EVALUATION

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. 

 

 

Painting techniques

PAINTING TECHNIQUES

 

Scumbling

Scumbling is a painting technique for adding a layer of broken, speckled, scratchy colour over another colour Bits of the lower layer of colour show through the scumbling. The result gives a sense of depth and color variation to an area.

 

Scumbling can be done with opaque or transparent colours, but the effect is greater with an opaque colour and with a light colour over a dark.Up close you'll see the brushwork and texture in the scumbled layer.

 

 

Glazing

Glazing is a technique employed by painters since the invention of oil painting. Although in theory it is very simple, in practice glazing can be a very complex undertaking. In the simplest terms, glazing consists in applying, usually with a wide, soft-bristled brush, a transparent layer of paint over another thoroughly dried layer of opaque paint.

 

Opaque

A paint colour is said to be opaque when it hides what's underneath it, when you can't see any or much of what's beneath the colour. Some pigments are extremely opaque such as titanium white and cadmium red other pigments are semi opaque such as zinc white.

 

 

Transparent

 transparent painting techniques such as glazing and colour washes to achieve color depth multiple layers of translucent or transparent color that give the illusion of three dimensions and luminescence areas of light showing through the paint .

 

 Both techniques are highly effective in achieving heightened or beyond real realism in painting. Transparent painting techniques are also employed in other art styles  to add interesting light and overlay effects.

PABLO PICASSO

 



 Weeping Woman 1937

 

SUBJECT MATTER

The subject matter is cubism, the feeling and emotion it convoy is sadness since the painting is called the weeping woman it obviously a woman who is weeping or crying. The painting has a lot if different shapes such as triangles circles rectangles diamond shapes.

 

TECHNIQES

The art work is painted, I think Picasso used medium or small brushes because you can see a lot of shapes and angles small brushes and help paint edges. The consistency of the paint is thick. The artwork creates an illusion that some forms are further away, the painting looks 3D the use of colour is exaggerated. The texture seems to me rough, the composition you can see so many dramatic angles.

ARTIST CAREER

Pablo Ruiz y Picasso known as Pablo Picasso 25 October 1881 – 8 April 1973 was a Spanish painter, sculptor printmaker ceramicist  stage designer poet and playwright who spent most of his adult life in France. As one of the greatest and most influential artists of the 20th century, he is known for co-founding the Cubist movement the invention of constructed sculpture.

 

WAR

During the Second World War Picasso remained in Paris while the Germans occupied the city. Picasso's artistic style did not fit the Nazi ideal of art, so he did not exhibit during this time. He was often harassed by the Gestapo. During one search of his apartment, an officer saw a photograph of the painting Guernica. "Did you do that?" the German asked Picasso. "No," he replied, "You did".

 

Pablo Picasso died on 8 April 1973 in Mougins, France

 

 

 

CUBISM

CUBISM

 

 

 

Cubism was one of the most influential visual art styles of the early twentieth century. It was created by Pablo Picasso Spanish, 1881–1973 and Georges Braque French, 1882–1963 in Paris between 1907 and 1914. The French art critic Louis Vauxcelles coined the term Cubism after seeing the landscapes Braque had painted in 1908 at L'Estaque in emulation of Cézanne. Vauxcelles called the geometric forms in the highly abstracted works cubes.Other influences on early Cubism have been linked to Primitivism and non-Western sources.

 

 

 

VINCENT VAN GOGH

VINCENT VAN GOGH

 

                                                                           

 SUBJECT MATTER

The subject matter of the artwork is self portrait
in the painting he looks very serious the feeling and emotion it convoy is sadness or melancholy you can see he is not smiling or laughing neither he is angry but he look sad or tired.

TECHINIQUE

The art work was painted with thick brush marks you can see the painting has very strong brush marks, I think Van Gogh used big brushes the marks were carefully applied.
The consistency of the paint is thick. The painting creates an illusion that some forms are further away you can see his face body looks 3D.
the use of colour does closely resemble the colours of the actual subject.
the tonal range of the painting goes from dark areas to light areas you can see around the head there is dark blue it becomes a lighter blue tint.
the texture to me seems rough.
ARTISTS CAREER

Vincent Willem van Gogh 30 March 1853 – 29 July 1890 was a post-Impressionist painter of Dutch origin whose work, notable for its rough beauty, emotional honesty and bold colour had a far reaching influence on 20th-century art. After years of painful anxiety and frequent bouts of mental illness he died aged 37 from a gunshot wound generally accepted to be self inflicted although no gun was ever found  His work was then known to only a handful of people and appreciated by fewer still.


He said of portrait studies "The only thing in painting that excites me to the depths of my soul, and which makes me feel the infinite more than anything else."

To his sister he wrote "I should like to paint portraits which appear after a century to people living then as apparitions. By which I mean that I do not endeavour to achieve this through photographic resemblance, but my means of our impassioned emotions – that is to say using our knowledge and our modern taste for colour as a means of arriving at the expression and the intensification of the character."

Evaluation RED AND BLUE CHAIR

Evaluation

Red and Blue Chair 

Our task was to create the Red and Blue chair using carton either 1:3 or 1:4 scale.

This is My chair I made from carton 1:4 size, me and my team divided the actual numbers of the real chair by 2 and then divided it again by 2, we then draw the shapes on a carton and cut them with the knife. After cutting we started sticking everything with the glue gun. The hardest part of this task was the cutting it was really hard to cut through the carton because its really thick, I cut my self once because I was putting so much pressure in the carton and my fingers slipped to the knife. To me the cutting was the most challenging part in the task. 

 I decided to paint my chair with different colours I used purple,yellow and black I think using purple against black is not very good because the black hides the purple however I really like the the yellow because its bright and it catches your eye. I think if i could paint the chair again I will use green instead of purple moreover I am happy with my chair and I think I managed my time very carefully in this task because I managed to finish my chair in time.

Red and Blue Chair

Creating the Red and Blue chair with wood really nice.