artist inspired

The inspiration for this project was the art history unit we are doing, specifically the baroque movement and Georges Seurat. I took the bright colours that Georges Seurat used as opposed to my usual greyscale work, but I used elements of baroque as well when I changed the colours to be darker, more muted. I also used a lot of diagonal lines. The shape is not as accurate to reality unlike most of what I draw, and it was actually more of a challenge for me to not make it perfectly accurate but I am happy with how it turned out despite struggling so much with the intentional inaccuracy.

I thought black paper would make the baroque element easier which it did, and the oil pastels were a good tool for it since they show up well on dark paper as well. Plus blending the is easy so I could darken the colours without seeing all of the lines used to do so. That is the same thing I like about charcoal just with oil pastels there are more colours.

I didn't really do much layout planning for this in the way I normally would have. Had I been drawing with my usual charcoal I would have done a basic outline sketch of the image with key areas highlighted so I knew where I wanted to put down material, and then I would have worked from one corner down and through the rest. This was much different for me and again more of a struggle because I love to plan things out and be more precise and accurate with how they look. With this one I just started making the general lines I knew were there and filling in pretty randomly as I went, sticking much more loosely to the exact image than normal. I blended the places that I felt needed it and changed some colours slightly. If I were to keep working on this I would probably mess it up honestly but I might redraw this image in my normal style.