Ian Wright: T.I - Paper Trail

Born in England in 1953, Ian Wright is a contemporary collage artist who studied at Goldsmith’s College in London (1974–1975). He became assistant to George Hardie (1978–1979) and then shared a studio with designer Neville Brody at The Face magazine (1979–1981 and 1990–1996). In 1981, Ian Wright set up his own studio. For this collage he used loads of ripped of note pad paper and coloured paper from magazines to create this really nice urban style portrait.

The piece is called T.I/ Paper Trail. It was made for a American hip hop artist called T.I and was for his Album called paper trail. I really like this photo here of how it has been put onto a billboard which almost makes it look like an old billboard has been ripped up and that has create the face on T.I on the board.

Banksy: 2012 Olymipic Artwork Graffiti

Banksy is an England-based graffiti artist, political activist, film director, and painter. I have researched and been inspired by banksy's work many times and I've always loved banksy's because of how he travels around the world with he's stencils and creates either small or massive pieces of graffiti artwork to share views about cctv, war & peace, violence and other world problems. Banksy creates these stencils in parts or as one and goes to places and sprays them as quick as possible to try and not get caught or unmasked and tries to stay unknown as much as he can.

Banksy revealed two new works of street art in summer 2012 based around the London Olympics. There are three pieces. One features an Olympic javelin thrower holding a missile and is called 'Hackney Welcomes the Olympics' and the second piece is a pole-vaulter jumping over a barbed wire fence onto a dirty old mattress and is called 'Going for Mould'. There is also a third piece that shows a child working on a sewing machine making bunting to celebrate the Olympics. The three pics were released on Banksy's website on the 24th of July 2012.

  

These are to experiments I tried using the threshold photo adjustment tool in Photoshop on two photos I took whilst I was in London over the holiday. I used this tool so that the images would change into just black and white tones so I know which parts to cut out. This was just a quick experiment and if I were to develop and experiment more to create inspired bansky pieces I would then print these out and experiment with paper cutting of the stencil and experiment with spray paint and different banksy effects and techniques.

  

Steven Wilson: Stussy Logo Design.

Original Steve Wilson Stussy Design.

Before & After:

My Inspired Piece: