Final piece

I have used the images of Matt, which I used to do the smaller paintings to create a large painting around, 6’x4’ using acrylic paints,

As I forgot to photograph my progress and have no images to show the development, but I started out by stretching up a canvas and drawing the image I had chosen of Matt to the size I wanted and added slight detail before painting the piece.  

I am extremely happy with the final outcome of the piece, I believe the choice of colours and paints was almost perfect, with the acrylic i was able to layer the colours and give several different textures and tones to certain areas of the image, for example the eyes and the beard.

with the beard using the layers to give of the affect of real hair rather than a stuck on beard, and the shading and highlight around the eyes wouldn't have the same affects.

the only part of the piece I believe could use some improvement is the mouth, every time I attempt to paint a mouth it never seems to look quite right, this is something I will attempt to improve. 

Ares

My favourite Olympian god is Ares (Mars), the god of war, and I have been thinking of a way which I could create a piece to show him for all he is. The only problem with Ares is that he is quite difficult to portray, as he isn’t very distinctive, the way most recreate him is with a helmet on, but by doing so it might be any other soldier.

I had an idea of how to portray him as more than the average soldier, I thought it may look good if the helmet he wears is part of him, an attachment to his skin, so I created an image from imagination to show this idea, however the image isn’t a very realistic. After talking to my tutors the image I had created resembled a student tutor, matt, and so I took some photographs of matt with a light in his face in a dark room to try and get some realism into to image I was going to create, I then went on to drawing, and painting some of the images. I am very pleased with the outcome and I think that this could be a way for me to some interesting pieces in the future.

Sandro Bottcelli

Alessandro di Mariano di Vanni Filipepi also known as Sandro Botticelli, was a painter during the renaissance, famously known for his work based on Christianity but also famously depicted the painting of the birth of Aphrodite (Venus), the goddess of love, beauty and pleasure.

The image shows the birth of Venus from the ocean, floating ashore after being born of the ocean and Uranus, the story depicts that Cronus castrated Uranus and threw his genitals into the ocean. the name Aphrodite means foam-arisen. 

Here is another adaptation of the birth of Venus by Granger

this is an image of Cronus severing Uranus' genitals.

This image shows Aphrodite and Ares.