These are some illustrated portraits which caught my eye when I was browsing Pinterest. I like the use of media in the top two as it adds interest and character to the pieces and I thought the bottom image by Katharine Asher was very clean, simple and captured the elegance of the woman.
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| Nike Schroeder |
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| Florian Nicolle |
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| Katharine Asher |
I am presuming that this image by Katharine Asher was done with watercolour paints. I think the minimal amount of brushstrokes used are really effective in keeping this image clean and sophisticated. The way this woman has been painted makes her appear classy, delicate and ladylike.
Andy Warhol
Andy Warhol's portraits are iconic, probably his most famous being of Marilyn Monroe. I like how he combines print, photography and collage into his portraits as it captures the person's actual appearance but also reflects the person they are inside. The Mick Jagger portraits are my favourite from this small collection because of Warhol's boldness with his collage pieces and the use of shifted line. I also like the interesting viewpoint of the Mohammed Ali portrait as it isn't a conventional angle for a photograph to be taken but it makes it look like he is concentrating and 'in the zone'.
For my project based on Ella Fitzgerald, I hope to bring in more than one image making process to add some variation to the aesthetic and represent different aspects of her life though different media.
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