My Acetate Prints

For my canvas, instead of drawing the photograph of my grandma I found it much easier to project the image using the photograph printed onto acetae so it was easy to project onto the canvas and stress free, this mean it would have been perfect with out the fuss of having to mess around with bothering about the problems of mistakes.

I then copied the the same image of photographs on to the next page, adding an acetate layering, and then painting onto the surface to give the page a much more exciting interesting look and sense. 

I thought when observing it, it looked like a piece Andy Warhol would produce as the colours are all procued in a block method, not really blending or smudging any colours. The page looked raw and fresh.

Even though I am not very keen on it, as it takes the concentration away from the photograph as it destroys it. The paint takes over, taking the detail away from the close up image that is placed underneath.

Chuck close

Chuck close as I am about to displays work I think is amazing just due to the fact he produces a photo realistic view of portraits.

chuck close himself

It is crazy how real these pictures are as they actually look like photographs, I wouldn't yet any way would be able to produce something as generally this fantastic but maybe later on in life. 

http://www.chuckclose.com/

http://www.chuckclose.org/#/about-the-artist

Click this to read about close's painting and life story.

This is my own version, edit of my grandma, a photograph gradually managed with great diifeculty to try and get increasingly similar to close's black and white portraits. By using brightening and constrast as well as blackscale, I used the curve tool to try and gather the correct shadow and highlights to make the photohgraph and tonal as I could.

Sue Rubira

http://www.suerubira.co.uk/
click to view her site

Wow I was absolutely outstanded after discovering Sue Rubira's work. The fascination as to how realiistic her work looks is amazing, her work compares very much towards the likes of Chuck close for his photorealistic art too.

I hadn't added this artist to my book as I had only just noticed her work, it is outstanding, this is what I would love to produce some day. My theme is similar to the art she produces as the person observed is an old model with a very featured effective face.

http://www.suerubira.co.uk/blog/

This is her blog as more work personalized is there and updated any time.

"Sue Rubira was born in Brentwood, Essex in 1959.

She studied illustration at Bristol and the Royal College of Art, London after which she moved to Portugal. Sue now lives and works near Southampton, England, teaching and painting portraits on a personal and commission basis."

My Photographs to begin my Final Piece

 As my work extends began to explore the use of photography I had an idea to use my grandma as a model and observe the features of a changing face as her features are extremely detailed, which would be interesting to paint.


These are my photographs I am tending to use in my work...

Producing work from my photographs

Choosing the right pictures to focus on and observe took time as I wanted an arrangement of paintings and drawings, I didnt want it to look too boring or similar as I feel some of the work I had done in the past had been...

The painting above I recognized was combining with the work of Saville's I wanted the painting to have a hint of her painting techniques in my work. By doing so I used her toning skills and raw painting tones to add the warm, redness and almost bruising affect to my work as she does with hers.

Creating small experimental joiners like this would give me the help and confidence to see how they would turn out and how many variations I could make using only the ones off my contact sheet. I was surprised as to how many I could produce, making the perfect one for my canvas proved difficult, but by doing this I could see which one was the best and then finally use that for my Final Piece.

David hockney

This is my Hockney pages displayed in my book,  the similarity is uncanning as his mother is aging, with similar features towards my grandma which makes our work very exciting and constrasting...

I did focus on Hockney's work as it influenced myself very much, as I am coming to choosing my final idea, I thought his work would contribute well as he features his mother as a subject, just as I have used my grandma as a subject I thought would be an interesting concept to appeal towards.