Initially, Silke Werzinger influenced me through the use of illustrative style portraits in her work, which introduced me to a variety of shading and ‘texture emphasising’ techniques. I also admired her use of colour and shape in individual outcomes as each portrait expressed a variety of bold pattern and strong line-work forms, to create an array of highly detailed faces and bodies. In addition, her excessive use of mixed media and layering in each piece inspired me to use more than one technique or surface to work from to create further elements of texture and detail.
The style of portraiture that she uses is interesting as there is a variety of angles and perspectives involved in the models that she has worked from, giving me ideas for my own outcomes and photo-shoots leading up to the final piece. The strengths that I have found and developed during the research of the artist are mainly in use of bold colours and pattern that contrast with an illustrative line work portrait. This is evident in the self-portrait which features in my book, where I used layers of drawings and patterned backgrounds to create a portrait in the style of Werzinger. On the other hand, weaknesses that I have found are in the slight lack of detail that can be found in photo realism portraits or other mediums and materials, however this is due to the clean, illustrative style.
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