Illustration Art

Artists Describing Their Art:

Alletta Remillard - My work focuses on expressionist portraits, depicting various characters alongside self-representations. I draw inspiration from the intricate details of the human form skin folds, veins, membranes, and muscles. Its these underlying features, such as blood vessels, that I leverage to tell a story or represent a moment in my life. I explore themes of identity, existentialist anxiety, and safety within these. Influenced by anatomy, gore and horror, as well as human experiences, my art serves as a visual narrative, as experienced over the past year of my life. Working with acrylic paints, oil pastels, and chalk pastels, I blend these materials creating an organic effect. Color plays a large role in my work to convey intensity and depth. Although color may not contribute to the realism of the body, it nevertheless serves to highlight the forms I wish to emphasize. I create my work in many thin layers with large brush strokes. Large brushes allow for an organic flow throughout each work, bringing the viewer back to the purpose pieces of the body. ...