Inspiration Comes From Artists.

I have been interested in art since I was young and have had a love for some artists for a long time and I hope they never leave me.

Here is a list of 5 artists that have always inspired me and why?

Van Gogh
I love Van Gogh. His work was some of the first I remember seeing when I was young. "starry night" and "the sunflowers" were in a books my parents had. I really loved them. During my foundation at UCA, 2012, I went to Amsterdam with the college. The Van Gogh museum was closed at this point but my tutors took us to the Kruller Muller Museum just outside the city and I saw a huge collection of Van Gogh paintings. It was incredibly inspiring and just an amazing experience for me. There was a range from his brightly coloured landscapes to portraits of the poor and charcoal sketches.Then in 2016 my friend took me to New York with her and we went to see "starry night" at the MoMa. Again it was inspirational and beautiful to see these paintings in person.

Monet
Monet is another artist I have loved since I was young. I always loved the colours. I thought they were beautiful. I think it was some of the Water Lily paintings I saw first and found inspirational. Again I've been lucky enough to see them in both Amsterdam and New York and also the Impressionist show in London 2015.

Franz Ackerman
I was introduced to Ackerman during my GCSE's or just before. I had a love of colour and my teachers thought he would inspire me. He did, I liked the bright un-natural bubbles of colour.

Rothko
Rothko's work is beautiful. A real inspiration to my thoughts and ideas throughout university. His colour is fuelled with emotions and I really feel that. I love knowing an artists process, knowing how ideas become art and the process in the middle. Seeing this happen. I'd love to sit in a room and watch him create a piece (I feel like that for all these artists).

Mondrian
Mondrian is an interesting artist to me. I mostly loved reading about him. Stories about how he worked. Never having two canvases the same size and him painting and moving his studio around to resemble his paintings. I think that's what inspired me more.
I do love his work, especially the later pieces depicting New York from above and I feel like I understand those pieces more since being to New York. Seeing a painting in the city it was made really changes your perspective on the painting. It gives you more understanding of the painting and the artists relationship with it.

Thanks, frey frey!

A Blank Canvas

It is no secret that I like to dye my hair.

When myself and best friend Ellie (EllesBelles) were around 14 or 15, Ellie made a little diary for our school's time capsule about general Towers School life for her. In this, she wrote a profile about me. At that time we counted 18 different hair colour combinations. I'd been dying my hair for 2-3 years at this point. 6-7 years have gone by since then...how has my hair not fallen out since then!!

Whilst studying art, people would say "haha, your hair is like your art" I'd just think "well yeah!". I remember hearing my dad talking to someone, "the blonde is only there as a base in between colours, like her blank canvas"

So,

Post-uni-art-thinking made me decide it was about time I used my hair as a blank canvas and design a series of hair colours showing something to do with colour theory in art.

I'm not big on reading long giant books on theory, prefer colour for dummies or just the basics of colour so I can experiment at my own free-will.

Taking all this into account, I decided on using quotes or sayings from artists or art historians or theorists or general people and turning them into my hair!!

If you get what I saying here...

To show you what I mean, I did a practise run of the first idea.


"The splash of Yellow, says more about the purple than just having a plain field of purple" Danny Rolph, 2016.

 Step by step:

1. Bleach the shit out of your hair..looking for wispy white in colour and fried ends.
2. Separate hair into the sections you want coloured. 
3. Yellow first. Smear dye all over the area. Forget that tip about vasaline on your forehead - going for the Simpson look - leave in hair for a couple hours for stainiest finish.
4. Wash out. Dry. Reseperate the blonde from the yellow best you can the you don't mix the purple with the yellow. 
5. Cover blonde section  in purple hair dye. Realise you don't have enough so throw in a bit of old blue to top up. (Pretend this was all deliberate) yes it was meant to match the tattoo....
6. Leave again for a couple hours. It's semi-pernement it won't do much damage.
7. Now condition the fuck out your hair beca use we want to remind our hair that we love it.
8. Wash out conditioner after another hour and dry.
   
   

I dunno, just trying something new here.

(I was also meant to upload this about a month a go. oops!)