My Art Work.




“Clown”, painted in watercolour, A3. I was inspired by Miles Baker (an artist who paints clowns) most of his work is in the medium of watercolour.

 






The next painting is a watercolour sketch of a Ballet dancer in mid-air. This piece is a tiny A5 watercolour sketch, inspired whilst researching Edgar Degas.





The final piece of my AS coursework was a large acrylic painting of a ballet dancer with her own shadow. The background was composed by extended the lines of the dancer,  I thought the composition of the dancer was so elegant I wanted to emphasize the lines.  Which I think gives fluidity and movement to the painting.






The topic for my AS exam was “orange”. As I like the art movement Fauvism, I chose to base one of my research ideas on Fauvist painter Anne Garney. This is a watercolour painting with a red outline, as Garney uses an unconventional red background in all of her paintings. The work is also reminiscent of the Fauvist painter Raul Dufy.



 



The final piece for my exam work was a complicated arrangement of three images inspired by Garney’s work. This is just one of the three paintings. It is a watercolour painting with again the red outline.

 



A reproduction of an earlier work of Cezanne. It is a painting using oils on a smaller scale as they reward the viewer with their scrutiny. I painted the background first in muted, earth colours. The flowers have been painted in complementary colours: red against green, orange against blue.



This image is a reproduction of Keiman’s work and is in acrylic paint. I really like how the simplistic strips of colour come together to make a complicated image of a tree. In some ways it looks as if it is upside down, with the trunk of the tree looking almost like branches and the foliage as roots.



I then did two of my own versions of Keiman’s tree by using the similar technique of strips of colour. The first uses a large range of colour and tries to create the shape of the tree.



The second has a limited colour range for the trunk, to refine the style. Both paintings are oil paintings (A4). I wanted to introduce some of my own style, which, unlike Keiman’s leaves, are painted in an impasto technique.



The next painting is of my local park, a painting just under A3 in size, using the medium of acrylics. Even though similar colours have been used throughout, the shape and textures of the trees still remain visible.



I then looked at Maryanne Jacobsen’s work, in the hope of recreating bright Impressionism pieces. My next painting is an A3 sized oil colour reproduction of Jacobsen’s. I think the composition of this piece is cleverly arranged so that every element complements the others.



Inspired by Jacobsen I chose to paint a vibrant image containing a range of different coloured foliage. It is just over A4 in size. I wanted the painting to use a mottled style, creating the detail of the subject purely in the brushstrokes.





 I want to pursue Art at degree level because I enjoy the subject for numerous reasons. I particularly derive benefit from painting and the techniques utilised to create a wide range of finished realisations. If I am to make a commitment to a university course I want to ensure that I not only enjoy it, but also excel in it.