Future Architects Bees Replacing People

 

 

 

'Queen Bee' by Richard Stringer on the side of the Eureka Tower, Southbank, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

       I have done a research about bees again and found out more interesting fact to share.  

      Bees are not social creatures and do not build hives themselves. They construct small nests in trees holes, plants steams and fence pots. People are giving them ‘houses’ to live getting enjoyment of honey that is reproduced by these insects. However, scientists are found, that bees like bowerbirds (Australian birds) like to use plastic into their nests. Bees have incorporated plastic shopping bags pieces strengthening their nests. Also academicals investigations have submitted circumstances, showing that a bee by reproducing proteins has an ability to extract a ‘bee plastic’: a cellophane-lie biopolymer naturally. This fact gives a new opportunities for engineering and architectures to develop ideas that bees (called ‘cement bees’) will help to reconstruct old architectural ornaments, statues and event free-standing structures like as cathedrals in the future.  

     Bee’s hives have been built by unexpected ways in U.S.A. In the New York, bees’ hives are constructed on a rooftops of a school building. It is believed that it is only one school in Manhattan with beehives. The school gets a lot benefits from it: members of the school have got honey and students learn more about the environment and science while raising and nurturing bees.

     Interesting and useful bees’ ‘utilization’ shows the Dusseldorf Airport in Germany. The Airport is accommodated bees to live near the landing strips. They do a function of bio-detectives as reproduce honey in the high pollinated environment. By such kind honey the airport is monitoring a contamination of the air.  Unbelievable is that tests shows toxins in the honey that are below the official limits for emission.

Surfaces. Ideas for Paintings

      It is excellent if you have lot ideas in your head and then here is any problem to be ‘stuck in’. But if any thoughts are coming, but a feeling of making the art is still in the air? There is an one option. Look carefully at surroundings. Many things that are well known do not offer a suggestion, because of notoriety itself and our behavioural predictability. We have used to live by same patterns every day. Therefore might be good to view at the environment from different angle by dissecting what we see.

     Take a camera and walk around the house. Think what a surface do you see?

     I had walked around the house, have went in the garden many times and spent hours walking in the city on weekend. Either my photo camera travels with me on holidays, where are lot possibilities to capture different surfaces of buildings, streets. 

   

 

 

Digital photo; the surface of
a glass; I.G.

 

 

 

      Most important is that every surface has got hidden meaning. When we are looking at the subject front of us, eyes are seeing only first meaning. I guess, that our minds are very thirsty, hungry, or busy emotionally and physically, or simply are in a not good ‘mood’. By such negative circumstances the brain shows limitation only about the world of recognition. When we are looking at something like with a reading glasses, we see differences.

 

       

 

Digital photo; the surface of a splash of a colour on a wall; I.G.
 

       Every surface is multi integrated as involves a texture, time, proximity and a individual perception of seeing. A particular surface (for instance, grass, a wall, a table and etc.) can have more than one surface has got itself. Transformation is the key to understand surfaces and to analyse it by involving our own critical thinking. 

 

Digital photo; the surface of a building; I.G.

 

 

     Taking photos of surfaces inside the house and outside, have expanded my visual understanding and gave new ideas, where to find the inspiration, if I would ‘lose’ it. Having enough photos we can re-create them using a computer’s programs. Digitally made results are new ideas for paintings. They could not be revaluation of the materiality of the transformed surface only, but show the integrity of the personal, emotional world. 

 

 

Drawing and Writing Poem 'Metaphysics'

 

 

 

Acrylic painting, black ink; I.G.

 

Metaphysics

 

In the sky

Moon is high

Zero, one…

Who is wrong?

 

Under the sea

Light are deep

Not one seen

Not one heard.

 

Where they go?

Ask your mind.

I do not know

It has said.

 

 

Follow zero

Or one?

But… numbers

Are gone.

And I know

In the sky

Blinked only an eye.

 

Do not continue

It again

By a circled way

Everything is same.

