Visual+arts+painting

For Lesson 5 I was to choose two paintings that stood out from the rest. Since I would normally not purchase art, this was something that was new to me. Skimming through the different web sites, reviewing tons and tons of different talented artists work pieces made me realize how much talented people surround us! The two paintings I chose are quite different from each other in the styles alone. They stood apart from the rest for many different reasons that I will explain.
The first painting that I came across that stood out to me was titled Alone by Mahesh Sejpal. This was an original edition and the process that Mahesh chose to use was oil paint and the support was on a board. The artist used a representational approach with different values ranging from white to black. The first thing I notice is a how the artist used the young man as the single mass in his painting. This would be considered the focal point of the painting. The tall young man whose face is covered with his hair, it seems as if he is trying to hide his emotions from the world. But with the colorless painting you can tell the mood is not a happy one. Mahesh also used a technique which is called linear perspective, more specifically a vanishing point. This vanishing point is just beyond the lake, the woods, and then the point disappears. There are heavy dark clouds that are rolling in from above, it is as if this also gives some insight as to how the young man is feeling inside, “heavy & dark”.
There are just a few things that the paintings have in common, they are both representational paintings meaning artwork that is relatable or familiar to most and each of the artists chose to use oil paints as their process. Oil painting maybe the most preferred method, it consists of a compounded pigment with oil. The second original painting that stood out to me was a naturalistic piece that was titled My Thai Sunbrella by an artist named Iris Scott. There were many reasons why this bright, colorful