Visual Learning and Innovation Beginning

Commencement of the Visual Learning and Innovation Semester three elective was an exciting but daunting time as I am not a very artistic and skillful artist. Throughout the early stages of the course we were shown many different art forms and attempted many varying artistic skills.


Some of the artistic skills are as follows;




Bottles created utilising black chalk and pastels.














Attempts at other black chalk drawings.

















Other forms of artwork we experimented with that Collective pieces. These forms of art are designed around multiple sections of the arts piece being created by different artists and being collected then merged together to create one single art piece. This I found quite interesting and could be a great art exercise within the classroom. Some examples are as follows;


Simple three piece folded drawing to create some sort of creature.



















Whole class collective piece, where pastels were used to imitate the original tiny cutout.




Original picture with number zones for allocated drawing.













Finished product after all class members had individually used pastels to create their own grid. Final product turned out quite well and looked great.













Two forms of Art throughout the research of the class I really engaged with and thoroughly enjoyed looking at was Op Art (Optical Art) and 3D Street Art.


Op Art (Optical Art)
Optical art is a method of painting concerning the interaction between illusion and picture plane, between understanding and seeing. Op art was first recognised in 1964 with the first well know Op artist Julian Stanczak.





Movement in Squares, by Bridget Riley, 1961.











Are the rings moving?

Rotating Rings, by Gianni Sarcone.

















3D Street Art
3D pavement art, or one-perspective art, otherwise known as anamorphic art, a 500 year old technique which appears proper only when viewed from a specific angle. First properly recognised in the 1980's when Kurt Wenner first began practicing this art method.

3D street painting made by planet streetpainting during the 4th Sarasota Chalkfestival in Floride US. The 3D street art piece is inspired by the Terracotta Army of Qin Shi Huang, the first Emperor of China. Created by Leon Keer, Peter Westerink, Ruben Poncia and Remko van Schaik.