Artist Statement
The works I am talking about are from my series of paintings called The Slasher Scene, three paintings from three classic slasher movies, the three paintings are of Jason Voorhees from Friday the 13th, Billy Loomis from Scream, and Freddy Krueger from Nightmare on Elm Street. My art style is realism, with a small touch of semi-realism in the shading of the clothing on each piece. My artwork was specifically influenced by the scenes each painting came from so I could say that the movies themselves influenced my paintings. I used acrylic paint on three 18x24in canvases. I started with a layer of watered-down paint over top of the sketch, before going in and painting the background, then moving onto the main subject, which I did for all three. The style for this series of paintings is realism. I have learned more about blending and mixing colors to get the right shade and hue with acrylic paint while doing the works of art. I also learned within my artwork not to be afraid to use larger splotches of color, then going in with smaller brushes to further mix and blend the colors, without worrying about how much or how little paint I need, also something I realized while doing and working on the three paintings. I think my favorite painting in the series of three paintings is the painting of Billy Loomis, one of the killers in Scream. Honestly, it is probably the detailing of the fake blood that covers Billy, since it’s super detailed and looks like actual blood with the shading. If I could go back and change something about the Scream piece, I would change the lighting in his face, mostly because the shading is a little bit more gray than brown, and I think it might look a bit better if the shading on the face was a little bit more pronounced, especially around the eyes, since his eyebags are a bit more pronounced in the original scene. The most challenging aspect of the Scream painting was painting the voice box and gun were probably the more surprising parts, mostly because I don’t paint many still objects, and it was a bit tricky to get the proper shading onto the handgun he is holding. The voice box was way more simple since it was a small white box, and the only challenging aspect of it was getting the details correct, because the voice box is an important piece of the scene and the movie’s plot. I would like to say that the paintings surprisingly have only one common thing in unity, which happens to be the blood-red. Also, they were a pain to drag to and from school as I was working on them, since they are 18x24 inches, and slightly harder to carry than the smaller canvases.