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I’ve got some advice from my teacher to make the words distressed by burning which really intrigued me and I took note of this

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I went for one of the photos that had no real emotion to it just staring into the camera .it’s not a smile and not a frown

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My final piece plan was to Get inspiration from Jon Moody’s painting that he has done and an original painting of one of my photos that I have taken but in a different style with my own twist

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I didn’t really have a timetable for what my plan was overall for the whole topic I just went with what interested me at the time and how much inspiration I had at the time .

My technique was to start something and finish it to avoid leaving blank spaces throughout my book and also try different medias throughout my book.

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I’ve got heavy-handed with the ink and it made a hole in my work but I just worked around it and made the best out of it

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I had an issue with Pages bleeding on the other side but next time I would use watercolour paper or different material

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As you can see in my painting is not done yet but I just wanted to add my newspapers around it.Each and every word was individually picked by me that stood out with deep meaning.

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This video was so helpful for you because I was doing it totally wrong. There is no wrong way of doing art but this way made it look so much more better and not as harsh as it was looking before. The technique that they gave with the base colour and then add highlights over it which I was trying to just add highlights throughout which was not going well for me . So happy I came across this video👍🏽👍🏽

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Do's and Don'ts of Realistic Hair Painting: How to Paint Hair

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Doing the hair for the first time with a very hard and more so to help me I looked up tutorials on how to paint curly hair which really helped me.

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Day 7
So pleased with it so far

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Today my plan was to complete the base of the blood and other markings on the face just to allow it to dry overnight for the next day of detail.

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Progress slowly showing and the outcome of the YouTube videos was successful

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I was beginning to love oil painting

Day 4

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Wasn’t too pleased with The way it was turning out so far but bear in mind this was my first oil painting. I don’t began to look at YouTube for how to blend colours and other oil painting technique

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Are use two references to help me paint this

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I zoomed in and each part of the photo and focus on that one part

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my first main problem was sketching out on the canvas as the face proportions wasn’t right . So I went in in the next day with a fresh mind and tried again till I was happy with the outcome

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I came up with two ideas for my final piece and was decisive of which one to pick until I was ready

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This video was very helpful for me and guided me how to mix my colours and make it a perfect skin tone

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COLOR-MIXING FOR PORTRAIT PAINTING || Mixing flesh tones

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I came across an article which spoke about facial expressions and art and how us as artist can artists can have the ability to control how their audience reacts to a certain extent and How are certain facial expression can leave the audience thinking

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They say when infants (or young children) fall down, they look up to their mother or father, to see how she or he reacts. More often than not, a parent will have an anxious and frightened facial expression-"Oh no, my baby is hurt!"-which, in turn, causes the child to cry.

Yet, if the parent is cool and collected-"Oh it's just a little scratch, you're a brave kid."-then the child will stand up, and react accordingly...cool and collected.

The same rule applies to art. Although art in and of itself is subjective, we react based on the image the artist reveals to us, especially when it comes to clear and strong facial expressions.

If the artist adds a smile to a woman's face in an oil painting, it doesn't matter whether the picture is set in a dark forest or at midday brunch. The energy emitted through the smile (happy, cunning, evil, or nervous) sets the mood of the fine art oil painting.

In the same way, two people can pose for a portrait, in the same room and in the same general position, yet their faces will reveal how each subject truly feels, and that in turn influences how you will feel.

A few years back, I sketched two human figure drawings in an art class. One model was a bashful girl (probably thinking "Why did I ever agree to this?") while her male counterpart held his head up high, making sure the light reflected his strong jawline. To this day I still feel uncomfortable looking at the sketch of the girl. Her expression makes me feel as though I used her in some way...while the arrogant male sketch just makes me roll my eyes.

This concept applies to all art genres, not just when sketching living models. The Kiss by Klimt portrays a woman who is peaceful, enjoying the bliss of being loved. The Scream by Edvard Munch lures you into to a disturbing yet curious scene and prodding you to discover if he is frightened or just frightening. The Girl with a Pearl Earring by Johannes Vermeer is also known as the Dutch Mona Lisa and the oil painting captures the look of an innocent young woman, caught off guard, though other readings interpret her as a figure who is not so innocent.

Picasso's Weeping Woman exudes tension; the figure's worried, distraught look makes me nervous and I ask myself, has she just heard bad news or is she waiting to hear it? The ginger girl in Bouquet by Hanne Hoejfeldt is full of happiness. She lets out just enough of a smile to make me wonder what she is thinking, though I know it must good because the cats are smiling too!

Simply put, artists do have the ability to control how their audience reacts to a certain extent. The most direct way to accomplish this is through emphasizing facial expressions. Have you ever come across a painting that made you feel like you really understood what the figure was feeling? Leave a comment and let me know!

-Nirel

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How Artists Use Facial Expressions to Lure Us into Their Worlds

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They say when infants (or young children) fall down, they look up to their mother or father, to see how she or he reacts. More often than not, a parent will have an anxious and frightened facial expression--'Oh no, my baby is hurt!'--which, in turn, causes the child to cry.

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I did my own painting off one of Jon moodys Painting which I am personally very pleased with .

