Marizzle's Pics: November 2010

Before I went to university, the only thing I specialised in art wise was painting. Most of these were done for my A Level and some done in my spare time. I actually miss painting now! From doing these I've found it much easier when doing work digitally

This was my first piece for the start of my A levels. It had to be a self portrait, this is mainly a picture describing my shyness.

I took the idea from my self portrait and used the idea of hiding your identity to link to my next paintings. This isn't an original. This is a copy of a painting by Jim Warren. His paintings are too good!

This portrait is about using camouflage to hide yourself aka Leopard Lady!

Painting that still links up to the previous too about hiding your identity. It's mainly about ripping off the mask and showing who you really are in a way.

This is a painting of Helen Mirren. The brief was about using another artist's style while creating a piece of artwork. For this I used Van Gogh's as an example. I did this by painting the individual brush strokes which created much more texture, especially on the skin.

After the painting of Helen Mirren I moved on to the same effect with the dabbing of the paintbrush to add texture to skin. I wanted the portrait to be slightly different, so I had the idea of these disjointed strips.