Painting in the style of October Revolution

The brief requested us to pick a 20th century artist and act as if we were that artist. We had to create an art piece in the style of the chosen person, and then use this artwork in a Graphic Design treatement. Part of the task was to invent the project for which the artist was commissioned. Finally, we performed a play in a group of 4 people impersonating the artist, but we won't include it here ;).

I chose to be Natalia Goncharova, a Russian avant-darde painter. I was commissioned to do a wall piece for a revolutionary society "Donkey's Tail". This was the first part of my project. For the second part I designed 4 postal stamps using the painting.

Below is the painting, acrylic on canvas, followed by the 4 stamp designs done in Photoshop CS3 and InDesign CS3.


Notice the texture on the stamps and the old-paper look. I created the "old paper" using a cotton ball dipped in coffee and smudged all around A4 piece of cartridge paper. After the paper dried I ironed it to get the ripples out and scanned it in. For the rough texture look I used the Texturizer filter in Photoshop.





Semester 1: Design Culture and Theory, taught by Annette Lodge