I was tasked with creating an A3 size poster to commemorate the 50-year anniversary of the Aberfan Disaster that took place, 21st October 1966. I wanted to create a piece that visually portrayed sadness, the loss of life and erasure of memories. Continue reading “Aberfan 1966-2016”
300ish photos from my visit to Cardiff Museum after the break to avoid loading problems… Continue reading “Cardiff Museum Visit”
I was tasked with creating a cover for my portfolio and after a little bit of thinking decided upon the idea of including as many self portraits as I could to highlight my passion for portraiture as well as painting. Seeing as I had already created a few self portraits recently, I only need to create 5 new pieces for this cover. Continue reading “Portfolio Cover Creation”
Inspired by Richter’s use of distortion within his art whether it be portraiture or abstract, I decided to paint another distortion portrait. I thought it quite strange how my first distortion portrait was so eerily similar to the effect in Richter’s “photo paintings” and this time attempted to emulate it more closely. There was an old mirror in my garden that had been there for a long time and had become very dirty and grimy and I think it created quite a cool effect for the subject photo which was taken roughly three to four years ago whilst I was sporting a Mohawk type hairstyle. Continue reading “Distortion Portrait #2”
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