The book I chose to read was Harry Thubron by Arts Council. The book was simply talking about Thubrons work from a viewer’s perspective. I found this more informative as I could compare my own personal opinions of an image with the authors perspective; giving me new ways of viewing some of his work.

Some of Thurbons work could be interpreted as an organised mess, “To him there is no contradiction between order and disorder”, this quote from the book reinforces my point and after reading the quote his artwork made a lot more sense to me. At first glance at Thurbons work it all looks like a jumbled pile of materials, some of them I do feel just look like piles of trash, such as the work named “Camino Real, 1974”. However some of them have an almost accidental structure, which I find quite beautiful. One piece in particular strongly captured my attention and that was “Rose, 1966”. The image is still messy but in a more attractive way than some of the others. The colours are similar shades of yellows and browns, which match the golden-yellow tones of the roses; it has a symmetry that makes it seem more organised and presentable compared to some of his other works.

I personally like Thurbons approach to art, however sometimes I feel he takes it too far and it begins to lose its meaning, but perhaps this is his intention.

This piece is a portrait of one of my favourite Youtubers Trisha Paytas. I simply decided to draw her because I admire her and find her incredibly entertaining, especially her intensely emotional vlogs and music videos. The image I chose to draw was from a music video she created named “Fat Chicks”, which I found admirable how confident she was within her body being a plus size women in a Fatphobic society. I will probably always remember the song and music video for its cheesy lyrics and bold presentation. What I find most inspiring about Trisha is how she constantly gets insulted on social media for being “Fat” and how she chooses to ignore it and has created songs and videos about her confidence with her body despite being insulted for it, I find that very inspirational and wanted to express this by drawing her portrait.
I chose to use pencil to draw my image as I felt it would be the easiest material to blend the shades of colours together efficiently, whilst also still assuring that I can make the image as detailed as possible. What I found most difficult with drawing this image was presenting the shadows of her features accurately, especially the shadows her chin forms on her neck, it took me a few attempts until I was satisfied with the shading; as I wanted it to appear as realistic as possible.
I could improve this piece by including a background and spending more time on the shading and perhaps blending the colours more thoroughly. This would then allow the detail and colour of the portrait to appear more conspicuous, although overall I am pleased with the outcome of the image.