Creative Influences

Lucian Freud

Kehinde Wiley

Lucian Freud was a German-born British painter. He was well known for his thickly impastoed portrait and figure paintings. Kehinde Wiley is a New York-based portrait painter, who is known for his highly naturalistic paintings of contemporary urban African, African-American, Afro-Brazilian, Indian, and Ethiopian-Jewish men in heroic poses. I've done a lot of research on these two great artist and I absolutely love their work. The big difference between my work and theirs is that they work in a much larger scale than I do, but I will surely like to create works as big as theirs if not bigger. Other than that, I can't really explain any other difference between our works because I actually try to incorporate their styles into my work; the realism like Wiley and the thickness of brush strokes like Freud.