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Artist Reference and Response – Leonid Afremov
Leonid Afremov (born 12 July 1955 in Vitebsk, Belarus) is a Russian–Israeli modern impressionistic artist who works mainly with a palette knife and oil paints.
He works in very thick layers, and his exaggerated, intensified colours tend to merge and fuse together to create a dramatic scene or landscape. In these two images, he has contrasted light pale washes against harsh, bright and thick textures, such as some of the clouds in the landscape image. Afremov also picks out undertones and base colours. He then intensifies these colours and turns them into one of the main and strongest colours that catches the eye. This works so well because these are the colours that are mixed to create other tones in the images, therefore, the colours all work quite harmonically.
I have adopted the use of intense colour in my own piece above. All the colours that were used for the path were mixed to create the brown for the trees and for some of the speckles that were flicked over the painting. I have also merged areas and blocks of colour together to build the sense of haziness. Furthermore, to create the sense of mistiness, I picked out some of the palest colours from the original image, which were purple and yellow. I then lightly washed these colours with a damp sponge behind the trees to achieve this look. The flicked speckles were added to the painting to help accomplish this look.
Artist Influence- Jean Howard
Howard works in very thick layers. She separates colours and leaves crisp definition between each stroke. Here it seems as though she has used a tool such as a knife or card, and has dragged the paint across the page. She has also picked out undertones such as purples, greens and oranges and has intensified these colours and made them really stand out. She manages to do this without overpowering the reflections and water like look.
I have tried to replicate this look in my own piece above for the
Leonid Afremov (born 12 July 1955 in Vitebsk, Belarus) is a Russian–Israeli modern impressionistic artist who works mainly with a palette knife and oil paints.
He works in very thick layers, and his exaggerated, intensified colours tend to merge and fuse together to create a dramatic scene or landscape. In these two images, he has contrasted light pale washes against harsh, bright and thick textures, such as some of the clouds in the landscape image. Afremov also picks out undertones and base colours. He then intensifies these colours and turns them into one of the main and strongest colours that catches the eye. This works so well because these are the colours that are mixed to create other tones in the images, therefore, the colours all work quite harmonically.
I have adopted the use of intense colour in my own piece above. All the colours that were used for the path were mixed to create the brown for the trees and for some of the speckles that were flicked over the painting. I have also merged areas and blocks of colour together to build the sense of haziness. Furthermore, to create the sense of mistiness, I picked out some of the palest colours from the original image, which were purple and yellow. I then lightly washed these colours with a damp sponge behind the trees to achieve this look. The flicked speckles were added to the painting to help accomplish this look.
Artist Influence- Jean Howard
Howard works in very thick layers. She separates colours and leaves crisp definition between each stroke. Here it seems as though she has used a tool such as a knife or card, and has dragged the paint across the page. She has also picked out undertones such as purples, greens and oranges and has intensified these colours and made them really stand out. She manages to do this without overpowering the reflections and water like look.
I have tried to replicate this look in my own piece above for the