Monday, 31 October 2011

Inspiration (photography based)

For the past few years I've found Gottfried Helnwein's work incredibly inspiring, and on this project it relates to my techniques and hopefully my outcome.

This is a link to his mixed media work on Canvas
 http://www.helnwein.com/werke/leinwand/tafel_1.html
He is one of the reasons I love to work with different materials, so combining both my painting and photography should be a challenging task.

His photography is ominous, pieces such as his Modern Sleep collection are slightly haunting : http://www.helnwein.com/werke/photo/tafel_1.html
(scroll to the bottom of the page to see the work that I've mentioned)

Helnweins drawings show his particular detail to anatomy, I have a strong interest in this also, I could happily draw skulls for hours. One of the reasons I love life drawing.
 http://www.helnwein.com/werke/papier/tafel_1.html



Some other interesting photography is that of Diane Arbus, personally I think it's the subject matter of these shots, rather than the techniques used, I like the grain on the photos.   http://diane-arbus-photography.com/

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