Artists’ self-portraits

A self-portrait is an artists' representation of themselves. These can be created in any media and according to the art critic Galina Vasilyeva-Shlyapina, there are two forms of self-portraits, professional and personal. Professional portraits are characterised by showing the artist at work while personal portraits are characterised by having a deeper meaning such as a symbolism … Continue reading Artists’ self-portraits

Quick Sketches Around The House

My converted warehouse 'house' is a very full and busy enviroment so I had a hard time finding the right area to focus my sketches on, I ended up choosing an area rather than a room. This sketch was quite fun, I focused on an area that had plain walls, corners and a shelf. I … Continue reading Quick Sketches Around The House

Assignment Two

MY CHOSEN IMAGEA collection of images from when I chose my still-life setup I approached this assessment with an idea of what I wanted to focus on. I chose these objects because I want to see an improvement in my ability to paint accurately in relation to cylindrical objects. Also this image includes my favorite … Continue reading Assignment Two

Simple Perspective in interior studies

I was unable to use the area from the previous task for this exercise. I have choose to focus on a chair by a column against a flat walkk and window on a checkered floor. I think both the floor, wall and angle of the chair show a really intresting perspective and the colours are … Continue reading Simple Perspective in interior studies

Dutch Realist Genre Paintings

The Milkmaid, Johannes Vermeer, c. 1660oil on canvas, h 45.5cm × w 41cm A Lady at the Virginal with a Gentleman, known as ‘The Music Lesson. Johannes Vermeer Pieter de Hooch A Woman Drinking with Two Men probably 1658 Oil on canvas, 73.7 x 64.6 cm Bought, 1871 NG834 https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/NG834 Interiors painted by various artists … Continue reading Dutch Realist Genre Paintings

17th Century Dutch Still-life and Flower Painters

During the 17th Century for the Netherlands, is best known as The Dutch Golden Age. "..a unique era of political, economic, and cultyral greatness during which the little nation on the North Sea rank among the most powerful and influential in Europe and the world." (Herbert, H. Roweil - 2020) Still-Life (or stilleven) paintings was … Continue reading 17th Century Dutch Still-life and Flower Painters

Successive contrasts

Successive contrast is a phenomenon that is an effect of previously viewed colours. This occurs when the colour receptors in the retina are temporarily used up leaving behind an afterimage retained by your eye even after you stop viewing something. This afterimage is the complementary colour of the original colour. Below are my findings from … Continue reading Successive contrasts

Optical Effects

The Impressionists sought to capture the optical effects of light, to depict the everchanging natural world on their canvases, seen in Impressionist artists work like Gustave Caillebotte and Claude Monet. Post-Impressionists rejected interest in depicting the observed world, they instead looked to their memories and emotions in order to connect with the viewer. Structure, order, and colour are what … Continue reading Optical Effects

Linear Perspective

In basic linear perspective, there are 4 major types of perspective defined by the number of primary Vanishing Points lying on the Horizon Line. Creating a image with perspective principles allows to creator to explore realistic illusion of 3 dimensional space. References Invaluable. 2019. Understanding Linear Perspective in Art. [ONLINE] Available at: https://www.invaluable.com/blog/understanding-linear-perspective-in-art/. [Accessed 5 August 2020]. … Continue reading Linear Perspective

Michel-Eugene Chevreul

Michel-Eugene Chevreul is the author of 'The Principles of harmony and contrast of colours' a text published in 1839, its content was soon know as the laws of simultaneous colour contrast. This book is one of the first systematic studies of colour perception, contrast of colours and colour mixtures. In 'The principles of harmony and … Continue reading Michel-Eugene Chevreul