Showing posts with label mental illness. Show all posts
Showing posts with label mental illness. Show all posts

Saturday, August 28, 2010

Art 19

Been all over the place tonight, groovin good one moment, nearly in tears the next. Bleh.

Anyway, first of all, I've just (only a couple minutes ago) stumbled upon what looks like a very interesting/ wonderful/ cool/ fancy sculpture thing, by Amanda Stuart. It's a bunch of dogs running through the grass.
Prompted by a (thrash metal) song, I googled 'mongrel country', and found this installation thing. Stolen pics:

From here

From here (scroll down)
From here
Awesome, yeah? :D I'm sort of naturally a cat person, but I love dogs too. They're so joyous. Mongrel Country, by the way, is a band from Perth, Western Australia. A song of theirs called Long Pig appears on a mental-health-related sort of promotional cd called What If We Talked About Music The Same Way We Talk About Mental Illness? Has some okay music on it, and a few quite good songs.

Anyway! I did say I was going to post the rest of the SL shape pics in the 'next' post (which is this post), but now I wanna talk about a painting I did tonight instead. Yay, paint.
Long long ago I had some fun with impasto gel and acrylics, meaning to paint some sort of... I think it was Morgana, and an ape wearing a crown and a leash (actually, that still sounds like a pretty good idea).
Anyway, I got as far as the background and lost interest. So I've had this heavily-impasto'd canvas laying around for a couple years, and tonight I finally decided to put something on it. I was loosely inspired by tiny elephant genius, a short wondefully cute and beautiful comic by Buttersafe, so the painting is of a tiny elephant observing a mobius strip. I'm thinking very tentatively about entering into a survey thing, so I don't want to upload any pics of it in case it gets selected.
First I had to make a tiny elephant out of origami, to use as a model. Then, after the painting was finished, there was lot of tinted impasto gel left, so I'm coating the origami model with impasto.

Still still cutting the cut-outs for the cryptomnesia piece. About half-way through. It's possible I won't end up doing anything with 'em after all, but that's okay.