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Cecilia - 516830
Learning Log
Practice of Painting 1

Research 2 for assignment 5 - Self-portraiture in painting and photography
1.- Article ‘Universal Principles of Depicting Oneself across the Centuries: From Renaissance Self-Portraits to Selfie-Photographs’...
Research 1 for assignment 5. - Portraits in painting and photography
2.- Journal Article “Portraits in Painting and Photography.” Freeland, Cynthia. Philosophical Studies: An International Journal for...


Different ways of applying paint
During the course of this module I’ve been already experimenting with different ways of applying paint, as in Part 4 Creating a mood and...


Different ways of applying paint
For this research I was required to look at the impressionists’ way of applying paint, and chose paintings by artists who caught my eye...


The Golden Mean
The Golden Mean is a mathematical ratio called (Phi) = 1.618 discovered by the ancient Greeks who used it in the design of their...


Landscape painters
Landscape painted by surrealist Salvador Dali - The Persistence of Memory 1931, Oil on canvas 24 cm x 33 cmxx Dali is one of my favourite...


Figures in interiors
I did this exercise in my life drawing class: the setting inspired by the portrait of Ambroise Vollard (1905) by Pierre Bonnard I started...


Portraits that conveyed mood and atmosphere
When I think about atmosphere and mood, I think Francis Bacon - one of my favourite portrait artists. Though his subjects are very...


Artists' Self-Portraits
For my fifth assignment in Drawing 1 I researched women’s self-portraiture, and found a very interesting introductory video by Maria...


Dutch realists and interior painters of different periods
For this research I was ask to choose some paintings the appealed to me Cornelis Bisschop, Dutch (1630-1674): Woman Peeling an Apple,...
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