Remembering Amsterdam

I painted this when flicking through pics of Amsterdam, which we visited before Christmas! Heres what inspired me, my work, and my favourite picture of me and my sister Lucy. The painting was an experiment focusing on exaggerated colour break up on the face using warm tones heavily contrasted against the cool blue jumper. I used a slight impasto, delicately with a small brush. I’m pleased with her strong posture and passive facial expression.

Rest In Peace Hugo

A true friend to everyone, cheeky chap and a absolute nutter, you could always give a grin. I still miss youuu old bean xxxx

Nudes

Bit of sketch book work from our lovely live model Sharon, my first experience with a live model which felt surprisingly natural and I didn't feel awkward at all, probs because she was just so confident! I think it's amazing how i then perceived her as much more beautiful because of that confidence. I once heard this actress on the radio, who said when she sometimes had to play the "hot blonde" and the "less-attractive weirdo," but the only difference she made was the confidence her posture, voice and gait, which i thought was ver interesting and was never truer for lovely Sharon.

First lesson about block colouring, i used in these pencil, willow charcoal, and acrylics.

Creative Collaging

Decided to have a go at some new ideas at how to collage using secondary sources from photos and magazines. Found it helps give me new ideas for projects by placing images I would have never imagined next to one another! Here are a few samples, I especially like my idea of images and moods trapped in a pill packet! I think there is a way of developing this further but I'll have a good ponder as to how!

Los Angeles Times you Artful Dodgers

I was just browsing through the internet and I came across the Los Angeles Times' photo galleries which are AMAZING! Proper National Geographic style photos, and free to view! Have a flick through, absolutely beautiful. http://framework.latimes.com/2012/01/23/pictures-in-the-news-353/#/0

Experimental Backgrounds

Inspired from Gerhard Richter's exhibition I decided to have a go at some wacky and textural backgrounds using glitter, impasto, acrylics, inks, oils, wax and paper.

More of our inspiring Takahiro Kimura

Here are a few transcriptions I made of some of my favourite works by the man himself. However I don't do the man justice, but I aim to try and incorporate more of his quirky yet stunning style into my own works. These are done in acrylics or water pencils with added fine liner for definition. These are part of his project of 1000 broken faces and are 288, 191, and 2000 (not sure if the last is part of the collection sorry!)

The Man and His Mind

This was my finished exam piece, a portrait of a fragmented mans face, with experimental and extreme use of colour, especially with the colour of the background colour. The gold represents the thoughts bursting out of his head resembling his inner self meeting his external. I used small cut out silk flowers to and the colour gold to show how treasured and important the soul is.