17,5 x 26 cm

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A couple of months ago I had a spontaneous itch to try out oil pastels, so I did.

The itch just happened to be during a school assignment I had to create a series of works based on a research question we set ourselves. I ended up with 5 drawing in what little time I had there. So watch out for some other ones coming.

For those curious, I put the description of the series below. I had that placed beside the drawings at the mini-exhibition the school hosted. I think some of the writing might apply to my digital work as well.

Overall it was very insightful to try and imitate the gimmicks I learned in the digital world and transfer them onto paper. The main thing that helped me with the sharp edges was the butter knife.

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The series is an exploration of the human body, its patterns of bone structure, and muscles. The subject made out of organic matter is broken into pieces and reconstructed geometrically. Some of the shapes were drawn instinctively and others were carefully placed to highlight the bone and muscle landmarks.

His work was inspired by his fascination with Egon Schiele, as well as the intensity of expressionism, and cubism. What crossed his path while working on this series was Marcel Duchamp's 'Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2' and Umberto Boccioni's sculpture 'Unique Forms of Continuity in Space.' While the reasons for the deconstruction in these two pieces were in search of finding movement in the stillness, they both used the means of deconstruction for research of the human body as a visual matter.

The figures were sketched with a pencil as groundwork for a question, which is then abstractly resolved with oil pastel. Every depicted pose had its shapes tailor-made for it. The shapes are not there to portray things as they are. Instead, they playfully highlight the parts that make our body so interesting to digest through art.