More photographs of Alexa Meade exploration.

Paint on face- Exploring the work of Alexa Meade.

As part of my recent book work, I investigated the work of an artist called Alexa Meade, who

paints portraits on the faces of real people, then photographs them to look like paintings. I tried to immitate this process on my own face. Enjoy.

Stencil design from previous Arnulf Rainer Gimps.

This is the final design I will use at school to try and create some stencils and maybe a printing block to accompany my Arnulf Rainer investigation.

Photoshop texture basis for upcoming Arnulf Rainer painting.

This is a photoshop project I created exploring how to combine the texture of clay to my facial features. I molded a small face out of clay, then took photographs and layered them onto a photograph of my face, using different effects to modify colors and opacity. I now intend to use these photographs to further my research into the works of Arnulf Rainer. My objective is to combine my style and Rainers style, layered with different organic textural elements, to create a collage based self portrait, which will be a component of my upcoming studio project.

Hvass&Hannibal

These artists are simply amazing. Their approach to geometrical surrealism, particularly when creating landscapes, is very similar to my approach. I will be looking at them closely in my future book work, but for now...ENJOY!

Arnulf Rainer

This is a book page I created with the intent of exploring Arnulf Rainer's work. Rainer experiments painting and layering different media predominantly on black and white photographs. I layered acrylics, spray paint, photographs, and bus tickets to create this composition. Enjoy.

Jacques Louis David

In my new studio project I want there to be a visually strong element of painting. I was looking for this element to be an acrylic study of the male form. I deferred from using a figure from Ragnar Kjartanssons work, seeing as the poses in his work are intentionally nonchalant, overly so. I thus decided to look back to the great classical artists who are famous for there explorations into the human form. I started looking at Caravaggio- but was soon put off by his cliche status in the IB spectrum- at this point I looked at Jacques Louis David, a neoclassical painter who returned to the great classical beauty in art by imitating and exploring the style of Caravaggio. He did a series of full-length male nude and semi-nude studies, using the dramatic features typical of Caravaggio's art. Here is a sketch of one of these studies.