Pitch

Tutorial - Jamie Holman

Made a short video of my brother which I don't want to post. I showed it to Jamie and he suggested Richard Billingham.

Artists-

George Shaw

Gary Hill - Projects

Bill Viola

Sam Taylor Wood - Video

Gillian Wearing

Richard Billingham - Fish tank Documentary ( exploiting family )

I could take stills from the film and draw from them.

Pitch Presentation

Distortion

Starting point: Day at Hebden Bridge

Experimenting with exposure time for a blurred image.

Drawing over the photographs aswell as layering the imagery when drawing.

I picked these images out of several because I felt that these stood out to me with the use of colour and composition. (2) is a reflection of the bottom of a bowl. Through this experiment, it has inspired me to look along the lines of distortion and possibly illusion. I particulary like (11) because it looks like the image is running away. when I were photographing this I moved the camera slightly upwards on a slow shutter.

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Tom Phillips

Tom Phillips, The Portrait Works: NPG Book

When making portraits, Tom Phillip has no strategy. He practise's over many sittings as he is a slow worker, which gives him the opportunity to get to know his subject in depth; their personality, moods and expressions. Over many sittings the sitter will relax into a natural pose, an artificial pose can't be held for so long. 'The final image is an amalgam of many moments and states of mind'

After reading the book Tom Phillips Portraits, I found that his drawings and a few paintings are inspiring

A set of drawings commissioned by Mathew Flowers in three or so sittings

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Mathew Flowers 1985

Anna 1985

Sally East 1975
Pencil and Watercolour
28 x 20.3 cm

One of the three Oil studies of Brian Eno who was a student of Tom Phillips in the early sixties.

Brian Eno 1984/5
Oil on board
11 7/8 x 10 inch

A commissioned portrait, over about six months of Mrs Hilary Hugh-Jones. The central study re-worked several times while the smaller works around were each painted at a single sitting:

Mrs Hilary Hugh-Jones 1980

He painted one panel more than necessary.

Mrs Hilary Hugh-Jones 1980

Minsky on the Rocks 1988
Collage

33 x 29.5 cm 

 

'A Bigger Splash' at Tate Modern

Helena Almeida
Inhabited Painting
Pintura habitada
1975

3 paintings, acrylic paint on photograph on paper

I was drawn into these paintings with the illusion and the blue paint brushed over the face. It seems like her photographic self has made the marks whereas she has made the gesture over the image after the photograph was taken. 

In each picture she is posed with a paint brush in hand. A mark is brushed in over the photographic image thickly using blue paint. Completing the gesture by making a mark over image that her photographic self performed. In one of the images she has completly covered her face. She looks at the illusionary space of the photographic image and the flatness of the paint.

Tutorial - Richard Cross