Using emotion as an adaptation of vision allowed me to use
my specialist subject in a way to allow me to convey my work in the best way possible.
As figurative painting is my specialist subject, emotion was a well goo choice,
being able to portray certain emotions in a variety of ways, such as body
language, facial expressions, shading and different imagery to express what is
being felt in an image.
The work I have done, I had hoped would fit into a public
art gallery environment, making my target audience the gallery visitors and
other artists. I find my work to be on a contemporary border between
expressionistic and impressionistic, using blocked corresponding colours to
link together and form a whole in which they fit together to create a detailed
image. I find the characteristics of my work fits in with those of many contemporary
British artists.
Using artist such as Van Gogh, David Kassan and Jenny Saville,
it allowed me to take reference to their work, and adapt my own work into a
personal style, using a combination their technique. I get very involved in the
technicality of my paintings, from the brush strokes and method of painting, to
the way I portray colour and tonal qualities.
I tried to vary which media I used throughout the project, I
experimented with a variety of different forms, from using dry media such as
pencil, charcoal and conte crayons, to wet media such as paint and ink, and
also using other methods of composing and image, such as collaging, and printmaking.
Although the majority of my work is acrylic, I also tried my
luck with oils, as I have only used oils several times before hand in paintings
which were unsuccessful it was difficult for me to create a successful image in
a media I was not used to. I also realised
the benefits of print work, as an efficient way to demonstrate different
colours, textures and backgrounds in a highly productive way.
Throughout my development I have almost categorised my work
into different relevant subjects, from personal studies to ways emotions can be
perceived, such as how singers and dancer show emotion whilst performing, and
then collaborating the two to create my final outcome.
I believe my final outcome is a success; the detail is
focused on the face rather than anything else, which is why I left the
background plank, which also puts more of a structure and almost outlines the
face and sharpens the image in general. I arranged the composition the piece as
so the face was the majority of the image and took up most of the canvas space,
which once again, took drew more attention to the emotion on the image.
I hope to see myself working as a studio based artist
in the future, working on commissions and exhibiting my work in public spaces,
but I also hope to achieve some form of business opportunity in the creative
industry, I believe I have the creativity to succeed in different forms of
product or fashion design either for myself or for a company.
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