Bread-Winner

The Bread Winner_ The wage-earner who supports the family. 'With father ill, our eldest brother has become the bread-winner of the family.'

'Bid's Bread Blog': http://breadhead3.blogspot.co.uk/

The very start of my research leads me to Richard Biddle's blog all about the stuff and what can only be described as 'useful if you're a fan of bread.' Viewers are encouraged to partake in sharing bread related interests such as poetry and art, and below is a fine example of Paul Cezanne's Bread and Eggs still life that i can take inspiration from.

Paul Cezanne, Bread and Eggs, 1865, Cincinnati Art Museum, USA

Moving on to another still life masterpiece i have found Salvador Dali's The Bread Basket.

From this i can rest assured that bread was a popular topic to draw, even in the 1900s.

This was found at http://www.famous-artists.net/the-bread-basket/

Van Gogh created still life works that included bread. His study was in pencil and on paper during 1885 and was titled Hand With A Pot, The Knob Of A Chair, And A Hunk Of Bread.

This was found at http://www.wikipaintings.org/en/vincent-van-gogh/hand-with-a-pot-the-knob-of-a-chair-and-a-hunk-of-bread-1885

The final still life artist that i will look at here is Louis Maroussis and his cubist take on the genre with the title Breton Bread, Two Fish, Spoon from 1929 found here: http://www.wikipaintings.org/en/louis-marcoussis/breton-bread-two-fish-spoon-1929

Moving on to the discipline of digital illustration, i have come across an artist known as Rosey Cheekes. She produces a very clean and bouncy style of work from still life before moving across into Adobe Photoshop. Here she has included the theme of bread: http://www.digitalartistdaily.com/image/12926/tasty_bread

Something to think about, although i am wanting to keep a real life style to my work and not bend towards a cartoon theme as this wouldn't work with my style of ink and water.

Graham Mckean has taken the theme of Breadwinner and created an illustrative piece of art work titled The Breadwinner. This work may be borderline cartoon, but it does have a realistic edge to it which is refreshing to see.

http://www.whitewallgalleries.com/artists/Graham+Mckean/The+Breadwinner/cType/PREVIOUS+RELEASES/id/563_2896_563/ipp/21/p/1/artists-collection.asp

This is interesting because the artist here has sculpted herself out of the dough and baked it into bread. 

I know that sculpture isn't my discipline, but perhaps something to take on board, especially considering it incorporates still life and sculpture.

News article from the Metro- http://metro.co.uk/2010/09/27/naked-woman-bread-and-pig-cake-at-experimental-food-society-spectacular-524359/

Artist Sharon Baker poses with a life-sized model of her own body sculpted in bread (Picture: Ally Carmichael)

A news article compiled by Deborah Arthurs published in May 2012 focuses on the Queens Jubilee celebrating 60 years on the Throne. This is a significant article because it relates to artist's impressions of the Monarch in different ways, and in particular, a portrait made entirely from toast.

Similarly, i could create a portrait of bread/Breadwinner using bits of burnt toast, or just bread...

Daily Mail Article: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2152038/From-jellybean-Queen-Monarch-money-unusual-portraits-created-Diamond-Jubilee.html

Here's a lovely little illustration by Laura Park titled 'Breadwinner' for Shannon Stephens' album The Breadwinner.

This illustration captures realism but hints at a cartoon based style. This is ideal and perhaps something for me to try out? We'll see where my drawing takes me. 

http://asthmatickitty.com/merch/shannon-stephens-the-breadwinner-black/

The final artistic take on the theme of Breadwinner is from Danny Rico.

http://toasterdoganimation.blogspot.co.uk/2011_06_01_archive.html

His cartoon literally illustrates bread winning. Something i'd like to shy away from as it is very cliché and unprofessional if not done properly. This also isn't the style i have in mind to produce.

This is a realistic take on the idiom, something, again, i plan not to be focusing on. I have shown it hear though to make sure i have covered all areas that i could possibly focus on.

http://mollythewally.blogspot.co.uk/2012/12/slog-it-blog-it-fart-art.html

Finally, this is just a bit of fun, but also a potentially serious way i could take my work. I could combine the idea of sculpture and still life and draw onto bread... instead of sandwich bags.

http://metro.co.uk/2013/04/27/sandwich-art-loving-dad-decorates-kids-lunch-bags-with-cool-drawings-3668751/

Having come from this research i now felt confident enough to produce my own work. As i have stated, i do not want to produce something tacky and cheesy to suit the idiom literally, but to subtly keep in check with the theme, and in this case, bread. So i have gone about observationally drawing bread within my 2nd sketchbook. below is what i have drawn from:

Here is my final outcome (please see sketchbooks for development). I will use this on my final correspondence card outcome.

Having collected and finalised my imagery here is the card below in the template i hope to continue with. I have chosen to do this because of the success the last range had with peers and tutors, thus not wanting to deviate too far. Note that the text is in the same fashion as the previous card range, adding continuity:

Here is the front and inside of the envelope developed and adapted from the previous card range project. I have changed the imagery to suit and complement this particular card. I am sticking with this design because it works most effectively and was a success previously.