Photograph of Lucian After hearing of a Lucian Freud exhibition at Liverpool's Tate gallery I thought it would be rude not to go visit it. For someone who was asked to paint a portrait for the Queen, Freud has been a great talent in the realm of portraiture in the past generation. Famed for his …
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Now we are getting back to a bit of normality I was finally able to attend a life class held locally by Inch Arts, (https://www.facebook.com/InchArts), which can now become a regular weekly two hour session for me. For the first half we did three 5 minuet poses followed by a 25 minuet pose. Conte stick …
My point of reference to the whole topic of the human head and face is a book by Andrew Loomis, 'Drawing the Head and Hands', Titan Books, Andrew Loomis. Sectioning the head into thirds and adding in the detail was one lesson, but drawing a grid onto a plastic golf ball and pressing wooden skewers …
The classical Renaissance artists drew inspiration very heavily from anatomy and the form of the body as it featured as a main topic of the time. Proportions were a big topic and getting the right measurements were paramount as we can see by Da Vinci's famous Proportions of the Human Figure. (1) 'The Proportions of …
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Foreshortening is an interesting concept to grasp as an artist. The way I see it is that it is great to learn the proportions of the body, the head in relation to the torso, length of arms in relation to the legs ect...but apart from drawing a standing figure head on, these 'rules' go completely …
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Foreshortening is a technique used by artists to create emphasis, distortion and maybe a little confusion and interest to a drawing or painting. It uses extreme closeups and unconventional angles to portray the model as they would actually look like if your eye was as close to the subject as it is painted, creating an …
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My main aim with this topic is to investigate the different styles and techniques artists throughout the ages used to depict the land around them, often giving a great insight into how they felt, and how they expressed their feelings for their surroundings through their art. I decided to look at, and compare styles between: …
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Whilst researching clouds and looking into the different formations, colours and the like I came across an American artist called Vija Celmins. She struck me as having an interesting background being born a year before the start of the Second World War I think this had a profound influence on her art work. Going through …
For this research I decided to do a direct comparison of four radically different landscape artists who treated the subject completely different from one another, but strangely, seemed to use similar themes to create the desired atmosphere they were intending, mainly: SizeTexturesColourmaterials The artists I chose were: J.M.W TurnerPaul NashRichard LongTacita Dean Each artist I …
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An interesting concept is the fact that even though we perceive and accept the object we see in front of us as recognisable things, a plant pot, your friend, a building etc, it’s usually only when you try and draw something in extreme perspective, close up, or from different angles, that you realise just how …
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