His portrait work to me is very realistic and detailed. He does his work by using gridded photographs. He creates each of his paintings by applying one careful stroke after another in multi-colours or grayscale. Even after his life threatening spinal artery collapse1988 which has left him severely paralysed, he continues to paint and produce his work.
The reason why we are currently looking at his work is because of his grid style painting. We are integrating and trying to understand his work for our portrait project. Using his specific style will help us individually work on our own painting style. Later on in the course we will be looking at his other work as well.
The way we used his style with our own images took three stages of producing. First by taking a picture of our self and printing it out A3 size. Next step was two draw a criss cross grid onto our faces. The last step was to then paint each individual diamond to create a fully painted image with different colours.
