stephen dixon ceramics
philip eglin

Artists research

Vicky lindo
While visiting The Harley Gallery i came across Vicky who's work automatically struck me s interesting and very vibrant.Her work also came across as quite funny as some pieces had funny
sayings on them.Most of her art pieces are pots and sculptures of cats(she herself has said that she uses her cat as a real life modal for her work).

This is one of my favourite pieces of work is the one above.

I love how the large centre of the plate and the cat

Vicky Lindo Ceramics is the creative partnership of Vicky Lindo and William Brookes.  Producing earthenware slip cast ceramics, they use coloured underglazes and slips to illustrate and decorate their tableware and animal figures.

Taken from The harley gallery website.

Another one of the plates i liked was the very bright plate that i saw on sale the other day.

I love the bright red and darker blue.

She didn't just do plates she also did modals and sculptures that she would paint and her partner 

William Brookes. 

William Brookes

American Abstract Expressionist
Painter/sculptor
Apprentice at 12 at a firm of commercial artists and decorators
At first he got money through painting signs,department stores displays,carpentry, etc
In 1930s/early 1940s painted abstractions and figures.
Worked mainly in black and white with high velocity,erotic shapes.
Had his first one man exhibition was at New York in 1948 at Egan gallery.
Since 1969 he's made a number of sculptures.

American painter from Armenian
Some if his work reflected both artists traumatic past as a Genocide survivor and the exquisite beauty of his early childhood.
He named his abstract compositions with titles refers n g to particular objects and places.
His work provides the most important link between Europena modern style and abstract expressionism.
Some of his influences are
Paul cezanne,Joan Miro,pablo picasso.

American Abstract Expressionist
Painter/sculptor
Apprentice at 12 at a firm of commercial artists and decorators
At first he got money through painting signs,department stores displays,carpentry, etc
In 1930s/early 1940s painted abstractions and figures.
Worked mainly in black and white with high velocity,erotic shapes.
Had his first one man exhibition was at New York in 1948 at Egan gallery.
Since 1969 he's made a number of sculptures.

Mark Rothko

Abstract Expressionist
American painter/ Jewish descent
Began writing in 1936 about similarities in the art of children and the work of modern painters.
Went from representation to rectangular fields of colour and light.His inspiration was exploring subjects other then urban and shape and form.
Suffred from depression after divorcing again.
May abstract expressionist discussed their art as aiming towards a spiritual experience and a emotional feeling.
His style was composed of bright colours,vibrant,particularly reds and yellows.Expressing energy and ecstasy.1950s he changed to dark blues a and greens due to his dark personal life.He sometimes used natural substances like egg and glue as well as Acrylic resins,phenol formaldehyde,and others.
There is a Rothko chapel located to the Menil Collection and the University of st.Thomas in Houston,Texas.It's a Geographical post modern structure.It was supposed to be a uplifting chapel which people would get married in.There were bibles and other religious literature in it.
Febuary 25,1970 he killed himself and was found dead after slicing his own wrists.and a overdose on anti- depresnts.there was a lawsuit by his cildren(For ten years) regarding that fact that his sales advisor had sold his paints to the Tate and had split half and half.
some of his work is below:

His Subway scenecs was a painting he did;

completed in the late 1930s.

Jackson polluk and other artists

Paul Jackson Pollock, known professionally as Jackson Pollock, was an influential American painter and a major figure in the abstract expressionist movement. He was well known for his unique style of drip painting.
he had a volatile personality, and struggled with alcoholism for most of his life

Pollock signed a gallery contract with Peggy Guggenheim in July 1943. He received the commission to create Mural (1943), which measures roughly 8 feet tall by 20 feet long,^[14] for the entry to her new townhouse.

my painting does not come from the easel. I prefer to tack the unstretched canvas to the hard wall or the floor. I need the resistance of a hard surface. On the floor I am more at ease. I feel nearer, more part of the painting, since this way I can walk around it, work from the four sides and literally be in the painting.

I continue to get further away from the usual painter's tools such as easel, palette, brushes, etc. I prefer sticks, trowels, knives and dripping fluid paint or a heavy impasto with sand, broken glass or other foreign matter added.

When I am in my painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing. It is only after a sort of 'get acquainted' period that I see what I have been about. I have no fear of making changes, destroying the image, etc., because the painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through. It is only when I lose contact with the painting that the result is a mess. Otherwise there is pure harmony, an easy give and take, and the painting comes out well.

—Jackson Pollock, My Painting  1956

some of jacksons work include:

(wide walls)

(Number 8)

Franz Kine:

ranz Kline was born and raised in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, a small coal-mining community that offered few opportunities for artistic development. His childhood was marred by a complicated relationship with his parents. His father, a saloon keeper, committed suicide in 1917, when Kline was only seven years old. His mother later remarried and sent her son to an institution for fatherless boys, which the artist referred to as "the orphanage."

American Abstract Expressionist Franz Kline is best known for large black and white paintings bearing abstract motifs set down with strident confidence. By the end of his life he had achieved immense international recognition, and his unusual approach to gestural abstraction was beginning to influence the ideas of many Minimalists.The powerful forms of his motifs, and their impression of velocity, were intended to translate into an experience of structure and presence which the viewer could almost palpably feel.

For my infergraphics I wanted to make them in a style that would be easy and fluid. For this I decided to use one of the cutest and simple features which for.me is the paw pads.
I used a example of a paw pad that I found online which is this:

This then helped me to get a idea of the size and how much of my instructions I could put inside on paw pad.My finalist des for my infergraphics is very simple but and use bold lines I plan on making the inside pictures bolder so they will go with the back ground.

This is my start to the infer graphics and the instructions.I have hand drawn them out and will be working on them in Photoshop and illustrator.The actual instructions are quite simple.
1)First take you Proud pets product
2)Open the container
3)Apply to the your Proud pet

The update to my work;

Here is my final infergraphic coloured up in black and applied to my back ground box:

I am very impressed with how it has turned out in the end and how much better the paw prints look in black as well.The images i hand drew came out a lot better then i thought.
The writing also came out quite well and i feel that my instructions are very easy to understand and follow.

point of sale idea

Great advertising found in Sainsbury's that also had paw prints leading to the shelfs.I have taken the idea of the cat on the top and adapted it.

For my unit 50 I wanted to make my point of sail(which I want to be a stand in some way).

My idea is to make a sign with a cat at t he top.like the one I spotted in Sainsburys yesterday. There would be slots to hold my products in.

I shall be making a drawing below:

My hand drawn idea of one of my p.o.s

My boxes stacked how they would be on the shelf (opposed to how they would look on the case i made: