PP&M: Blog entry  30

These are just a couple of experiments with quotes from the Borges text in watercolour. These could be better (and lots neater) although I like this idea. I don't think I'll do any more with this, I just wanted to try it out really...although it is something that I might come back to later, and experiment with further.

I hadn't used my watercolours for a couple of weeks, and really wanted to give this ago. The watercolours is something that I would like to continue to work with, and I think in the time between this semester and the next, I will be doing some more experimentation with them.

Working with text is also something that I have enjoyed, as I have not done much of this in the past, but I think I will also consider this for my MA project.

PP&M: Blog entry  26

I just found this! These are by Sam Winston, and are just lovely. In the pieces shown below he uses different techniques; printing, the other, collage and drawing.

Collage is not something that had crossed my mind for this project before, but is something that I might now consider working with.

Sam Winston, Backwards (Samwinston.com, 2014)

Sam Winston, Backwards, detail (Samwinston.com, 2014)

Sam Winston, Backwards, Print and plate (Samwinston.com, 2014)

Sam Winston, Romeo and Juliet, collage (Samwinston.com, 2014)

Sam Winston, Romeo and Juliet, collage (Samwinston.com, 2014)

Sam Winston, Romeo and Juliet, collage (Samwinston.com, 2014)

Sam Winston, Romeo and Juliet, collage (Samwinston.com, 2014)

Sam Winston, Darwin (Samwinston.com, 2014)

" I initially separated the text of these two books into nouns verbs, adjectives & other. I wanted to present a visual map of how a scientist and a poet use language – a look at how much each author used real world names (Nouns) and more abstract terminology (Verb, Adjective and Other) in their writings."

(Samwinston.com, 2014)

Sam Winston, Darwin, detail (Samwinston.com, 2014)

"Once I had a count of the 153535 words used in Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species, I set about drawing a dot for every word... 4H pencil was used to represent the 50567 words which were categorized as ‘Other. 2H pencil was used to represent the 38266 words which were categorized as ‘Noun’. HB pencil was used to represent the 26 435 words which were categorized as ‘Verb’. 4B pencil was used to represent the 38266 words which were categorized as ‘Adjective’"

(Samwinston.com, 2014) 

Sam Winston, Darwin (Samwinston.com, 2014)

Sam Winston, Darwin (Samwinston.com, 2014)

I love the methodical detail applied by Winston to this piece; changing it completly and presenting it in a new way to the viewer. 

Samwinston.com. 2014. Sam Winston : Home. [online] Available at: http://www.samwinston.com/ 
[Accessed: 3 Apr 2014].

Samwinston.com. 2014. Sam Winston : Backwords. [online] Available at: http://www.samwinston.com/artworks/backwords
[Accessed: 3 Apr 2014].


Samwinston.com. 2014. Sam Winston : Romeo & Juliet. [online] Available at: http://www.samwinston.com/artworks/romeo-juliet
[Accessed: 3 Apr 2014].


Samwinston.com. 2014. Sam Winston : Darwin. [online] Available at: http://www.samwinston.com/artworks/darwin
[Accessed: 3 Apr 2014].

PP&M: Blog entry  22

Today, I continued with my experiments from yesterday, but I played around with it more. I combined my patterns with some of my water colour experiments, used some backgrounds..I was planning to experiment with fonts today as well, but Illustrator wont play the game any more; have managed one today, will try for more another day.

PP&M: Blog entry  21

Experimentation in Illustrator; creating patterns with text

This took ages! For a better image of this click here. I made this in exactly the same way as before, but this time i experimented with using a wider range of characters, and different sizes, although still keeping with Times New Roman. I've run out of time today, but tomorrow I plan to do a couple more of these, and experiment with the font then.