The day we worked in the style of Hughie O'Donahue

We visited the exhibition of the artist Hughie O'Donahue at Abbot Hall Art Gallery in Kendal. We all really enjoyed the visit and were interested in his style of mixed media along with fantastic oil on canvas. In particular the use of wood and locks embedded in the canvas along with photos. This gave us the idea to create our own pictures.

We first selected and image from a magazine and glued this onto a piece of paper. Then we used acrylic paints to extend the picture out across the page looking to extend lines and shapes beyond the edge of the ripped out pictures. This proved very effective.

 

 

 

The last image is based on the artist canvases at the exhibition that had been inspired by Pompeii and the eruption of Vesuvius.