So i did a painting..

This is a painting i did today which is going to be one of a series of paintings as i said before, which came out of the photoshop designs, but is not copied exactly as i wanted to portray movement in the way the paint was applied instead of in the images. i therefore used oil paint so it shows the brush marks clearly and went off on a bit of a tangent :)

Outline for Projects

Ok so yesterday i was in rome and i shot a few videos to portray 'movement' as that's my new word.. so im going to edit those and make a video as part of my project. I'm then going to put together a few of these photoshop ideas and make a couple of small paintings out of them. Then i think i will make another medium sized painting with the Brian Kenny idea. I'm not sure how far this is going to go and weather this will take up just one project or maybe two, and my ideas might change direction halfway through this project but this is where i am now and i shall get started on the paintings now.

just some stuff i did on photoshop

This is by Brian Kenny
He works over photographs with illustrations
I like the hectic intricacy of it.
It makes it interesting and has a lot of depth
















This is one of mine where i have used the idea of movement from my pen drawings and used Brian Kenny's style to create a composition which is full and reflects movement both in the images and the style. I did some of it on photoshop and then printed it out and went over it with pen.

This is a drawing of me and laura :)
seeing as we're pulling funny faces this reminds me of Jose Martinez Roca's close up portraits paintings.



I then experimented with this drawing to adopt the style of Vhils.. with this bright colours and dripping paint.

I also experimented with Antony Micallef's style of portraits. with the strong brush strokes and great contrast. It is hard to make out the lines, but it gives it a powerful atmosphere.

Here are some different ways of depicting portraits...

These first two are by a street artist - 'Vhils'
The colours in the second and the use of close up, shadows, and dripping paint give the painting a realistic but expressive and powerful effect.




































These two are by another street artist named Jose Martinez Roca. he also does close ups of civilians pulling funny faces. He does many from Liberia and Sierra Leone, and also some from Israeli and Palestinian civilians. This gives a comic and approachable effect to people whom are usually depicted devastated and starving. I like this irony and although it is not as expressive in the painting or media as Vhils' portraits, the facial expressions make up for this.

And finally this is Antony Micallef's portrait. his Baconesque brush strokes and powerful monochromatic shadows and highlights give the prtrait an eerie and dominated tone. I particularly like the expression Micallef creates with the medium instead of the actual expression on the face, contrariwise to Roca's portraits.

I could experiment with merging these styles of painting portraits together, and come up with an original way of depicting someone's thoughts/emotions through this style of painting.

A page in my book

I'm looking at movement and this is one experimentation of people in mid-movement

This could be an interesting composition, but i may develop it further by looking at particular movements and what emotions/thoughts are revealed by this, what is apparent in ones movements/actions

Or i could possible look closer into movement made at a particular time, i.e. when socialising you laugh, talk, hand movements, drink, smoke etc.

Or i could possibly look at the way someones movement can be portrayed by the media i depict them in (paint/pastel...) rather than their actual movements, and weather something about the person can be revealed solely by the media, like their emotions/thoughts/character.

Ian Francis

I find his method of painting particularly interesting- he saves interesting photos he finds from watching lots of movies, books and internet, and creates compositions on photoshop!

However, his final pieces sometimes look identical to his idea, but sometimes look nothing like it.

He manages to create detailed figures or images with expressive and loose backgrounds. I particularly like this.

I like this one especially as it is chaotic and hard to understand, but the images of the girl, the bed and of the tiled background are very mundane, familiar images which we can relate to.

I also like the way he uses colour as a wash and white as his main colour here.

ELENA DIADENKO-HUNTER

is a Russian artist who immigrated to the United States in 1992
"My art reflects my love of humanity, the power and beauty of women, and the confusion life brings to us."

Elena attended 3 specialised art schools in the former Soviet Union and completed 2 MA's in Comlumbia College, Chicago. She combined both worlds to become the colourful, unique and imaginitive artist she is today.





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ANTONY MICALLEF
"It's the sick glamour which interests me"

Antony Micallef practices sick glamour in his art which is influences by his interest in fashion, graphic design, music and pop culture.
“Play a Britney Spear’s track and then follow it by a Nine Inch Nails tune — Britney no longer sounds exactly the same, the union of two opposites make an intriguing and strange chemistry.”
This is Micallef's description of his sick glamour style. he investigates a twisted culture which tends to hide behind a sugarcoated reality, and underneath its coat, there may exist a dark, bitter side.


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