EVALUATION FOR PORTRAIT
The start of the project I was not very sure what we had to do until I started reading the assignment brief. My first thoughts about the project were very positive because we were going to look at some of my favourite artists such as Pablo Picasso. The first task that I completed was a self portrait of myself screaming which was done with pencil and another one with acrylic paint. I also painted Van Gogh's self portrait with acrylic paint. This I did with thick paint that I mixed on the palette. I appied the paint in different directions especailly on his face.
Throughout the project I used different techniques such as Cubism which is defined as a type of art work where objects are broken up, analysed and resembled in a abstract form for this particular technique I looked at Picasso's and also David Hockney's work and I completed a art piece inspired by David Hockney (photos of me cut into cubes and placed to make a 3D effect).Another technique I used is stumbling up close you will see the brushwork and texture in the scumbled layer, for this technique I looked at Francis Bacon's work he used the technique for his self portrait and I completed a self portrait of deformed face using the technique stumbling. Photorealism is another style of painting , photorealism frequently used a grid technique to enlarge the photograph and reduce each square to formal elements of design each grid was its own little work of art, for this painting technique I looked at Chuck Close work and done a painting inspired by him. Other techniques I also looked at is glazing, transparent and opaque.
For this project I used Acrylic, watercolour, Colour pencils, HB pencil and brushes for painting. Grid technique and photorealism (painting technique) was new to me. I did experience some problems when doing chuck close self portrait of me, colour choice was a little hard but I solved the problem by looking at my colour wheel. I was pleased with the finished outcomes throughout the project, My finished outcomes are mounted on white A3 paper with a little research of the artists beside each painting.
I enjoyed the assignment very much and learned new techniques also learned that art doesn't have to be perfect and flat, artists such as Picasso, David Hockney and Francis Bacon that did messy deformed and very complicated paintings and photographs I find very beautiful and eye catching.
