Sequence and Narrative part 4: Research - Top Ten Visual Diaries 4.1
Visual Diaries top 10:
MIKE GAFFNEY
https://www.mikegaffneyart.co.uk/gallery-studio-commissions/gallery-visual-diaries/
• What are the visual qualities of the journals? Very neat and organised, the tone is soft and detailed. Almost looks professional. Mostly done in watercolour, ink and pen. Minimal writing,
• What kind of content and ideas are explored? Capturing places whilst travelling, documenting many locations, usually drawn on location.
MARGARET HUBER
http://www.margarethuber.com/visual-diary.html
• What are the visual qualities of the journals? Experimental, loose drawings and they are rough and free flowing, there is a use of pencil, pen, marker, paints.
• What kind of content and ideas are explored? A little less observation drawings, more personal thoughts and feelings.
GUILHERME DIETRICH
https://www.pinterest.co.uk/safronandpink/guilherme-dietrich/
• What are the visual qualities of the journals? Colourful, patterned and the drawings are again free thinking and random. Fluidity throughout the pages also looks experimental. Pen, watercolour, ink are used.
• What kind of content and ideas are explored? Personal thoughts and feelings with the odd drawings of a a person or character but not sure if its observational or not. There are also a lot of experimental patterns in certain journals and no writing I can really see.
LYNDA BARRY
https://www.pinterest.co.uk/pin/347410558758519397/
• What kind of content and ideas are explored?
There’s a lot of words and it’s like a representation of her tasks, thoughts, random words. Cartoons, characters, people, things, or animals recorded as a journal entry to reflect of the day or occurrence.
ADEBANJI ALADE
http://adebanjialade.co.uk/category/crowded-scenes/
• What are the visual qualities of the journals? Very intense and observational paintings and sketches. The painting looks like they’ve taken a long time, the details facial expressions of a crowd are quite clear. The sketches are often done on transport and even though they’re quick they look complete. He’s an urban artist does everything on location more or less but sometimes in the studio too.
• What kind of content and ideas are explored? Crowds, scenery, landscapes, buildings, portraits. There is a mixture of drawing and oil paints. He captures everyday people going about their day or the world around him if he’s out in the city or a nice landscape. Some of his drawings are on tickets or it seems whatever piece of paper he has on him.
MARINA GRECHANIK
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https://www.instagram.com/marinka71/
• What are the visual qualities of the journals? Colour, quick sketching, observational. Slower drawn things and quicker sketches. Not afraid to leave the page empty, minimalistic designs on some pages. She uses, pen, markers, watercolours, and some other mediums.
• What kind of content and ideas are explored? Observational drawings such as people she’s with, crowds or groups and landscapes or the environment. There isn’t much writing its more just a focus on the visual aspects.
OLIVER JEFFERS
https://www.oliverjeffers.com/selected-drawings-and-collages
• What are the visual qualities of the journals? Its very mismatch, eery page is different and it more or less always packed, collage is a big feature in his journals and mixing collage pictures with his own drawings and the incorporating some writing a few sentences around the pages. Appears to use pencil, pen and collage.
• What kind of content and ideas are explored? Nothing particular it all just seems like random things and plenty of collage maybe relevant to a certain day or time or feeling. There’s little bits of humour or puns and there is a visual to go with them such as “nothing to (see) SAW here”.
https://www.aflatearth.com/new-index-1
• What are the visual qualities of the journals? A mixture of styles involved, there are delicate realistic drawings and there are bold cartoonish too. A very good use of themes in his own styles on each page. Uses pen, ink, watercolour, paint.
• What kind of content and ideas are explored? Observational and surrealism, there is random switches depending on the journal as they all have different themes and colour palettes. The ideas explored don’t look like they have much context but that they’re rather personal or have a deeper meaning. Looking through its all pretty visual there is any writing or descriptions. On his website he says the sketchbooks are a collection of paintings, drawings and concept development.
RACHEL GANNON
https://www.rachelgannon.co.uk/Frontiers
• What are the visual qualities of the journals? Minimalistic takes on a observational scene, there is a focus on a certain element of the location shes drawings. The detail its more simple shapes and the use of colour depends on the medium or just how much of a scene she wants to capture. She uses charcoal or pastel, watercolour, pencil and maybe digital. I like how the colour of the background varies and that what’s drawn on top is an opposite looking colour so it stands out in the middle of the page.
• What kind of content and ideas are explored? Observational drawings, quick visual sketches. There are buildings and people and traffic I can see in her art. ‘The work made here addresses this very paradox, an airport is a place that is both strange and familiar like hotels, stations and shopping malls’ she picks places where there isn’t usually a personal connection but rather just a new place.
LIZZY STEWART
• What are the visual qualities of the journals? The journals all have some sort of colour and not all the page is always filled. The pencil sketches are petite and compact especially when drawing a load of buildings or random objects. Some are rough and quick but in a good way they provide enough visual to understand what’s going on and this is easier with the writing too. She uses coloured pencil a lot, watercolour for the landscapes and pen.
• What kind of content and ideas are explored? The journals are often created when travelling to document surroundings, there are a lot of quick observational but also more complete detailed ones to, there is writing throughout most of the pages a lot is descriptive or signage of a place or a passing thought she wanted to add. Travel and experiences are a main theme of these diaries.
• How does the visual quality and content help establish the creative identity of the maker?
I think just the thoughts, feelings and an artist’s experience is so personal that to another person/reader it’s a completely different perspective on what being creative is. Creativity has no limits, and these artists all create what they want to, everything you see in these journals are either done in their own styles whether it’s observing an environment or expressing random thoughts their use of colour, drawing/painting style, realism makes them different. The content they’re recording could be the same but the details they choose to focus on could have no connection to one another which gives each their identity. The use of words some choose to use to provides some personality or bring a story to life and also gives a bit of an insight into the mind of the artist.
• Do these journals help to make connections with these artists’ wider work?
The journals I’ve read seem quite individual to artists wider work most of the time as they’re capturing a journey or a present moment which is observational will not be able to record the same way again. The connections however could be stylistically, if there journaling has helped them develop their own style or if their work is influential enough that they are exhibited and used as a series; in which more drawings of that theme/place/things/person are produced. I also think the narration of a drawing or painting helps you understand how the artist thinks when looking at their wider work they maybe similar influences on the choice of style or how they compose a piece of artwork. The journals are almost like a behind the scenes especially if they are not complete.
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