Saltaire-David Hockney

Saltaire-David Hockney

These were images that Hockney created everyday between 1st January to the 31st May 2011 to try and capture the change of the seasons and portray the beauty of winter. He said that if you looked properly winter is full of colour and its not just black and white. They are created on an iPad through a Wacom, therefore a digital landscape. I think it is crazy that he created these life drawings on something as small as an iPad for them to be printed a1.

 It is very striking viewing so many images next to each other, all with a similar colour palette. You really get the sense of being there and what it would be like to go for a gander there. Close up the images look fake and like a painting but not what the eyes are used to.

 It is interesting how he has used different line quality tools to create different effects for things like the leaves, which are really difficult to capture the density of and the bushes in the background, which  are far away and blurred.

This is my favourite image. This must have taken him a very long time and he must have had a lot of patience. He has really captured the foreground and the background through the use of light and dark and intensity of colour and thickness of lines. I really like the tone of this image and how it is almost like a pattern, full bleed.

 I really like this colour palette and how striking the pink is. It can't be a realistic representation but it is very colourful. I like how the foreground is built up of a combination of lines and dots and each piece of grass is individually drawn.

 I really like how the yellow is so bright and striking in the foreground. There must be soon many different layers to build up all of the different textures and colours in these images.

 I really like the contrasting tones of the red flowers and the green dark green trees. The shadows on the path are also very atmospheric. The leaves on the trees also blur together like they do when you see them in real life.

 It is interesting how he used pastel colours on the trees and the leaves. The path looks icy portrayed by the brave colours used, the green, the blue and the purple.

I felt that it was very different appreciating these images from a distance, taking a step backwards. You get to the impression, what they were trying to capture rather than seeing how the image was created. In particular I didn't like the pink one in the middle and felt that the puddle didn't work but from a far I think it looks just like a puddle and I am so damn impressed.