Planning

I could limit myself to using these colours to replicate Glenns style:

Constants in his work:

Blue background
Primary / tertiary colour face
few flesh tones
Blue as the main colour
White is always used
Muddy in places

Observations:

Uses oil to create interesting brush strokes - wild and unconstricted

How i will do it:

Use photoshop
Try various brushes and effects to get the style
Layer up colours
Use liquify
Choose a portrait done by a famous artist (next page)
Use tablet
Do a portrait

GLENN BROWN

Inspiration:

Colour
shapes
Angle
Detail
Backgrounds
Brushes used
Vibrancy
Sketches
Subject
Paint effect
Liveliness
Reworks traditional art
Alien

Thomas lawrence

Because Glenn Brown transforms other artists work into his own, I have chosen to use Thomas Lawrence's work as my reference.

response

This is my response to Glenn's work. I chose to work from this image because I felt it had the most potential for experimentation with his style e.g. with the shoulders missing, I wanted to have the effect of paint dripping down. I used the liquify tool on Photoshop to make it look like acrylic paint and dragged the colours off in various directions to give it the chaotic feel of Glenn's paintings. I kept it similar to his style by basing it on his portrait and keeping the primary colour scheme (yellow skin, red hat and blue background).