Project Development

1. Project Development

2. Ober-Weimar, 1921 Lyonel Feininger,
Inspiration
The American painter Lionel Feininger taught art at the
Bauhaus witch is a famous art school in Weimar. In this
city painting of Weimar he has broken down the houses,
the street and the sky into angular shapes of all
different sizes. The submissive colouring and rhythmic
repeated composition are inspired by the Cubism of
Braque and Picasso who often painted in a cubism style.
The colours are interesting as the pallet is very strict,
all the colours are similar and mundane. The use of
white in the centre of the painting really catches the
eye and promotes the middle of the building as the
focus of the painting. The use of desert yellows and
browns make the background seem very symmetrical
rhythmic.
I think it would be really interesting to play and
experiment with the different viewpoints of my place in
question. I could draw lots of different viewpoints over
the top of each other, so in one picture it would be an
explosion of the same shapes in different viewpoints
and angles. Studying architectural cubism has really
inspired me and got me thinking about creating my own
cubised inspired mixed media collage or painting

3. Cubist Inspired Drawings
After conducing some artist research,
I wanted to experiment and play around
With the idea of cubism.
As well as using pencil and watercolour I wanted
to experiment and develop my ideas by creating a
different style of cubist art work on the
computer. The artist Picasso (see book for
conceptual study), inspired this piece of artwork,
I used Photoshop to edit and create this piece.

4. Artist Research – Charles
Sheeler
I then conducted more artist
research on the artist Charles
Sheeler. Sheeler inspired me
to design and create a piece of
art work in the industrial style
he paints in.
Charles Sheeler Jr. was born
in Philadelphia in 1883. he
studied industrial drawing and
the applied arts at the School
of Industrial Art in
Philadelphia (1900–1903). In
1909, he visited the Paris home
of Michael and Sarah Stein,
Picasso and Braque; this
experience inspired him to
work in a Cubist style for
several years.

5. Initial Ideas
I then developed 6 initial
ideas. I found it hard to
decide witch initial idea I
liked the most, so I
decided to take aspects
from my different ideas
and put them into one. I
liked the bold style one of
initial ideas but the 3d
relief texture of the other.
So I decided for my final
piece to try and include 3

6. Prototype and Prototype
Development
I then took my initial ideas further, and
decided to develop and experiment with
colour. I did a couple of A3 Sheeler
inspired pieces of art. However something
just didn’t work well. I was happy with the
composition and the style the colours just
sit well on the page.
I decided that it would look a lot better if
I kept to a strict colour pallet. I then
decided to do some rough colour
experiments, I recorded some in my sketch
book.

7. Prototype of Final Piece Evaluation
This is the Prototype of my Final Piece, this piece of art work was inspired by
Charles Sheeler. As you can see I have broken down the image into different
sections and painted them all different colours. I feel that the doing the colour
studies has really helped me develop my artwork as they have allowed me to
experiment with what colours compliment each other well. Doing the colour studies
also taught me how to get different tones of the same colour through mixing
colours together. I am really happy with this prototype and I think it has
developed well form my initial idea.
When I design my final piece I am going to do it on
board rather than paper, I am also going to add
texture and relief to the artwork by cutting out shapes
of the framework and layering it over the original
board. I am also going to add more texture by adding
string to highlight the shames of the framework of my
place in question.

8. My Final Piece

9. My Artwork in Dan Deans
Office
My Brief: My client is Dan Dean, has asked a student to create a piece of art work exploring
a part of Esher college in an abstract and original way. His expectations are for the piece is to
be original and professional looking, as he is hoping to hang this piece of art work in his office.