ALEX BOX SUNDAY STYLE

Based on Joan Crawford
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HEART SHOOT

Initial Designs

LATEST

My latest experiment..

PASQUA SHOOT

My make-up look inspired by Philippe Pasqua

LATEST SHOOT

With the photographer Lee Knight.

QUOTE

"I try very hard to make my hand do what my eye says, and what my heart says." Jim Dine

From an interview with Dine, read it here.

COLOURFUL SHAPES

The images above, one sourced from FaceCulture blog, and the artist Auguste Herbin inpsired my latest make-up shoot..

DOT TO DOT

My Roy Lichtenstein inspired make-up

GRAD FILM

The graduate film was shot today for our degree show . The theme was club kids, here's some shots of my model..

RIVER OF RAINBOW

Today I shot my Morris Louis inspired look. My model was laid on the floor whilst I first painted on each colour then dripped the paint from the top to create neat individual lines of colour.

Shot look next to my initial design..

Then I got the mum to pour the colours directly onto the models face and let the paint freely run accross it whilst I photographed it.

I tried blowing eyeshadow across the face the way I did back on the Pollock shoot. I think this would look a lot more effective if the colour was not white..

DISTORTION, RESTRICTION

I've been influenced by Arnulf Rainer's artwork here, his work makes me think of restriction and distortion. What interests me is that although each image is the same model, he looks as though he could be a different person in each one.

"His concern with the variety of facial expression and the expressiveness of body language was a conscious means of breaking taboos against what is ugly, absurd or instinctual." Ingrid Severin on Arnulf Rainer

CHALK MAKE-UP

"Sometimes people have the ideas that art should be highly refined. But I always believed that one could make art out of simple, humble things. Small things can be transcendental. They can change our way of looking at the world. I think its important to make art out of almost anything." Antoni Tapies

FRANCIS BACON INSPIRED SHOOT

Design Idea

After shooting the Bacon look I decided to experiment with getting some action shots of paint splattering and dribbling onto my model, much to his dismay! I got the idea from Francis Bacon's 'Study after Velazquez's Portrait of Pope Innocent XI' where the verticle brush strokes remind me of paint being poured. Pretty much got the whole fam involved with this one..below is Bacon's art work and some images of the shoot taking place. Final edits will be up soon!

POINTILISM IN MAKE-UP

The technique Pointillism used by artists involves small, distinct dots of pure colour which are applied in patterns to form an image, creating an almost pixelated effect.

Heres my take on the face..

Design Ideas

This look took around 3 hours!

MARDEN SHOOT