Vlad Kulkov is an artist born in Latvia, Liepaya in 1986. He graduated from Saint-Petersburg Art and Industry academy. His work has been exhibited in Arterloga,- Moscow, The Armory show, Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Moscow Museum of Modern Art and The Hort Family Collection. Kulkov now lives, studies and works in Saint Petersburg, Russia.
His work is created using different coloured markers, producing both harsh and rounded marks. He works onto paper, sometimes using ink too.
I have been influenced by Kulkov's work as the unity between the marks interests me and reminds me of camouflage. Accents of fluorescent pink contrast the green and provide an interesting element to the piece with makes the observer inquisitive to what this is representing. I began using permanent markers but I found that these marks were too thick for the small scale that I was working on. The piece that I am currently working on is a mixed media drawing of a fusilier. I have used newspaper, photographs from London, white emulsion paint, 6B pencil, graphite and black biro in this drawing. Over the top of this I am working in the style of Kulkov by creating similar rounded marks using ball point pen and crayon as this is a finer medium for the scale that I am working on. I am using black biro to create the darker areas and crosshatching areas to add more tonal representation. Using a green crayon adds subtle colour to the background, these marks are short and straight but arranged in a curved fashion like Kulkov does. A bright pink ball point pen is providing most of the colour but I think I am going use red,yellow and blue over this as these are the colours that are in the photographs on the page.
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