As well as his paint quality, it's contemporary artist George Shaw's thought process that influences me. His paintings are all based on a two mile radius from his childhood home in Coventry, with the content being of buildings that he has rather fond memories of or strong connections to. The majority of his paintings are made up of mainly browns and greens - very earth-like colours. The one above however, slightly different from his usual work, has obvious similarities with one of the many photographs I took myself.
This acrylic and biro combination was created for the earlier project, 'Grids, Layers and Reflections'. After Richard had a look through my work in that project and my sketchbook for this one, he noticed the similarities instantly. Although it needs quite a lot of work, I think this is a great example of developing work from artist research. The painting has been made up of similar colours and the blocks of colour seen in Shaw's painting and mine are both easily visible so I think I achieved my goal for this particular piece, with the option of working back into it to make improvements.
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