These animated gifs are created by an artist called Sachin Teng. I chose her work because I really like how she illustrates and turns her work into a moving animation – it gives more life to the piece.
The colour palette that she works with is very pleasing to the eye. In addition, the composition of items in her piece makes it more interesting to watch. I also chose this because the digital illustration part of the gifs is something that interests me.
A narrative is defined as ‘a story or account of events, experiences, or the like, whether true or fictitious.’
This narrative photograph set is showing time passing, going back in time to when we were created (like in the bible).
This advert is conveying the message of an eating disorder/anorexia. As seen in the picture the girl is dangerously malnourished, but sees herself as much bigger than she actually is. Thus, making it an advert giving us awareness of what these people deal with/how dangerous the situation is.
I think the message this advert is trying to convey is how dangerous smoking is and could cause death. In addition, the empty patch of ground that has text ‘no smoking area’ connotes that the non-smokers are better off.
In the way this picture is set up, it looks more of a comedic advertisement/photograph, as it shows the man knocking the bottle, with his shirt (ironically) looking in shock as it falls.
I think the story is about the man digging his own grave, maybe symbolising that life meaningless as he stayed in the same spot. In addition, we are responsible for our own lives and what we do so, we can only blame ourselves in the end.
1. Establishing scene shot
2. Detail image
3. Portraits
4. Action image
This picture looks like it shows someone hurting themselves eternally to take the pain of thinking of someone internally, elsewhere.
Megan Trueblood is a Utah based artist who works with oils to paint her subjects. Her work is very fine and detailed, with a quite toned-down palette, using colours that are of reality. Most of her works are primarily just of one subject matter (for example – just one apple), or sometimes she paints with arrangements. Trueblood consistently paints still life subjects from sweets, to fruits, to flowers.
Dennis Perrin always paints from life and likes to paint with a light source. He continues to study how light works in subtlety within his paintings and subjects and the ‘Perrin style’ is a combination of his brushwork and a design known as ‘Painterly Realism’. Perrin also works with oil paints, primarily painting subjects such as the human figure, still life interior design etc.
Gloucestershire born artist, Sophie Ryder, creates bronze and wire sculptures. Her subject matter is one of a fantastical and realistic realm, as she creates sculptures using animal and human features together. Her most famous creations are her human body and hare head sculptures and most of her sculptures are made with different gestures and poses – for different emotion.
Ryder likes when she can move around the sculpture and immerse herself in her work. So, with this, her works are of a large scale and most are done in a public space, as she likes to have a lot of space to work.
Johnson Tsang is a Hong Kong born artist, who works ceramic sculptures. His works are mostly realist techniques, including surrealist imagination. Starting in 2002, Tsang decided to represent splashes in his ceramic works, later deciding to work with porcelain and stainless steel too.
Tsang’s ceramic works look very unique as he uses sometimes two faces and various human features to pull together and create different emotion. The ‘paint’ drips and splashes add to his work and give it movement. Tsang mainly creates the ceramic figure just from the neck up but, sometimes he makes some that are full body (baby-like figures).
Alice Kettle is a contemporary textile/fibre artist based in the UK. The scale of her work solely depends her tiny stitches and which of them combine to form different colours, also her colourful backgrounds – including rich hues and a metallic like sheen.
Kettle studied fine arts for her degree and then went on to study Textiles in London. She mainly works on figurative pieces and her works are a response to the world, to life and particular aspirations. To create her pieces, she uses different types of thicknesses, materials and types, to be stitched into cloth.
Her work seems to be textured and stitched over many times to achieve the texture/thicker lines, her subjects seem to be quite abstract in nature. You can clearly see that she uses various materials/cloths to stitch into, to bring in colour to her work.
Born Marcos Namba Beccari, in Sao Paulo (December 26th, 1987), Beccari is a watercolour painter and philosopher. He graduated from the Federal University of Parana in graphic design.
On each piece, Beccari spends roughly 4-6 hours on each piece. In addition, using his own, or others’, picture references.
Beccari prefers to paint the human figure, and is mostly inspired by movies for drawings and paintings. Recently, Beccari is focusing on subjects submerged in water because he finds it a ‘beautiful situation’.
I like that he paints with a strong light source on his subject (intentional or not), highlighting where the viewer focuses.
Monika Luniak is a German artist and has been painting since she can remember. Luniak attended art schools in Europe and developed and matured her art style over the years; including her technique, expression and how she conveys emotion through her work.
Luniak creates different emotion in her work by using various colours and tones, brush strokes and how the model is composed. Some of her pieces have slight movement within them from her brush strokes or hair and garments of the subject.
I like her work because of her subjects (positions, location etc.) and how she paints them. Also, how she expresses emotion/feeling through her pieces.
Malcolm T. Liepke was born October 31st, 1953, in Minnesota. He studied at the Art Center College of Design, but dropped out after a year and a half. He moved to New York and studied on his own on artists such as John Sargent, Edgar Degas, Edouard Vuillard and many more – to help his practice.
Before turning to fine art in the mid-1980s, Liepke worked as an illustrator.
If returning to a painting, Liepke lays a glaze of linseed oil, poppyseed oil and clove oil over the colour. He refers to this process as ‘wet-in-wet’ and builds on flesh tones anf refines the face and hands. Working on a wet canvas is critical to Liepke’s portraiture, alike John Sargent.
I like Liepke’s work because he creates different moods and emotions with his brush technique and colour. In addition, people connect to his art by the way he conveys the paintings.
Jasmine Thwaites 