Paint, Paint, Paint

I started to paint and never got around to finishing, I have tried to continue but feel there is just something missing from these so until I can fix it I shan't be painting anymore.





hmmmm.......

New Thinking

Other artists I have started looking at,

Eva Hesse



Janine Antoni and her use of unconventional markmaking



Jeff Koons



And Jean-Michel Basquiat





I shall see where this takes me next...

Stalker of the Subways

Keith Haring

Jon Burgerman, doodle master

Scribbled, bizarre characters, have inspired my own drawings, provoking me to take a more free approach to my doodling, dont think just do attitude.

He Lives...

My creatures live, aren't they beautiful? Made from old carrier bags, i chose the ones with bright and vibrant colours owing to my researching and taking influence from the CoBrA movement...

Felt it up!

I experimented making felt shapes from my doodles.




What if I stuff these small creatures I have created...

In The Beginning....

Felt Making
Weaving

Lips, yummy

a few pieces from the "ideas" process which is where I started as I had no idea what I wanted to do.

CoBrA

Art movement which rejected the traditions of figurative and abstract painting, instead using both they worked to create a style without preconcieved plan, using fantasy and lots of colour to liberate the creativity of all mankind. Showing that this could be interpretted and created by anyone, even those not really interested in the art scene, it was percieved as childlike and it was created with no real agender, except to be a little playful and free.

Karon Appel

The imagery is almost childlike, very primative, like the cave drawings of the Australian aboriginals only with more vibrant colours.

Presentation

I havent posted for some time which is very bad of me, and now i have a presentation to panic myself about. 20 - 30 minutes long regarding content and context of my work, ok so i know i probably could write a pretty extensive piece of writting regarding this but to actually get up and talk in front of a group of people is another kettle of fish. my palms get sweaty, my voice shakes, i get a dry mouth. note to self take a bottle of water.

Anyway, i am to add images etc.. to here and access this during my presentation and that way the entire group can see exactly what it is i am talking about. so off i go.

The Art of Noel Fielding

I have managed to find some images of work done by Noel Fielding but not much is available.

A couple of paintings...

...and a doodle.

The work is very reminiscent of the CoBrA movement...

Mod Wolves Song

The Mighty Boosh

Cult tv show starring Noel Fielding and Julian Barratt.



The imagery contained in the show, all the animated characters in the title sequence and many of the characters within the show are devised by the wonderful Noel Fielding out of his imagination. Brought to life from scribbles and doodles.

For example Mod Wolves:


Video posted above this.

Aboriginal Art

Ever since purchasing a rain maker covered in the trademark aboriginal style of painting using dots I've been intregued. the symbols used in Aboriginal artworks all have meanings for example:

I found a few images that I liked mostly depicting what I think are people which leads me to believe its not true aboriginal if a person is supposed to be symbolised as a half moon shape why in these images are they portrayed as thin, elongated bodies?

These remind me of dream like images, whimsical and unreal. A bit like my own doodlings.

The artwork of the Aboriginals reminds me of the "scribblings" of Mighty Boosh character Vince Noir (real name, Noel Fielding) he uses a similar style to create his pictures which can be seen hanging on the walls of the flat he shares with Howard Moon (Julian Barrett), Naboo (Micheal Fielding) and Bollo (Dave Brown) in Series 2 of the hit show.

Priscilla Hernandez

I found this woman, Prescilla Hernandez, who has some amazing photos that she has done with the theme of faeries.

Check her out at http://www.yidneth.com/ she is a gothic singer/songwriter and fantasy illustrator. Some truely amazing work.

Faeries

A fairy (fey or fae or faerie; collectively wee folk, good folk, people of peace, and other euphemisms) is the name given to alleged benevolent metaphysical spirit or supernatural being.

I became interested in faeries after being involved in a primary school version of A Midsummer Nights Dream by William Shakespeare. Titannia was my favourite, the Queen of the Faeries.

I decided to create some images depicting the existance of Faeries using Photoshop, heres what i came up with...







I thought these were quite nice images, blended quite well to give that supernatural feel to them, like the camera has only just managed to capture the elusive creatures.

New Year, New Project

I really should have gotten round to writing a post sooner than this. The new term started 6 weeks ago, i am over half way through my time for the first project.

I found myself lost on inspiration and really wasnt sure as to what to do for this year, so I decided i would do a little task i did way back in college and that was the 50 interests project, come up with 50 interests, look into some of the more prominent ones, ones that give me ideas and decide from there where to go, ideas with the most in common.

So my 50 interests:

• Japanese Culture
• Vaginas
• Fairytales
• Flowers
• Faeries
• Magic
• Fantasy
• Weaving
• Aboriginal art
• Feltmaking
• Papermaking
• Bookmaking
• Skin
• Tattoos
• Piercings
• Punk
• Voodoo
• Zen
• Dreams
• Debbie Harry
• Herbs for Healing
• Plastic Surgery
• Linoprinting
• Cubism
• Ballet
• Hand studies
• Photography
• Dolls
• Digital Manipulation
• Lips
• Animated drawings (doodly sketches)
• Forensic Science
• The Mighty Boosh
• Raves
• Collecting things
• Buddhism
• Vinyls
• Hats
• Poetry
• Nursery Rhymes
• Masks
• Carnival
• Comics
• Crosses
• Music
• Minis
• Casinos
• 80's Fashion
• Bondage

So i'm looking into each of these ideas and seeing where it leads me.

How have they engaged in the material I am also interested in?

The majority have actually included themselves in the work. Using themselves as the subject, become more involved with the theme they are trying to explore and convey. I need to perhaps explore this idea instead of standing quite so far away and merely documenting, I should be more involved and hands on.

Helmut Newton

This is Sie Kommen the image that inspired Jemima Stehli's Here They Come.

Brigitte Nielson posing for Vanity Fair, 1987

Jemima Stehli

I'm looking at specific works rather than the artist in general, as i think this is more relevant.

In her Strip series, 1999, Stehli invited prominent figures from the London art world -critics, curators and dealers - to watch her strip naked whilst they kept hold of the camera’s release cable and chose their moment to take the pictures. The resulting photographs show the artist from behind in varying states of undress, with her collaborators sat facing the camera and Stehli, full frontal, with varying expressions of embarrassment, interest or gleefulness.

Stehli often appropriates iconic imagery from works by artists of previous generations and from existing, often cliched, stylistic genres (fashion photography, S&M imagery). Whilst building on a tradition of female artists appropriating a masculine aesthetic.

In After Helmut Newton’s ‘Here They Come’, 1999, Stehli has recreated Helmut Newton’s iconic image Sie Kommen, with herself as the stiletto-ed, naked Amazon striding towards the camera. Newton’s original is so accurately and minutely reproduced, Stehli’s hair and stance resemble almost exactly that of the original model, that on the surface Stehli is as objectified as Newton’s original.

Lynda Benglis

I found these wire pieces quite interesting as I thought they resembled two bodies intertwined in passionate embrace.

The bodies idea probably has nothing to do this it at all but its what I though of when I saw the pieces.