Charlotte Caron is a young French artist and photography included, graduating with fine art, honours in 2011. Her work is divided into four sections. -Landscapes, portraits, anatomy and vanities. Her portraits series is particularly my favourite. They show human portraiture photographs with paint on top of them creating an animals features and face instead of keeping the humans. Caron has also exhibited in the national portrait gallery.
I have noticed in her other work, she uses similar techniques when painting. For example her landscapes colour are blended very well and give a dripping down effect within the painting which is a similar technique to what she does within her portraiture work. The title of the works is as a series and is simply animal portraits over human portraits and the individual work isn't named.
The subject of meaning is the consistence of two sides, this being the human side and the animalization of them with including the animal side, it shows we are all mammals and beings of this Earth and combines us into one being.
The materials that are used are a DSLR camera to take high quality photographs of her human subject as a base of her work. I suspect photoshop has been used to brighten the contrast and smooth the photograph over for more flawless effect. Varies brushes are used,, small ones for the hairs on the beak and larger ones to create shape. She uses colour in similar spectrum for example the colours in this bird merge together, the browns gradually get lighter forming an ochre/yellow. Which are then lightened to create a white blend of blue. We can see that the colour has spread down the painting and perhaps used water as an additive to let the pale colours drip over the slightly darker ones in a rather subtle way. depth is created with a small brush flicks in the direction of the skeletal structure on the birds face the paint is used quite sparingly in terms of how it's applied, there are no thick blobs or worked on bumps, the paint is flat but textured to create the drips and the smoothness of the paint strokes she blends. It reminds mr of the realism art movement, although this was particularly used on humans it has a similar look in terms of texture and a flattened paint approach to creating a realistic look with complex tones of the colours used and shadow being applied to add to the realism. As Caron does with the fine brush strokes for the beak hairs and the deepness of the eyes and the gaze they give off. The scale of the work is around a meter by meter and presented on canvas, I think the scale is important in terms of composition, it should always be kept the same so that composition doesn't stand out too much and over take the others. The scale is perfect to look around each piece, if it was too large it would be too overbearing and seem less like a series when exhibited like one.
My first reaction to the work was that it was more simple in terms of paint but when I look closer I could see more detail and that fitted into the facial composition. I like the colours used and how effective they are in terms of the piece being more complicated than simple. The blending also helps its to be more subtle. I am inspired because I feel this could be good to use within my own photography work, It doesn't remind me of anything I've seen before, I think the work is such a simple idea yet so interesting and I have never thought of producing a piece like this.
I have noticed in her other work, she uses similar techniques when painting. For example her landscapes colour are blended very well and give a dripping down effect within the painting which is a similar technique to what she does within her portraiture work. The title of the works is as a series and is simply animal portraits over human portraits and the individual work isn't named.
The subject of meaning is the consistence of two sides, this being the human side and the animalization of them with including the animal side, it shows we are all mammals and beings of this Earth and combines us into one being.
The materials that are used are a DSLR camera to take high quality photographs of her human subject as a base of her work. I suspect photoshop has been used to brighten the contrast and smooth the photograph over for more flawless effect. Varies brushes are used,, small ones for the hairs on the beak and larger ones to create shape. She uses colour in similar spectrum for example the colours in this bird merge together, the browns gradually get lighter forming an ochre/yellow. Which are then lightened to create a white blend of blue. We can see that the colour has spread down the painting and perhaps used water as an additive to let the pale colours drip over the slightly darker ones in a rather subtle way. depth is created with a small brush flicks in the direction of the skeletal structure on the birds face the paint is used quite sparingly in terms of how it's applied, there are no thick blobs or worked on bumps, the paint is flat but textured to create the drips and the smoothness of the paint strokes she blends. It reminds mr of the realism art movement, although this was particularly used on humans it has a similar look in terms of texture and a flattened paint approach to creating a realistic look with complex tones of the colours used and shadow being applied to add to the realism. As Caron does with the fine brush strokes for the beak hairs and the deepness of the eyes and the gaze they give off. The scale of the work is around a meter by meter and presented on canvas, I think the scale is important in terms of composition, it should always be kept the same so that composition doesn't stand out too much and over take the others. The scale is perfect to look around each piece, if it was too large it would be too overbearing and seem less like a series when exhibited like one.
My first reaction to the work was that it was more simple in terms of paint but when I look closer I could see more detail and that fitted into the facial composition. I like the colours used and how effective they are in terms of the piece being more complicated than simple. The blending also helps its to be more subtle. I am inspired because I feel this could be good to use within my own photography work, It doesn't remind me of anything I've seen before, I think the work is such a simple idea yet so interesting and I have never thought of producing a piece like this.
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