My Artist analysis

I was previously using a different artist to the one I am now (Paolo Troilo) but I converted to my current one due to the fact that his work was more similar to what I want to achieve rather than Troilo's, this new artist is Italian and is called Giorgio Arcuri.


The reason I like this artist is because he does more of a variety of work although most oh his pieces are still figurative, although I want to base my work off his work, my main idea is to use my pass skills in order to create an abstract twist on it. The way I have already started to do this is by using my PVA glue and paint mixture to create certain aspects of the drawing but I would like to emphasise this further.


Here are some of my favourite pieces of Arcuri's work;

The reason that I especially like the first two pieces is because they are both a simple background of pencil drawing but with bursts of colour in certain places in order to add emphasis and contrast.

Arcuri has many different collections within his work, the first one is 'Le Parole Non Bastano' ('Words Are Not Enough') which contains a series of different mouth movements which is something
I am specifically focusing on at the minute, especially getting inspiration from the top left piece. Here is one piece I have already done and one I am currently working on, next to Arcuri's piece's.

The second collection is purely a selection of hand movements which I have focused on except with a different artist that I mentioned at the start, despite this my work did turn out to have more features of Arcuri's work rather than Troilo's. This part of Arcuri's work is called Sfumature Di Un Tocco which translates from Italian to English as 'Shades Of A Touch'. Here is an image of one of my similar pieces next to Arcuri's work.

There are also lots more, different collections but my favourite and the one that I think I want to be moving on to soon is simply called 'Drink Collection' involving a selection of alcoholic beverages in a splashing motion almost as if something has been dropped in them or thy have been poured in to the glass very heavily. The reason I think doing something similar to this would be good for me is because the PVA glue and paint solution I create is very good for showing movement and motion.

Georgia Lucas

Review

Recently I have been taking the created of PVA glue and paint from my previous work of my micro-exam and artist research and incorporating it into new backgrounds which I have drawn in pencil rather than a photograph. What I am now drawing is more focus on close up features rather than a full body of a model like in the photographs, the reason I have done this is so I am able to add in more shading and detail to test my skills and find improvements I could make which I have already done and mentioned in my objectives and evaluations.

The background I tried was a hand in squeezing motion, as I seemed to be struggling to add detail and shading I researched an artists called Paolo Troilo who also showed a lot of movement in his work, here's an example of some of the pieces I got ideas from.

Here is some the pieces I created by photocopying my original drawing and applying my layer of PVA glue and paint.

Now I feel like I'm finished with this specific background, I have moved on to drawing another close up body feature, but a facial one this time, a slightly open mouth. Although this drawing doesn't show any movement like the last one, it has a lot darker shading which adds more depth.

 This is the simple I background I have drawn and the piece on the left is an artist I have researched and I am hoping to also create this dripping motion except with the PVA glue and paint layer I created on my last piece of work.

Reflection-

I really enjoyed the work I did last lesson as it was completely different to what I had been doing these past couple weeks in the sense that I drew my back ground rather than using a photograph. I chose to use completely pencil for my drawing, with no colour included, only shading. This piece is no where near finished yet but I think that once I have added more definition to the hand it will hopefully even show some movement of the hand whilst squeezing the fruit.

I have already improved just by getting help with my shading technique during the lesson as before I shaded heavily onto the while back ground in only certain areas then tried to smudge the pencil using my finger which therefore applied oils from my hands on to the paper making it really difficult to rub out later on. To change all this I shaded the entire hand lightly first, using a paper towel to smudge the pencil rather than my finger, then I went in with a rubber to highlight the areas that needed to be emphasised. Here is a picture of my work before the improvements were made.

My Micro Exam analysis

I think that my exam went so well in the idea that I created exactly what I had planned to which was an ironic twist on modern day fashion by using massive inspiration from my artists work (Gerhard Richter). This exam was almost the exact same as my practice exam because to create the actual dress I used the same materials, techniques and applicators although this time I did the entire thing on a bigger scale and also ensured that I considered all the improvements from my previous analysis such as covering the PVA glue with a more generous layer of white paint to ensure no parts were left to dry transparent.

Although working on a bigger scale was definitely a better idea and showed variation of size, I think it was definitely more difficult because the glue and paint didn't stay in the guide lines very easily despite this it created a brand new shape which was much more expressive and unique.

Another factor that I also altered was the depth of tone in the background as in my practice piece it was just a complete wash of a dark grey shade so during my micro exam I improved it by keeping the dark grey/black at the bottom half of the page in order to contrast with the dress and make it stand out. I then faded these dark tones gradually into lighter ones as it reached the top of the page.

There were also some minor improvements which I made such as the tools I used for example when cutting the photograph of my model out I hadn't been very precise therefore this time I used a more defined cutting knife which was extremely helpful when it came to cutting out the thinnest of hairs on the models head. Although it was all worth it because it looked much more realistic especially against the white wash background.

One thing I think I could’ve maybe added was more in the background rather than just a blank wash because even though it went very well, I think it looked quite bland. What I have in mind is various splashes of colour mainly around the edges of the page or something creative which links in with the pattern or colour of the dress on the model.

I think the only thing that I would improve if I was to do this exam again is maybe an even bigger scale as that was one aspect which worked really well, other than that I'm really happy with the end result because I met all my targets from the analysis of my practice.

I took a few photos during this project, one is from the practice piece and the others are during the process and the final result of my micro exam, I found this was the easiest way to document my work and refer to it in analysis.