Blast from the past

For one of my A Level Art projects, I looked at the contrast of youth versus old age. Here is a large two piece chalk, monochrome drawing I did as the final piece for the project; my Grandmother kissing my younger cousin on the cheek. As you can tell from the grimace on my cousins face she was very reluctant to being kissed! It shows the contrast in skin and hair texture of a 6 year old girl compared with the withered skin of an 80year old lady. I decided to do it in black and white so that the focus would be on the contrast in textures, rather than the use of colour.

As preparation for this project I looked especially at the age defining wrinkles of old age, whilst experimenting with different medias and the use of colour. Here is an acrylic painting I did of my Grandmother.

I also really enjoyed doing life drawings as part of my A Level art work. For the second of my art projects I looked at the naked body, looking at different angles, textures, shapes and shading. Here are some examples. These are a few rough, quick experimental pieces I have done.

In conclusion for this project, I did a large etching of a girl sitting down, curled up.