Back To Black

Hi everyone, just a quick post of a painting I did a few days ago, loosely based on the model in this old Chloe ad. what do you think of it? :)
Lauren x

You've Got The Love

Hi everyone, hope you had a good weekend!
Thought I'd show you a painting which I started yesterday and finished off this morning, and it seems to have divided the opinions of the people I've showed it to so far! It's a lot more imperfect and spontaneous than the stuff I normally do, but I'm rather pleased with how it turned out, plus it was great fun to paint! :) I was inspired to do it after I came across these amazing paintings by an artist called Corno, and really wanted to have a go at her style of portraiture. The picture I worked from is this photo of Karen Elson, but I think it turned out to look a bit more like Florence Welch, haha! What do you think?

Lauren x

A Week's Worth of Posts!

Hey everyone, hope you're having a good week :) Remember; It's nearly Friday!
I've been neglecting the blog a bit this week, but only because I've been painting at every spare moment :) This is probably going to be a bit of a long and disjointed post because I've done lots of quick, different paintings this week, but I hope you like them!
This one I did a few days ago, based on this image that I found in an old copy of Vogue; the beautiful Jessica Stam, inexplicably climbing over a load of pianos:

Not too happy with how it turned out, I'm half happy with the background, but she just ended up a bit more yellow and skeletal then planned, haha! Ahh well, not everything turns out perfect :) moving on...

This one was based on an old Moschino ad I found in Vogue, and I tried to interpret it in a pop-art style :) I really love the style created by just using black and the primary colours, so I would definitely do more paintings in this style in the future :)

Next, I thought I would try and improve my portrait painting by doing a quick painty sketch of Keira Knightley on an old Vogue cover...it's not perfect, but better than some of the people I've painted before, haha! I always think getting faces exactly right is THE HARDEST thing to paint or draw. What do you think?

Next is the one I'm personally most proud of, a city-scape based on an image of New York (I think) :)

City scenes are always one of my favourite things to paint, there's just such a shock of light and colour which can't be found anywhere else.

The next photo I'm slightly ashamed of...I painted a Noel Fielding style ghost on the top of my radio. Not really sure why. Boredom probably. But it kind of counts as art, and it makes me smile whenever I see it, so I figured I'd put a quick photo up of it on here, haha! ;)

This morning I found an old canvas I did for GCSE Art, a kind of uninspiring black and white scene, I think it was of the side of a pond, with all the branches and leaves trailing in the water:

Not my best work, so I didn't feel to bad about painting over it, ready to start again with something new, haha! Painting quick pictures on pieces of paper is fine, but I really miss painting on canvas - I just wish it wasn't so expensive!

What do you think my next big project should be? I'm thinking either a big cityscape or a pop-art style portrait :) any suggestions or ideas would be very welcome! 

Hope you're having a good day, sorry this one's been such a long post! :)

Lauren x

Madcap Shambleton

Hey everyone, hope you're having a good weekend :)
So lately I've been majorly inspired by Noel Fielding's art; I bought his book, 'Scribblings of a Madcap Shambleton', last week and I can't stop flicking through it (check out some of his paintings here, here and here) :) I'm a massive fan of the Mighty Boosh, and some of Noel's artwork is kind of featured in the series, so I figured I should check out his book, and I would really recommend it to anyone! I know his work isn't to everyone's taste, but I love the colour and energy that comes across from his paintings, and you can just tell they must have been so great to paint!
So, yesterday I had a go at doing a few portraits in a kind of Noel Fielding style; a rather random mix of people; Noel Fielding, Kate Moss, Lana Del Rey and David Bowie! The Bowie one is my personal favourite, it's the one I did last, and I think I had kind of got the hang of the style by then :)

What do you think? :)

Lauren x

Diamond Blue Baby, New York City

If there's any two arty things I'm hopeless at, it's portraits and watercolours! With this in mind, yesterday I tried to conquer both these fears in one foul swoop, by doing a sketch of my ultimate girl crush, Lana Del Rey (image source here) :) here's how it turned out...

Fairly pleased with how it turned out, it's not as terrible as some of my attempts at drawing people! I started off by blocking out the features and general shape in pencil, added detail in biro, then finally blocked in some basic colour in watercolour :)
What do you think? Hope you're having a good week, everyone!
Lauren x