OCA FYW Assignment 2 Paint in the Style of another artist

'Make a painting in the style of a 20th or 21st century artist'.


I am going to endeavour to paint in the style of Moira Huntly. In brief:-


Moira Huntly studied at Harrow School of Art and Hornsey College of Art gaining a London University degree in Art Teaching. She is the current and first ever woman President of the Pastel Society UK and a Governor of the Federation of British Artists.

A teacher and writer on many subjects relating to the practice of drawing and painting, she is also a member of the Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolour, the Royal Society of Marine Artists and was elected to the RWA in 1995.

Moira exhibits widely in the UK and abroad, and has shown work in the Mystic Maritime Museum Connecticut, Crossgate Gallery, Kentucky, Societe des Pastellistes de France, Mercer Art Gallery Harrogate, Southampton City Art Gallery, and has regular solo exhibitions at the Alresford Gallery in Hampshire. She has won many awards including the first prize in the Laing National Painting Competition in 1986 and been a finalist three times in the Hunting Group Competition. Commissions and collections include Alcoa International, British Telecom, Consumers Association, Clwyd CC, Hampshire CC, Laing plc, National Museum of Wales, Nuclear Electric, Whitbread plc, etc


Moira is interested in marine subjects, buildings and industrial landscapes as well as figures and still life, and uses a variety of media including mixed media. She tries to keep a balance between realism and the abstract qualities she distils from the subject. Early influences have been Utrillo, Cezanne, Braque and John Minton.


Some paintings that spring to mind ............

Whistler Venice Pastel

Raoul Dufy Venice

Macke  The Market in Tunis 

Braque 

Paul Klee Northern Village 






and paintings of contemporary artists of Venice ......

Peter Kelly Sunlight and Rain Grand Canal

Moira Huntly Venice Backwater  

Moira Huntly Backwater, Venice

Christine Woodside Palazzo Gran Canal Venice 

Michael Morgan Venice remembered 

For 'painting in the style of' I want to paint in the style of Moira Huntly and also as a subject use Venice as I am traveling there ( ash cloud permitting ) in 10 days! my plan is to do copious sketching and small oil pochade paintings and then use that work to build up to something larger in the studio probably in mixed media. I would like the paintings to have a feeling of 'place' and colour rather than be detailed and too specific! 

As a first attempt I have sketched and painted in mixed media a subject that Moira Huntly has herself done - Lyme Regis. 

I am not happy with this predominantly pastel painting - the colours are wrong, the style is too tight and there is not enough mark making. 

Back from Venice ! 

In Venice I did a lot of sketching and oil pochade paintings. a sample of sketches as follows:- 

Ospedale Square 

The Rialto

St Marks Square 

Cafe people 

The Fish Market

First layer of painting based in Ospedale sketch

Colour being added 

Final Mixed media painting

First layer of St Marks in the Rain - black gessoed board and pastel 

subsequent layers 

adding figures taken from another sketch 

Final Mixed media painting 'Umbrellas at St Marks'

Oil pochade paintings done in situ

So to conclude - how do I feel I got in interms of 'painting in the style of ' Moira Huntley. Mixed feelings really - i was very happy with the amount of sketching that I achieved and very happy with the various oil pochade paintings that I did on the spot in Venice as well.  I have realised that to really emulate Moira Huntley my sketching should have been directly face on to the buildings and also my colour choices 9 particularly for the Ospedale picture were not right) to paint 'in the style of ' certainly made me think about things differently and use my resource material differently although I did not particularly like the end results of the mixed media paintings.