ART BLOG: November 2015

Sunday, 29 November 2015

My Three Favourite Artist Pieces

Shell Paintings- Acrylic
http://www.amiriarobinson.com/amiria-gale-shell-paintings/

These three pieces of artwork are my favourites.

In Shell Paintings I like the colours and the different tones of the colours with the earthy tones and the different shades of blue. I like how she has shown the process of her doing the painting. I like how the painting of the shell looks almost like a digital painting with the use of gel mediums. I like the idea behind the painting showing an island scenery inside the shell instead of outside the shell where the shell comes from. I like the lines created from the different shades and tones of blue that show the ripples and waves of the water around the shell and how they follow the direction of the shells outline. This artists piece of work links to my chosen theme because it is a shell which is a natural form. This artist is different to the other artists because her work directly links in with my theme being literal paintings and drawings of shells. Her style is also different with the colours being quite realistic and the work style being quite surrealist with the painting of the island scenery inside the shell. I like the lighter tones that act like the light reflecting off of the water.

Windswept - Acrylic
http://www.linzilynn.com/

In Windswept I like the bright, bold colours and the different tones of the colours that show the direction of the hairs and make the hair seem more realistic giving the impression of tiny strands grouped together. I like how the artist has taken a real thing and painted it using colours that make it not look realistic. This artists style using bright colours is similar to my observation studies of the shells using coloured chalk where I used bright colours that are not really associated or part of the shell. This relates to my theme because shells and crystals are colourful and this artists artwork focuses on colour so I could use this technique whilst doing crystals and shells to focus on the colour and to make it stand out more by using more colours on the shells/crystals.

Cool Daybreak - Acrylic
http://www.klhansen.com/Karen_Hansen/Welcome.html

Cool Daybreak is an abstract painting. I like the colour coding of this painting with the different blues with shades from almost pure white blue to dark blue. I like the texture of this painting, it looks quite rough and dotty, it would be good to recreate using a sponge to get the faded effect of the paint overlapping the different shades and tones of blue. This artists style is different to the others as her work is not a painting of a specific thing or object, it looks like an explosion of colours related to a specific thing and in this case it is daybreak. I could use this style and take colours from a specific shell or crystal and use the colours in this style or I could experiment with colours in this style and paint shells or crystals over the top and have this as the background. I like this style because you have more freedom with the strokes and what you paint. This links in to my starting point because it looks quite faded from overlaying the colours which I could use combined with my theme of natural forms to show that it is old and faded but it is also a natural form.

Saturday, 28 November 2015

Artist Research: Artist 3- Amiria Gale

http://www.amiriarobinson.com/amiria-gale-shell-paintings/

Shell Paintings- Shell paintings by Amiria Gale: It is the broken, worn, incomplete shells that provide inspiration. This one has little pock marks in the surface where bugs have gnawed at it and faded brown lines that dash across the surface. The composition sketch in black pen has scribbled notes reminding me what the work was about. It is not overly detailed, but depicts the structure of the work; the placement of the shell; the landscape within and the main water lines extending out from the curves of the shell. Note that the representation of the shell is not entirely realistic, but has been slightly simplified / stylised. The shell in this painting has been built up with a very thick layer of modelling compound – at its deepest, this protrudes 20mm out from the painting board. The lower stripy section of shell is covered with bumpy, textured handmade paper. A layer of gesso has primed the work before painting with Atelier acrylic. The water has been painted using many translucent layers, with gel medium and Atelier artist acrylic paint. The finished work is 1000 x 1000mm and depicts a semi-abstract shell tumbling within the ocean, with a landscape shown through the shell. It was completed in 2004. This is probably my most well known work.

Shells- mixed media piece, created using string, textured paper, modelling compound and acrylic on framed MDF board

These semi-abstract shell paintings by Amiria Gale break down the barrier between land, shell and sky. Water pours around the shell and spills across sand, The top right work is 400 x 800mm and was painted on MDF board in 2003. The bottom painting, “Shells, land and sea”, is a large work, 800 x 1000mm, created using acrylic and mixed media on framed MDF board in 2005.

This is one of two tiny seashell paintings by Amiria Gale, completed in 2010. “Little Shell” is 200 x 150mm, created using acrylic and mixed media on framed MDF board.

This shell has pencil scribbles inside it. I can’t remember how they got there. I was playing with it a lot, before it became the shell painting below that took me nearly a year. I kept returning to it, over and over again, burying the form with paint, and uncovering it again some more. Entitled ”Dive”, this contemporary shell painting by Amiria Gale was completed in 2010. It is 300 x 650mm and was created using acrylic and mixed media on framed MDF board.

This small seashell painting by Amiria Gale is entitled “Fragment” and is for sale NZ$200. Completed using acrylic and textured paper on board, in 2010, this shell painting is 200 x 150mm.

Shell painting by Amiria Gale: I began with a weathered sea snail shell. This work, entitled “Boundary”, is 700 x 700mm, and depicts a semi-abstract painting of shells, land and sea. It was completed using acrylic and mixed media on framed MDF board, in 2010, and was sold to a private collector.

A composition study created using black biro pen on a black and white photocopy of a seashell.

Here are some of my random shell drawings.

Sometimes, however, I work more messily and crazily. This is a faster, more gestural shell painting of mine.

Thursday, 26 November 2015

Artist Research: Artist 2- Linzi Lynn

http://www.linzilynn.com/

Windswept Acrylic

The Ride

Giraffe Eating

Humming

Going Nowhere

Artist Research: Artist 1 - Karen.L.Hansen

Karen Hansen

Karen Hansen is an abstract painter and her paintings are atmospheric abstractions of meditation and memory which links in with the starting point of time and memory. They are 'made for resting places, as uncluttered escaped from our hectic, complex world and they are entry points to the rhythms and the quiet mysteries of our lives and our search for deeper connection in our human experience'. They are 'layered translucently' with their 'subtle complexity' in search of 'radiance, nuance and depth'. Her main medium for her work is acrylic paint with which she uses a variety of different surfaces to paint on from paper, to wood panels. Her acrylic paintings give a sense of calmness and peacefulness when you observe them and some of her paintings such as Cool Daybreak, Evanescence, Calypso and 97% reminded me of water and how it flows and the

ocean which links in to my theme of natural forms and my main subject of shells.

97% • Acrylic on paper • 14.25 x 10.25“

I have practised using oil pastels so far to experiment creating her pieces of artwork, however I did not like this method because I think that it doesn't create the desired effect like her pieces of artwork that look quite cloudy where as the oil pastel method had quite a line effect over the colours and I found it hard to get the right colours for the artwork. I won't be continuing with this medium.

http://www.klhansen.com/Karen_Hansen/Welcome.html