Photographs:

My Sketchbook Work:

This piece of work is influenced by my chosen artist Jenny Saville. I tried to recreate the bold harsh marks which portrays sores and cuts. I used oil pastels as they have bold colour tones and enable you to create various mark making with different strengths of tones. I feel I succeeded the right colour palette of this piece as work portrays pain and ache through a realistic sketch. I tested out dark tones of purples and blues to try recreate similar tones to relate to bruising on the subjects face. I used this particular piece of Jenny Saville's work of a close up portraiture of a person due to the usage of a persons body and facial features linked to my theme of containers. In addition to this, the mark making is what particularly intrigued me into the original piece as i felt it could work with a bottle container as the marks can illustrate the light reflecting off the sides of the containers or to show flesh of the bodies.

This bottle I drew on polystyrene with oil pastels was to experiment with different surfaces and mediums and to figure out what worked best with what resource. I feel my drawing was successful of the bottle with the light reflecting appearing it to become more realistic. I used the colour blue mainly to represent what bottles usually contain and black for the cork as I felt the mixture of tones you could achieve from one solid colour of black created contrast on the drawing with the white, grey and black tones.

These few pieces of work were also inspired by Jenny Saville's painting techniques of multiple layers of different colours representing the skin of bodies. I used water colour paints as the base of skin colour then layered over the top a mixture of reds and neutral colours such as beige, pinks and browns to create toning and texture. In addition, I used a wash of white emulsion to tone down any over exaggerated colouring which didn't represent the toning or convey structure of the human body.

These two photographs portray close up shots of the paint work techniques used to create body like toning and structure. 

This image is a small crop of the following above images but focusing on the eye painting I created again in Saville's style. I feel I created a realistic painting on a small scale size. By not over doing the size limit of the piece I was able to concentrate on minor details. I used acrylic paints to create the piece and I specifically focused on making it to appear as realistic as possible. I did this by using a skin toned colour around the eye with mixtures of taupe and pink. Also, I painted white and dark blue specks in certain areas of the eye to create shadows and areas where the light it hitting. Also, by not doing obvious black harsh lines to represent eyelashes I feel it gives my piece a more realistic appearance due to the subtleness. 

This pencil drawing was an experimental drawing based on Richard Oelze's piece of work, Judith. It links to my theme as it is a portrait of a ghostly woman's body. I feel I shall do a wash of emulsion over the drawing and then some painting to empathise the body structure to ensure it links to the rest of my work so far in the project and also my artist influence.

These are two pen sketches of containers found in my bedroom, which therefore adds a personal aspect to my theme of  'Collection of Containers'. I feel I have successfully ensured the hairspray bottle and cup to appear realistic form due to the toning of darker edges to represent shadows and whiter areas to portray a light source reflecting off the surface of the container. I added a wash of blue water colour to experiment with different mediums and how they work with one another and also to portray the typical contents colour tones of which are usually contained inside the cup. Also, by adding the spontaneous strokes of paint it links to my artist.

This page is rubbing marks off other pages which I feel create's an interesting composition of mark marking and different tones of dark colours contrasting against the white page. I feel this page links to my artists strong and bold mark making. Also, the contrast in colour tones I feel can work for body containers and typical bottle containers.

This page is a collage page of multiple drawings of skulls in mixed mediums. There is a small pencil drawing, a middle sized pen sketch and a charcoal large drawing. Also, a transfer of a small pen drawing has leaked onto this page due to the usage of hairspray, which adds to the mixed media collage purpose of the page. I feel the charcoal drawing lacks in detail which is an improvement I need to refer back to. I scraped white emulsion over certain areas of the page to tone down bold blacks to have contrast in colours on the page. 

I also added newspaper due to the same colour palette suited the black and white page. I then ripped into the newspaper to give it a distressed look. By adding text and distressing and ripping it also links back to my coursework project of street art where I used these techniques throughout my work and final piece. I also added red ink to act as a gory element to the grunge like page.

This page is an observational study of a skull which I felt linked to my project as it is contained inside of our bodies. I tried to capture details of shadows and textures on the surface of the skull. At the bottom hand corner of the page I did another observational pencil drawing of the back of the skull to portray different angles and I feel I captured the detailing and the toning successfully due to using different strengths of pencils.

These two photographs are extreme close up shots of the previous observational drawing of the skull. The red ink from the previous page transferred onto this page but luckily its fits the structure and curves of the skull and drips down in appropriate places which adds to the deathly / gory genre of the page.

 

This page consists of multiple pen drawings of various body parts such as feet, eyes hands and mouths. I feel that the drawings on this page are all a realistic representation of various body parts and facial features. 

Close up shot of my pen hand drawing.

Close up shot of pen foot drawing.

Aritsts.

Jenny Saville

Ed Fairburn

Chaim Soutine

Rene Magritte

Jackson Pollack

Thomas Hart Benton