 

2015

Unconditional Smile of The Artist Jack Tickle

 

      What is different between adults and children? The age, perception of the life, encounted experience and the wisdom. Being grew up means that we have lost our naturalness and naivety of an impact of the monumental (busy, overwhelming, multi tasking) present in fast moving environment of 21 century. Made artworks' outputs in a form of books for children, by my subjective opinion, gives not only happiness and joy for the young audience, but also add a spiritual energy as well as works have a power cherish a hidden wish to see the future positively.

       The artist Tickle (pseudonym of Jane Chapman) is one of creators, who builds high persuasiveness in her warm colourful pictures what I relish looking at her published books. She is working in acrylic painting, because of appreciation of this technique.

       The picture book ‘The Crunching Munching Caterpillar’ by Sheridan Cain is scenic and pretty. The character (caterpillar) reminds me the sun shine and limited colour pallet highlights the main basic agent. When I look at him, I really feel that the caterpillar is looking at me wanting hug me and you as well.

 

'The Crunching Munching Caterpillar' (Little Tiger Press, 2010).

 

        A big flow of kindness and visual warmth comes from images of the book ‘The Very Busy Bugs’. I extremely like bit, positive weird meaning  of the Jack Tickle's bee. There are friendly colours and graduated blending of them makes a pleasant view. The unity of the pink and bright yellow strengths a visual outcome easy and takes over the spirit of the paintings.  

       

‘The Very Busy Bugs’ (Little Tiger Press, 2005)

 

        Pictures from ‘Look Out, Ladybug!’  constitutes again one part of the added valuable pieces in the big pool  of  Jack Tickler’s distinctive style.  The ladybug is bit worried as the facial expressions ‘tells’ about it and here is also the good recognisable caterpillar from other her book.
 

 

 

 

‘Look Out, Ladybug!’ (Little Tiger Press, 2005)
 

     

     When I observe spreads of the content, I see a great balance of the design: typography is clear and good understandable, it reflects curvy shape of the ladybird chilling on a flower. The images ‘breathes’ on the blue sky, the sun is chosen as the focus point and lead to the ladybird.

 

Spread No. 1

 

‘Look Out, Ladybug!’ (Little Tiger Press, 2005)

 

 

 

 

Spread No. 2

 

‘Look Out, Ladybug!’ (Little Tiger Press, 2005)

 

     The spread of above picture are nicely balanced, main importance goes for the blue surface and the movement of the ladybird is shown by painted cut lines. The character remains the same with its features. The caterpillar amazed look at the lazy ‘lady’ who desired to explore the life.  

       By looking at pages of chosen books, I have seen  a radiant sunshine outputs of the artist Jack Tickler published artworks and it has lifted my spirit unconditionally.

 

   

  

 

 

 

 

Making Collage and Writing Poem 'Rachel'

 

 

 

 

 

Rachel

 

She is looking at me

 Without words,  without a battle  

 

Without the  sun, without stars

Only a burnt meadow

 

Not one stop to

 

Break shadows

 Full of the wasting motion

 

Do not dare say

It is the finish

 

A next day again

And again

 Bells are going ringing.

 

25.02.2015

Painting Satellites from References

        I continued to paint a universe subject matter. There I had looked at the NASA photos, that looks like real satellites. Having an understanding about the station, I still added imaginative lines of the Earth.

        Here are three examples how compositions might have part of the reality and part of imaginative points.

 

 

Acrylic, watercolours painting ‘Satellite 1’; I.G.

 

Acrylic, watercolours painting ‘Satellite 2’; I.G.

Acrylic, watercolours painting ‘Satellite 3’; I.G.

 

       Three paintings above are bit different, if to compare them with my first paintings. The surface of paintings became more decorative, stylized and satellites echoes geometric forms of stations’ constructions.

 

 

Audience, Art Styles and Suitability

1.      Babies/Toddlers: First Object Books

 

       For new-borns/young babies might be suitable an impressionism style with elements of a realistic style. When we bear in mind the age and an adaptation issue of physical development of child, we should remember that they have a biological features, i.e. the development of biological peculiarities associated with vision. Images required to be clear understandable, having big shapes and forms as well as a pure colour itself and high contrast in layouts (backgrounds).

