak would be able to say at least few of the first verses. This book came up few years ago as a new edition with illustrations done by the fenomenal Katarína Vávrová, whose one of the most remarkable Slovak contemporary painters. This edition should have brought this epic volume back on the bookstores‘ shelves and with the paintings of Vávrová, I reckon is one of the most beautiful examples, how gentle and symphatetic can the illustrator get to the plot of the story. Design of this book is kept very simply so the paintings and verses might be the headliners of the book. I am not sure whether I am more amazed by the paintings, its design or the profound look of this book, bit its an epic art work. Pages are just a little bit glossy – enough to resemble a fine silky fabric. I love how the numbers of verses copy a hue of the strongest colour from the painting. Also how the graphic designer worked with Vávrová’s painting and adjusted the placement of the verses according to the meaning and layout of the page.

I’m attaching here a few translated bits – the most phenomenal verses that come at the beginning of the poem, so you could not only feel, but also understand the atmosphere of the paintings and design of the book.

Ja sladké túžby, túžby po kráse
spievam peknotou nadšený,
a v tomto duše mojej ohlase
svet môj je celý zavrený;
z výsosti Tatier ona mi svieti,
ona mi z ohňov nebeských letí,
ona mi svety pohýna;
ona mi kýva zo sto životov:
No centrom, živlom, nebom, jednotou
krás mojich moja Marína!

Sweet desires, desires for love
I’m singing, with beauty enthused,
and within this response of my very soul
The whole world of mine is enclosed;
From the heights of the Tatras, she casts the light,
She flies out of the heavenly fires,
She has been moving my worlds;
She’s been waving towards me from hundreds of lives:
But the centre, the element, the heaven, the unity
of all my beauties is her – my Marina!

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With the research on book binding for my final graphics project, I have found this old traditional book binding technique which offers you various ways or styles of book finishing.

This intriguing technique allows you to bind single sheets of paper into an originally looking booklet, what can be VERY handy in case you decide to work with a larger sheets size (A2, A1) and you really do not have THAT much money to spend on large format double-sided coloured prints that would be later folded (unfortunately my case)! All in all, I think this finishing looks pretty elegant. It can get very creative since it allows you to play with material used for (heavy) front/back cover and its texture, colour, etc. The same with the thread – when it comes to material you decide to use (linen thread, yarn. ribbon, embroidery thread, wax thread. etc.) its colour, texture and the final look, it only gives the product beautiful handmade/crafted look. Without a doubt, this product will be an aesthetically charming and unique art work!

I’m attaching art works made by Ffion/, who has created these stunning samples of different Japanese Stab Binding Techniques.

http://mindflight.me/page/34/

In addition, I’m attaching also this AMAZING page that has collected many useful links to the making of many different Japanese Stab Binding techniques!!

https://www.ibookbinding.com/bookbinding-styles/japanese-binding/top-10-japanese-stab-binding-tutorials-on-the-internet/

Several other links with great techniques how to create this awesome binding!

http://lbforgues.blogspot.com/2011/12/traditional-japanese-stab-binding.html http://lbforgues.blogspot.com/2011/12/traditional-japanese-stab-binding.html http://lbforgues.blogspot.com/2011/12/japanese-stab-binding-tortoise-shell.html

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Londoner with an amazing colourful collection of illustrations

Christopher is a London based artist                                                                                  who has worked on dozens of projects all around the world. ‚More recently, and with the 2016 Olympics in mind, he was commissioned by a Brazilian homewares company called Mooui to paint a large world map for bed linen, curtains and t-shirts for children,‘ says the website Rogan’s Books. Besides his own commissions and drawings, he has also completed illustrations for several publications, children’s books, where he drew from his own memory and experiences beautiful illustrations to stories and tales for children.

Corr’s illustrations
demonstrate a unique artist signature. It seems like he uses simultaneously
different mediums like watercolours, pencils, pens, oil pastels, etc. for his
drawings and painting. This mixture is very fascinating and underlines the
colourful vibrant look of his illustrations.

https://www.christophercorr.com/ https://shop.rogansbooks.co.uk/illustrator/christopher-corr/

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Another amazing illustrator I have come across when searching for a daily journal inspiration.

Alice’s art work ‚Please stand behind the yellow lion‘, looks absolutely charming and holds a beautiful message to us, the people of 21st century.

PLEASE STAND BEHIND THE YELLOW LION A folding concertina experiment for the brief ‘being human’.

Now that I live in Cambridge, I rarely take public transport, and so every time I go back to London I find myself having to readjust to the huge culture shock of the using London buses and tubes. I’m often amazed by how few rush-hour-commuters look up from their phones or books to notice what (or who) is around them. As someone who grew up in London, I know that I have been guilty of this practice too, and to me, burying myself in a book or screen to avoid making eye contact with people it is part of what “being human” in the 21st century is all about.  I thought it would be humorous for a younger audience to depict a scene where the older humans using public transport don’t realise that they are sharing their train with less-than-human passengers. The only person who notices is a young girl in the middle carriage. – Alice Courtley

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She collects material like cast-off textiles, found or gifted, worn or used objects like garments for her artwork. Her work shows another experimental approach to mixed media textiles used as painting, image or design for a book.

‚With her rich use of colour, stitch and mixed media, textile artist Cas Holmes exploits the tactile nature of textiles to turn traditional approaches to landscape on its head. Cas guides you through every stage of the creative process, building unique and beautiful works of art through observation and gathering material, experimenting in stitch, collage, screen printing and appliqué, and presenting small pieces and huge installations alike with their own sense of space, time and location.Her fascinating exploration of our relationship with our environment – and the effect of the local landscape on our own memories and imagination. Textile Landscape spans the UK, Europe, USA and Australia, including her own personal, local pieces and travel diaries as well as work from international artists‚, is written about Holmes‘ book ‚ Textile Landscape on her page, http://casholmes.blogspot.com/.

https://www.textileartist.org/cas-holmes-conception-creation

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