Ink Drawings Archive: Finished Paintings

 Newsprint paper cut in half = One painting

Ink, Water, and Glue 

For this Project I decided that I wanted to play into the idolizations of celebrities, including both actors and singers. We have a tendency to put these people on a pedestal as if they are these untouchable gods that are on a whole other level. However the truth is they are humans just like the rest of us that make mistakes, and are no where near perfect. To play on this I decided to use pictures taken on the red carpet as the muse for my first archive (when a celebrity is meant to be looking their best and most beautiful/fancy) and then contrast these images with my second archive consisting of shiny objects - which is what we often treat and look at celebrities as. I would like to clarify that this is not at all a diss on celebrities, many of these people in the archive are some of my favourite actors and singers, it is mostly meant to be a fun play and how overboard we can go in idolizing these people to the point we forget they are more then just shiny perfect objects. Which is where the fun in my second archive comes in, some of the shiny objects are fancy expressive things such as diamond rings and high heels, whereas as other objects are not so nice expensive things such as a trash can or a screw. This is meant to humanize them and play on the fact that just because something is shiny doesn’t mean it should be worshipped.

The making of this project was a very long process for me because of how many different paintings there are. I’m used to putting all my focus and energy into one single art piece, so having all these individual pieces was quite a challenge for me. This is because I wanted to have the same level of effort and detail in each one however after doing just one I realized that doing that for 50 paintings would take and endless amount of time. So after considering this I decided to still put the same amount of effort in each piece but I attempted different styles and ways of approaching the painting. For most of my portraits I sketched out careful proportions and then went in with careful little details of ink, attempting to stay precise while still practicing tonal painting rather then line work. Then for some of my portraits I went in without sketched out facial proportions and features and attempted to work with only the ink. It is clear which ones are which but I’m still happy with both because I wanted to practice my range with ink from methodical to instinctual. I practiced this same idea with my second archive, except most of the shiny objects I went straight in with ink with no sketched out pencil first, only a couple had a pencil pre sketch. This was so that I got equal experience with both pre drawn and somewhat “winging it”, and attempting to get them both the same technical and detail level. I am quite happy with a lot of my free hand objects, I was honestly surprised with myself for being able to still represent highlights and having generally realistic proportions. It did take me a while to get used to the ink, I would often accidentally make it bleed by using too much water and things of that nature, but eventually you get into a sort of rhythm and it becomes more natural so that even the small mistakes tend to fit in with the painting.

NOTE: Paintings not posted in same order as archive reference images.

Portrait Paintings (1st Archive):




























Object Paintings (2nd Archive):

Note: A few paintings are done on both sides of the same paper (I ran out of Newsprint and picked the lightest paintings that didn’t dhow through too much to improvise).


















                                                                          Original Spoon:


Edited Spoon (Fixed Background):












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