Observational Drawing and Paintings

As I started to build up my ideas and development, the best way to begin was to focus on the obvious and bring together a collection of primary research. With quick observational sketches I basically drew one of my class mates using water colour. By doing this I am not only showing my skills in drawing but experimenting with paints. This is something I want to foucs on when I am especially dealing with portraiture, what media I am using to show various techniques in my book. 

Gathering up primary sources, taking photographs of my family, friends this will be a good option for the moment as it will help me figure out what I am leading up to in my book and help the viewers understand what I am displaying in my book.

These are my observational drawings that took around 10 mintues, the oil drawing above was produced and replicated one of Lucian Frued's portraiture books.

 

This is simply a quick drawing I produced using tone and faint pencil marks.

 

                                      

I tried to produce a quick painting and by creating a more abstract picture. I am showing the use of not only drawing and sketching but painting in a way I feel is very essential. I wanted to bring in a feel of artists I have explored and show a sense I have interpreted their painting techniques into my work.
I feel this painting replicates some of Jenny saville's paintings due to the fragile colours and brushstrokes. 

This is one of Jenny Saville's paintings she has produced, some of her work is very deep as the style she paints in and the models she observes interprets an intense sense of feeling and emotion.

Lucian Freud

Lucian Freud at the National Portrait Gallery – in pictures

"Paintings of people were central to Lucian Freud's work and the National Portrait Gallery's major exhibition, spanning over 70 years, is the first to focus on his portraiture. Freud painted his family, friends and lovers, referring to his models as 'the people in his life'. Here are some of the highlights from the show."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/gallery/2012/feb/08/lucian-freud-national-portrait-gallery#/?picture=385691824&index=2

Lucien Freud has always been a huge inspiration throughout all of my artwork, he is one of my favourite artists as his figurative paintings of the models display techniques and skills of his work which is outstanding. 

This is one of his famous paintings, a self portrait, produced in acrylic, the detail and patience he has put in to produce this painting is amazing, the colours in the painting are very neutral, focusing really on only browns, yellows, greens and oranges.

I wanted to produce a replicate of his self portrait as the  usage aof colour and detail inspires myself to create work as successful as his. 
Using watercolours instead of acylics as I usually find it much easier for the colours to blend and clash rather than producing a piece of work that may turn out wrong.

Lucian Freud Portraits – review

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2012/feb/05/lucian-freud-portraits-review

"Lucian Freud painted strange, uneasy, figures, from first to last. Maybe they were uneasy because he was painting them. There was as much violence as tenderness in his stare, and in the ways he devised to paint.
This tremendous show tracks Freud's inquisitiveness and inventiveness, his constant returns to the mystery of presence. Almost everything Freud did was a portrait of a situation or a confrontation as much as it was a body in a room, whether the body belonged to a lover, a daughter, the artist's mother, a baron, a bank robber or the Queen."

Leigh on a Green Sofa by Lucian Freud

Self portraiture

Now I have chosen my theme of portraiture, I wanted to look into the subject further, by doing so I researched artists I found to be very interesting and what could tie in with my development work. Aswell as portraiture, focusing on myself was another option as I wanted a variety of experimental work, not only observing the people in my class but also myself.

 The colours in m work used shows how I have under gone contrasting my colours, the brightness of some and the suttle tones of others show my understanding and techniques of how the painting works.

Bill Murphy

The artist I feel has inspired my ways in working on this page is Bill Murphy, his work is extremely expressive due to the strong brush strokes and bold textures, the way he presents his paintings and the colours he uses is simple but effective.

 
http://billmurphy.com/

http://billmurphy.com/Inventory/Contemporary_Art.html#Art

 

Patricia's Sister

Thomas@kempis

Nude#19

http://billmurphy.com/Gallery.html

Canvas Piece

The photographs show many aspects of my canvas, displaying the various parts, ranging in colour and appearance.

This is the first canvas I produced, basing it on the concept of abstract art I wanted the canvas to show my expression through the use of colour and brush strokes, making some heavy and others soft and delicate.
This woud have given me an idea of what could be shown in my book and maybe, or what is development work working towards the steps of my Final piece.

Portraiture

The FMP starting point

Now beginning on my FMP the theme I have decided to go with is portraiture, using the development of joiners I had a thought to produce a a series of joiners focusing on various people to show my range of features and appearances. This is only an ideas as I my want to change it in the future.

David Hockney

David Hockney can be one artist I my concider and explore when focusing on joiners as some of his work he produces portraiture joiners.

http://www.hockneypictures.com 

Mother, Bradford Yorkshire, 1982 composite polaroid, 56 x 23 1/2 in.

 These photographic collages Hockney created inspires me to head towards that pathway and delevop, experimenting with the use of photographs and painting to display a canvas piece combining both my painting and photography skills in my Final piece.

Patrick Procktor, Pembroke Studios, London 1982 composite polaroid, 52 1/2 x 21 in.  

Layering photographs

Layering photographs came into the idea of creating a joiner, this is one I took of an old building being re-constructed, I chose to photograph this because there was alot to it, the detailed style of the building displayed  a rustic, crumbled rubble mess. After putting this together I feel it has worked very well to show I have understood the construction of piecing this joiner up.

Piet Mondrian's work was placed within my grids, layrs and reflections because his display gridding and colour co-ordination is inspiring. His work seems simple but effecive as it is basic something I could produce. I added my touch to my page by simply cutting out some of the blocked colours and replacing it with tisue paper. This is givng the page in a way a 3 three dimensional display.

I wanted again to show my understanding and further experimentation by cutting out grids to reveal to otherside which was my joiner, the peeping of the building against the blocked colour gives the page a constrast.

  

http://www.pietmondrian.com