Art 44

Discovered some new (new to me) music - Fever Ray. Brilliantine, shadowy, somehow air and earth at the same time. Contradictory, I guess. And cool. The few accompanying video clips I've seen so far are amazing, too. This one is Stranger Than Kindness:



I love the feeling that it's a piece of story, that there's a beginning and an end - an explanation - somewhere we can't see.


Meanwhile... I finally got around to doing a little more work on a texture I've been making for Second Life. The octopus one, remember? As referenced in this post. Quite pleased with how it's turning out.

Look, i figured out where to put the trident!

I'm also trying* to finish something in time for Xmas. I've planned two different things - a slightly creepy picture, and a sort of slick, modish one. Both digital photo-collages. Have made progress on the slightly creepy one so far. Creepy... actually, I find it amusing. It's called Christmas Is Coming To Get you, and features a kind of Xmas golem.
*-sort of. It's possible I'm a little lazy and/or distracted.

The snow-covered pines are sourced from morguefile, a lovely free photo reference place.
I haven't started the slick, modish one yet, which is a little unfortunate, given that i was planning to use it as xmas cards this year.

That's it for now. I'll try to post again before Xmas!

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.

Art 6

Tomorrow (well, later today, but after the sun rises) my sister and I will be going to the local art gallery to see 'The Syndicate', an exhibition by Simon Gilby. This runs 'til the 30th of May. I'm well looking forward to it, the pictures on the pamphlet are very intriguing. Click here for Simon Gilby's website. Looks brilliant, yeah?

Currently working on a picture on the computer inspired by a song called Eyes On Fire, by Blue Foundation. It's on the Twilight soundtrack... sigh. I haven't read any of the Twilight series, or seen the movie. I plan to see the movie One Day, but... meh. Anyway, the picture is a collage, of sorts. It isn't about vampires. When finished I'll put it up on deviantart.com, and link it here.

I often find that music inspires me to art. Sometimes it's something related directly to the song or musician, and sometimes it's just the feel I get from the music.

In regards to the food posts on this blog - from henceforth I'll attempt to fill in any picture gaps caused by missing/forgotten photos with sketches made in Paint. Quick cheap and nasty. :)