If this is really Assignment 3 then I’ve figured something out just in time – which is that acrylics are a rubbish medium for this task. I dug out some old tubes of watercolour and gouache paints; neither is a … Continue reading Assignment 3 – three monotype portraits
The course notes say to look at how these artists arrange their series’ of portraits before making an arrangement of my own monoprint portraits. Yuko Nasu https://www.saatchiart.com/yukonasu. I really don’t know what to make of these pieces of work. There … Continue reading Research 2 – monotype portraits
Somebody remind me of this for when portraiture comes around in this module. I’m a child of the flower-power generation, a hippy, a 1960s Brighton art student who somehow ended up in science. Butler’s colours sing from that palette but they’re singing a very modern tune, setting right some cultural wrongs by depicting black men and women with a dignity they were never quite accorded at that time and which our white world still struggles with. Butler trained as a painter and describes herself as a portrait artist, but uses the medium of fabric and thread to make her art. … Continue reading Bisa Butler – portrait artist in quilts
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