Manchester Art Gallery

This week I hadn’t planned to do much work. On the agenda was to gather more sketch book work and draw business card sketches. I have spent most of the week in Manchester. On Sunday walking around to find sum where different to have dinner I walked passed the Manchester Art Gallery and decided to go in for a look. I wasn’t expecting to find anything relating to the course but it would be a good opportunity to get some inspirational art work for my sketch blog assignment.

The gallery was completely empty (except for the very bored looking employees stood in every room). After looking around the rooms on the bottom floors I wasn’t really that inspired because it was mostly based on very old religious paintings.

I wasn’t until we went upstairs and looked around their numerous “please touch” exhibits that I began to get inspired. The exhibits upstairs were a lot more modern and I managed to sneak a couple of Photographs from the exhibits.

The one that really appealed to me is called Zephyr by Bridget Riley. It immediately court my eye because it was an optical illusion of waves using contrasting colours. It reminded me of my logo design and something I could adapt to recreate a CD cover.



I am glad I went into the gallery because I was stuck for design ideas for the CD cover but I now think I have several ideas that I can start the design process with next week.

This week I am going to be changing my Back to basics work to try get it to a pass grade and concentrate on my sketchbook work.