Little Journey Home

On my little journey home from college, when the bus goes across the high-level bridge, I have recently noticed some artwork on the side of a building that now always catches my eye.

The piece is of a woman wearing a fabric formed of multiple patterns and she has a blue circle behind her head which helps attract your eyes to her face. I believe what initially attracted me to this art is that it had reminded me of my own work, a piece I had created for the window in my classes studio last year, of a woman with a floral pattern of tattoos running up her body. (This piece is also currently being used on my business cards too).

When seeing this artwork by ‘Hushartist’ on my way home, just sitting on the bus, it made me think of the potential I could have with my own work, possibly working on a larger scale and one day, another person may find it, do some research into who created it then they would find me.

I like this piece so much as yes it is a style I relate to, I love soft illustrations of women combined with bold patterns, especially in this piece how the artist has made the woman black and white with the pop of colour surrounding her, not drowning her out but helping draw your eyes to her beauty instead. But I also like this piece because I saw it on the side of a building underneath the Tyne bridge, which led me into researching it, finding out which building it was on ‘By the River Brew Co’ which is a brewery and tap, a restaurant and so on which I never even knew existed, and finding the artist and seeing their other work. So with this one piece of art, it did a good job in advertising, both the place and the artist, as it was able to grab my attention from two bridges over on a moving bus.

List of Illustrations

My own work. (2018)

Hushartist. (2018) [online] Available from: https://www.instagram.com/p/BnRNyrhBq4g/ [Accessed on 01 April. 2019]

By The River Co. (2018) [online] Available from: https://www.instagram.com/p/BnHESTnFK66/ [Accessed on 01 April. 2019]