Cheetah
This is a photograph of a cheetah I took in West Midlands Safari park, I am attracted to the prints on the Cheetah's body which in a way is geometrical because of the marks/shapes formed into patterns consistently. Overall, the appearance looks very geometrical primarily as it is on a wild animal. The fence cage itself is geometrical consisting of squares and circles. This led me to explore the perfect combination of an animal, its geometrical body prints and its surrounding.
As the cheetah's natural habitat is in the wild, this particular one is in captivity and is domesticated. Therefore to experiment the concept of this originally wild cheetah with geometrical body marks being domesticated, I have planned to draw this cheetah on a paper (made from wild source) and thereafter scan the paper to transfer the wild into my domestic computer.
Here is an observational drawing of the cheetah from west Midlands safari park. I scanned my sketchbook page to move my wild cheetah drawing into my domestic computer.
Materials I have used are: Pen, paper (to indent marks), Charcoal
Techniques I used: Observation, mark making,
Here I have used computer software called Picasa to refine and enhance the quality of my observational piece of a Cheetah.
I got rid of the messy charcoal smudges from the original scanned image, to do this, I set the "highlight" level right to invisible which removed the very lightest marks of my cheetah. I have also used the black and white filter which makes the colour white and black contrast evenly with a very homely look.
In these two images of my wildestic cheetah. I have interpreted my chosen artists Marc Jason Wood and Giacomo Balla's techniques as they are very compelling with my intentions of studying animal's geometrical body marks to create a level of awareness of these wild animals using platforms such as photo blogs and instagram(mobile photo/ video sharing and social networking service)
Giacomo Balla's technique interpretation: using lines and shapes to create one image, on my cheetah piece I have used four marks to create one pattern to resemble a claw motion of the cheetah.
Jason Marc Wood's idea interpretation: using shapes and colours to demonstrate imprisoned animal. Wood has used colours and shaped the lion to illustrate a circus lion, which led me to use the principle to create the awareness of the circumstances of the wildestic animal. I have used the black and yellow effect to create prison bars vision from the viewers sight.
Like Balla and Wood I have divided the image in colours, black and yellow to create a vista separating the black wall and the transparent lines(yellow) to see the cheetah.
(link above is a photo blog of wildestic animals)
I have created a platform to create a level of awareness of the wildestic animals that I am studying with geometrical features.
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