Fine Art Foundation Degree

 THE FINAL OUTCOME Before starting my final piece, I wanted to create more work inspired by Yofukuro mixed with Jimmy Monsoon as both artists focus on body and face distortions.  Joey Monsoon: Joey Monsoons work has an uncomfortable feeling to it due to the way he extends, enlarges, shrinks & shortens different aspects of the faces he paints. The long necks & small chins are a strong feature in his pieces, along with the very straight & jagged lines he uses. He makes the people look doll like, a bit like bobble heads. He defines and exaggerates key features of peoples faces & bodies, such as collar bones & eye bags which works really well to create discomfort in the viewer. The expressions of the people are quite emotionless, which is similar to all the drawings I have created so far in this project. They all look curious or slightly empty, almost like they're disconnected from reality, in an idle state.   Yofukuro: Yofukuros work varies a lot in ...

 FACE DISTORTIONS Original Sketch: Continuing with my focus on face distortions, I wanted to replicate my original lino print of the two faces connected in a more realistic way. I used the image below for reference as at the time I had no one to take pictures of. I drew one face then when I was happy with it, I traced it onto the other side so they matched up how I wanted them to to keep the faces the same like in the original. The piece was done in biro & watercolour. This time, as the faces were facing away from each other I decided to only connect the eyes & have some sort of connection between the mouths. I decided I would give them a wave effect to distort this idea even more, which ended up giving the piece a sort of sci-fi look. I think this look also came about because of the blue watercolour I added to the piece. The background has a space/galaxy effect to it which I really like the look of. I think this added to the piece well & brought it all together. It pus...

 LINO PRINTING Lino 1: This was my first time ever trying lino printing. My original idea was to play with this style of face which I would normally draw as doodles rather than an actual art piece, but I thought it would be interesting to try with lino due to the bold colours & little detail in the drawing. I began by testing the lino on some thin white paper at first, then switched to brown paper so I could see the outcome when printing onto different textures & colours. The Outcomes: I think the brown paper pieces came out stronger than the white paper pieces as the colour came out a lot smoother on the brown. The red on the white paper ended up having line imprints which I figured was because I used too much ink, so for the next few I made sure I used less ink & rolled it out more evenly across the lino. All the pieces have small creases on the paper too from putting the lino through the rolling machine which could be prevented if I had made sure to lay the foam blan...