Painting is a form of expressing surrealism or reality within a canvas, I can paint my imaginations to life as well as paint what I see in life. As an individual, I am familiar with paintings of portraits in a hyper realistic sense which I have developed an interest within the subject matter of painting. The precise detail of being able to imitate a subject through painting by hand is what intrigues me about hyperrealism.
Collin Chillag is an artist I had chosen in A2 levels, an artist which inspired me most as his works are not of a typical hyper realistic portraits, but contrasts rendered details of intentional unfinished elements presenting the development of the work.
He presents signature elements of his development in his work through leaving areas of the portraits left with nothing but faint pencil outlines of the figure, samples of different colours and tones of oil paint, as well as sometimes using the canvas as a palette representing all the colours used to create the piece. I find the fusion of abstract and hyperrealism combined together interesting.
