Singers

There are many ways that people can display emotion, but there is no more passionate, artistic or entertaining to singing. It can be very easy to connect to the meaning and emotions that a song can portray. I have chosen five artists which I believe have the ability to show emotions in their songs in such a way, as many artists perform in such an uninteresting way, or have no real emotion in their songs.

I have done a series of images in a varied medium, although the majority are paint based, I have varied the paint types.

James Brown

Amy Winehouse 

Pavarotti 

Louis Armstrong

Otis Redding

The image I am most pleased with and believe is the most successful is the Otis Redding piece. I originally painted the piece with acrylics on a tan envelope, but as the envelope is only A5, I decided to scan the image into a computer and re-size is it to allow it to fit into my sketchbook in a collage in a more appealing way.

The composition of the image in the collage, allows the viewer to keep attention on the main image, but still gives attention to the reference photographs to the side and below. Rather than cluttering the collage with the same image I had used as reference to paint from I decided to give more of a selection of photographs of the artist, not only to for visual reasons,  but to give a viewer more of an understanding of what he looks like. I also added the black lines to border the image and give it some structure but in a creative way as I was trying to reference the staff lines on music worksheets.

Although I like the Pavarotti oil painting, the way I had imagined the painting is different, as I don’t have the greatest experience in oils I wasn’t quit skilled enough to detail the image as I had liked to. The colour on the other hand I am pleased with, the tonal qualities and skill colours fit very well and the shading was almost perfect to the image I had been using as a reference, and I believe I made the right choice with the positioning of the subject and the choice of for the background colour, as both factors add to the images effects and brings out the highlights of the skin tone.