inspiration for new life

I've get inspiration from this digital art I found online. It is called A Plant New Life by ~dj-pynguin. (source: http://dj-pynguin.deviantart.com/art/A-Plant-New-Life-2020069)

I was inspired by its contrast between green and black. This contrast make the young green plant totally stand out from the rest of the objects. I think I would like to use this idea in my coursework. But instead of putting so much emphasis on the green plant, I would like it to be more subtle so as to suggest that the new life actually happen just next to us but it is difficult to notice.

Also, I would also like to use young green plant to represent a new life, a new beginning. I think this is what some of the people actually hope for when disaster strike. They would like to start their life again and make a better tomorrow.

butterflies

For my coursework, I had some inspirations from butterfly!

We can see butterflies everywhere we go. There are times that we are amazed at the beauty of the butterfly, however, most of the time we just ignore it as it is just too common to us. I link this idea to my coursework theme: Hope. Just like butterfly, hope is actually everywhere around us, it’s just the matter of whether you can notice it or not.

There are some references that I get my inspiration.

In Willow Tree Angel collection, the “Angel of Freedom” shows an angel holds a butterfly in her hands. From this, I want to use butterfly as a symbol for the longing for hope and freedom in my course work.

There is a quote says “A butterfly lights beside us like a sunbeam. And for a brief moment its glory and beauty belong to our world. But them it flies on again, and though we wish it could have stayed, we feel so lucky to have seen it.”

In this painting, Jesus is holding a boy and pointing towards a butterfly. Thus, i would like to include butterfly in my coursework as an image that resembles beauty of life.

There is also a poem that I would like to share it here.

Message of Hope

A whispered wish of remembrance

Silent words of loss

A song of goodbye

An unspoken prayer for lasting peace

A message of hope

Rejoice for the spirit that has passed.

Release the sorrow and the sadness.

Rebuild a life again.

Emerging from your cocoon so gently placed

Sensing the freedom in the waiting sky

Wings open and quickly a flight

A drift in the air

Dancing with the wind

A glow in the sunlight.

The message of hope

Touching the spirit

Teaching to begin anew

Transforming the wish into hope

On the radiant wing of a butterfly.

~Kristy Dyer

Similarly, there is a saying goes,

Just when the caterpillar thought the world was over

it became a butterfly!

inspiration from surreal and dark art

I have gotten inspiration from two different but very interesting mediums of art which are called as Surreal and Dark Art. These types of art are quite different from other conventional mediums of art. In these medium, artist conveys his thought and imagination in a very mysterious but somewhat fantastic or a bizarre style. As these arts are more like a fantasy, many abstract themes could be express in many possible ways. Also, in the Surreal and Dark art, I found out that there is a contrast between light v.s. dark, coloured v.s. black and white.

I would like to use this type of art style in my coursework. I would also like to adopt this surreal style to depicts my work as I think by adding in the surreal elements, it would make my artwork more impactful and different from normal photos. I would also like to explore the contrast of light v.s. dark, coloured v.s. black and white as I think it can make the artwork more impactful. Also I can make the coloured objects to have a symbolize meaning which can help to convey my message to the audience more easily.

Here are some of the Surreal and Dark Art I get my inspiration from:

Hope

Desperation

Lost fairy

Images taken from: http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/03/20/30-beautiful-surreal-and-dark-art-pictures/

inspiration from religious

After the inspiration I have on disasters, I have also have inspiration from the religious faith.

When in times of trouble and sorrow, people would normally pray to god to seek for help. Especially when we encounter something that we cannot solve, we would like to depend on god to give us the direction to continue to move on.

In the artwork, The Virgin in Prayer, by Giovanni Battista Salvi da Sassoferra
to. A woman is praying. This inspires me how people would have the hope in their heart and pray for the better. I might want to use this as references for my coursework by depicting people have the faith inside them despite of the sorrow and sadness.

After the disaster, a lot of people are praying for family’s safety and a better tomorrow. Though many of them knows that it might useless, but they still kept on praying. At first, I was puzzled at this phenomenon, as I don’t understand why people would keep on praying despite the fact that it is useless. However, after I watched the news reporting on the aftermath of the earthquake, I realize that it is not that the people are only seeking for help from the god, but a sense of comfort as well. It is just a form of believe that would continue drive people to move forward, a faith in heart that their loved ones will be safe.

In this photo, it shows survivors praying for the victims of the earthquake. It inspired me that i would also like to have a similar setting for my coursework, whereby people in the debris praying for the safety of their loved ones, and for whoever had suffered due to the disaster.

Inspiration for coursework - disaster

Update the blog after a long long time J

For my AEP coursework, my theme is HOPE.

I chose this theme mainly because I want to tell the viewers that hope is everywhere around us, we should never give up on our life.

Recent years, many natural disasters occurred. This caused many people lost their home, family and friends. Life might be hard for them, but I hope they can believe that there is always hope and never give up.

Though disaster might not fall directly on us, but we can be quite close to it. Such as the 2004 Indonesia tsunami. We still can feel the shock of the earthquake. And from the report we can see that people live right beside us are suffering. This makes me feel very sad as i see people struggle to survive during and after the disaster.

Also, not to forget the 2008 Sichuan Earthquake. As my parents and most of my relatives live in Sichuan, the earthquake really give me a big fright. Luckily all of them are safe and sound. However, this experience allows me to empathize the life of people who have lose their family during the disaster. Still, it's quite hard for me to imagine what would they feel like when they heard that their family were buried under the debris. I think it's really hard for them to wait for the rescue team, and at the same time hope that their family will be safe

Following that, is the recent Japan Earthquake. I was surprised at Japanese's optimistic attitude after the earthquake. Though the devastating earthquake has resulted many people lose their home, family and friends, but they still did not give up and think positively. Also, they all work together to rebuild their hometown is very heartwarming. I hope that everyone who suffer from natural disaster could also discover the positive side of life and not give up.

Thus, I chose HOPE for my coursework’s theme!

Speed Charcoal Drawing - Megan Fox - Theportraitart

the charcoal looks very cool:) it is very expressive and the tone can varied a lot. it can also create different textures as well:)