Ben Slow (Laura)

• Ben Slow is a portrait artist from London, England.

• His subjects vary from Hollywood scarlets, such as Audrey Hepburn, to pop culture icons.

Ben Slow• The point of Slow’s work is to

reduce the silhouette to its simplist point, but still embellish various details such as its energy, depth and texture.

• Texture is a very important part of Ben Slow’s work. The portraits are richly detailed in an intricate process of layering different textures of paint and colours.

• Ben Slow manipulates the paint so it appears as though it is dripping down the art work.

• This is more noticeable in the large scale works such as those at the Royal Albert Hall (above) or in the various street pieces.

Roy Lichtenstein (Sarah W)October 27, 1923 – September 29, 1997

• Born into upper-middle class of NYC

• Left NYC to study at Ohio State University

• Served in army 1943-1946

• Hired as an art instructor

• Adopted style between cubism and expressionism

• Began first pop art in 1961

Ben-Day Dots

• Similar to pointillism• Small colored dots that

are closely-spaced, widely-spaced or overlapping

• Four process colors (cyan, magenta, yellow and black)

• Inexpensively creates shading and secondary colors such as green, purple, orange and flesh tones

Other Techniques

• Gesso: plaster of Paris and glue mixed to prevent the canvas from absorbing too much paint

• Gives the canvas a uniform white appearance.

• Magna: a type of acrylic paint easily removed with turpentine

• Serigraph: silk-screening print

• Woodcut print: made from a carved block of wood

Paintings

SIMON DAVIS (Amanda)

Modern Artist

Painter of contemporar

y figurative paintings,

and portraitsMostly in oil

Bold, broad brush

strokes

Sunwww.redraggallery.com

Strict Machine, by Simon Davis

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Molly. B. Right

Molly’s art is made of hundreds of recycled bottle caps. Born in North Carolina, Molly’s pieces start with a painting to which the bottles caps are attached.

http://www.environmentteam.com/art/bottle-cap-portraits/Dana

Omar Rodriguez (Rula)I really liked Omar’s artistic style in his paintings and charcoal drawing. His creations are typically in grayscale, but he does explore with vivid and vibrant colors that really expand and emphasize his capabilities. One way you could tell if a painting has been done by Omar is by the smooth texture, the flow of the shapes and the movement. His paintings and other works also narrate stories and tales. He seems to take simple objects such as stones and make them look interesting and artistically appealing.

I really like the colors and the contrast in this painting. There are so many fine details in the bark and in the leaves and stones.I especially like the shadowing and the 3D effect that Rodriguez has established in this painting. You can also read in some subtext in this painting. It seems that all of these miscellaneous items are so different and scattered across the page, yet they seem to go together and create a finished piece.

Some of his portraits and other famous works.

http://www.aniwaichulis.com/gallery/omarrodriguez/

Helen Yang

Pablo picasso

Cubism

• Early Cuism:

- Hard edges

- Bright colours

- Flattened space

- Less expression of emotion

- More intellectual experiment with structure

• Three women, autumn 1907-1908

Cubism

• Analytical Cubism

- Took away bright colours

- Replaced with earthy colours

- More rearrangement of structure

- Capture more then one perspective in art

- Capture different moments in time in one painting

• Ambroise Voilard 1910

Cubism

• Synthentic cubism

- Developed after being bored from Analytical Cubism

- Art created from many collages

- Very controversial changes

• Harlequin 1918

Mary Cassat (Neelum)

Dominantly painted the bond between mothers and children

Painting style

Short brush strokes, bright colors, layering & lack of detail.

Why I like her work

• While the colors in her a lot of her paintings are darker, the paintings still have a happy feel to them.

• Most of the paintings have a mother and child, making them really comforting to view.

Jack Morefield (Eszter)

Mini Bio

• Born in Alabama• Moved with his family throughout Europe

• Settled in Michigan• Parents encouraged his artistic lifestyle

• Work has been shown in several different galleries in Florida and Massachusetts

• Currently lives in Massachusetts with his wife and two children

Why Eszter Likes This Guy’s Art

• Swirls and stripes• Cool colours like blue, green and purple (Eszter’s favourite colours)

• Dramatic lighting• Very detailed

EDUARD FLEMENSKIEDUARD FLEMENSKI(Meaghan)(Meaghan)

Born is Moscow

Around 20 years professionally engaged in painting.

In the 1999, he joined the Professional Creative Union of Russian Arts. With his recognizable and original painting style, he gained respect fro critiques and

colleagues.

He then gave himself a challenge, to find the key to the subconscious, but an active practice in painting, studying psychology of creativity, and the mysteries

of the subconscious. During this time, he had developed his own method of interpretation of dreams.

This lead to a new style , large contemporary portraits of women.

PORTRAITSPORTRAITSPORTRAITSPORTRAITS

www.artnow.ru

Public Opinion

SannyDesert Angel

Style: Semi-Abstract, Modern Age, Expressive Realism

- Oil on Canvas

- Female Portraits

- Emphasis on the Colours

TECHNIQUETECHNIQUETECHNIQUETECHNIQUE

arteduard.narod.ru/galereya

AlinaGwenn Seemel

Realistic anatomy of human figure with unrealistic but colourful and cartoon-like shading. Use of cross hatching, textures and shapes (squares and rectangles) to shade (ex. Red squarish skin and multicoloured hair). Not much blending of paint.

Background undetailed with patterns (ex. hair clips) and square brush strokes and gradient.

Gwenn first interviews the subject and takes photos of the model during the interview (informal and easygoing, gets to know the subject).

Likely starts off with simple flat colour (peachy for skin, brown for hair), then adds shading and texture bit by bit, layer by layer.

http://www.gwennseemel.com/http://www.gwennseemel.com/index.php/blog/

Stephie ButlerSARAH

I completely love the works by Stephie Butler, her portraits are really pretty. Here is her blog: http://stephiebutler.blogspot.com/2011/02/face-of-africa.html

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Techniques• http://stephiebutler.blogspot.com/2011/1

0/my-dream.html

• Using water color, in the link above she describes precisely her techniques used to create this effect.

• First she draws lines in pencil really lightly, and erases irrelevant one

• Next, she uses one color in light washes then adds on layers of colors. She tries to use colors that are of similar hues.

Francis Bacon

28 October 1909 – 28 April 1992

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Bio & Stylean Irish-born British figurative painter

He began painting during his early 20s and worked

only sporadically until his mid 30s.

His breakthrough came with the 1944 triptych

Three Studies for Figures at the Base of a

Crucifixion, and it was this work and his heads and

figures that sealed his reputation as a notably bleak

chronicler of the human condition.

known for his bold, austere, graphic and

emotionally raw imagery. Bacon's painterly but

abstract figures typically appear isolated in glass or

steel geometrical cages set against flat, nondescript

backgrounds

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Famous Paintings