Sunburn, doodles and Gallery Visits

Just a quick update today!
Decided to combine both weather and work today, and popped into central london to do a couple of gallery visits and draw the random folk.

Nothing of real interest with regards to the sketching. Just the standard " Multi- Cultural London folk" as Boris would be proud to say.

Gallery visits were The National Portrait Gallery to see 'Gerhard Richter.Portraits' and the Opus gallery was more of an accident, but some cool looking sculptures caught my eye.

Gerhard Richters work is INSANE! I accompanied a fellow student there familiar with the name but not the work. Seriously guys and gals GO TO IT!. Its traditionally painted work in oils on canvas, but they are painted from/ like blurred photographs. Some of the transparent overlay effects created in colour have to be seen! Not really important with regards to my project, but inspiring none the less.

The Opus gallery was one of those small ones off covent garden, but these two fellows in the window caught my eyeThe artist was not named so I'll probably go back and get a gallery guide, however there were two other artists whose work was interesting and relevant to mine.

The gallery's website says this about Hush : " ush is an urban artist who worked in Hong Kong for a number of years as a graphic designer/Illustrator before recently returning to the UK......Hush draws his influence from a wide variety of modern culture to create his work. His main interests being graphic-novels, animation, graphic-design, graffiti art, urban art and contemporary painting.

He has worked as a graphic designer & illustrator / art director in London, Edinburgh, Newcastle and Hong Kong where he worked for a few of the largest Toy companies in the world."

( http://www.opus-art.com/artists/Hush/2759 the opus gallery website)

Work by Hush

His take whilst very influenced by eastern culture, takes a number of design aspects from western work - something i can aspire to.

Remi Rough had a statue at the gallery of Solid Snake, the main character from the metal gear series. This was not sculpted by the artist however it was painted black and then tagged with graffiti and paint marks. This is similar to my idea of taking a pre sculpted work and adding my own flavour and design elements to it. Remi is a graffiti artist who was a leading member of the ikonoclast revolution in the 90's. Something to look into methinks. Since his beginnings he has spread out into art direction, music etc.

All in all, a pretty damn productive day!