Portrait artist Andrew Salgado

I have started researching into Andrew Salgado because all his work is so unique and so detailed with just lines and splashes of colour. Painting with oils is one of my favourite ways to paint but one I find the hardest and more of Andrews work in produced in Oil paints and shows the textured and fullness of the colours he's used.
This of my favourite pieces by Andrew ( as seen on my theme board ) its called 'Lost & Found' and I just admire the blend of all the different strokes of colour, the random swirls and patterns of it that create the detail of the face and the shadowing to it.



 

http://www.andrewsalgado.com/

Portrait of Cara Delevingne

 

 



Ive started a portrait of Cara Delevingne on a canvas because it has become part of my artist research and my starting point for putting Cara on a patch within my quilt. I started this portrait 2 weeks ago and its still on going because whilst researching into more and more artists i'm discovering more and more techniques in the painting and how to apply the paint, my first artist that influenced this piece was Rosa Fedele, she's not very well known but I admire how her pieces aren't all accurate but still have meaning to them. After completeing this portrait I am hoping to then either transform it into a heat transfer to its on a patch of material that can be added within my quilt or I had an idea of cutting it off the canvas board and sewing into it, i'm just unsure of which I would get the most benefit and best standard out of. But once I've finished this canvas I am there going to create a face using different fabrics on my 2nd canvas and look into artists and textile designs that do so.

Quilting history

Preparing my pages to write down information and patterning about patchwork history. I haver been reading books on patchwork quilts as I think reading books instead of looking on the internet is loads more convient and helpful as patchwork quilts are so anicent and go back a long time, so books hold a lot of information, patterning and textiles designers I can gain interest on, so I began preparing pages in my sketchwork to record my information.

Collecting fabrics for my patchwork quilt

I have been making sure to collect a variety of fabrics for my patchwork quilt, as I want to combine colours and textures to create a face on my quilt and combine faces, but to do this I need a variety of different fabrics so I can create shading and outline details within a face.

Theme board for final major project

I have started my theme board for my final major project in which I will combine images, artists and information on. To the right is my interpretation of Andrew Salgado's portrait paintings and to the right I have included Cara Delevingne's head stuck on another models body as for this project i am altering the way people look and Cara is been part of one of my patchs on my patchwork quilt as she relates to my age group and so therefore everyone can relate to her.

Quilt Museum & Gallery York

Last weekend on 23rd to 24th I stayed in York to visit the famous Quilt Museum & Gallery. I didnt get chance to spend long within the Museum as it took myself and my friend a while to find it as it's quite hidden away, but I was glad once i'd discovered it because it was a really funfilling experience. I gathered websites (which I will list below) and these became useful towards looking more into pieces i'd discovered and the textiles artists. I also took photographs of my favourite pieces and the information at the side, which I will be uploading in later posts. This has to be one of my favourite galleries, because with me creating a patchwork quilt it opened my eyes so much to the variety of quilts in contempary and classic, and the different ways in which you can transform a quilt into a piece of art, a lot of quilts had components on which added texture and enhanced the piece.
My favourite patchwork quilt was called 'white lies and promises' and it held so much meaning and detail, it had a variety of components and techniques applied to it, I will upload a photograph in later posts as this quilt really did inspire me as it isnt a case of blocks of different fabric in squares, it really was a quilt based on art as it had different sewning patterns sewn through it to bring together each individual patch.
The gallery presented contempary and classic quilts to show me the difference in quilts created today and in the past, some of the more classic quilts should such concentration to detail, as one had gold braid sewn through each line and it really enhanced the quilt and gave it a 3D effect, or some quilts had had more and more added to it over the centuries to show the life of the quilt and the difference in fabrics and patterning.
The shop below the gallery was also very useful as it supplied you with thread, sewing packs, pattern packs, books, fabrics etc. I bought a book on Kath Kidstone called Patch! and inside it gave me all the instructions and measurments to make various interior objects, it also gave me different patterns I could apply to a quilt which was useful, and also it supplied me with all the fabric inside to create a Kath Kidstone style bag which I am looking forward to making and it will supply me with experience and pratice.
So I would suggest this Museum to anyone because it was really inspiring and interesting for me and I am hoping to visit upcoming events!

http://www.quiltmuseum.org.uk/exhibitions/current/town-and-country.html < the exhibition I attended and the Museum website

www.quilt-with-jenny.co.uk
www.jenniewoodesigns.com
www.jenettwinn.co.uk
^ all the websites I gathered at the museum