Illustration Friday

Cultivate

Illustration Friday

Stir

Make the picture make sense of the objects
Try make it look less sketchy

Illustration Friday

Warning

Improvements:

Try using different media to colour the illustration

Complete a digital version to make it more 3D

Put a full background on the picture so the character is not floating 

A parallel world to where Bears act as humans, and Humans act as bears. A warning sign is displayed to show the danger of humans in the area.

Illustration Friday

Swarm

3 improvements:
Add different colour to the big ant shape
Order the inner ants into a uniformed swarm
Make the shape of ants symmetrical

An Analytical Review of Francis Bacon

“What I love most in the end, is simply being conscious. And all I ask of life these days is a body that will get me from place to place, and a mind that works.” These words have been quoted from the very dramatically expressive British artist, Francis Bacon in which he talks about how he feels himself and what state of mind he takes on when he studies his subjects of his paintings. Bacon has a creative past and started painting in his early twenty’s. His infamous reputation of paintings came along when he produced the triptych - Three Studies for Figures at the Base of a Crucifixion. Since his death at the age of 83, the escalation of his popularity is still growing and his work is becoming more and more recognisable.

            Before the time of when Bacon’s resolute art career began, he started with drawing and using watercolour. Later on in life around 1929, he began to use oils and exhibited furniture, rugs and a few of his paintings in the studio he owned. The use of oil paints is best demonstrated in Bacon’s painting, “Study after Velazquez's Portrait of Pope Innocent X 1953” where a select few colours have been used with different shades to create the image he intended with where light is reflected and realistic features of lighting, shape and colour is applied. Generally, all his early work from the 40’s til the early 70’s demonstrate much more depth and technique in the subjects painted and the expressive emotion that is displayed. Mostly from the late 70’s onwards, mutual colours with fewer tones/shades were used and his art carried out more of a surrealist and perhaps abstract theme to his work.

            With the theme of his work, it is said that Bacon did not draw his work before he painted, but apparent recent revealing’s have been shown, and are some drawings he had done beforehand and are linked to his paintings. On his work, the techniques he used to create them, are indicated through the pressure he applies on the canvas with the equipment he used to put the oils on with and the various thickness of oils/boldness of colour he requires to complete the different sections of his subjects and surroundings. The textures of his art are very subtle, but the tones in comparison are very harsh and make up for the little texture executed on the canvas.

            The work of Bacon as a whole can be seen as “brutal, haunting and grotesque portraits of man and beast” but all opinions derive from the path of surrealism he had chosen to create his paintings. The majority of people that have viewed his work state the denotations of what’s there but not many people can see the beauty of the connotation behind it all in what he had studied to influence his work. The techniques he uses compliments his nature of theme in the stylised creations of his, and has also chosen his media well to display the genre of art.

Bibliography

Michael Peppiatt, Francis Bacon in the 1950’s, 2006, Robert and Lisa Sainsbury Charitable Trust, Norwich

Michael Peppiatt, Anatomy of Enigma, 2009, Skyhorse publishers, -

Wilfried Seipel, Barbara Steffen, Christoph Vitali, Francis Bacon and the Tradition of Art, 2003, Skira, Michigan

Website References

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Bacon_(artist)

http://www.artquotes.net/masters/bacon_paintings.htm

http://www.leninimports.com/francis_bacon_bio.html