painting - research

nicholas uribe

Nicholas Uribe is an American artist currently based in Colombia. He is not a big name in terms of popularity, however he's somebody I follow on Instagram and somebody who's work I really admire. He is very active on social media, often doing live videos and sessions of his paintings, showing off his technical skills whilst also teaching the audience too. He works in a variety of media and posts a lot of sketches to his socials, however it's the acrylic and oil paintings I'm most interested in. The subjects of his paintings aren't anything particularly interesting, the characters depicted don't usually display much emotion, but it's the expression of Uribe's own work which is intriguing. He loves to be very thick and expressive with his marks, not just using basic skin tones either, but adding blues and greens and reds in the shadows to create that more realistic sense of depth.

   

   

   

Angela Sung

Angela Sung is a travelling artist who tours the world painting various subjects in often random locations. She is not well known, but I follow her Instagram and she is one of my favourite contemporary painters whom take inspiration from myself. Her colour palette is one of the most intriguing things about her work. It's not always representative of what she's seeing. The colours are often exaggerated and made to be much more vibrant than they should be. The block colours give an almost digital feel to her paintings sometimes. There also tends to be a lot of fine edges between surfaces and tones, which would suggest she uses thick, flat brushes to apply the paint in such a linear manner, which I like the look of actually. I think the expression of these strokes in what defines her work.