[Inspiration]For my inspiration, I wanted to have a piece of this artwork to be something that would be distorted and where the figure would not be recognizable. The first artist that I was inspired by Malcolm K. Liepke.
To find his subjects, Liepke simply looks at the people around him. He takes photos or makes drawings of the ideas that strike him and then pins them to a large wall in his studio.Occasionally he hires a model to pose but tends to rely on his photos to save the time and expense of posing. He turns to his imagination for the interiors, explaining, “I want to be free to do what I want.” When returning to a painting, Liepke first lays a glaze of roughly equal parts of linseed oil, clove oil and poppyseed oil over the color block-in. This process, which he refers to as “oiling up,” allows him to work wet-in-wet. (He uses the mediums throughout the painting process to slow the paint’s drying time.) Typically he builds the flesh tones and refines the face and hands. If he, again, feels inhibited in trying to finish the painting, he sets it aside and turns to another using the same process of “oiling up.” As Liepke’s work has matured, his palette has shifted from darker values to a bolder and more diverse selection of colors. One explanation is simply that he moved to a brighter studio, but the artist also wanted to prevent himself from becoming formulaic so he modified his color selection accordingly. With Byungkwan |
[Similarities]From what I see in my final product, I really cannot see that many similarities between my piece and my inspiration.
- the figure on the right is blended just like in both paintings I used in my inspiration - there is some distortion used in this painting. |
[Differences]- monochromatic color scheme (pink)
- a face or a figure cannot be clearly seen in the mirror - the figure on the left is completely distorted and (as stated before), a facec or figure can hardly be seen. |