Ivan Alifan's art is some of the most beautifully intricate and realistic art I have ever seen. His body of work focuses on huge paintings of people covered in thick substances like whipped cream and honey. The large size of his pieces lets him capture every small detail, shadow, and highlight that is made on his subjects. He sticks to a primarily pastel color scheme with lots of white which contrasts his somewhat impure subject matter. In addition to depicting faces and bodies, he paints abstracted and not so abstracted images of masturbation and sex. He does not do an underpainting or much of a sketch first- because I follow him on Instagram, I get to see his process and how he effortlessly puts paint onto the canvas and makes it look realistic. One thing I admire about his work is that he takes pretty much all of his reference photos for the paintings of people covered in cream. This way, he makes sure that he gets the perfect image he wants and he can adjust anything he needs to. I'd like to try and do this more with my work and really control my subject matter.
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June 2018
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