Modigliani Art

At the start of the years when I have Mrs Hancock, she would get us to do a self 
portrait to get put up on the wall. This year she found pictures from an artist called 
Amedeo Modigliani. Before we started the art we did a bit of research on Modigliani 
and I found out that most of his portraits are of lady’s and they have very poor detail.
Also he did them in dark and dull colors that don’t stand out.  Our portraits are a 
little different because we are using bright colors black outlines.

The features of his art are long necks maybe about twice as long then they normally
are, eyes higher than normal practically on their forehead, longer noses and very 
dull and 
dark colours. In Modigliani’s art some of portraits eyes have no pupils so they look 
pretty creepy to me.

Mrs Hancock found some step by step Modigliani portraits of how to draw yourself, first 
of all we had to divide an A3 piece of paper into eight boxes and then draw the body, the long neck and the head. Then we drew the high eyes, long nose, mouth and hair. Instead 
of dark and dull colours we had to do bright pastel colours. Since my hair is the dirty 
blonde colours I mixed yellow, brown, silver and gold, for the background we had to do pastel so I did pink with blue, yellow, purple and green dots.

The things I found frustrating about my art was the long necks because when I draw I have to get the neck looking normal otherwise it looks odd (to me). Also the pastel when it smudges.