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Artist Research: Damien Hirst

Damien Hirst is a British artist who makes sculptures, paintings and installations worldwide. I'm interested in his series of large scale sculptures of pipe cleaner animals. Almost everyone is familiar with pipe cleaners and making things out of them as children. Hirst creates these impressive sculptures based off of pipe cleaner figures made by his staff and friends' children which contributes to the sense of childhood and innocence. They are not perfect as children are not professional artists. The googly eyes just make the pieces fun and not too thought provoking.

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Artist Research: Jeff Koons

Jeff Koons is an American artist known for his work with pop culture and his sculptures. He has a collection of work in which he recreates inflatable pool toys however he creates them out of stainless steel even though they look elastic. This series features lobster toys, dogs, dolphins and monkeys. It is almost like an optical illusion seeing these sculptures as they look fragile and inflatable when they are actually solid metal manipulated.

This work relates to my project as I'm looking at childhood toys in similar way. Koons uses simple pool toys which evoke a feeling of nostalgia, playing outside in the swimming pool as a child.

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Artist Research: Grayson Perry

Grayson Perry is a British artist who has many works inspired from his childhood teddy- Alan Measles, named after when he had measles as a child. Perry has stated that Mr. Measles is one of the most important things in his life and so, he uses him in his artworks.

I like his idea of integrating his teddy bear into various works with different mediums such as paint, ceramics and sculpture. Alan Measles was an important part of his childhood and helped him through bad times, Perry uses the teddy in his art as a way of repaying the bear for his service.

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Here are images of a couple of drawings and paintings I did of toys that I remember when I was younger

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PowerPoint presentation on painter Eric Fischl

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Artist research: Richard Patterson

Richard Patterson is an English painter. Some of hos paintings feature toys or his image of toys. He abstracts the figure of the toy with colour and brushstrokes to a point where it doesn't really look like a toy anymore.

My work relates to his as I am also looking at toys. I think I will take inspiration from his work and look at how I can manipulate and transform the image of a children's toy.

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On Monday I did some life drawing with the live model. For this session we could use any medium we wanted. I used charcoal, chalk pastel and black ink. Some drawings have more shading whereas others are more black line as I ran out of time to start shading.

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I painted this toy dinosaur as I used to be big into dinosaurs when I was younger and I noticed in a couple of old photos I was either playing with these kinds of toys or they were in the background.

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This week I did two palette knife paintings, one with 2 complimentary colours and one with warm and cold colours. I found the palette knife hard to use and difficult to apply the paint onto the page which makes the paintings look messy.

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This week I did life painting with a live model in a lying down position. I was positioned toward his feet so I had to try foreshorten his body in his lying pose.

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I did these smaller drawings with charcoal and ink, based off of photographs taken when I was younger.

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For the project based off of self portraits and what makes you you, I chose to focus on old family photos and photo albums. I find it special how with physical photos there's only one chance to take the picture and there's only one copy which unlike nowadays with phones there's endless copies of photos. I chose some photographs I had of me when I was younger and recreated them with ink on a larger scale.

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This week I did life drawing with a live model in a variety of poses. I used willow and compressed charcoal. Some of these drawings have more detail than others, while some focus more and shadow and gesture.

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On Tuesday in painting we made palette knife self portrait paintings. It started with quick preliminary thumbnail sketches of my face from different views while looking into a mirror and through a viewfinder. Some of the sketches had the whole face, while some had only a portion from a distance.

I found the palette knife very challenging to use as I've never used it to paint before. It was only tones painted, no colours but I found it hard to do the face and had to scrape off the paint and start again 2 or 3 times.

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Painting

On Monday I started the painting discipline with life painting with Sylvia. The exercise we did painting the life model was similar to the life painting workshop I did earlier in the year. I had to mix three tones- dark, medium and light.

The model was posed sitting down with a light illuminating him from the bottom right which casted a harsh shadow of his silhouette in the wall. Sylvia explained well how you need dark colours next to the lighter and illuminating colours to makes the bright colours stand out, such as the light source and the bright contours on the model's body.

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Artist Research: Craig Williams

Craig Williams is an Australian artist who focuses on bird and other wildlife. He began creating scientific illustrations for educational purposes of different animals and creatures. What I enjoy about his work is his paintings of birds on vintage educational pages of information regarding the bird in the painting he also includes maps of the area or country the bird is native or found in. I think it's a unique way of creating art rather than just drawing birds on a blank canvas.

This artist relates to my project as I created a couple of paintings of birds, however I would like to incorporate something to my paintings like how this artist adds the book pages to his paintings.