This assignment will consolidate my learnings of portrait and self-portrait painting. Elements that need to come through: handling paint, interpreting my subject, exploration of possibilities in portrait painting, and consideration of background. Initial thoughts: After my last exercise and the concept of modern slavery and human trafficking in context of cultural history I found that I need to take a…
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Project 3 – Exercise 2: Telling a Story – Keti Koti
This exercise asks for a painting that creates a simple narrative, involving one or several human figures, and produces a painting that gives the viewer the clearest possible idea of what’s happening. Use all of the resources of colour, tone, shape and line to create a painting that goes beyond the merely figurative to convey a simple narrative. Use of exaggerated form or distort…
Project 3 – Exercise 1: A figure in an interior
In this exercise I will look at how to depict figures in an interior scene. As this subject can be very complex and challenging to paint I will try to simplify and to focus on key elements in my paintings. Final paintings Painting #1: Acrylic and oil on acrylic paper (40 x 30 cm) Painting #2: Acrylic on primed canvas (50 x 50 cm) Contextual…
Project 3 – Research Point: Figures in Interiors
I am going to make first an overview about figures in interior in art history before looking specifically at some painting I find appealing. Overview: In part 2 I researched the interior genre in art history (Schaffeld, 12 Jul 2016) and found that in the Dutch genre paintings quite often people, mostly women and children, were depicted. I think for obvious reason…
Project 2 – Research Point: Self-Portrait
An overview of self-portraits in art history From previous researches and exhibition visit dedicated to the self-artists-portraits (Schaffeld, Sep and Dec 2015) I understand self-portraits as I wide area that goes far beyond representing merely the image of the self. It can help to reflect on the artist’s identity or to mirror the image of the “ME” the artist wants to convey.…
Project 1 – Exercise 3: Tonal Figure Study
This study’ aim is to convey form through tonal gradation in color. Final painting Acrylic paint on paper (48 x 36 cm) Sketchbook studies Looking with my model for interesting poses and viewpoints. I decided eventually for the sitting pose with the light from the window in the back. As it was a bright daylight and the room was quite light…
Project 1 – Exercise 2: Linear Figure Study
For the first study I used the chosen pose from Ex1 and went after preparing my support straight into drawing with paint. I continued with further elaboration of the shapes and form of the figure and decided as contrasting element a looser approach for the negative space. I decided for a off center composition to emphasise the bending body and…
Project 1 – Exercise 1: Drawing the human figure
For this exercise I decided to work with my model in a domestic environment. I considered this as a warm up Perhaps I am still a bit too much on the drawing side. I would consider next time for the different planes that could results in interesting paintings. For the next exercise I decided to take the following pose as it…
Exhibition – Otto Mueller (1874 – 1930) in Emden, Germany
During my stay in Germany, I went to the exhibition of Otto Mueller (1874 – 1930), a german expressionist and member of the group ‘Die Bruecke‘ in Kunsthalle Emden (http://kunsthalle-emden.de/mueller/). The title of the exhibition was ‘Otto Mueller – natuerlich nackt (naturally naked)‘ Otto Mueller was an important artist of the German Expressionism. He joined 1910 the group ‘Die Bruecke‘ (The Bridge)‘ founded…