Robert De Niro

After watching various films Robert De Niro starred in, such as This Boy's Life, Taxi Driver and Raging Bull, I admired the way in which he presents such a realistic character. This is why I drew the A4 pencil drawing of Robert De Niro. By being such a talented actor he makes his role believable and draws attention, through the reality of his character, to social issues of the time such as the Vietnam war in Taxi Driver.

Josh Miels

This is an A4 oil painted artist copy of one of Josh Miel's paintings. He is an modern illustrator and a digital artist who works and lives in Australia. I particularly like his work as it is very similar to the style of Nick Lepard, painting portraits with rough brush strokes that make the image look slightly abstract. I also like the way he uses smudged text in this image, giving the painting a ragged effect.

ABDC by Raul Housman

This is an A4 acrylic artist’s copy of the self-portrait, 'ABDC' by Raoul Hausmann. This piece is a photomontage and an example of the Dada art movement. Dadaism was born from a negative reaction to the horrors of World War One; it rejected reason and logic, prizing nonsense and irrationality, moving itself further away from the realism that had controlled the arts in the past. I was particularly attracted to the haphazard nature of the image and the rustic colours.

Breaking Bad

Whilst watching Breaking Bad, submersed in the plot and the dark humour, I decided to create an A3 image of the main character, Walter White. Originally the piece was supposed to be in the style of the young Australian artist Josh Miel, however it seemed to take a different course. With an acrylic background and charcoal portrait, the image takes a peculiar abstract appearance that I hope would reflect some of the dark aspects of the characteristics of Breaking Bad. 

Josie Jammet

This 41 x 24 cm portrait image is an artist copy of one of Josie Jammet's pictures. She is a London based painter whose work reinterprets photographic pictures into new paintings - highly detailed portraits often done in acrylic on canvas. She has painted for many clients from a wide variety of businesses such as Channel 4, The Rolling Stones, New York Magazine, Coca-Cola, The Guardian, the BBC, Nike, Penguin Books and many more. I chose this image as I particularly admired the positioning of the image and the contrasting colours used.

Effy

Working in the style of Gustav Klimt, I painted this 61 x 43 cm acrylic image of the actress Kaya Scodelario, most famous for her main role in the teenage drama - Skins. In a similar way in which Klimt glamorizes women in his work, I wanted to present the glamorization of sex, drugs and violence presented in television.

I Was Cured Alright

Whilst studying A Clockwork Orange for my English Literature and Language AS level Coursework, I painted this A4 acrylic image in the style of the famous graphic designer Barbara Kruger. I used the quote 'I was cured alright' as it was the final utterance in Kubrick's film interpretation of the dystopian novella. Using the menacing image from the beginning of the film and the red background I attempted to capture the violent interpretation of the Kubrick film.