Honours Workshop Diary 4 – Artist Inspiration Part 1

Meeting Agenda

Search for artists with appealing styles to me. The idea is that this search will trigger my own search for an aesthetic style by indicating attributes and artistic features. By combining different features and aspects I will gain my individual and original artistic expression. 

Progress Report

I subdivided the artists into to main categories. The digital artists and the traditional artists. There is a short description to each artist describing what makes the artwork stand out for me.


Inspirational Traditional Artists


Rembrandt
Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn was a Dutch painter and etcher. He is generally considered one of the greatest painters and printmakers in European art history and the most important in Dutch history. Wikipedia

• Great storytelling ability through his paintings
• Immense detail on facial features and expressions
• later on strong experimentation with brush strokes and colour thickness to fit the topic, object or emotions of the painting

Rembrandt is also the first artist to abolish the difference between a sketch and a painting.

A Woman Bathing in a Stream

Brush Strokes: The skin tones are painted liquidly and the low neckline and high skirt line are painted very thick.

While Rembrandt's paintings get darker, the Dutch mood is getting brighter do to times of peace with Spain. 

I also watched the episode on Rembrandt of the "Power of Art" series by Simon Schama. The episode explains Rembrandt's thought process and life struggle very well. It is a touching story and very interestingly filmed. Therefore I scanned in two pages documenting the story. 

Pino Daeni
Pino Daeni was an Italian Impressionist book illustrator and artist. He is known for his unique style of feminine, romantic women and strong men painted with his loose but accurate brushwork.


The way he uses loose brush strokes so accurately is stunning. I enjoy how his foreground dissolves into its environment through these carefully spaced brush strokes.

Additionally the bright colours and detailed lighting effects create depth in his paintings and add a surrealistic touch. 

I especially like this last painting with it's bright red colours and very loose style on the right side, yet very detailed facial and body features.

Michelangelo

Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni, commonly known as Michelangelo, was an Italian Renaissance sculptor, painter, architect, poet, and engineer who exerted an unparalleled influence on the development of Western art.

I want to showcase some of his observational anatomy studies that are very impressive. One can never stop improving craftsmanship skills and Michelangelo is a great inspiration in that respect.

If he is unsure how to draw something he will practices the position and perspective of the object/body until it is correct and first then did he go on to his paintings to apply his gained knowledge.

The next Honours Workshop Diary Report will contain some inspirational digital artists. (Diary 5)