21st century Portrait Artists - Francoise Nielly

I came across this artist called Francoise Nielly from France. I think her work is beautifully depicted and Ive found myself really captivated with her artwork. I wanna take her idea of large colourful brush strokes and bring it into my own portraiture to paint the mood in the picture.
But Francoise Nielly's work is really mind blowing so check out her work

http://www.francoise-nielly.com/

Research info on self portraits

I came across this website filled with information on self portraits and its history, i came across a couple artists I've never heard of before and there is alot of insight into the physiological theory behind portraits.

http://userpages.umbc.edu/~ivy/selfportrait/intro.html

Since the fifteenth century and the advent of the mirror artists have modeled for themselves in their own works of art. Whether it is an in-depth exploration of the artist’s own psyche or simply because as a model, the artist is clearly the cheapest and most available. Whatever the reason, nearly every artist, in every medium from painters to sculptors have attempted this exploration of self.


Jean Fouquet. Self-Portrait, 1450.

My first life drawing class was very informative in the aspect of drawing techniques, and how to structure the body in proportion. it was my first life drawing experience ever but i thought over the course of the lesson i got used to drawing and freely making marks on the page without rubbing out lines.


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First Maya experience - Pair of dice

At first I was really anxious about learning maya, I've had the software for quite sometime but this was the first time I've ever used it. The initial outlook on the software to me seemed very intimidating as there where so many buttons. But alan broke down a step by step guide on how to build the this dice. After finishing this tutorial i can see my views on the software where premature and with time ill be able to build more impressive 3d images. But i feel this was a good start.

Inspiring artists - Frida Kahlo

With looking over Frida Kahlo's self portraits i have become enchanted with her metaphorical way of recreating her anguish and pain into her paintings, and how she pushed the barriers of people's adaptation of her life.

This painting The Broken Column, done in 1944, has always been one of my favorites as it depicts her pain harnessed and poured onto canvas how she felt after her car accident that left her with irreparable spinal injuries. The Column itself, which is broken, shows one of the sources of her pain, the nails in her body tries to explain to the viewers the unbearable pain she was enduring, along with the tears in Frida's eyes.

I wanna be able to show my own life through my artwork with such clarity and honesty

Inspiring artists - Rembrant

Whilst looking for initial guidelines on how self-portraiture is depicted i came across this picture that Rembrandt painted of himself. Rembrandt - Self-Portrait at Twenty Two

As the picture was just a technical exercise of lighting and not an actual depiction of him, i still cant help but be drawn towards how the image feels. An how you can portray monumental components of your character. It could be as simple as the structure of ones face, to the position you place yourself in a portrait. Even taking out key facial features can speak on how your mindset and emotions are at that time and shown through portraiture . This is something i need to look further into and try recreate a meaningful expression through my own artwork.

1st Assignment- Unit 1 - ANATOMY - RCGA1002

My first impressions of the brief was that it was rather intimate as it was on self-portraits and identity. It took me a while to get to grips with working on my own image and identity as it meant me digging deep into my own character and to project how i would like to portray myself but still stay honest to the essence of my own personality.