Alice Neel and the Photograph to my canvas

Again I hadn't heard of this artist until Richard showed me. She is another artist for my book but I am not very much interested in her work as I feel it is too dark and strange for the work I am doing as it is not really par of what my project is based upon. Her work can change from simple portraits to extremely obscure pictures of insane drawings, like the skull up above.

This is coming to the end, after creating my canvas I used this picture to guide my self through my painting as it is very detailed and shows me most of the tones, colours and tiny features that I need to show in my work if I want it become something that is going to be photo realistic.
The contrast of paint I have demonstrated in the surrounding in the photograph shows the ability for my eye to use colour well using my paper as a palette, trying to get the paint as close to the tone of the face I can get them.

My prints using the choosen joiner

Due to the fact of me only focusing on one subject, I wanted to produce a couple of prints from the joiner I would use in my book.

By doing this I am adding variation to my book, as it will show my versatility and indepence to create something not other than a painting or a drawing.

I did enjoy making the prints, however they havent turned out as what I thought they would end up like.

I feel I should have added alot more detail when etching into the acetate as it would have given me the greater chance of me having a better more increased piece of work.

Some of my Prints turned out stronger than others due to the fact of myself in the first place using the wrong acetate, since it was alot thinner and wouldn not have taken in the ink well.

I did decided to add water colour to some of the prints as I noticed they where all near enough the same, I had a feeling this would have been quite plain and boring for my pages. Simply by adding colour to some of my prints has lifted the outline and tone of my prints making them fresh and new.

I also wanted versatility in my ink production, I didnt think it would work which it didnt but by printing onto material gave the page a whole new look as I was not only adding a mixed media piece to the page but variation. It has given me the change to show I am not afraid to try out new things as I feel I hold back on that sometimes when I am working in my book.

Albrecht Durer

These are some of the famous print maker Albrecht Durer's woodcut work...

His work is not similar to mine but just an example of some of his art:

More demonstrating of colour and painting techniques

This is a section of my grandmas eye I felt would be interesting to paint. I used water colour once again as I wanted to only give a weak effect to the page making it look very faint and almost fragile on the page. I do enjoy using water colour as it is easy to smudge and blend as I can add as much water to it as I can, like I have done here it simply drips down the page making it as if the page is whole.

As I had some Photographs left I needed to fill my page, I couldnt think of what to use. But I had an idea to cut my photograph up and arrange it in an un organized manner, like a joiner as I wanted to show a joiner in a different light rather than using the same pictures I have used throughout my book.

Cecily Brown

I had not heard of this artist before until Richard had shown me a couple of artists he thought would tie in perfectly with my work...

Her work in some way reminds me of Gerhardt Richter's work down the fact it is extremely abstract, as he uses very powerful colours to counteract the work. Her work is ver procotive and exotic as she tends to use and present her models in a sexual manor but in some picture you cannot stop it since her paintings can be hard to recognize. The is a hint of image but is mainly overpowered by the strong layering of colours she likes to use to make her pictures unique to any other.

 

I created my own version of her work. I had some spare acetate, I basically applied thick coats of blue hue colours I though might have worked well together. The blues did work but I wasnt very impressed as I had a better prediction that it would turn out much more colourful, as most of the paint ended up blending in with each other. I felt this ruined the effect I was trying to create.

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."