My Gerhard Richter work - lesson 1

I first started adding his work in to mine by taking some of his most famous pieces. In replace of his photograph background I used college of  series of magazine and newspapers, this experiment not only contrasted with my artists work but also tested out the use of colour because before this I had stuck to mainly pencil and graphite drawings. In order to create the look of oil paint that Gerhard used, I used emulsion paint instead and applies it in different ways with different materials like old sponges, knifes, paintbrushes and my fingertips, I also didn't just apply it, I stripped some away after using wet paper towels and rags. Here is my piece of work on the left and Gerhard's on the right.

Also during this lesson I displayed a massive amount of the research I had collected on my artist as well doing some more tests on different mediums, patterns and mark making. For example I copied some shapes from one of Gerhard's most famous pieces and used coloured chalk to test if it worked well. Even though I don't feel like it was successful I am still glad I did it because doing experiments is very important to find out what works best. This is an example of it.

Here is also the research that I conducted from my artist along with several photographs of my favourite pieces of Gerhard's work.