Sara Fanelli - Exquisite Corpse

From looking at Fanelli's use of weird creatures [1], we were given the task of using the game 'Exquisite Corpse' to make our own in pairs or groups. There were similarities between each of the designs created from this game, such as a bird head for three of them even though we did not discuss what we were drawing.

References
[1] Fanelli 2002


Bibliography

Amazon. 2002. Mythological Monsters of Ancient Greece. [ONLINE] Available at: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Mythological-Monsters-Ancient-Greece-Fanelli/dp/0763619078. [Accessed 12 December 2016].

Bookish Kids. 2014. Sara Fanelli Archives. [ONLINE] Available at: http://bookishkids.co.uk/tag/sara-fanelli/. [Accessed 12 December 2016].

Wikipedia. 2016. Exquisite corpse. [ONLINE] Available at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exquisite_corpse. [Accessed 12 December 2016].

Sara Fanelli - Lettering

I looked at Fanelli's use of typography and noted that she likes to use different fonts for each word in a sentence and often with embellishments such as bubble-writing, all capital letters or underlining. She sometimes writes and illustrates profound sayings or phrases so I tried this myself.

Song lyrics were easy to use because they were phrases I know well:

'I am going to make it through this year if it kills me.' from 'This Year' [1]  is a very powerful phrase with good emphasis towards the end which I have shown through the enlargement of the type and making it more bold.

'She may contain the urge to run away but hold her down with soggy clothes and breeze-blocks' from 'Breeze-blocks' [2]. I used this lyric as it happened to be what I was listening to at the time and by using a longer phrase, I could try using different fonts for each word. I found this quite difficult and therefore think that using Fanelli's technique works better with shorter phrases (seen in the example).

References
[1] The Mountain Goats 2010
[2] alt-J 2012

Bibliography

Blogger, Gianne Amparo. 2014. A week of doodling. [ONLINE] Available at: http://gianneamparo.blogspot.co.uk/2014/03/a-week-of-doodling.html. [Accessed 10 December 2016].

Youtube. 2010. The Mountain Goats - This Year. [ONLINE] Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eetIgGXH6DA. [Accessed 10 December 2016].

Youtube, alt-J. 2012. alt-J (∆) Breezeblocks. [ONLINE] Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVeMiVU77wo. [Accessed 10 December 2016].

Sara Fanelli - Collage using own images

Fanelli creates her creatures using collages made of many materials and contrasting images, making weird animals with unusual anatomy [1]. Using my sketchbook of drawings and Photoshop, I created some surreal creatures such as the three-headed deer from observational drawings of a ceramic figure in the Ashmolean Museum.

I also used an existing nonsense creature, a kind of bird thing, and overlaid some other museum drawings of roman coins and made it so the creature is looking into a Roman pot. By adding images with semiotic meaning, I have added more interest into the creature's design. This method of overlaying textures could be applied to create collaged work, such as Fanelli makes, but should be kept quite simple as the image may became too complicated and confusing.

Reference

[1] Fanelli 2002

Bibliography

Amazon. 2016. Mythological Monsters. [ONLINE] Available at: https://www.amazon.co.uk/d/Books/Mythological-Monsters-Sara-Fanelli/184428560X. [Accessed 9 December 2016].

Blogspot. 2014. The World of . . . Sara Fanelli. [ONLINE] Available at: http://rz100.blogspot.co.uk/2014/03/el-mundo-desara-fanelli-ii.html. [Accessed 9 December 2016].

Sara Fanelli - Found Collage

Sara Fanelli uses a mix of collage and simple ink drawings to create her illustrations which gives an often naive look that children can engage with easily. I looked at 'Pinnochio' [1], the traditional story which she illustrated recently, and took inspiration from her style of simple shapes to create my own creatures.

 

Task 1: Use Fanelli's technique of photographed and photocopied eyes to create a simple collaged image of a strange person or creature. You can include simple brush drawings in ink.

I dislike Fanelli's style and do not find it visually appealing because of its harsh shapes and irregular spacing. I do like the use of textures in children's books so I have used these in this task and made a few examples of creatures from printed paper and photocopied eye photographs. The shapes came quite organically from the half-cut, recycled paper which I found in the studio. From these I created much softer looking creatures with rounded features which contrasts to Fanelli's use of sharp shapes. When I was a child, I know I liked soft and round images which is what I have created here. These creatures seem far less threatening and more friendly.

References

[1] Fanelli 2001

Bibliography

Amazon. 2016. Pinocchio. [ONLINE] Available at: https://www.amazon.co.uk/d/Books/Pinocchio-Carlo-Collodi/0744586321. [Accessed 9 December 2016].

Sara Fanelli. 2016. Homepage. [ONLINE] Available at: http://www.sarafanelli.com/docs/portfolio/20.html. [Accessed 9 December 2016].