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Francoise Nielly is an artist that I just came across looking for good portrait paintings. She is French artist who grew up in the South of France. The main tools she uses to make her art is a knife and her mind. These paintings are done with oil paints. Her work on her website is fuelled with her expressiveness of her 'brute force, a fascinating vital energy'. Her paintings are described as being 'sexual, her colours free, exuberant, surprising, even explosive'. What is said is when she paints she takes a risk.

To me oil paints are the worst because I find them hard to work with, more expensive than other paints and you need white spirit to get it off your hands.

 

I like the thick style and use of the oil paint. To me I feel like she has used the material and the knife in the best way possible. The colours that she has used in  this first picture I find to be vibrant and electrifying. She has shown the lights and darks in the faces by substituting the natural skin colours for brighter and darker versions. I think that is her style and has worked very well. The best colour in the picture I would say is the yellow. That part reminds me of reflectors like on bikes or on jackets which have the purpose of being seen. I think that she wanted her art to attract eyes and I thin k it has. To me I think that her technique of using oils and a knife to make these portraits is very hard and would be hard for me to preform. I think she has done her work on top of a table so the paint could drip dry.

I like this painting because she has used more natural skin colour on these people. To be honest I also like this painting because I can see that she can work with any type of person with any colour of skin or different facial features. I think the colour which stands out the most and has worked the best is the red. It seems that the faces blend or disappear into block colour background. I think that she has represented which parts of the faces are light and dark.

This painting I think is more realistic than the others. I also think that she has used more block colours to show flat areas. The focus point of this painting I think are in the eyes because they are the clearest thing in the painting. You can see that image from top to bottom started off as being neat but them it got more blurred. She  could be showing when you look at a person all that you need to see is their face or eyes. The eyes are known as the windows into the soul so the clearer they are in the painting the easier it is to see the real person.

I like this painting because of the use of purple to describe the shadows of the face and background. There is a little use of skin tone used in this painting and I think that, that keeps a little more realism to face. Even though the face is realistic the colours are bright and unreal which I think show imagination. A very creative imagination. That is one of the many things which is also said about how Francoise Nielly makes and tries to portray in her work.