Faces

To start my exam, I took these pictures of faces, so I could attempt to paint/draw them in the style of Michael Roberts and Lucian Freud.

Final coursework outcome

From the pictures I took and the prep work I have done, this is the final coursework outcome I produced based on the body. It is mainly a study of colour and light, completed in oils, and i have done the background in a plain wash to bring the point of focus to the figures in the same way as Nigel Cox.

It also means they could be anywhere, and therefore lets the viewer place the figures in their own environment. As they are doing seemingly private things however the viewer may also feel as though they are intruding, and the bright colour of the pink jumper against the background contrasts to the quiet action of playing as it is a bold colour.

Biro drawings

I proceeded to do some biro drawings from the pictures i took of figures, just to see what they looked like in a different medium.

The girl with the umbrella, to the left, is a Nigel Cox copy, which I did in biro to link in with my own photos.

Figure photos

For a project we did on the body these are the pictures I took. They are based on the work of a contemporary artist I found called Nigel Cox, who like Hopper uses detailed figures in his work, who appears to be concerned with something the viewer has to guess at. Unlike Hopper however Cox paints the backgrounds as vast, plain lanscapes that represent lanscapes in the artic, which has the effect of really highlighting the detail in the figures he paints. I hoped to mimick this is my photos, aiming to capture people in the middle of doing something seemingly private but the blank background means they could be anywhere.

Conroy study

Another artist copy, in oil again, but experimenting with different colours and a slightly more intriguing content, compared to the single figures of Hopper's work.