Oil Paint

 

Experimenting with oil paint:

  Taking inspiration from one of my chosen artists pieces (Cy Twombly- Proteus) I decided to use oil paint in order to recreate the marks and the texture used found in the painting.

Before doing these I experimented by using a brush in order to get the colour close to the one I was studying, after finding the colour I moved on to try and recreate the marks. To do this I used a palette knife instead of brush.

                         

My first experiment using this way I focused solely on trying to copy my artists piece. However after this I moved on trying to mix and create other colours using various different tools to make different affects.

Then after doing this I used the same techniques but took studies off of objects such as flowers. In my opinion these did not work as well as I was trying to create particular marks

Chosen Artists

 


Gerhard Richter:



The first artist I've chosen is Gerhard Richter, I have chosen him because I particularly like the style in which he works and would like to try and experiment with this within my own work.

 A few pieces of his work link my personal theme natural forms which is also why I was drawn to him in particular. 

First image- (Firenze) Oil on photograph (2000)

Second image-Ohne Titel, Oil on photograph (1989)

Third image-Ohne Titel, Oil on photograph (2005)

https://www.pinterest.com/davejbird/gerhard-richter/

Cy Twombly:

The second artist I have chosen is Cy Twombly, I chose him because I find his style of work interesting and would again like to experiment using this.
A few pieces of his work link to my theme natural forms also.


First image& second image: Proteus (1984) mixed media on paper
Third image: Hero & Leandro (1984) mixed media on canvas