Georgia O'Keeffe Crital Study FMP

 

Georgia O'Keeffe is an amazing artist who creates a variety of art work with a particular style. She mainly paints enlarged images of flowers which are done in oil. I believe looking at her style and choice of media she does well to compose a soft shape with subtle and light tones in her floral pieces. Her work almost has a 3D effect and it has altogether soft and she almost does this intricate work effortlessly. I chose to take in mind O’Keeffe’s work as the soft tones and eye catching effects are what I want to make my Pin Up centre piece really stand out and be bold. If i don't use her enlarged way I may use her choice of colour blending and tonal work.
This Piece I have chosen to do is very colourful and ranges from pinks to blues which I find very interesting as again it manages to be subtle, possibly due to the form or the shape. There’s light shadowing in black but it doesn’t take the lightness away from the piece. It’s realistic yet it’s different to how you would see a flower. This piece was done in Oil.
My version of this piece has similar shape, however, the tones could be softer and much lighter. My blending isn't brilliant but I found it hard to blend due to using Acrylic rather than Oil. I believe this piece could be better altogether. There’s not much to it like can be said about O’Keeffe’s work. I don't think I will use this in my final piece as there’s is a lot of room for improvement and I don't believe I have the time it would take me to create work like this to the standard of O'Keeffe.

Mood Board 1

A small composition of photos that I found that inspire me and my work. I have chosen these pieces due to their differences in textile floral design. I find this Mood board to be pretty and feauturing quite a lot of what I like thats either come from fabrics from across the globe from china to France, some new and some old.

Sasha Ira Critical study FMP

This artist does art mainly in graphite and I thought why not try reproducing her work since my work is better in this media. I looked through her work and saw that her shading was brilliant and the way she uses the pencil for shadowing and highlighting is very neat and realistic. I love how its greyscale and sometimes she adds in colour making it all the more interesting. Age looks not only at the face but at the body and her proportions are outstanding.
I chose to do this one due to how well she has drawn the facial features of this woman. She has taken time to use the white/yellow of the paper to create a skin tone and hair colour too. I believe her detail with using different graphite thicknesses really worked out for this piece. Using the ends of the hair to show separation and a realistic look rather than a block.
My version isn't as good, but there’s room for improvement as I first used a HB pencil on its own and I knew this wasn't enough to show the details which the artist had. I got advice of my tutor what I should do and she advised to use different graphite pencils to add definition and detail. I then went over it with a 2B 6B and 8B just to add extra depth into my piece and it worked out to be better than I originally created. I believe pencil is my main strength and I would like to use it but at the moment I am quite set on using a canvas and to produce pencil on canvas wouldn’t be very neat or give the desired effect that I want. I don’t think I will use this style as though at the minute I’m not looking for that bold, intense colour, I do want some subtle tones of colour whereas this has none but only in black and grey tones.

Hsiao-ron Cheng Critical Study FMP

I chose to do a critical study on Hsiao-Ron Cheng because of their light and soft toned work in portrature. The portraits that she does look so delicate and beautiful it's unbelivable that such work can be produced. She portrays a veriety of people from black, asian and white to male and female. There is no discrimination or preferances and it shows that she is capable of widing her range of work unlike other artists who find it difficult to change familiar features in faces. I want to link her work to mine as with Pin Ups they are bright and colourful with a mild tease about them, However, I am looking at the classic beauty of these women so I'm looking for a classy, innocent kind of tease and I want to produce a more subtle and realistic tone to their faces that women actually have. I believe using Chengs tones in my work would really help me get that innocent look I'm hoping for. She does most of her work in Giclee print.
The piece I've chosen to recreate is of an Asian woman, I chose this piticular piece as I wanted to know if I was capable of producing a range of ethnicities in my portait work. I thought about how many pin ups are of white women and very little are of different races, rethinking my work to be more cultural will be something that I personally could feel proud of due to my mixed background and also other people to feel more ethnicities welcomed into the world of Pin Up. This piece was done as giclee print.
My actual piece I believe is a lot like the original, such as the features and the placement of them on the face. This is done in Gouache. I also worked hard to get similar tones and colours correctly for the skin and hair. It took me a while before I started in the skin as I wanted it to be perfect. For the hair I used a light grey for the base and then began to add thin lines with a detail brush. I used tracing paper to get the facial features right, by first drawing out the features free handed and then choosing a final outcome amd then placing them correctly on the face. I also used the detail brush to do the eyes mouth and nose. For the detail on the background and appear to be her clothing I used different shades of grey and green to get a 3D effect similar to in Chengs work. I believe I did this well. For the pink background I used a sponge to get an even colour and I believe this worked well too but I could have been a bit more gentle as the paper began to rub off. Overall I can see myself using something like this for in my work.

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Tracy Lewis Critical Study FMP

Tracy Lewis is an artist I found on Instagram who I thoughts work was very pretty, feminine and unique. I love the way she uses water colours to create a soft look with pastel colours of flowers, animals and portraits. Her individual choice of colours are also interesting with light pink, baby blue and light tones of yellow all work together and blend to the best of efforts. She sees the beauty in things and draws them out with colour and delecate form. I want to be able to do this as I believe where Pin Up is a classical beauty the way Lewis creates her work is classical beauty in it's own way.
Looking at the piece I have decided to study, it is a close up of a peony but the actual painting is on a large scale. I love how despite how big the painting is it looks small on instagram and being able to get art to look good no matter what size is hard. She frills the petals to add extra realistic effects, with darkened colours for shadowing rather than grey or black. Like I said, she draws out the beauty from things leaving no flaws. I also like how she takes time to make sure each individual petal is outlined well with colour. Theres a lot I'd like to take from this piece to put in my background.
My version I believe is a lot like the original, I used water colour to do this and it worked well but it was hard getting the right consistency with every brush stroke, sometimes it would be too dark or too light. I believe despite this it worked well. I could have been a lot neater on my lines and got rid of the pencil markings before hand. I used good tones and shaded well for certain areas. The small yeallow pieces of the flower could be more detailed. I want to work on this before I decide to use it in my work.