Artist Focus | Sylvie Guillot

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Another Tuesday, another artist to ramble about. This week it's Sylvie Guillot, a French artist who focuses mainly on the human figure... again, I love any art work that uses the figure as subject matter. It's organic and beautiful and is a work of art in and of itself, why not turn it into a painting or a sculpture or a sketch?

Her works of art appear to be done in a quick, sketch-like fashion, which I love. I learned from my figure drawing professor last semester that making quick sketches of your first impression of a model's pose is the only way to truly capture it - you shouldn't be thinking about the pose, you should be drawing it. Sylvie captures this quick, mindless, and effortless feeling in her paintings, but I think we can all assume that these took her much longer than 5 minutes to complete.

Her knowledge and appreciation of the human form is apparent. She handles each curve with such care and each mark she makes is deliberate and adds something to the painting instead of just being a "dumb mark"

You can view the rest of her collection on her Website.

What subject matter speaks to you the most?

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Artist Focus | Cara Thayer and Louie Van Patten

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This week's artists are Cara Thayer and Louie Van Patten. Again, my infinite scrolling was brought to a halt when I saw one of their paintings on tumbr. I love any type of artwork that showcases the human figure in it's purest, and rawest (is that a word?) form. Their collaborative work does just this and SO much more.

Thayer and Van Patten so intelligently capture movement, emotion, and depth in their collaborative art work. You feel as if you're sitting with the subject of the art rather than just looking at it. You can almost feel what the figure is feeling, both emotionally and in a physical sense as well. They eplain their collaborative process in a perfect little blurb on their website:

"One of our goals has always been to paint with the intention of the finished work resembling that of an individual painter. In trying to find a common inspiration with each other, we discovered that it is very difficult to define who you are to another person and explain your feelings with any kind of consistency, let alone authenticity. When you attempt to define yourself with conviction, you can easily attach yourself to an unsustainable perspective. Furthermore, as our lives are driven by self-definition, what we understand to be authentic is constantly in flux, regardless of intention. In our work, we have become interested in these ideas being personified in paint. What is the face of self-mythologizing? What is comfort? Can the counterfeit be as effective as the real thing? Or is something like comfort simply defined by how we define ourselves? These are questions that we feel are better suited to be asked with paint, rather than words."

Here are some of my favorites of their collaborative paintings:

Amazing right?

You can learn more about them and their collaborative process on their Website

You can purchase their paintings from their Etsy Shop

You can view more of their artwork on their Blogspot and Bluecanvas

What's your favorite media to create art with? Painting? Sculpture? Pen and Ink? 

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