Stephen J Shanabrook

works of Body Parts
Links with my casting projects. Stephan casts body parts with plaster.
'man pointing to a broken Tooth' is a plaster cast of a severed hand.
http://www.stephenshanabrook.com/bodyparts6.htm
Shanabrook also uses this method in his 1999 work in which he uses goat foetuses and self portraits to assemble a finished piece.

works of Paper Surgery
I really like this idea as i have never seen this kind of composition before.
In recent times the want and need to become aesthetically 'perfect' as been turned on its head by Shanabrook as the piece turns peoples photographs into a disfigured form.
http://www.stephenshanabrook.com/papersurgery1.htm

Jenna Van Hasselt

SAHT

lithograph and silkscreen on various sewn and stuffed fabrics

"I love the constant challenge of being an artist and have always been driven by the wonderful feeling of creation. My work forms a personal documentation of my travels and experiences and there is a constant reference to the idea of place; routine and belonging.

I enjoy working with the planographic print processes of silkscreen and lithography to create one-off works on fabrics such as velvet, leather, rubber and wallpaper. My work is heavily layered and vibrant and is often mixed with painted elements as well as stitching and padding."

http://www.janna.co.nz/index.php

Jason Mecier

Jason Mecier uses random food products to produce portraits of well known personalities.

He also uses household objects, wool and make-up.

This is quite different to artists that i have looked at recently due to the fact that Mecier creates separate art as opposed to creating art onto the actual body.

http://www.jasonmecier.com/title.html

Painting People

Painting my friend allowed me to experiment and figure how to apply paint to a human figure.

Just using my fingers to apply the paint at first, I found this the best method as using brushes and sponges makes the paint lose the thickness that I liked.

I purchased several different shades of tester pots to see what colours and shades work best with skin tones. I found that the paint hardly lost its pigments and stayed vibrant and true to the original colour which is good when copying a design or pattern etc.

Painting Objects

Covering objects in emulsion gives the same effect at Ritzen and his figures.
I love the effect of the paint and how it piles up when a large amount is dropped onto the surface.
Mixing the colours slightly created a really great effect that could be copied onto a human body.

Zoe Bradley

http://www.zoebradley.com/