Portraiture - Impasto / Painting

For this aspect of the portraiture topic, I was asked to create a painting in the style of impasto. I began by using a picture of another student in which I asked to change her position for the various shots. I then combined all three of my favourite images into a composition which I found to be more interesting rather than one upfront image. I decided I wanted to use my painting in one colour and create the tones with just the one colour. I decided to use Blue as I knew I would be able to create a wide range of tone and contrast with this colour as it can go really dark without adding another colour but also I could get it extremely light. I am happy with the outcome of this painting however since seeing it from around the room there are areas that I look at now that I believe I need to improve. there are slight changes that I feel need to be moved around also fix some features across some of the faces.


I then moved on to a new artist who isn't an impasto artist however I have manipulated her work into that style. Alex grant does a form of surrealism art which I feel like I wanted to add into my work to help me leave the style I have adapted onto myself. to me this was a key thing to-do so I began to-do a painting in her style of art and doing a similar surrealism affect as she does to her work. I am extremely happy with the outcome of this piece of work as it had a wide range of contrast as well as depth and dimension which I didn't think I would be capable of doing.