Nature related artists (Earthly Delights theme)
Expanding research
Kuanth
Kuanth is a Singaporean artist and
designer, his work involves very organic shapes like flowers, leaves and other
natural elements painted digitally using procreate. However, he does also have
some traditional paintings using watercolours.
His work mixes the organic and editorial and
usually is monochromatic or dichromatic.
What inspired me from his work is the use
of colour, the geometry in his organic shapes and the composition.
Lorenzo M. Duran
The works of Lorenzo M. Duran show an
incredible use of organic materials in order to create geometrical and other “abstract”
forms. He works usually with leaves, seedpods, wood, natural fibres, and other
natural materials, he later assembles them in such way that they create these
patterns and shapes, some more geometrical than others but always very with a “manmade”
look to it.
I love how he manipulates organic matter,
and, without changing it too much he creates this very unnatural shapes.
Elisabeth Blackwell
As botanical scientific illustration goes there are plenty of artists through out times. In the most famous ones, the thing they had in common were that they were all men. However, in between all of them I saw an Elizabeth Blackwell from the year 1737, so I thought that she might be rather interesting. Elizabeth Blackwell like I said was a British/ Scottish botanical illustrator from the 18th century, mostly known for her work in “A Curious Herbal”. Not only was she amongst the first women to get recognition as a botanical illustrator but, she was also a big influence on it as she was one of the firsts to ever use drawing, etching and engraving and hand colouring her pieces, which later became a scientific illustrators favourite methods.
Tiago - this artists are prefect for you project. So relevant and you have clearly identified how their ideas and methods will help support your project. Good post.
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