Third project

In my last project i used a range of bright colours and acrylic and i didnt think this turned out well. So i decided to go back to the image using the range of browns, yellow and white, that i had experimented with in my last project. Also the faces on the last project were to small to get the details in the face so i decided to just concentrate on the face. I also decided to carry on the theme of the light an dark, as i liked the effect that it created on the different moods that it could create.


This image is a copy of one of the many photos that i took for using a torch as the light souce. I had looked at Caravaggio's paintings and De La tour's and Tai-Shan Schierenberg paintings and they had stuck to a range of browns.











Caravaggio, Georges De La tour and Tai- shan Schierenberg are the artists that i focused on because both Caravaggio and De La Tour captured the light and dark in the paintings and i wanted to be able to capture this in my final piece. Ilooked at Tai-shan Scherenberg because i liked the way that he managed to capture all the definition in the feature on the face and the way that the pictures were painted.

These are a few of the pictures that i took experimenting with the light source coming from different angles.

I also tried in wax crayon to create the effect of the light and dark.





I also did etchings of the pictures. I tried this in different colours and and on different material to see what it looked like. I experimented on fabric, wall paper and normal white paper, each surface gave a different effect to the image.

The final image i painted was done in oil paints as i liked working with them in the first project as the acrylics in the secondproject didnt turn out as well as i would have liked. The oil paints enabled me to capture the brush stokes on the face and allowed me to appy the paint quite thickly. I chose to stick to white, yellow and brown as this allowed me to work from a light shade to a darker shade. Also many of the artists that i looked at stuck to these three colours and i liked the effect that it created.