It was our first ever university trip, and the location of our day out was the city of Liverpool and despite the weather which was grey and dismal I was feeling very excited. We would be touring round some of the art galleries in Liverpool the three being The TATE, F.A.C.T and the Blue Coats Gallery, which was formally a school back in days of old. We boarded at Picadilly where most of us met up and upon our arrival at Liverpool Lime street station we grouped up, had a small snack and headed to our first destination the TATE.
It had been some time since I went to an art gallery and I was rather exited and in this time I would look at paintings that could influence my 19th century themed story in terms of art style. Our main visit was to the Roy Lichtenstein exhibit, looking at some of his work in screen printing and painting. I myself was familiar with his work from College, and his work seemed inspired by comic strip art.
I took observation sketches in my journal that I brought for today using ink finalisers both black and coloured. It felt like I was in my natural element of doing artwork and observations. Looking round the gallery I found some rather strange and interesting pieces of work and some
pieces used traditional oil on canvas and the strokes looked very textured on the art work.
However in every gallery theres that element of the unusual, this was an element that captured the attention of some of the group. It was a film showing what appeared to be an artist doing work, and the artists was rather unusual he had a big nose and large hands and one thing that was very strange was the way he was talking. It was very disturbing in some cases and this to me seemed like a man making a fool of himself in a gallery.
We met in the gift shop area where I found a book on Manga Art written by one of my favourite illustrators Mark Crilley. Reading the book granted me some insight and interesting methods to try, methods that could be of use in my story writing concept art. When we left I couldn't help but feel that I'd been to this gallery before but looking at the location and the orange pillars of the buildings helped me realise that I had been here before during my time at Wilmslow High School which was many years ago.
Our next destination was the F.AC.T gallery and I was most looking forward to seeing what opportunities this could give for inspiration. However upon our arrival there was a problem, due to exhibitions being installed there was no chance of looking around the gallery. I was very disappointed as this was a new gallery to me and I was looking
forward to seeing what it had to offer. Instead we went to a Pub lunch at a weather spoon restaurant named the Lime Kiln. I was hesitant at first given I was told it was a vegan restaurant, but Johny convinced me to give it a try, and I decided to give it a try.
Most of the group had dissapeard when we arrived mostly because they had stopped at a Forbidden planet comic book shop. I was starting to wish I'd gone with them, and thankfully Johny said that I could given this was a day to be out and about not just to a schedule. So I looked around the shop and realised that by going with the remainder of the group to begin with I had remembered the route back to the restaurant and didn't worry about losing my way.
After that refreshing lunch we traveled to the Blue coat Gallery, and upon our arrival I realised my pre ordered ticket for the train was due for 15:22 pm and it was close to that time so I needed to make my visit quick. We could leave when we'd seen enough so I worked quickly. Looking around I thought this gallery only had one small exhibition space with hardly any artwork, but the time lines art work did provide some inspiration, more specifically it reached back to the 1900's the time my story in scriptwriting was set in.
I soon discovered there was more to the gallery
than what I was seeing and found a second gallery space with paintings. One piece of interest to me was a piece of artwork done by an artist named Roderick Blsson. What spoke to me about this artwork were the bright and dark flat colours even using a hint of abstract shapes combined with surrealism, whilst of no possible use in my work it was something to consider in terms of style.
I found a painting of the Blue coats gallery from the past done by Carter Preston. The painting seemed to capture the realism of the building and the strokes in the oil paint was adding realistic brick texture. I was beginning to wonder how I could try and replicate something similar in my module work, and even remembering what I'd learned from the manga book could help.
The time came to depart, but I feel I learned a lot from this trip and it has reaped unexpected fruit. Looking back over this trip I would think if I could do it over again I possibly would've done at least one thing differently. I realise I should've first checked with Johnny about how long we would be in Liverpool for so that I could book a later return ticket and spend more time at the last gallery on the trip. In hindsight looking around the two galleries was very helpful and it also aided in seeking further ideas and inspiration for composition media and layout in my background concept art.
I would think the trip was very beneficial, but I was disappointed that we couldn't look around the F.A.C.T, but I may consider to look at visiting over the easter break to see whats on. In conclusion this was an insightful and eventful trip which was just what we needed to kick our creative cogs in gear to create new and profound ideas. In future I shall check with the tutor before hand as regards the time we'll be spending in our trip location to get an idea of booking the return ticket.
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I took observation sketches in my journal that I brought for today using ink finalisers both black and coloured. It felt like I was in my natural element of doing artwork and observations. Looking round the gallery I found some rather strange and interesting pieces of work and some
pieces used traditional oil on canvas and the strokes looked very textured on the art work.
However in every gallery theres that element of the unusual, this was an element that captured the attention of some of the group. It was a film showing what appeared to be an artist doing work, and the artists was rather unusual he had a big nose and large hands and one thing that was very strange was the way he was talking. It was very disturbing in some cases and this to me seemed like a man making a fool of himself in a gallery.
We met in the gift shop area where I found a book on Manga Art written by one of my favourite illustrators Mark Crilley. Reading the book granted me some insight and interesting methods to try, methods that could be of use in my story writing concept art. When we left I couldn't help but feel that I'd been to this gallery before but looking at the location and the orange pillars of the buildings helped me realise that I had been here before during my time at Wilmslow High School which was many years ago.
Our next destination was the F.AC.T gallery and I was most looking forward to seeing what opportunities this could give for inspiration. However upon our arrival there was a problem, due to exhibitions being installed there was no chance of looking around the gallery. I was very disappointed as this was a new gallery to me and I was looking
Most of the group had dissapeard when we arrived mostly because they had stopped at a Forbidden planet comic book shop. I was starting to wish I'd gone with them, and thankfully Johny said that I could given this was a day to be out and about not just to a schedule. So I looked around the shop and realised that by going with the remainder of the group to begin with I had remembered the route back to the restaurant and didn't worry about losing my way.
I soon discovered there was more to the gallery
than what I was seeing and found a second gallery space with paintings. One piece of interest to me was a piece of artwork done by an artist named Roderick Blsson. What spoke to me about this artwork were the bright and dark flat colours even using a hint of abstract shapes combined with surrealism, whilst of no possible use in my work it was something to consider in terms of style.
I found a painting of the Blue coats gallery from the past done by Carter Preston. The painting seemed to capture the realism of the building and the strokes in the oil paint was adding realistic brick texture. I was beginning to wonder how I could try and replicate something similar in my module work, and even remembering what I'd learned from the manga book could help.
The time came to depart, but I feel I learned a lot from this trip and it has reaped unexpected fruit. Looking back over this trip I would think if I could do it over again I possibly would've done at least one thing differently. I realise I should've first checked with Johnny about how long we would be in Liverpool for so that I could book a later return ticket and spend more time at the last gallery on the trip. In hindsight looking around the two galleries was very helpful and it also aided in seeking further ideas and inspiration for composition media and layout in my background concept art.
I would think the trip was very beneficial, but I was disappointed that we couldn't look around the F.A.C.T, but I may consider to look at visiting over the easter break to see whats on. In conclusion this was an insightful and eventful trip which was just what we needed to kick our creative cogs in gear to create new and profound ideas. In future I shall check with the tutor before hand as regards the time we'll be spending in our trip location to get an idea of booking the return ticket.
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