Passions and obsessions evaluation. The first artist I looked at was Leonid Afremov, I found him while searching the Internet for inspiring artist and I came across a piece of art called Beautiful Cellist.

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Passions and obsessions evaluation

Who were the reference artist and how did the influence your idea?

The first artist I looked at was Leonid Afremov, I found him while searching the Internet for inspiring artist and I came across a piece of art called Beautiful Cellist. When I first saw it I loved it because of its bright I colors and because I used to play cello and I really like the instrument. I also liked the fact he used oil paint because of its thick texture, also the bright colours reminded me of pop music so I tried to make my own study of Leonid Afremov using oil paint however it took forever to dry so it didn’t come out to well. After looking at Afremov I decided to base my project on music so I started looking at ears and exploring how I could use them in my final piece, also using the shape of the ear and turning it into a guitar/cello. Then my mum told me to look at an artist called Andy Warhol who focuses on pop art. I liked Andy Warhol because of his bright colours and it looked unique to other artist I was looking at. It also was modern and I like the effect of the repeated images yet different colours had. I decided to study Andy Warhol and bring him into my idea of ‘ears’. So I had done a few ears using bright colours and repeating them in different ways. I liked this idea a lot so used Andy Warhol in my final piece.  

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What material did you experiment with and what materials did you prefer and why?

I used a Varity of different material; Acrylic paint, oil paint, pencils, shading pencils, glitter, watercolors, felt tips, ink and pastels. The first piece of art I done was a study of my ipod and headphones. I used acrylic paint and then went round the items in felt tips then to add effect I purple and pink splattered ink over it. I liked using the ink because it was fun using it since I haven’t used it in that way before and it also looked ...

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