Joseph Mallord William Turner
Turner was an artist whose work I had put up in my studio space right near the start of this semester. I first started to look at his work because of his subject matter which linked in with my own project.
I then became interested in Turner’s almost dusky looking seascape paintings as these inspired me the most out of his works. What inspired me was his use of colour; his paintings seem to have an almost muted colour pallet which creates the dusky look, however they are still vivid and eye catching.
I really love Turner’s smaller works on paper as these are less figurative than some of his larger pieces and this is what links in with my own work. A lot of the smaller sketch book work I have done is very abstract compared with the larger paintings I have done so far. However the colours I have used do not really resemble Turner’s softer colour pallet.
I think as my project progresses I will look at Tuner’s work in much more depth. However for now I just wanted to talk about why I have put pictures of his work up in my studio space and what I like about his work.
