QE Art and Design: Synoptic Project

Children's book illustrations. This blog is a record of my research, progress, photographs and descriptions of my work. It includes written elements that are essential for my sketchbook and for the benefit of the examiners. I will continue to update it as often as I can throughout the project or even adding more segments of information that I might have previously missed. Pictures uploaded onto the posts can be full-viewed by clicking on the image link.

Thursday, April 29, 2010

Artist Research: Florian Nicolle

Florian Nicolle is a graphic designer and illustrator.

The thing that intrigues me is his choice of materials, which is ink worked over collage paper. They bear a few resemblance with Dave McKean in terms of materials, however Nicolle's brush strokes are more free and spontaneous, with the occasional fine line detail using a dip pen.

The collage background creates highlights in certain areas, usually made up of printed words on paper and lightly stained.