An Artistic Journey Of My Favorite Things

For school, we were asked to talked about what inspires us. A variety of things inspire me including art and music. This was certainly a difficult assignment and it took a while (plus a late night)

Artists

Andy Warhol

Andy has always been an inspiration for me for art. When doing a Pop Art unit in grade 9 art class, I became super interested in his work. It was a whole new look on art in his time as he lead the pop art movement.His art has always been a favorite of mine; I can honestly say I have been getting his calenders for years and I put the pictures up on my bedroom wall (and just fangirl). Overall, a bizarre but interesting person. My high school teacher made us all watch a ten minute video filmed by Andy on him eating a hamburger...what an artist.

Rene Magritte 

Another artists work which was different at the time but always got peoples attention to stop and think. I remember doing a project on Rene in my french class which was a breath of fresh air from all the presentations on realism art. This work of his display here is a personal favorite as well as The False Mirror.

Roy Lichtenstein

Another of my favorite works, I enjoy the use of dramatic comic strips and turning them into a whole new look on pop art.

Music

To be honest, I actually don't have that certain musician who has inspired me. There are so many musicians including We Are The City, First Aid Kit, Radiohead, Gorillaz, Simon & Garfunkel, No Doubt, The Archers ( from Victoria, my hometown), Said The Whale, Crystal Castles and others whos music makes me happy to listen to. Playing in a band, I have experienced many opportunities and met many different people. I'm so lucky to have the musicians in Reverie in my life and basically call them family. I believe we help each other when it comes to producing our own music and just being there to talk to each other. This year, a big highlight for us was to play our own show at the world famous Butchart Gardens. What an exciting experience that was of course and it was crazy how fast it was over after all the preparation.

More Artwork

A number of times I have used Tumblr or Google images to get inspiration. I remember for a final project I got inspire by a post on Tumblr which helped turned the creative gears and I produced this...

It was inspired by a secret life of a super model, The black images are suppose to be faults. You might not be able to see it but her left eye has 'pink eye' and the cheek on the right contains blemishes.

Another post I while back was this one:

I actually think I found this on the TNA clothing website while internet window shopping. I like the different textures that were used and the colours as well....plus I thought it sort of resembled me :P

Recently I designed a logo for my band to use for promotional purposes. We were wanting to have a logo produced so one day I bought out the old sketchbook, looked at some images that inspired me including this one and produced the image below..

 

 

Final 

The typography was also drawn out by me as well, I was super pleased with this and we even got shirts made as well at Incite.

I also have a liking for designs that are found on Threadless. For anyone who doesn't know what that is, it's basically a website where artists and designers produce and sell their own t-shirts with their design. I'm all for the indie/ street art look, here's some of my favorites that I found...

Lastly, I think this counts but I found this image on a track  called "Deer In Japan" by one of my favorite bands from Vancouver called Oh No! Yoko. It has that surreal look to it and it has always been one of my favorite images