nature and circuitry

nature and circuitry

A mostly experimental piece using pen and watercolours, this free-handed bird has a green painted circuit board style pattern that runs down its entire body but mostly around the face and wings. This was an attempt to combine technology and nature in a very literal sense, having less of a representation and more of an aesthetic appearance with unity as a greater theme than opposition. This piece is primarily experimental however I do believe that the style used can be developed into something that may be final piece worthy

–Expanding on from the style used to create the circuit board bird this time I have drawn the skull of a rat and completely coloured it green as well as used a pen to create a finer line making the traces more visible and to greater effect. The traces of the skull only partial cover the scull around the eye sockets and nasal cavity as any greater amounts would crowd the image with a greater than necessary amount of detail. Green is the chosen colour scheme of the skull as to me green is the colour that represents technology and nature the best and yellow was also used to break this trend and give impact to the composition as well as show some elements of semi natural colour. The primary mediums for this are watercolours and pen with the watercolours used to colour in the skull and the pen used to create the traces and to outline the image. I most certainly intend to use this style in the future as it represents how technology can be used to replace nature and often most go without even realising, showing the mimicry of technology, achieving what took millions of years of natural processes in a fraction of that time. However this itself is not suitable as a final mainly due to the lack of detail as essential it is a rat skull with traces therefore as part of a whole composition it may be worthy but as a single piece it is not.

–Essentially the same as the rat with the exception of that a different colour scheme is used with a different organism, in addition to this an additional element has been added, this being that there is also the pattern of a brain within the top section of the image. The main focuses within this piece is the tree, circuit board and the brain allowing this to not only appear like a tree but also like a brain attached to a spinal cord using pink and red this time as the main colour. Also like the rat watercolours and pens were used to colour this piece. However I am not satisfied with the final result of this image as it does not have the same impact and is also overcrowded with different elements, therefore I will avoid composing a piece in this manner and be more cautious using this style. 

Combining circuitry with living organisms I have aimed to create more of a ghostly visage in which paler shades are used, for this peice I used blues and greens and purples for them. The blue/purple wolf is posed leaping into the air with blue circuitry running from its face, down to its tail, in addition to its paws, the skeletal  green wolf has a similar pattern in darker green. In terms of what was aimed for this painting has gone well, however it does not look as appealing as the previous painting of a rat skull, in addition to this it may have been better to do the wolves as separate compositions as oppose to drawing them together.

Spider
This painting did not go as well as the previous as the use of complementary colours had the opposite effect with the red Web clashing with the green spider, however as individual components they do look relatively appealing. The spider encorperates both circuitry and a living organism, while the Web shows the geometric shape with the use of the repetitive patterns of circuitry. If a diferent colour scheme had been used then the image will most likely have looked significantly better, for example If harmonius colours had been used rather than complementary ones.

Zebra
A peice similar to the wolves this uses harmonious colours rather than complementary colours, the colours of which being primeraly shades of blues and purples with further harmonious colours to create the circuit traces. This does have more of a fantasy apearence rather than a juxtaposition between technology and nature. However like the others the use of watercolours to allow the pen to run and merge better with the overall image.