Project IV
Inspiration
Jacek Yerka
My idea was to embroider Ink Valley and from the colors I had with me I was able to see I could choose something with various shades and colors. The depth it has to give an angle where you can also see beyond just the front, and you can see it's continuous from the smaller looking shelves almost vanishing. Also from the movement in the water given and the boats yet it can be the viewer's choice whether they're moving towards them or away. It consists mainly of geometric shapes which is helpful when doing embroidery seeing as it's made with lines. The only difference is the water having more of a flow and organic shape. |
Planning
[list sktech]
My first idea was the do a self insert with this image and putting myself on the desk or floating behind it as if I was sitting down. While I was working with idea I decided to also list off the colors I was planning to use by looking at the original art piece. This was prior to getting all the colors so I was going into every color I could see, even if they were slightly darker or lighter. Another thing was also finding the hoop and planning how I was going to move a rectangular piece onto a circular frame seeing as what was available to me was just those hoops. |
[sketch on grid]
Something else was looking at how I was going to put this into a grid and also think ahead on what size the hoop would be as well. I decided to go for a sketch of 8in by 10in to have it the closest size to the actual project. Knowing that the hoop would have the diameter of 12in, I would have to just enlarge the sketch by 1.2 per square inch. I simplified it more in order to be easier to embroider and not mix up the lines, specifically with the books. Seeing as those were the smaller details, I started the base with all the wooden bookshelves and the water since they were the bigger objects. |
Process
Starting off by making the grid, I first had to find the center of the hoop by grabbing a ruler and finding the diameter as closest as I could get and find the radius (6in) and did this another 3 times to find the closest point to the center. From this action, I found different points and went with the one that looked closest to a center point. After that I got a semi transparent paper and made the grid by making it 9.6in by 12in. I used a couple needles to hold it down and then to mark two dots to connect them and make the lines. I continued that both vertically and horizontally until I had a complete grid with some gaps to the side that will be filled up later. |
I wanted to start off by embroidering the wooden bookshelves first so that I can go off of that once doing the book piles. With the thicker areas of the shelves, I would go horizontally with the lines and then the side pieces vertically since they were just one line thin. I had separated my yellow and wooden browns so I used two shades of gold for two shelves and the desk with more of a redwood color. With the desk specifically, I did the legs horizontally and the top vertically to divide them and give it a different direction to separate them from each other. |
When it came to the water area, I wanted to keep the different shades of blues there and keep some of the flow and movement of it. When sketching it out on the actual piece, I tried splitting it into different sections of what shade goes where and from that I tried keeping spaces in between where the boats would go. I started off with the outer sections and slowly went section by section until I got to the area where the paper boats are and I first embroidered those then continued the water around it. |
A minor detail that had to be added was how to hide the extra fabric cloth because the cloth is a 14in by 18in rectangle. The way I went along with it was to embroider it in. So instead of leaving it hanging, while I was embroidering, in the back area I would sew it in too so it stays in place and doesn’t stick out around the edges of the hoop. I didn’t want to risk just cutting it off in case it made the fabric loose and fall off the hoop so I rather had sewn it in to still make it look presentable from the front.
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Reflection
This project is different from the rest of my other projects, because of the medium. This specific medium is something my family in Mexico uses a lot, specifically my grandma. She used to do a lot of embroidery on cloth napkins and pillow cases and I had learned the basics of it which is that amount of skill I used on this piece. It takes time and can also focus on the big picture or the tiniest of details all of your choice by how you embroider it. Given from the amount of colors and shades I had of each I was able to use them with one another to capture the shaded areas mainly on the bookshelves and the water itself. Such as also learning that going a different direction with the thread, it can make it look lighter or darker from the way the light hits it.
ACT Questions
1. Clearly explain and describe how you are able to identify the cause-effect relationships between your inspiration and its effect upon your artwork.
It shows how heavily referenced the piece is compared to Ink Valley only being shown in a different medium.
2. What is the overall approach (point of view) the author (from your research) has regarding the topic of your inspiration?
They don't really have much meaning behind this piece besides from making a surreal painting that can also be found as a pencil sketch.
3. What kind of generalizations and conclusions have you discovered about people, ideas, cultures, etc. while you researched your inspiration?
Jacek Yerka doesn't seem to have mentioned much as to why he made this piece neither does he have it on his website but instead has a different art piece under the same name.
4. What was the central idea or theme around your inspirational research?
It was about the chaos of the amount of books, the unorganized place with the center being a desk which makes me interpret it as a mess in one's head when having so much needed to be done.
5. What kind of inferences (conclusions reached on the basis of evidence and reasoning) did you make while reading your research?
From the medium itself, that it is very time consuming and something that has a personal connection to my own culture such as how family uses it for objects at home we have and how this medium is getting left behind because of younger generations not learning it.
It shows how heavily referenced the piece is compared to Ink Valley only being shown in a different medium.
2. What is the overall approach (point of view) the author (from your research) has regarding the topic of your inspiration?
They don't really have much meaning behind this piece besides from making a surreal painting that can also be found as a pencil sketch.
3. What kind of generalizations and conclusions have you discovered about people, ideas, cultures, etc. while you researched your inspiration?
Jacek Yerka doesn't seem to have mentioned much as to why he made this piece neither does he have it on his website but instead has a different art piece under the same name.
4. What was the central idea or theme around your inspirational research?
It was about the chaos of the amount of books, the unorganized place with the center being a desk which makes me interpret it as a mess in one's head when having so much needed to be done.
5. What kind of inferences (conclusions reached on the basis of evidence and reasoning) did you make while reading your research?
From the medium itself, that it is very time consuming and something that has a personal connection to my own culture such as how family uses it for objects at home we have and how this medium is getting left behind because of younger generations not learning it.
Bibliography
Admin. “All Painters - Online Art Gallery.” Ink Valley - Jacek Yerka | AllPainters.org, 1 Jan. 1970, https://allpainters.org/paintings/ink-valley-2011-jacek-yerka.html.