Antoni Llena
Antoni Llena is a Spanish artist who began his career in mid 1960s. Llena started his work SOS Smoke Signals from the Underground in 2005 and it is a series of drawings that he lays out by month and year. In the work, he used gestural and fluid movements, we can see his every move with his tool, his coloured pencil or pastel, as well as the smudging done by presumably moving the pigment with his finger.
I really enjoy this abstracted way of drawing and the fluidity of movement and is something that I would like to try out as well as the abstract images he creates.
Elizabeth Peyton
Elizabeth Peyton is an American contemporary artist who works primarily in drawing and paintings. In Peyton’s work, she uses draws figures with soft, delicate line works and for her paintings, uses washes of colours- she does not try to create a naturalistic portrait, she has said that “A painting of a person can be descriptive, but for me it’s all about the things the make up a picture- the feelings, the brushstrokes- more than describing somebody.”
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I really enjoy her washes of water colour and simplistic pencil lines to create a drawing. She does not overwork her lines and lets bold strokes of colours tell the story and not try to be too representative- I want to try this is my own works.
Bibliography
ArtNet, “Elizabeth Peyton.” (Accessed September 9, 2021)
http://www.artnet.com/artists/elizabeth-peyton/
MoMa, Antonie Llena, (Accesses September 9, 2021)
https://www.moma.org/artists/67458?=undefined&page=3&direction=fwd