Brett Amory and his 24 Hour Art

So a little while ago I visited a small gallery just off Oxford street called Lazarides.

And it's address is 

11 Rathbone Place

London

England

W1T

United Kingdom

Brett Amory is an American contemporary artist who decided to visit 24 locations in London over 24 hours, a different location for each hour. He has done this over New York and California as well.

The paintings are meant to be 'slow motion' stylised, showing his view of what beauty and art is

In every piece he collected items and souvenirs from each location and put them in a box or on the floor below the piece 

Here are a few pictures I took when I was there: 

Coursework Finals

So for my coursework final my theme was abstract versus realism so I decided to use a number of techniques to achieve this

My main running theme was mood colour produced, so though choosing abstract colourings of faces I painted in different styles here were just a few: 

This one is based on Picasso's 'Blue Nude'

Then I tried a similar mood/colour approach in a different medium: watercolour but instead of a single face I chose 3 moods and painted it as a triptych 

Then for my final piece I decided to continue with this idea of a 3, but painted 3 A1 oil paintings of happy, angry and pensive keeping strong colour themes throughout each face: 

Happy-

Angry-

Pensive-

And as a final three combined-

Crying Because of Art

Now to do this properly:

A while ago I did a large selection of watercolour lips pressed up against glass. (Don't ask)

So here's my two favourites in black and white!

Watercolour has got to be one of my favourite mediums ever, apart from oils but they both work fabulously for different things. Anyway these 'lips' were inspired by a gorgeous artist called Marion Bolognesi, if you've never seen her work then just sit tight because it will be on this blog post once I've finished writing and I can go get pictures.

So, Bolognesi- 

I find her work so pretty, and that 'pretty' is the only true way to describe it. Especially as its normally in pinks and blues and golds. I used her as an inspiration for my final pieces in Lower 6 coursework, here is a little bit, I dont actually have that many pictures from it but these are the ones I have:

Few bits leading up to the Final:

FINAL: