Jonathan Yeo

Last week for life drawing we had to create a collage of the model, I've been waiting for a program to come on sky arts - Parkinson masterclass, 2 of his guests are going to be Photographer Don McCullin and artist Jonathan Yeo.  Today i decided to look Jonathan Yeo up online to familiarize myself with his work, he has some really interesting portraits including collages, i really like these ones its quite hard to believe they are collages i think!



http://www.jonathanyeo.com/

Last weeks life drawing

We had to break down the human form in to a series of boxes and tubes, it's quite tricky at first, but then once I'd relaxed into it I found it a bit easier. As for the next picture, we started to draw and then had to move 2 spaces forward to someone else's picture and take it over! So the drawing of the guy from the back is mine and Rachel's effort! I think we made his build a bit broader than it actually is and there's not quite enough tones and definition. The last picture is on grey paper, we had to do the white highlights and then the dark tones, and definitely NO lines, now I found this really quite difficult to resist drawing lines as you can probably tell! I used oil pastels for this and I find them quite awkward! I know I just need to keep trying with them, I like using the soft pastels but the oil ones I like the rich feel to them but I just can't get use to them! I know practice practice practice!

Saturdays experiments!

Well I decided that I needed to create some kind of colour chart for the car paints that I collected. But I got a bit carried away! The pure paint that isn't diluted by thinners is quite thick and glossy. When its thinned it can go almost translucent,obviously depending on how much thinners you add, this also does change how deep the colour is too.
I got a piece of acetate as a substitute for glass to make my "colour chart" and a small primed stretched canvas to maybe experiment on! Well the experimenting tool over the creation of the colour chart!
I started poring the pure paint from the tins and just watched how they interacted with each other, quite interesting in its self! They I realised I'd actually put far to much paint on the canvas, so I thought we what will happen if I lay the piece of acetate on too it? The first picture is the result.
There was still quite a bit of paint on the canvas so out come the air gun to distribute the paint about a bit, I richter and his abstract picture where he removed some of the layers of paint to explode the layers below came to mind. When the air gun blew the paint around it uncovered the first colours applied that had already started to dry some of them did get covered again the the continually moving paint. But the dried canvas in picture 2 looks pretty effective I think and I'm definitely gonna give it another go on a larger scale and I thin the paint slightly which also speeds the drying time up a bit. I also did experiment with applying the paint to different shaped glass (a jar) for my final pieces of extending specialist techniques, more worked needed on that tho.