Inspiration

I'm always finding new artists to be inspired by and I love looking through books and websites finding more! I have a few particular artist which I'd like to use as inspiration in this particular project;

Artur Fast 

His subject matters are very original, things you don't see every day! I also enjoy how he uses a broad range of colours in his work.

www.arturfast.tumblr.com

http://arturfast.blogspot.co.uk/

Kemane Ba

Kemanes drawings are some what similar to Artur, due to the fact the subject matters are pretty strange but interesting! He aslo uses a bright and interesting colour palette. Something I want to follow up in my own work.

Arthur Rackman

Arthur is a very different artist than from the two previous I have talked about. For one think Rackman was born in the 1800, far before computers where invented. So Rackman is a traditional artist using pens and water colours to create beautiful detailed and delicate drawings.

I really enjoy the subject matters of Arhurs work, mostly fairytailes. Which is a genre I want to look into further. Arthur is most well known for his Alice in Wonderland stories, a story which I love and want to use in my development for my project. I want to take the detail and time spent on Arthur's drawings further into my own work.

Pans Labyrinth 

This film truly interests me, it is such a different story than many. The fact I still don't completely understand what went on excites me and makes me wonder and make up further stories in my head, with the characters from the film. Which I think is a great thing! Makes the mind wonder. I particularly enjoy the general work by Guillermo Del Toro, the director for the film. His sketchbooks and art are so interesting to me and something I enjoy reading and looking through, constantly giving me inspiration to create more things, things that simply pop into my head. Things that aren't real, things that you could never find in the real world.

 Alice in Wonderland

Another story which inspires me, is the classic tale of Alice and Wonderland. Another strange and twisty story, just my kind of thing. I just love and enjoy all things weird and wonderful and find it amazing how people, humans can come up with these crazy things. Out of all my 'inspirations' I feel Alice in Wonderland is the most child appropriate, as it is originally a childrens story, although having said that so was Pans Labyrinth.

So I guess when creating things for children you can go at any angle, above and beyond and they'll like it. After all children are pretty weird themselves.