Sketchbook Work

Research - Sabrina Ward Harrison

Sabrina Ward Harrison is a well known artist who is most known for her love of keeping dairys while traveling. She uses these dairys for thoughts, ideas ad inspiration. She also does other work such as fine art, photography, and illustration. she uses a mix of media ranging from paints, ink, pens, pencils and collage.

Research - Louisa Gray

Louisa Gray is a Illustrator/Designer based in London. She ranges from screen printing, photography, collage and drawing. Her work is naive and child like. She works with new and old pieces of materials to collage with and is heavily influenced by funfairs and being in a child like state of mind.

Sketchbook Work

Research - Julie Mehretu

Julie Mehretu is a Contemporary Artist who works with paint. She layers up alot with acrylic and then works over the top for mark making effects with pencils, ink, pen and quick paint lines.
Her work is very geometric and she tends to work bright colours on to darker backgrounds.

Sketchbook Work

Research - Kerstin Kartscher

Kerstin Kartscher is a German Contemporary Artist. Her work is very feminin and elegant. she also plays on the idea of freedom. She mostly works on paper or fabric with marker ink.

Research - Trenton Doyle Hancock

Trenton Doyle Hancock is a American Fine Artist who works with print, drawing and collage.
His work portrays life, death, birth and after life. His work is also mystical and almost in a dream like state of mind.

I think Hancocks work represents Hallucination well, As bright colours are played upon darker backgrounds you can almost see yourself dreaming these images. I like the idea of layering and collaging other images to get a distorting hallucination feel. The use of text is well balanced in his work and i think that its something that may influence my work alot.

Research - Ernesto Caivano

Ernesto Caivano is a Contemporary Artist. Most known for his line ink drawings and his pieces of work having a romantic story tail, with each piece a new part in the story.

The reason i chose to look at Ernesto Caivano as part of my research is because i like the idea of playing with lines and florals over a more geometric, structured background. I think in a way looking at these pieces there is almost a element of hallucination due to the way he has applied the ink. The way he also uses different thicknesses influence me alot as well and the use of space is chosen well as his main image is thicker in ink and slowly deteriorates towards the outer page.