Competition.

I'm done with this blog - I am done with my stupid writing as well, I feel like I stopped making sense two posts ago. Therefore, this post will be made out of pictures!
Maybe I'll come back later and fill it out with fake philosophy.

Shortly. Competition was set by Royal Opera House - 'Please, make people of age 20-30 come to the opera or to the ballet. Make us exciting, relevant and accessible.'

Sure! I couldn't deal with that on a level which probably works best and sells itself easily - that is a good, witty idea presented by nicely photoshopped picture - for examples, go to the tube.
No, I wanted to present that in a illustration, colourful and exciting, bold and catching an eye, an illustration which speaks with no words. Let me show you, how I tried to achieve that.

STAGE ONE: inspiration!

Bauhaus everywhere in my life.

Dance and colour! Polish matchbox label. 

Probably this painting had the biggest impact on me - it's Electric Prisms by Sonia Delaunay - simply, I think this painting looks exciting, like it's dancing - without no obvious depiction of objects. 

And funnily, this one became my greatest inspiration - just the cut out shape. You'll see.

STAGE TWO: collage try outs!

STAGE THREE: having fun with linocuts!

STAGE FOUR: linocuts make love with pencils!

I love this pose so much!

STAGE FIVE: linocuts made love with pencils and they had threesome with Photoshop! (maybe they shouldn't have had it)

Letterpresss sss ss s

I'm really tired, I'm not going to lie - this post is one of the last missing in my Development Folder - and at this point, it makes me really sad, that no one's ever even going to read those pathetic scribblings of mine - I guess I'll just copy and paste Coldplay's lyrics and possibly put some scans between the lines.


NEVERMIND.

Letterpress!

It was such a cool workshop. Truly. Starting from the primer, to draw architecture - and I omitted it a bit, by not drawing the architecture of London, but soviet buildings from Poland - and it rewarded me greatly - to the last gliph put into the *technical term missing*.
First of all, I thought I am terrible at drawing architecture - apparently I'm not, I've been even told that I'm GOOD! So, encouraged from the beginning, I had two amazing days spent on putting the puzzle together of the picture I've never seen before.

But I'm tired. I'm going to be very brief and let the pictures speak for themselves:

INSPIRATION:

I just loved the juxtaposition of the building and the letters, screaming almost from every corner of this picture. Also, the neon 'Spolem' is one of my favourite designs EVER.

Katowice! 

Old railway station in Katowice. Doesn't exist anymore - I remember, I used to hate that place, now I'm sad it's been replaced with new, shiny and a bit too modern building.

Neons everywhere!

'Big Fiat!'

House of the Tourist. One of the prints was inspired in particular by this building.

Last three pictures are presenting our own Pyramids, the health resort in Ustron. I found them so ridiculous that I dedicated them three of my prints.

Space thingy. You know, the one in which they show you stars and stuff. Too lazy to open the dictionary. 

Also a space thingy, but here you watch concert. Wembley Arena of Katowice. 

Sadly, this building was 'renovated' and painted in beige and brown (yuck!) some time ago. 

WHY, POLAND, WHY? 

And these are my drawings - as you can see, they lack detail, in my own, overthought opinion, mocking the harmony and reasonability of architecture as it truly is. But I tried to catch their character in those few, scribbly lines - I guess I might have managed that. 

(some swearing)

I really, really like those last three drawings. They were made so quickly. I managed to create prints from two of those designs. 

So, now, the final pieces! Posting also the composition of the gliphs, cause I find them equally interesting as the prints themselves! They make such a lovely relief. I need to crop them out later, to give them enough attention. 

Learning outcomes (sounds so academic): good inspiration leads to good outcomes! Also dedication. It was very enjoyable to be limited by the size of the gliphs and the dimension of the print. It also couldn't be set from the beginning how your print is going to look like - therefore we had lovely aspect of accidentality - one of my favourite triggers in the creative process. 

I want to do it again!