Self portrait on 30 X 40 yellow pastelmat. Decided to try out an idea I've been toying with to use the direction of pastel strokes to suggest other shapes than depicted by colour tone and value, as this is the first time I've kept it simple, just concentric circles centred on my right eye.
I ususlly use the pastel strokes as quite a strong element in painting so it's interesting to have that elememt shifed to another dimension...and difficult. We'll see where this goes. Still a lot to do on this.
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Sketch and start of detail in face:
Colour filled in:
I like this experiment. I can still see your hand in it but the change in approach gives a different feel. I'm interested to see where it leads you.
ReplyDeleteVery Van Gogh but better! The motion suggested by the patterns is very engaging. Well done.
ReplyDeleteHi Ben,
ReplyDeleteI typed in "Ben's art" into Google to see if the domain was free to use, but ended stumbling upon your amazing work!
Not only do we share a name we have a smiler style (though different mediums) here arr links to my work.
http://whirling.ning.com/photo/cleo-card-2011?context=user
http://whirling.ning.com/photo/sheep-belly-show?context=user
From a fan over the sea, Ben
Hi Ben
ReplyDeleteGlad you like my work, had a look at your work and you're right, there is some similarity, quite a coincidence.
I'd already nabbed bensart.net but I'm sure there's other Ben's art domains available.
Cheers
Ben