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Fine Art approaches to Figure and Face

a group designed for people who approach both figure and portrait in a fine art fashion, clothed or nude, using original medium processes such as graphite, paint, mixed media etc.

Recent Work

Whitechapel by Natasha Zraikat

Mixed Media on Canvas
the weight of knowledge by donnamalone

ink and gouache on old book page with dedication
The Artist Is The Art(1) by martinz

Nude Drawing / Pastel ink pencil on 180gsm gesso coated papeR / ..... / The artist is the art / The images are impressions of a moment in the artists life / An image on it’s own is meaningless / each image is a fragment of the whole-communication-sharing a connection / Artists never arrive never achieve an ultimate goal / just take another step / art is the doing not because he wants to but because he has to / The artist is the art-that’s what I believe
Golden Boy by Alma Horn

Oil on stretched canvas 900×1300 mm Top 10 in a Challenge in the Group SA Rainbow Nation Dedicated to Roney, who lived with his little brother on the streets in São Paulo and was tragically murdered in 2008 at the age of 12. Their lives have been pretty much guided by fate and fortune, like most other kids on the streets of the big cities in the world. An unstable childhood due to their mother’s alcoholism, has led them to end up on the streets full-time. It is unacceptable that 21st century children are still at risk on the streets. Carf Brazil, was established by Gregory J. Smith in São Paulo in 1993, to benefit the street children of Brazil by defending their rights and offering them a dignified solution so that they could live and grow within a family-oriented context and healthy social environment. As Grerory quotes, Albert Einstein said: _The world is a dangerous place. Not because of the people who are evil; but because of the people who don’t do anything about it. Sales from this painting will be donated to CARF who assists in the rehabilitation of street children in Diadema, São Paulo, Brazil. Read this poem Golden Boy written by Rhenastarr, who was inspired by this painting.
Street Life by Duncan Morgan

Spray painted stencil on ply. Perhaps my favorite work to date…hope you enjoy. She is a child surviving life in the slums of Mumbai. Credit for the original photograph used as inspiration for this piece belongs to Cameron MacMaster (www.froznmotion.com).
Golden Girl by Andy Beck

Original Painting Details: / 2009 / Acrylic on Canvas / 40×40 cm
Please Don't Cry by Valentina Henao

Soft Pastel on paper / 2009 Featured in Self Expression
Sanguine Nude by Kerryn Madsen-Pietsch

Medium: Gesso, sanguine pastel on Arches 300gsm rag paper, 76×56 cm (30×22”). / Worked directly from a life model in my studio gallery, this work combines both drawing and painting skills. I have a love/passion for embellishing, building up a surface with both actual and implied textural qualities. / / WORKS ON PAPER- ‘Two (2) Colours’ Challenge / In TOP TEN – In 2nd place (mid-July 09) / Click on the image link below to see the challenge page. / A Monthly FEATURE (June 09) / in Life Session Expressions / “Life Session Expressions” Challenge “No. Favouritings – in The Top Ten
Everything Happens For A Reason by Valentina Henao

Self-Portrait Acrylic on Paper / 141×150 cm (55.5×59 inches) / 2007 Featured in Self Expression

About This Group

This is a group for those artists out there whose work, focuses on figure and faces, as their MAIN subject within the piece.

Within this genre, the group is aimed towards artists whose work is created using traditional mediums and processes

I created this group with my fine art experiences in mind. i would like to see work focusing on formal elements such as line, light, composition, use of media, colour, i don’t want to see the traditional..(no offence) but boring everyday style portrait, we want to see new approaches that widen our knowledge and experiences of what can be created and captured.

This is a perfect group for us to explore each others work and techniques and discover how different the approaches can be for such a widely covered subject.

See the group rules and join this group here