Woven word with photo

After receiving feedbacks on my sketchbook, one of the comments that got my interest was the woven word technique. They believe the technique was nicely done and should be used in my work to extend the variety of skills I have used for my works. So I thought that  should use the technique for Minjae Lee inspired works. His works are notable for the small yet vivid patterns that marks the faces of  his portraits.

I like how it still retains the shape, the face is still visible in the weave.

Acrylic Paint - Colour study

This is my study of acrylic paint. A collection of practices of how acrylic paint is used and can be potentially be used for my works.

Minjae Lee - Recreation of "The Light of Mercy"

The Light of Mercy - Minjae Lee

2015

7.8 x 7.8 Inch (200 x 200 mm)

Mixed Media on Paper with wood frame



The Light of Divine

I was inspired by Minjae Lee's work called The Light of Mercy and so I decided to recreate the artwork in my style.
For this piece I used water colour, which was the closest material that could create a soft image like Minjae Lee's work especially of the face.

 The first piece was a practice to be able to understand colour study and its blending strength.

I used a pen to outline the face, the pen will make the work look more clean than the pencil. The collection of colours at the bottom left are the colours I am going to use so I tested how it would appear on the paper before applying it to the face.


I used blue on areas where there is very few lighting, so I don't use black which would make the piece look darker. I wanted the work to look vibrant like Minjae Lee's artwork.










For the hair, I left it dark brown colour rather than black because with brown you can see the tones and shadow in the hairstyle, which would be quite difficult to see with black.




To improve this piece, I should use the bleach + ink for the back ground since that technique can create a pattern that is similar to The Light of Mercy's background.

































The Light of Divine
A4 size paper,
Mixed Media on paper, pen (0.3),pencil (3B, HB and H)  and watercolour.

Minjae Lee (Greno)

(pinterest.com)


Minjae Lee is a South Korean self-taught artist. His common medium are pencils and colour markers.

Finding inspiration from people, nature and emotions he is able to create works that depict the beauty of nature, fragility of emotions and brashness of human beings.

He blends in strong contrasting colours that creates aggressive scenes with the fine pencil lines forming a mixture of beauty and passion. His works' juxtaposition of beauty, fragility, brash and aggression actually

Despite the bright colours the character he creates shows dark and mysterious personality, creating a sense of drama in its juxtaposition.


("Indian" , Paper and Mixed Media.)
As you can see, he used bright colours in such delicate patterns. The women face looks aloof and mysterious, the are surrounding her face has the most dark colours making the atmosphere feel very dark. Her hand is of a different complexion meaning it could be someone else's hand that is touching her face. The hand has multiple thumbs and fingers showing overlapping in the limb, this shows her being trapped and stopped by more than one person, they're trying to reach her mouth to stop her from speaking, not letting her have a voice in a situation/event.










("Faith", Mixed media on paper 2012)

I think the way he named this piece is interesting, "Faith" could just be the name for the person drawn on the paper or it could be a representation of "Faith", something that some people believe. I think it is a representation because the patterns surrounding their head resembles closely to a halo. The body is coloured in dark colours, only the hand that reaches towards the face has vibrant colours. The vivid coloured hand could be to represent the many number of people who believe in Faith and are reaching out towards it. 

(http://www.grenomj.com/#!2012/zoom/c23dm/image_21oc)