Over the past two weeks, I have been trying to decide on what route I am going to go down regarding my art project, "who am I?". With deep consideration, I have decided to focus on the destruction of animals when they are taken out of their natural environment and put into zoos. After having created a mindmap that consists of everything about me, I realised that I am really interested in the work of ROA. I like how expressive his work is and how detailed it is. He focuses on animals and paints large black and white images of them on walls in the area he is in at the time. These are a few examples of his work:
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His work is very large scale, high contrasting, slightly stylised and also slightly expressive. All of these concepts allow ROA to create unique, realistic drawings of animals. He manages to combine the idea of life and death in his illistrations and I can use this to show how animals in zoos are distressed and in danger. In my work, i am going to draw a couple of animals in his style with different materials such as: pencil, pen, ink and acrylic paint; this will allow me to see what material is best when working in his style. The following photos are of the drawings that I have completed in class:
drawing of a whale skull
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