First Project- self portrait

This is some of the sketch pad work leading up to my first project final piece. I began looking at Andy warhol's images because I liked the style of the picture he had created and I began to copy some of his images as art history. I copied this image in pencil to try out different materials. I looked at Andy Warhol's images because i liked the way that he stook to the one or two colours and managed to capture the life behind the paintings.



This is another of Andy Warhol's images that I copied but this time i painted the image in watercolours, and dabbed some areas with sponge to create the fading effect of the picture.




I also began looking at Caravaggio's work on the capture of light and dark in the faces he painted. I looked at Caravaggio as the photos that i had staged were in a darkened room with a spot light, so i wanted to create the effect that this spotlight gave. I though that Caravaggio captured the light in his paintings.

I then from my own images came up with this idea. I then began experimenting with the different colours that the image could be done in. I then began focusing on the light and dark of the image and tried to portray the effect through the image.


This is the other colour of the image that I tried, but I dont think this image portrays the effect of the light and dark as effectively. After this I began looking at caravaggio images and focused on how he portrayed the light and dark and tried to add som of this in to my own photo.

I manipulated the images to narrow it down to the 3 colours, red, yellow, white.


I then came up with this final composition and I tried to capture the effect of the light and dark. I added a moon in the background to get the effect of a light shining down on the image and the spotlight hitting the face.

Life drawings

For this life drawing image I change the two clours to see what different effect the brown whould have with the white on showing the lights and darks.

This was on of the first life drawing images that I drew and I was mainly focusing on the difference between the light and the dark. The contrast between the light reflecting off the image and the shadows created from the positioning of the light source.

This image was from in behind the souce of light so there wasn't a lot of shadow created. So this resulted in a lot of the image being white.

This image I drew while i had a piece of paper over my hand so I couldn't see what I was drawing, I did this to help improve on the focusing on what I was drawing an paying more attention to detail, rather than looking at the paper and making it up.

This is a life drawing from the classes I went to after school.

I did this in colour to try to portray the light and dark in a different way from just using a colour range from white to black. The contrast of the orange next to the blue gives a different effect on the photo than from just using the blue blending in to the yellow.