This week I will be talking about the french illustrator, Tom Haugomat. Born in Paris in 1985, Haugomat fell in love with drawing and telling a narrative in his pieces. Studying art history, archeology, and design, Haugomat’s first public project was a short film “Jean-Francois” (2009) with co-creator Bruno Mangyoku. (source)

His approach to visual storytelling of incorporating multiple figuring interacting to create a sense of dialog or a lone person surrounded by large nature/architecture. His style is very minimal in the sense of being very deliberate about the highlights and lack of detail to allow the viewer to feel a sense of participation in filling in the rest of the details. In terms of drawing into space, Haugomat uses scale and contrast and is able to control the scale of space in his work.

Haugomat currently has two animations produced and a number of art books released with a collection of his work. He has a large following of 258k followers and is still working in France as an illustrator / author.

Tiffany Rankin is an Austin Texas artist. She has lived here for 18 years due to wanting to be closer to family. Rankin comes from a creative family and is mainly self taught, although she did go to art school for a degree in graphic design.

The mediums they use is acrylic ink and oils. Their biggest inspiration would have to be history belonging in ancient times. A lot of their work is revolved with the idea of time and beautiful women. They are also a women advocate and how females have point of view on life.

The way Tiffany Rankin is inspired is through her inspiration wall. She has color palettes and several images that she looks at and waits for an idea to simmer.

Here is a work she did where she is focused on the women perspective of life. The colors are absolutely beautiful. Another thing she mentioned was how she didn’t want to tell people much about the work or how to feel. She wanted her audience to decide for themselves how to interpret her pieces.

In this next piece, you can see how her history and the pov of a women really stand out. With the marking on her face and the leaves popping out, you can sort of tell that its suppose to be historical.

citation: https://artofaustin.com/tiffany-rankin/

Laslo Antal – Visual Diaries

Laslo Antal is a Hungarian artist from Serbia, based in Berlin. He creates collages of a unique nature and concept, this is what drew me to him. He started a series in 2017 called “Visual Diaries”, in which every day he would make a collage that represented an event from that day. He has collages depicting topics called “Pain Thing” where he is representing himself in deep pain, to more mundane themes like “Early Morning Duties” where he is showing his morning routine and such. He uses the same materials and sized paper to create a cohesive series. He also carries these materials with him everywhere. As a Hungarian who grew up in Serbia and moved to Berlin, he often feels somewhat separated from the communities around him and uses his art to create grounding connections with his surroundings. He uses collaging to tell the story of his life, and record the many events that happen in a persons everyday life. It is relatable, but also personal to the artist.

Hi! I’m Fifi 🙂 I am an art major and a Junior. I don’t have a specific medium I work in, and my main goal as an art student is to explore and try new things. I tend to create art that is personal, and based on my own life and experiences. However, I like to have work that others can connect to and feel something from. When it comes to drawing, I feel I am somewhat lacking. It’s always a starting point for me, but rarely the finish, so I’m interested in seeing where this class will take me.

The artist that I chose to research this week is Wiley Ross. Ross was born and raised in Springfield, Missouri and then moved to Austin to pursue his passion in music. In the early 2010’s, he has toured all around the country including the famous “Viper Room” in LA. He also had serious notability from Guns N’ Roses as he caught their attention. Wiley is a credible painter, muralist, sculpture artist and musician. He believes “the world is a blank canvas”, and that’s why you can see his murals all around Austin. He uses bright contrasting colors and is most influences by people, especially musicians, and his journeys throughout the world. I was fortunate enough to see some of his larger paintings at WCC in Austin, including one of his newest, Athena. Most people in Austin have probably seen his work without even knowing it. The Willie Nelson and Janis Joplin mural, located at 407 E 7th St, is one of his most recognizable.

https://www.wileyross.com

For our collage project, I chose to use this neoclassical-style staircase at my friend’s apartment as a reference. I approached this project by breaking down the structure into simple shapes. The staircase was made up of primarily rectangular shapes so I cut various sizes of rectangles using scrap pieces of paper. I used the paper from the side that gets torn from the spiral to act as the decorative parts of the balusters and finished the piece by drawing some details with a black pen.

After scrolling through a lot of summer photos, I thought the pictures I took in Paris felt perfect for our Atmospheric Perspective project. I didn’t take a lot of perspective photos sadly, but I luckily found one that looked beautiful and perfect to sketch out.

It wasn’t easy for me to start it out. I mainly just only used charcoal and pencil lead, since I didn’t think I could use anything else that would make it look stand out but not look like a mess. The center of the drawing was the easiest for me to, while the front wasn’t as easy or good in my opinion. The sky I barely drew, but I still feel like it should be lighter than it is.

The end result is ok, but not amazing. I think I could have done better, but I’m honestly too busy with other artwork, math, and moving to try to put my heart out to this art project until maybe spring break or summer.

Beili Lui was born in Jilin, China in 1974. She immigrated to the United States in 1995 and graduated in 2001 with a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. After she received her Bachelor’s degree she attended graduate school at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor where she got her Master’s of Fine Arts. 

Lui first became known as an artist at Art Farm, Nebraska in 2004 and since then she has received many awards. She has been featured on PBS as an artist which can be seen by most people on television.

The art which Beili creates is public art, performance, fiber art, and, drawing. Her art is quite abstract and reminds me of trees. The way in which I see these drawings as trees is because it looks like when you chop down a tree and look at the rings to see how old the tree is and I find that to be pretty.

This week, I’ve chosen to look at a somewhat local artist– Hedwige Jacobs. Born in Singapore, Jacobs lives and works in Houston Texas. She creates drawings that are simple in appearance but are rich with an investigation into the ways we live and interact with each other as human beings.

What drew me into Jacob’s work was one of her exhibitions that she had at Women and Their Work here in Austin in 2019. In this exhibition, she had an installation called The Corner Room in which there was a part of the gallery sectioned off to create a faux living room. I say faux, because although the room was real and contained real furniture, it was all drawn on and that really made me think of “drawing into space.”

She also did a similar site-specific installation in 2015 called Woven Living Room.

Sources:

http://www.hedwigejacobs.com

https://www.saatchiart.com/hedwigejacobs

https://womenandtheirwork.org/archive/hedwige-jacobs/