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Saturday, 13 December 2014

Ivan Hoo

Well, who is Ivan Hoo? He is a visual artist and art instructor from Singapore. As a self taught artist, he has been constantly drawing since a very young age. He focuses on hyper-realistic drawings and still life drawings of everyday things, and prefers to work with dry mediums such as pastel but would like to do more paintings in the future. 

Recently, he has been working on wood with pastel. Yes, wood. A medium from which paper is derived from, yet has a completely different texture. Below are some of his works:






One thing that absolutely baffles me about his work is that once the drawing is complete, the grain of the wood disappears beneath the image. I always thought that would have an effect on the drawing, making it more difficult to produce but Hoo makes it look as easy as pie.After a closer observation of his drawings, he appears to create a base layer of colour first, from which he builds more solid colour blocks before adding in the finer colour and detail. His artwork is rule astonishing and at a first glance, I actually thought they were photographs. 

Although I work in a completely different medium, I could still reflect his way of working by working up the base layers and adding the detail, which I definitely need to start doing as I just dive straight in, head for the details and then get frustrated when it doesn't work as half of it is complete and the other isn't.

What have I learnt from this artist? Don't believe everything you see at first glance.

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