Continued...

I think everybody's nuts

Style is a way of saying who you are without having. to speak

Stitch, Acrylic paint and oil pastel.

...Maybe not in that order...

You can tell a lot about a person by their shoes.

Blue Biro observation of my Converse.

Why are you trying so hard to fit in when you were born to stand out?

What did I do before Photoshop?

I'm not crazy, my reality is just different than yours.

A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.

With Lady Gaga as the soul subject of this duplicate, I have adapted my previous efforts to involve colour, and incorporate my study of feathers by converging feathers into the subject’s hair. It could be said the composition is staged to present Gaga with a naturalistic tone to her image, ironic as she is a symbol of materialism manipulating her image with, surgery, make up and dramatic apparel, this is supported by 2009 release ‘Bad Romance’ featuring a sequin embellished jump suit. The contribution of peacock feathers and dark gradual tones to the image conjures a much less intimidating feel compared to the first approach (please refer to the post ‘love is like a brick’ for visual), this concludes that by fluctuating different aspects of the same image I have shaped a completely different message and therefore meaning.

And I was born this way.

 

 

Lady Gaga by pastel chalk

Love is like a brick, you can build a house or sink a dead body.

To be continued...

You cannot expect the form before the idea, for they will come into being together

 

Peacock

Using a vocabulary of mark making skills such as; painting with my paint brush attached to a ruler, drawing and painting left handed and using my hands and cutlery, I feel I have demonstrated a layered variety of mark making. I created this secondary observation from a photograph I took of a peacock using, Indian ink, oil pastels, pencils, poster paint and chalk. Using a body of layers and techniques has helped me identify that expressive mark making is not something you aim to look real, you distort the image for a fundamentally emotional response.

In the words of Wassily Kandinsky,

"The artist must train not only his eye but also his soul"

 

It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds.

Developing my body of observational studies, I took to Peacock feathers and presented them realistically using the rules of line. The second peacock feather, that positioned behind the lower feather is an identifiable path created by a point in moving space, its width, direction and space all direct the viewer’s attention around the composition of the image, particularly to the forefront feather, thus making the eye of the peacock feather the focal point of the image.  

I do not paint a portrait to look like the subject, rather does the person grow to look like his portrait.

I didn't create this image of myself to fit together as such, but to rather lift itself from the page. The direction of line, textures and overall idea convey that this is an uncomfortable image, like it somehow doesn’t want to unify as a piece; in fact the only aspect of this image working together is the journey from light to dark: the black and white colour scheme. This implies a much more abstract and personal image compared to my previous pieces, almost reeking of emotion. For myself, this is not a simple question of whether I like or dislike it; rather that it is a piece of me coming to terms on paper.

I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it.

Little ink drops

I thought I would introduce my work to a little bit of textiles, in this moment, Batik. 

A picture holds a thousand words

...Literally

This piece is constructed purely of the single quote "You know, you could live a thousand life times and not deserve him" melancholic, I know. This is an image of actor Josh Hutcherson, specifically playing Peeta Mellark in 'The Hunger Games'. 

I love the Hunger Games, and adore Peeta's character because he is a selfless lover. The narrative needs him; the narrative is overcrowded by darkness, Katniss losing her family, the injustice of the games and a rebellion. Peeta is the rock of the story, to bring light into the darkness.
In using text to illustrate my image I discovered I had to be selective over which details I highlighted, conveniently developing my use of chiaroscuro in the same feat.

Pen and paper

So recently I have been doing a lot of Biro work convoluted from the understanding of continuous lines and portraiture. I will be the first to admit that this isn't a revolutionary addition to my body of work, however, it is the facial expression which has motivated this post. The vacant expression contrasts with the fact the eyes are looking directly into the audience, implying an idea of intrusion to the image, we have been caught in the act of looking at someone who either wasn't prepared or didn't want to be looked at. The irony being we have, this piece of work was intended for a dear friend of mine as a birthday present evoking the concept of this not being an abstract piece of work but an intimate image intended for the subject. 

The wonderful works of Evard Munch

 So, my first post I have decided to dedicate to wonderful works of Edvard Munch. If you have had such the pleasure of exhibiting subjects such as: The scream, The sick child, Madonna and Exaggeration in the service of truth, you properly would have noticed the reoccurring themes of sexual liberation, chronic illness, religion and human mortality, all of which are questionable topics for an eighteenth century audience.

Madonna (1894-95)

Madonna. The contemporary image uses soft brush strokes to illustrate the Virgin Mary in a less impervious manner. The only modesty is held by the images eyes thus suggesting a provocative tone not accustomed to the usual Renaissance perception of the Mother of Christ, in doing so, Munch has abolished any preconceptions of this figure, by the wild hair, the provocative body language and the blood red halo, Munch has striped the character of her status, and shown her for something much more relatable, something rather human. Whilst this would have provoked a lot of people at the time, it was different, he didn’t conform to the social stereotypes and rather experiments with the nature of his own spirituality.