Charlotte Caron

Caron is a French artists who graduated with a fine art, honour in 2011. Her pieces are divided into four section- landscape, portraits, anatomy and vanities. These portraits series shows human in photographs which had paint on top of them, producing an animal features on the face instead of leaving the humans. Her artworks are very unrealistic and dreamy. Caron pieces give out the idea of animal like behaviour impression.

Colour mixing is very important to her. She uses DSLR to take her human images to get good quality. Caron uses different brushes like small brushes, using them for the stroke of hair on the beak and larger brushes to create shape.

I have decided to choose this piece of her work because I love how the vivid colours blend well and complement each other. The use of her limited two tones colour reminds me of a ghost and the movement of the tin lines dripping down reminds me of a running river. The lines are quite scrappy but yet creates interesting details. At first when I saw this I thought it was simple but it is very complicated especially since she uses acrylic paint. But the technique of painting is very difficult as you have to think about the lines, the brushes and firmness you use because it has a huge impact on paintings. The idea of the mask covering the model's entire face shows that the person is hiding their dignity and trying to become someone else no one knows.

The light and dark areas give out tone showing where the light was reflecting while the artists was painting this piece. Also looking at her pieces of work, you began to question yourself why did she use animal on the entire human face, but when you study this clearly you will begun to understand that animals and us are all the same. We were somehow made from these creatures which shows although we might be good on the outside but inside we are all animals full with evil on earth.

Although I do really like her artwork and love her technique but I will not be doing too much study on her, however, the use of her subject of giving humans different dignity make me inspired to actually think about something like this but, I will not be using her technique or doing a respond to her work, as she is not someone who is quite relevant to final outcome.

http://laurencarrphoto.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/charlotte-caron-analysis.html

 http://beautifuldecay.com/2013/05/31/photographed-portraits-and-painted-animal-masks-by-charlotte-caron/