Thursday, 23 January 2014

Liam Spencer.



Spencer was born in 1964 in Burnley, United Kingdom. He attended St Theodores RC High School then after completing high school, moved on to Burnley college and also the Manchester school of art and now studies at Manchester Metropolitan University. Spencers paintings are mostly focused on Greater Manchester and North West England. He has painted other parts of the world such as New York City. A popular format of his works is 'Panoramas'.

His style is very realistic yet exaggerated, I like how he has done the reflections of the lights and buildings in the roads,  the brightness of his paintings make them stand out a lot. I like the brush strokes he has used to create the right textures for the roads and buildings.

John Virtue



John Virtue was born in the year 1947 in Accrington, United Kingdom. He specializes in monochrome landscapes. He studied at The Slade School of Fine Art from 1965 to 1969. During 1971 he moved near Haslingden and  did paintings of Landscapes for 2 years then he abandoned painting for pen and ink drawings, his work was inspired by Samuel Palmer. He worked as a postman from 1978 till 1985 to work as a full time artist, he then lived in Devon from 1988 till 2000. He see's color in work as an 'Unnecessary distraction', therefore he uses black and white. He is well known for his London paintings which were displayed in the National Gallery.

I particularly like these two examples of his work as they look quite gothic, considering their color and texture. I find it interesting how he hasn't used any sense of color. From the paintings the mood seems quite depressing yet calm.

Monday, 20 January 2014

David Farren Townscape.





Davids work stood out to me becaue of how realistic and expressive his work is, I like the way that he has done the lighting in his work, I like how the lights reflect onto the ground and create shadows.

Nathan Fowkes, Townscape.




Nathan is my favorite of the townscape artists I have chosen, I like how his work looks quite realistic but also looks animated at the same time, it reminds me of Dreamworks films which inspire me.

Wednesday, 15 January 2014

Editing the Lion king.

Using an online photo editor to edit my pictures.

Cindy Sherman


I liked this photographers work as is it very bizarre and does not really make sense, which is why I like it.

The Lion King Remake.



I used photoshop to cut out Danielle's head using the freeform select tool then I copied and pasted her head into another image and scaled it down to the right size to recreate a humorous Lion King.