At the Seafront

Just playing around with the camera at Southend beach, getting a taster before I start photography at sixth form. 

Angelina Jolie

Its been a while since I have posted any of my drawings up. This is my latest drawing of Angelina Jolie which I done on the 25/06/12. Its not perfect and may not look exactly like her, but hey, I'm young and still have years let to perfect my work! Hope you like it :)

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Final- Step 6

Human Eye

Human Eye! - I used water colour paints, chalk and a black colouring pencil to do this. I chose to do an enlarged eye to capture the striking detail that eyes have. I attempted to make the eye look as realistic as I could.

When boredom strikes!

This is what happens when I get bored. It may not be the best but I still attempted it anyways :)

Pop Art Inspired

This is my finished piece. My artwork from the Marilyn Monroe gave me the idea to do pop art since I looked at Andy Warhol's work. To complete my pop art piece, i got ideas from Andy Warhol, Robert Indiana and Roy Lichtenstein. I done the three pictures at the bottom (Me and my niece, me and my boyfriend and me doing this piece of artwork) are in the style of comic strips by Roy Lichtenstein. I hope you like my work and feel free to put your opinions! :)

 

Graffiti Inspired

I was inspired by a graffiti piece of artwork I found on Google when doing research. Although my piece is not a graffiti piece, i was inspired by the bright colours, the hair and the contrast between the face and the hair. I took my face from the previous artwork I have done, under 'Inspired by Tamara Lempicka' and used it for this piece. I used bright colours to contrast with the black background and the shaded face. I made this piece to be a composition. It has a combination of words (which describe me), colours, shapes and media. I have used acrylic pains, colours paper, black ink pen, mod rock, water based paints, sprinkles (again, to experiment with my use of materials. 

The steps to how I done this are below. (Sorry for the terrible layout, Im still getting used to this :p )

 

Here is just the basic shaded face and line drawing of the picture. 

The next step was adding the patterns n the bottom right and the words.

After that, I painted the shapes in a rainbow with each colour fading into each other. 

I then used black  ink pen to fill in the words and i pained the blue wave looking shape with acrylic paints. I  made it have lighter and darker tones.

I used mod rock then painted it using water based paints again in a rainbow in the same colours as the bottom bit. 

I cut up coloured paper and randomly stuck it on and used the black pen to fill in the background.

For the second to last step, I painted all the last shaped in different colours and ave them lighter and darker tones. (Yes I do love painting with acrylics :)..)

Inspired by Marilyn Monroe

My first attempt at doing this. I could improve on it the next time I try but yeah. 

Hope you like it :). 

(Im not sure of the name of the artist who painted the Marilyn Monroe one)

Natural and Organic Forms

This is my title page for my GCSE art book. This was my first attempt at painting a rose. It was easy to draw it from still life but to paint it, it was a challenge. As you can see, my brush strokes went side to side rather then from the inside of the petal outwards. Each time I make mistakes, I learn from them which makes my artwork even better for next time. The writing may look plain but it does have a gold outline but you just cant see it because my phone camera is terrible.

Cartoon Characters

I love to draw cartoon characters so here are a few drawings I have drawn. 

Spongebob: 31/07/11

Squidward: 31/12/09

Minnie Mouse: 09/12/09

Me To You (P): 30/12/09

Tigger: 03/04/10

Stewie Griffin: 28/07/10

Me To You (4): 18/05/10...25/07/10...26/07/10...28/07/10

Forever Friends: 29/11/09

The Simpsons: 29/10/10

(These are the dates I drew the drawings.They are not in order but as you can see, the oldest dates to the newest dates, the quality of my drawings have improved)

Christopher R. W. Nevinson

This was a small section of Christopher R.W Nevinson's work (right). This piece of work is at the Tate Modern Art Gallery in London. I found this piece interesting so I done an enlargement of a small section of his work. (http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/nevinson-bursting-shell-t03676)

Inspired by Tamara Lempicka

(Two pages of my work from my school GCSE Art book)

This is my two page spread of an artist called Tamara Lempicka. I thought that I would challenge myself to something more harder and detailed. When I came across this artist that went under the topic of cubism, which I am doing now, I thought I would challenge my drawing ability. Once I was confident with that, I drew myself (bottom left) in the style of Lempicka's work. I chose a picture that looks similar in ways to Lempicka's. My face is facing the same direction as the lady to the right. I did my hair to look the same as the picture on the right. I also did the same piece using acrylic paints (top right)

My drawings may not be perfect compared to others, but with more practice, I will improve. 

Composition

(The quality is bad because the camera on my phone is terrible)

ANOTHER picture of myself used in my own artwork (I love to include myself in my artwork). Again, I wanted to experiment the use of materials to get different effects and to be more creative. I used sprinkles to cover the silhouette of me. I used about 30 words that describe me to do a contrasting background. I used a black fine liner to colour in the words. 

Inspired by Antony Gormley

This was a picture of myself which I drew and sewed with a needle and thread. Antony Gormely inspired me to do this. I changed a few things to make it my own. I used a different material to create the effect and I made mine 2D rather than a 3D sculpture. I chose to experiment with different materials other than paints, pastels, chalk, charcoal, tissue paper etc. I hope you like it. 

Wallace & Gromit

I've loved Wallace and Gromit since I was a child so I thought I might draw them. I have no idea how to rotate this image, it uploaded this way. 

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