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This video goes in depth of how he gets inspired and what inspires him and what his artwork is today. He talks about how he does sports to get his brain flowing with ideas

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SCAD - The Savannah College of Art and Design

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There is a video that he did it is a short clip but has a lot of meaning to for one of his pieces that he’s made all put in less then a minute.

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I came across this artist through Instagram and Pinterest, I was instantly intrigued by his artwork and the deep meaning that he has towards it. I then did some research on him and I watched a couple of YouTube videos about his art

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I did the same thing I did on my sister is different like different Fx and also is the natural lighting

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I wanted to use a different person beside my sister and I went through my camera roll and old photos to find an old photo shoot I took in the past of my sisters friend.

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This is the outcome and I’m happy with it I wish I took more photos expression but this is still effective. I presented it in my book in a way you can see the original photo underneath and the photo placed on top separately.

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Had an idea to do a reflection photo shoot as well but instead as a normal reflection I would merge two photos together. I thought this would be a deeper meaning towards the photo as “inner hate” This is towards young teenagers that is not happy with themselves . The message the photo shown, when put together.

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I decided to make a photo shoot with my sister, I waited for the perfect time of day to do this so I get the beautiful and natural sunshine to show off her curls and her skintone.
I was happy with the turnout we just did a few wacky faces sad ,happy etc

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This was the photo I tried to reference in colour on my title page wrong decision🙂

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This was the painting I was trying to do but the original with them black and white(not finish yet)

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When I was at the exhibition I wanna video playing and it was amazing . He spoke in depth about what inspires him and how he creates his work and it was so amazing how we came up with these paintings. And have you picked random people from the street to create this beautiful Artwork .

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Kehinde Wiley. The Yellow Wallpaper- the making of the exhibition at the William Morris Gallery

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I couldn’t get over the detail in the shoes that way he made it look so really unbelievable!!!

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Seeing this artwork was really truly amazing it was one of the best exhibitions I’ve ever been, the detail that was in this painting was amazing. Coming across this painting it looked like a actual photo that’s how beautiful it was! Even my boyfriend thought it was a photo due to the detail it was amazing the way he brought the modern feel to it ,it was different.

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I decided to go visit it the following day what’s that came across the flyer. I headed down to North East London with my boyfriend to go visit this exhibition.

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I came across this exhibition which was recommended for me to visit from my teacher.

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This painting was the one that stood out the most to me as it was different.
It was painted and then had a sheet of some sort of glass with two small images covering the nipples which I found was very interesting.

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Experience in seeing this exhibition was different as it showed different mediums and different techniques which artist express their work, for example some artists worked on a canvas but allowed it to stick out of the canvas so it’s more 3D and not flat.

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This is one of the first exhibitions I personally came across that Caught my eye as I’m familiar with this artist.

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is an exhibition of new portraits by American artist Kehinde Wiley. This will be the first solo exhibition of new work shown by Wiley at a UK museum and also the first to feature exclusively female portraits. The works feature women that the artist met on the streets of Dalston and offer a visual response to American novelist Charlotte Perkins Gilman's acclaimed feminist text, The Yellow Wallpaper (1892).

' The Yellow Wallpaper is a work of literary fiction that explores the contours of femininity and insanity. This exhibition seeks to use the language of the decorative to reconcile blackness, gender, and a beautiful and terrible past.' - Kehinde Wiley

Gilman's text is a semi-autobiographical tale which sees her narrator confined to her bedroom after being diagnosed with hysteria and explores the disastrous consequences of denying women independence. In Wiley's new portraits, each woman is positioned as autonomous, as powerful, as open to individual interpretation and as an emblem of strength within a society of complicated social networks. They wholly embody myriad positions with regard to social class, status, religion, colonialism and the negotiation of gender.

For over fifteen years Wiley has sourced William Morris's iconic floral designs for his paintings. Building on his interest in the relationship between the human body and the decorative, Wiley's models are depicted in reimagined fields inspired by the William Morris oeuvre. Wiley's portraits offer a rubric through which to engage with the beautiful yet fraught histories and traditions that black women - and all women - are heir to.

This exhibition is supported by Stephen Friedman Gallery

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society for the protection of ancient buildings

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What's On | Exhibitions | Kehinde Wiley | William Morris Gallery

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is an exhibition of new portraits by American artist Kehinde Wiley. This will be the first solo exhibition of new work shown by Wiley at a UK museum and also the first to feature exclusively female portraits.

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I’ve got inspired from this technique of artwork the type of layering

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It was a painting that I did which was from an artist I saw at this exhibition but I was inspired to
Paint it different technique. The technique I use with layering usually I like to blend my colours but the layering technique wasn’t that bad

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IKWOKIRIKWO: THE DANCE OF SPIRITS Berlin Opening Day: Saturday 9 May, 12:00 - 18:00 Gerald Chukwuma's thrilling ability to capture moments of rapture reaches new heights in his meditations on the ancient Ikwokirikwo dance, at the Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery Berlin. "The Ikwokirikwo is a form of communication - culture, religion, ritual and invocation rolled into one....

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Casmin Aird-sandhu

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Level 3 year 1 Diploma Art and design:specialism in fine art

UAL

FMP Project