1. This oil painting artwork is the medium I wanted to continue work and improve on. I am inspired by the water surface, where the artist uses bright and dark colors to create the lightning and reflection. I wanted to learn this technique from the artist and apply it in my artwork. 

2. This landscape depicts different activities (boating, chatting, standing)that people are engaged with it. The face are blurred, only their gestures and genders can be identified. The artist mostly used darker colors such as black to paint the clothes of people, especially the women. This suggests that they could be higher class women. The people in this landscape creates a chilling atmosphere, where people are relaxing in this area, peacefully enjoying the beauty of nature.

3. The artist’s viewpoint while painting divided the 3 parts equally, where there is a portion of each scene. At the same time, it highlights the activities that people are entertaining.

4. The boats and the pavilion are painted dimensionally with the hard texture and rough surface clearly seen.

5. The forestry in the background is painted blurry, which suggest the strong wind that blows the trees because the trees are leaning to a same direction.

6. The nature of trees and water in this artwork reflect the lifestyles of people back in that time. The rough texture of the surface where people are standing shows how these were constructed before.

I think that if I were to use the same technique and using another medium to create a mosaic, for example, make it into 3D that would be a good route to go.

This artist used graphite, pastel, pencil, gouache, watercolor for this art. This artist is motivated by the human being, more precisely the human body and its relationship to clothing, dress, fashion and fabrics. She prefers to arrange the work in series, reminiscent of masterpieces such as Gustav Klimt or Egon Schiele. Models are dressed according to a specific theme. I want to investigate from this artist is the media of presenting the artwork, she emphasize the socks on the models legs in color, the rest of the drawing is in black and white.

Medium: photographic collage

Introduction: David Hockney decided to challenge himself with photography. The main aspect,” he said, “was the lack of time in [traditional] photographs. I had become very aware of this ‘frozen’ moment that was unreal to me. A photograph didn’t have life in the way drawing or painting did. And I realized it couldn’t because of what it is.” He was eager to break the medium's restrictions, and in 1980, he began creating his artworks, taking multiple images from different angles. The Desk is recognized as one of Hockney’s most ambitious and important joiners. Taken in 1984, the joiner depicts what at first glance appears to be a work desk, comprised of dozens of individual images that collectively imbue the desk with a deeply three-dimensional feel. By doing so, Hockney blurs the line between photography and sculpture. Similarly, the books and boxes atop the desk are portrayed from multiple angles and in different stages of being opened and utilized, infusing the image with the passage of time and movement.

Intention: Hockney emphasized his intention, where on the desk there is a book open to a page depicting Pablo Picasso’s Guitar, 1913, a superb example of Cubism. By positioning Picasso’s Guitar at the center of his own work, Hockney aligns The Desk, where he breaks conventions and further solidifies his unique contribution to the field of photographs.

Inspiration: For my second artwork, I want to make a collage that involves using different materials. I also want to use the color mood for The Desk, which is gloomy, dull, and a bit dark (but not too much). I want to do a collage that is a layer over a layer.