Thursday 24 October 2013

Contempory Artists - Ross Crawford

Ross Crawford
 
Ross Crawford is an award winning illustrator that happily experiments with the visual aspects of illustrations, graphic design and typography a range that has brought this experience to numerous fashion and advertising projects at home and aboard.
 
 
The first image by this artist has a theme of music festivals with the different images which are linked to music; for example there’s a person playing a guitar as well as a lady singing which a hand gesture beside her which makes me think of rock music, plus different aspects such as drink, food, speakers and flowers. I quite like how the images blend in with each other well as sticking to the same theme which makes it easier to understand and could be could be easily used for an advertising poster for a festival. This image has given me and idea to maybe create my own montage of images but using the theme of the aquarium, maybe including different activities there are to do there as well as a variety of different fish to give the image more depth. Overall I think this is a good collage and like how all the images relate to one theme which makes the image work better, as well as having images that are all colour so that one image doesn’t take the attention away from the whole image which I think makes it more presentable.
 
 
 
Another image I have chosen to look at by Ross Crawford is one made out of paper using different colours and mediums. I think this piece is based around a story with how the woman is running through a forest and also the engraved initials on a tree which could suggest that maybe she has broken up with her partner and trying to run away from the drama. It also reminds me of a fairy-tale story with all of the bright colours as well as the sparkles on the persons dress and the trees that overlap each other creating an arch shape. I think this sort of image would be good to be used on a book cover because it has an inviting feel to which makes you want to see what the story is about. Overall I really like this image and how is has quite an enchanting feel to it and think it would be good to promote it as a book cover or even as a theatre poster with all the creative aspects of it that makes it appealing.


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