Showing posts with label Being Graphic. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Being Graphic. Show all posts

Monday, March 21, 2011

New digital paintings

After a long time I am back again.This time I have bought a new pen tablet.So i have been playing around with it a lot.And the result is some digital paintings.Hope you like them..





















Saturday, September 12, 2009

New Posters

I painted these two posters after coming here..one was inspired by a shell of a snail I found while wandering around the Humber trail behind my house..! The other one..I don't know why!


Tuesday, August 18, 2009

More Graphic works of mine..

Some of the graphic works that I have done..
I love to design CD covers.While designing these covers i tried t o come up with some new ideas.The titles are all fictitious.So Ihad that freed om to choose a title and then work on the visuals..medium was poster colour. Conceptually I tried different things.I tried ti break the image of those bands or artist which are reflected usually on their original album covers. There are other designs too.




I designed some hoarding ads. Though they were class assignments.It was a design for a mobile company advertising their special offer on the eve of valentines day. I avoided the usual cliche approach and tried to make more lyrical.Juxtaposing two very different and sometimes conflicting objects and extracting a meaning which surpasses the metaphor of the both forms with a lyrical twist was my goal. I was watching german post war era installations pretty much at that time.It had an impact.And apart from this I once did some poster designs for a fashion garments company which was going to show their collection in PRET E PORTER,PARIS. I did some initial designs before actually creating those poster.Here is on of my favorites from them. The client also liked it but it was not accepted because they wanted to keep the image of the garment untouched.


Saturday, June 6, 2009

Posters and thoughts

I have always been drawn to the playfulness and flexibility of graphical way of expression.Being a graphic designer is so much fun! I regard it as my voice..a very robust and loud! I have always been a big fan of Andy Warhol. Though I did not get influenced by him. Rather his dynamic nature of designs and other works attracted me a lot! Since I love to design posters..I decided to put up some of them here.Have a look.Interestingly enough,each of these posters are created in different phases of influences by various artists and theoreticians during my growing up days as an art student!
They are painted in acrylic on board. During time I was working with this poster on the film 'Born Into Brothels',I was amazed by the style of Van Gogh.His use of impasto ,the riot of color and its expressionistic value literally drove me crazy!! I had to do something with that! So I started this one..I applied contrasting colors making them as much as unsettling ! The whole idea came from a painting of mine.What I did in this poster is to break the two images!
The other one on the left was created during a different phase! Sexuality and eroticism was always my interest as subjects. inspired by my professor and mentor Mr.Rebanto Goswami,I started going through a new form of tribal art which was unknown to me- Makonde art of East Africa.I was immediately enthralled by the motifs used in those painting.The crude forms are so abstract and 'modern' that I was blown away! It was very surprising that how
artists of so called civilised societies took so long to reach this level of abstraction where these people were romping around so effortlessly! It was at that time this design came to me as a scribble.The image here is actually the scanned scribble touched with Photoshop.The forms used here is mostly inspired by 'Makonde' motifs. The next one is pretty much a political poster made
during a very troubled
time.A very aggressive
government and revolting
farmers defying the murky
solution proposed by the people
in power! And we,the young artists
was in between troubled with questions,confusions piled up inside us! I wanted to express what I felt.