Jean-Luc Moerman

Photographs from; http://www.flickr.com/photos/jean_luc_moerman

In our lecture I was introduced to the Belgium artist; Jean-Luc Moerman. The title of his work that I am looking at is called "Tattoo on Paper" as you can see from some of the images this collection is where he draws tribal style patterns onto famous celebrities and famous portraits. He takes the images from ad campaigns or portraits of celebrities and draws on top of them. The majority of his collections are drawn in black pen, however their is one that is in red which works well as the campaign is all red so ties in with the colour theme. I really like his work because of he uses people which you would not normally see with all this art work all over their body such as President Obama.  You can see from his work that he is strongly influenced by tribal makeup and patterns. I love how Bold his work is, his work is defiantly shocking and thought provoking and also makes you see the subjects in a different way. I can't wait to try this for myself I am going to rip some images out of magazines and have ago for myself. This will good practice for me to practice my free hand work and to start to generate tribal patterns and to see what works and what doesn't.