Artist research and trying not to stay in my comfort zone.

So far this semester I have drawn up three stones, I have really enjoyed starting to explore the limits of portraiture using lithography as my medium. With these three stones I have predominantly used a touche wash to create the portraits but now moving onto my fourth stone and progressing late into the semester I would like to explore something a little different.

Doing some artist research I came across the following artists whose work I think will help me move forward out of my comfort zone to expand my thought process and improve my current portraiture work, these are;

- Edvard Munch - lithographs

- Wenceslaus Hollar - engravings and etchings

- Edmund Blampied - etchings

- Henri Matisse - lithographs

- Theodore Roszak - lithographs

- Diego Rivera - lithographs

- Théodore Géricault - lithographs

- Alexandre-Marie Colin - lithographs

- Léon Cogniet - lithographs

{see below some of their works which have been collected from public domains)

Theodore Gericault, Boxers,

Leon Cogniet, Portrait of Théodore Gericault, 1824

Alexandre Marie Colin, Portrait of Théodore Gericault, 1824

What I really got out of finding all these artists is seeing all the individual ways in which they approach portraiture within printmaking. Moving forward I want to try creating some more delicately drawn, realist portraits (like the new stone I have started below) and see where it leads me..