The former party girl and famous model Jodie Marsh, transformed her slender physic for a ripped muscular form. Pushing her body to its absolute limits. She trained for 8hours per day over 7 days, for 8 gruelling weeks. Jodie Marsh from Essex finished 5th in a qualifier for the Natural Physique Association British Championships.
There was a lot of controversy about her body shape and I managed to find her intiview that she did with Philip Schofield and Holly Willoughby on this morning.http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=this+morning+jodie+marsh&FORM=VIRE8#view=detail&mid=50595EF9E7148AD34AC750595EF9E7148AD34AC7
Before and after.
With the female nude society recognise beauty and accept it in the public eye. With regards to painting the female nude, artists have portrayed there idealised versions of beauty and truth, and suppose one of the things that has made me look more into body building women is too see if society believes that this change in women’s physic is still beautiful, or is it frowned upon because they are different and do not follow the traditional norm of purity and submissive.
Jenny Saville said that the best way for her to paint her subjects was to understand all she could about that chosen subject. For example if she was painting a women with stretch marks she would research medical books to understand why they accrue so she could create a accurate conclusion.
Taking a page from Savilles book I have done a little research of my own about my chosen subject on female body builders. Majority of people that I have spoken to when discussing Female bodybuilders has resulted in a debate about steroid use. Because it is not the natural order for a female to be a big as a man, I looked for stories about women that had taken steroids and came across this article on the daily mail online website.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2471523/Steroids-turned-man–The-female-bodybuilder-drug-habit-left-penis-facial-hair.html
The Degree Show is fast approaching, and its time to stop and think about how and what we are going to display and where. I have made up four canvases that are about 5ft high. On these I am going to paint my female nudes. The idea I have to display them is to fix them onto brackets that extend them out from the wall at an angle so they are leaning down. This effect will compel the audience to look up at these muscular women. Thus creating power and status to the image. The figure dominating male or female viewers that gaze upon them.
Jenny Saville did something similar to this idea in one of her works Prop-1993. This monumental work depicts a unflattering image of a female nude that has been propped on a stool looking down at the audience. Forcing the viewer to look up at this unconventional woman, giving the subject the control, and to dominate the audience.
Usually when I create a greyscale painting I paint the background first, but because I had already painted the canvas Magnolia to prime it, I decided to leave it and keep the raw material colour of the canvas. By doing this I was enable to include the colour of the background through my figure. As I progress with the figure the background is starting to appear more blank and empty, focusing the attention away from the figure with all the negative space behind it. Some of my peers suggested a light colour wash over the work. I thought this was a good idea but the only downfall is that I don’t usually have colour mixed in with my grayscale paintings so it would derive away from my style of work. I might try and paint a grey scale background but I will have to be carful that it doesn’t drain the energy away from my figure.
Bit my bit my form is starting to take shape. The magnolia background is still visible through the paint in areas as i haven’t layered the paint on thick at this moment in time. Parts of the form i have left bare on purpose so that you can see the bare background as part of the persons skin. The gaze is strong on the image i have created. Sourcing this image has not just come from one particular image it ranges from different photographs that i have collage together as a process through painting.
