David Cambria is one of my most favourite artists I’ve found while researching for my self-directed project, I love all of his work in this series of portraits. I like how he creates a detailed face from smaller marks, of different colours, and the uses bigger strokes for the outline and on the background. I also like how the background isn’t textured as this makes the painting stand out more, and this will be something I try within my own work. In this particular painting I like the darkness he uses to create shadows and the red and blue hints in the face. I like how the majority of the portrait is built up using skin colour. I also think the strokes are expressive and interesting to view. His work is definitely something which inspires me, his paintings are my favourite that I’ve come across.

Within my own work, I want to push myself using this sort of style to create portraits, and going larger than I have done before,  I think this kind of style will be interesting to experiment with and quite fun to do too. 

Andrew Salgado is one of my favourite artists I’ve come across since starting my research for my self-directed project, the way he builds up a face or a figure using colour and strokes is really good, and something which inspires me. I want to be able to create paintings to a similar standard of these one day and they are definitely something to look up to. In this painting in particular I like how the colours start of warm and then fade down into a variety of blue tones. I like how even though it is an expressive style the detail hasn’t been lost in the face, especially in the eyes.