Michelangelo Merisi Da Caravaggio

Michelangelo Merisi Da Caravaggio

The violent temperament Caravaggio produces in several of his pieces creates a distressing outlook into the murderous fantasies and state of mind he had, the haunting image of a man being beheaded in his bed and the decapitated head of the mythical creature, Medusa, shows his obsession with death and his fascination with murder.

'Judith beheading Holofernes'

1598-1599

oil on canvas

'Medusa'

1598-1599

oil on canvas 

Francis Bacon

Francis Bacon

The view that Francis Bacon has of himself is far from narcissistic, the way he perceives himself in his self portraiture is disturbing, although captivating, using a mixture of dark and cold colours, and the facial expressions in his work project the temperament he faces and creates a visual effect of sorrow and grief.
The deformity shown in the majority of his self-portraiture work displays a nature of self loathing, or a disgust of his own physical form.

'Self portrait'

1969

oil on canvas

'self portrait'

1971

oil on canvas

Egon Schiele

Egon Schiele

Egon Schiele was considered to be quite controversial about his work, the nude portraiture he had painted where of a teenage girl, the both of them had been driven out of town they lived in, in Krumau. In the typical manner of Egon’s self-portraits, he has shown the peculiar and troubled image he perceives of himself for instance:-

'Self-portrait with Chinese lantern'

1912

oil and gouache on panel

this piece shows a very narcissistic look at Egon  show with the facial expression he presents, the energy he shows in the line quality and shading particularly on his jacket emits a slight nervousness or anxiety about him.

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Chuck Close

Chuck Close 

chuck close has created many spectacular pieces of artwork, each showing the same level of commitment as the next, such as;

 'Mark'

1997-19978

acrylic on canvas 

This piece was painted and airbrushed on a series of layers on a massive scale, the painting took almost 14 months to complete.

I believe 'Mark' is a very successful piece, the sheer detail, particularly in the eyes, chuck has definitely captured the detail of the glasses and its reflective light and made the entire piece extremely visually pleasing.

 'Self-Prortraitte'

1997

oil on canvas 

This piece is an incredible example of expertise chuck close has, even after a blood clot paralyzed him and caused him to resort to strapping a paint brush to his hand to be able to paint. Using simple shapes with different colors and patterns, on an enormous scale, even with the simplistic nature of the pieces he produces chuck still manages to attach a vast amount of detail.

'Big Self-Portraitte'

1967-1968

acrylic on canvas

Big self portrait was chuck's first selling piece of work and is another example of how chuck captures details like a photograph, this piece has to be a personal favorite, just because of the way that chuck has created a visually perfect portrait   

Photoshop Editing

Photoshop Editing In Graphics

To start off, I had scanned the image I had chosen to edit into image capture using a scanner,

an image i had drawn in the still life exhibition room of an animals skull.

after which, I had resized the image and adjusted the resolution to 150 pixels per inch in photoshop and saved .

I then went on to add several layers with low opacity levels to add a subtle tint of purple into the shading

I have also added a layer of pen drawn shaded purple to add definition to the lines of the skull

Finally I have added an effect called 'dry brush' and saved the image.

This is my finished piece.

Jan Groover

Jan Groover

To me, Jan Groover’s images create a visual effect, which deceives and causes confusion at first glance.  

 I particularly admire this image although; nowhere near the intricacy of his work personally resembles the MC Escher’s relativity as it shows layer upon layer of similar objects layering and mirroring the other structures.

Edward Weston

Edward Weston

Edward Weston’s still life images, particularly the peppers, show his talent for making ordinary images of everyday objects seem fake and alien, I also admire his photography of the shells and the way he makes something renowned for being well-formed with different unique textures, tones and patterns and made them into flat two dimensional pieces.

The way he captures his images creates the effect of a charcoal sketch particularly the images of the peppers.

Lino Printing

Friday (the 14th) started with an introduction to lino printing and the way the prints work. after which we were lead to the exhibition room on level two to draw four small scenes of the exhibition to fit to the print template, if i had could, i would have changed the angle that I saw the exhibition from although I did get a few interesting views to draw.

another thing that could have affected the printing is the way I have shaded it as there is no shading in the prints.

 This image is of a plain mannequin with two easels and a board in the bottom corner. The image could be difficult to make into a print due to the shading which is why I have added a white line on the left shoulder to distinguish the separation of the mannequin and the easel.

 This is my favourite image for the print work because the angle I have drawn the image in is interest and captures a variety of different objects, something i would do when making it into a print would be to make the clock in the bottom sharper and possibly add some numbers to make it appear more realistic.

This piece is of a headless mannequin with a spine, ribs and hips in the foreground, this image was quite flat, so to make it seam more interesting I have added the black diagonal block in the left, if used for printing I think the ribs and hips will be very difficult to show in black and white

after exhausting the interesting angles I could see from where I was standing with my easel I found myself drawing this image which is quite uninteresting and flat, although it could make an interesting print

My First Post

This is my first post, I'm on an art and design level three course at blackburn college, we have only just been introduced to blogging.

From the start of the year we have been introduced into still life images and sculpting using bird skulls as inspiration, using different techniques and a wide range of media to draw them such as charcoals, biros and conte crayons and using rolled up news papers and gum strips to create the 3D bird skulls, we will later be painting the sculptures in white. 

We have also been sketching using line techniques to draw a scene to scale, using a range of various  mannequins, instruments and other materials and objects using easels. 

http://www.flickr.com/photos/tscarlisle/496691842/

The first drawing using a HB pencil

The next piece using charcoal

The next two pieces using ink

The last using a Biro not taking the pen off the paper throughout the entire drawing 

This is the selection of objects

My sketch of the set up using a HB pencil