Gerard Ritcher
This German artist focuses on layering, the process of making his artworks is repetitive and completely unpredictable, his technique of dragging, scrapping and re-applying is what makes his art so unique. I choose this artist because I like the long process, the unpredictability and the new perspective this gives me.
I was inspired by this artist which was then translated to my art peice bellow, The process of creating the original portrait had layers of scrapping, dripping, applying pastels. I stopped when I was happy and ready to move on to the next step (ripping and rearranging).Im absolutely happy with the results however, If I had more time I would like to enlarge the scale of my art peice. Gerhard Ritcher clearly loves to work on big canvases, I wish that I focused on that Idea as it is a challenge of mine to work bigger. I would love to focus more on the layers and layers the artist created, Through folding more, ripping and cutting more, indepth layers of pastel, I feel I could have been more intouch with this idea of reppitition.
https://www.artsper.com/de/contemporary-artworks/pintura/1141116/gerhard-richter https://brooklynrail.org/2020/05/artseen/Gerhard-Richter-Painting-After-All https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/gerhard-richter-gagosian-met-breuer-1234573226/
Joseph Lee
This Amercan Actor/ Artist is based in LA. This artist focuses on abstract portraits and is inspired by the emotions that we live by. what interesting is that he takes away the distinctive facial features and lets the audience ‘picture whats missing’, which lets us convey the emotion he’s presenting. I love the simplicity in the portraits, the fluffy colours he uses as darks, lights and shadows, and the harsh selective brush strokes he uses.
I used these Ideas to influence my art peice below, I simplified the facial features to simple shapes and let the audience interpret ‘whats missing’. Focusing on the overall picture, colour and pattern I was able to create this pastel art. If I had more time, I would focus on vibrant colours, I should have seen how far I could take it to obscure the original, simpler lines, vibrant colours (as said before), blocking out obvious facial features. Im happy where I finished but theres always more to do, Always a new idea and direction.
Source: https://www.yellowtrace.com.au/abstract-portrait-paintings-joseph-lee-los-angeles-artist/
Josh Hernandez
This artist feels naturaly drawn to charcoal, the messiness of the process is the tool that they feel conveys their thoughts, they make art to relive stress, and inspired by life experiences, songs, films etc. I love the deliberate yet also messy strokes, its an artform that I am yet to get comfortable in and looking at these peices im inspired.
This art peice is my favourite. Using these three images I am inspired by the simple shapes, expresive lines, vibrant colours, negative spaces and rearranging. I love the Ideas that flowed from this artist, I struggled with using pastels for the first time, Looking at this artist So many Ideas came to me, Im satisfied with the end result on this art work. I wish I could make more artworks with this Idea, however I didn’t have the time.