       For instance, the rhythm book ‘I’ll see you in the morning’ by Mike Jolley and Mique Moriuchi  might be good companionship for bed time as illustrations are like soft blended colors with added  tender words in a text. I suggest illustrations were painted avoiding complicate design elements.

 

 

 Jolley, Mike and Moriuchi, Mique. (2005) I’ll see you in the morning.

 

San Francisco,  Chronicle Books.

 

        Second one might be the illustrator’s Peter Horacek ‘Where Do You Live Snail?’. Here are employed painting and drawing elements featuring richness of outcomes of a characters: snail, bird and fish. Colours are bright from warm colour pallet; creatures have a big size to recognize them and rendered expressions are soft, and appropriate for the age of audience.

 

 

Horacek, Peter. (2014) Where Do you Live Snail?  London,

 

Walker books Ltd.

 

2.      3 - 6 year old audience: Picture Books

 

 

        For the audience aged 3 - 6 year old tend to be classified in a category of young readers, who have educational parameters and are developing reading skills as well as explore the world. These images should have an intellectual visualization, somehow be curious, evoking and boosting a creativity of a child.  Most suitable artistic style could be: 1) expressionism mixed with the realistic style (Brian Wildsmith) and 2) impressionism and assemblage (collage) style (Sara Fanelli).

       There is a brilliant example of the illustrator Brian Wildsmith ‘The Lion and the Rat’. Pages of the book are exploding with colours. There are a lot patterns of nature, textures of animals outcomes and characters tend to educate recognize emotions such as absorption, astonishment, light fright and etc. Artist’s watercolors paintings combined with drawing give tender messages about the life of wild animals demonstrating the mix of expressionism with the realistic style. This approach is suitable for picture books’ readers, because clarity with elements of humor explains what happens and illustrations are narrative.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Wildsmith, Brian. (2015) The Lion and the Rat. Oxford, Oxford

 

University Press.

 

 

      The artist Sara Faneli ‘Mythological Monster’ book is really playful, distorted by outcomes characters remain to be friendly, soft and narrative visually. Deconstruction of compositions rises interest to explore bit bizarre, but the tender world of characters.

 

 

 

 

 

Faneli, Sara. (2006) Mythological Monster. London,

 

Walker Books Ltd.

 

  

 

 

3.      9 - 11 year old audience:  Information/Reference title

 

 

        This group of young people grows from a picture book to a fiction tiles and here are almost developed ability to read text and start to gain flashes of the wisdom. In bias of the style suitability, here might fit best the realistic style with flakes of expressionism and impressionism.  When I have looked at books’ market for this age, I found out that most of pictures generally are made in black and white drawings, nor exist images having full colours.

       For instance, the artist Brian Selznick ‘Wonder Struck’ book is like a big encyclopedia of pencil drawing covering everything what we see in the world: buildings, people, and different variety of emotions. There is a lot of rendered details, ‘zooming’, and the balance of a light and a dark space. The story is about two young teenagers who have different dreams in their life trying to achieve faced difficulties. The book is massive containing 460 pages with stunning artworks. There can be found adventures, surprise and perfect usage of symmetry and balance in drawings.

 

 

 

Selznick, Brian. (2011) Wonder Struck. New York, Scholastic.

 

 

       The book ‘Where My Wellies Take Me’ illustrated by the artist Olivia Lomenech Gill (authors are Michael and Clare Morpurgo) covers a field of the childhood scrapbooks with poems and pictures. I have seen illustration like a rainbow: paintings and watercolors, line drawings and collage techniques. A hand writing typography gives a sense of romanticism of passing away the childhood and transferring to a contradictive age of teens.

 

 

 

 

Morpurgo, Michael and Clare. (2012) Where My Wellies Take Me.  London,

Templar Publishing.

 

 

Have a nice reading!