Wednesday 28 January 2015

The next ten images are my paintings for Chelsea UAL.

Sheep skull
Observational drawing-Biro. A3. September 2013

Ukraine
Pen and water sketch (17x48cm) in responce to my conflict project. Sketch from newspaper image containing three Pro-Ukrainian fighters, and two Pro-Russian separatists. March 2014

Life drawing
Life drawing-charcoal. A3. September 2013

Saints
A5 sketches in pen and spit (as I was in churches in Venice, without a large availability of water). they are lots of sketches in many different churches of the statues of saints in the Stoups. February 2014. 

Gallery

A5 sketch of one of the rooms in the Peggy Guggenheim, Venice, done in pen and again spit. to paint this I drew and outline of the room and ever time someone stood still for any length of time I tried to sketch them in as fast as I could. February 2014

Mono pair
A pair of A4 sized mono prints. The print on the left was the first print made, from photograph. the second was done from the original plate by wiping more ink from the plate. In responce of my conflict project. May 2014

Trevi
Painting of the Trevi Fountain in Rome (59x84cm). inspireed by the painting style of Zsolt Bodoni. October 2014.

Final U:1
Oil on wood board (60x87cm). final piece for portraiture unit using Nathan Ford as inspiration. January 2014.

Chloe firework
Litho ink on Acrylic sheet (full size- 50x101cm, this is not the whole piece, as it cant be photographed easily until it is mounted properly). The plan is for the full piece to be mounted on a Lightbox. November 2014.

Final U:3

Oil on Canvas painting (87x97cm). Still in production, painted using a series of techniques, wiping, palette knife, cotton buds and brush. The canvas was made by using a wooden board and stapling many strips of material to create a broken effect. January 2015. 

Thank you for your consideration,

Samuel.





Tuesday 20 January 2015

As a Product of taking some photographs for my paintings, I noticed some interesting details in part of one of the out of focus images. Personally I liked the simplistic visual quality of these so here it is.

Monday 19 January 2015

So not much has happened for abit, but here is something from a sketchbook that I've been looking at in my personal time.

So I have recently been involving my self in one of my favourite past times, watching awful youtube documentaries about some outlandish, unbelievable theory, and came across what I found, a really interesting one. I response to the awful documentary (Ancient Aliens) was another called Ancient Aliens : debunked. this by far a better watch, and was alot more interesting as it talked through alot of the extra pieces of history, which explain what was wrong with their evidence. One was talking about the book of Ezekiel, where he experienced a Vision representing the "Glory of God". Ancient Aliens used the book of Ezekiel to claim that what he was describing was a space ship in a language and vocabulary which didn't extend to it. However after reading the book of Ezekiel it actually talks about a kind of Angel "Cherubim" which carry the throne of God. I found myself captivated by the imagery used to display the Cherubim and started sketching my own. After doing so I started to think "I correspondence to the Charlie Hebdo shootings) what does the "Glory of God" mean to me, After alot of thought, as a non religious person, to me it is what people do in the name of. So here I have taken the graceful and angelic image of the Cherubim and covered it in tracing paper and sketched onto an alternative, contorted and tortured version, in an attempt to confront the meaning of the so called "Glory of God".

HOPEFULLY A PAINTINg TO FOLLOW!!