Serial Working Artist Proposal

I have chosen Wardell Milan as the inspiration for the serial working project. The content of his work is mostly flowers and figures. Milan applies pops of spontaneous color to subjects that are put in a plain and colorless setting. He abstracts his subjects by exaggerating colors and human bodily proportions. I appreciate his work for the loose, organic quality of the lines, and his use of selective color. I often try a selective color approach, but end up with a full color drawing. I think it would be a good challenge to practice the restraint that Milan shows, while still keeping the drawing as spontaneous looking as he does. For the content of my drawings I would like the focus to be human figures and dogs. I will show suggestions of a setting around them, but keep the background minimal like Milan does. By using Milan's methods, I will have to carefully plan my color choices so that I don't take it too far and loosen up my typical line drawing methods. Since there is a certain minimalism to Wardell Milan's work I think I can do more than 4 drawings, but human and animal figures can be difficult to draw, which makes 8 drawings sound intimidating. I will shoot for a series of six drawings.

Wardell Milan