Twiggy portrait evaluation

The good point of my portrait is that I have used tone really well to bring out certain features such as the make up,the jaw line also the patterns on the jumper. Everything is in the right proportion and the sizes match each other like the eyes and the nose size. I have used the grid method well meaning that my picture has come together well and all the lines and dips are in the right place. The outlines of the face meet in the neck and the jumper meet in line. The eyes are also level following the lines. An improvement is about my toning on the face the lines of the tone show so I will need to blend it in to make it look like the shading has gone in one direction. I need to use more tone around the nose as it look flat and there is a higher structure to her nose. To do this I will do harder shading to make the nose look 3-D. On a whole I am happy about the way the 'Twiggy Portrait' has turned out well.

Paper Monster

Paper Monster is a 23 year old stencil graffiti artist born in Puerto Rico. His paintings are based on ordinary woman about capturing the eyes and facial expressions of them. Within his artwork he incorporates stencil and pasting techniques to make pieces of art on any surface using pop culture icons, pattern and texture. Monster's work has featured in magazines and exhibitions throughout the world including: Melbourne Stencil Festival in 2008 as well as the Stolen Space Gallery. His work has taken prime since the last year. He was mentored by Parisian artist Blek Le Rat. Every painting  has a story to tell and conveys an emotion within it. The feelings could be: shock, fear, wonder even horror. He had no sustained themes to his work as it can have different colours emotions and lettering can vary in size and font. The paintings are environmental inspired. The women are from the Middle- East, USA and Europe and it shows the expression behind them. The name paper monster comes from the amount of paper that is piling up in his studio and this is apart of the process. Papers can be: newspapers, books, magazines also comics. The whole journey started out in 2005 on his research visit to France, Paris where he was comparing the streets of Paris and London where he met his mentor and spent the day with his family. 

My opinions on his work are that they are colourful and vibrant and tell quite a good story. The process of his work is amazing a brings out the emotions of characters, the collages are well put together and create the most eye-catching picture.

This is an advertising poster for a Mia Concert that was produced on early 2009. This is an example of pop art because it follows the themes and guidelines of what pop art should: of an icon (Mia -singer), block bright colour, black out line and it uses the black dots within the background. This poster includes words and its as if its in the form of a comic strip so it is linked to pop art because a lot of the pop art includes comic strips, overall it takes the general form of pop art. The poster is great and extremely eye-catching.

My take on Pop Art is an art movement that was produced post war time in the 50's that produces bright and colourful images of famous icons of time such as Marilyn Monroe. The movement behind it was that the time period was depressing after war and people wanted to express themselves so they create a colourful type of art to create a better mood to express their take on things. The main artist behind Pop Art are: David Hockney, Richard Hamilton, Roy Lichtenstein and Tom Wesselman and Andy Warhol all in the 20th century with some until present. Andy Warhol famously created the most iconic piece of this art movement which is of famous 50's star Marilyn Monroe. The main movement started with Britain in the early 1950's and the mid-late 1950's in the US. Time periods Pop Art was popular were the 1950-1970's and some still even to this day. My opinion on Pop Art is that its extremely bold and puts you in a good mood with all of the bright block colours which are used within it. It makes a change from having a normal portrait, Pop art gives a more vibrant feel and makes it good for posters and art to frame. It is also very skilled so the attention to detail that is used makes the painting stand out even more than normal.

 Marilyn Monroe
Audrey Hepburn
Michael Jackson