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Another hobby of mine is drawing (I have way too many hobbies, really).
Tomorrow marks the start of the annual Inktober challenge, where you draw something every day for one month. There is an official prompt list of things to draw, but I want to imporove my texturing using ink, so my personal list is going to focus on that.
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Acrylic, ink, collage (50 x 50 cm)
The initial spark behind this was the Madonna by Sandro Botticelli which reminded me of something that would have been commissioned by a merchant's or sailors guild. I did not want the specific religious aspect so I removed the Jesus and replaced it with a conch.
I generally don't want my paintings to be tied to a particular meaning or message. I'd rather set up a framework for the various elements to contrast, collide, co-exist and get to know each other inside the painting. Above all, I want to be able to invite the viewer to pick up on clues and intentions and add their own ideas and thoughts to the piece.
I collage (glue) bits of printed paper, photos, gold leaf and illustrations on before, during, and after the painting and drawing gets done. I use the collage as if it was just another thing in my artist's box of tricks.
I knew I wanted this one to have the Madonna as a sort of wandering sea-bride amidst an archipelago of strange and unfamiliar culture. I was also thinking of a favourite painting of mine, 'Landscape with the Fall of Icarus' (c.1555) by (probably not) Pieter Bruegel. From this came the ecstatic and over-ambitious raptor flying towards the sun (in this case the moon) and Icarus and Deadalus falling on the other side.
The moon is painted on top of a catholic devotional text. There are so many meanings attached to Renaissance religious imagery and the paraphernalia associated with catholicism, that including them can be tricky, and give off an over-ecclesiastical odour. It is like salt in chowder... it can give it good flavour or it can ruin it.
I'm not religious anymore but I can't resist the ostentatious and luxuriant trappings, the tortured ecstasy, the gilded signposts to heaven, the power, the glory.
"...Catholicism tells you at a very early age the world is not what you see; that beyond everything you see, and the appearance – or the accidents as they're known – there is another reality, and it is a far more important reality. So it's like running in the imagination." -Hilary Mantel
There's a current running through my work of historical exploration, the age of Columbus, Cook and Cortes. What they saw and what they expected to see when they arrived into a bay or archipelago beyond the known experience, the strangeness of the flora and fauna, the alien systems of worship...and what the soon-to-be-colonised or conquered people felt. I like the mixture of genres in certain Renaissance painting, and the hierarchy of events, and mixing all this up in my paintings, placing modern buildings like the Gherkin in there, so the whole thing doesn't become an homage. Also placing the 'life-goes-on' things like the bird- feeding and plants growing, the cycle of nature, the habitats, the settlements, creating an environment that exists solely inside the painting like an aquarium.
The materials used include ink, acrylic paint, watercolour, gold leaf, found paper, and printed paper. The central plant is a pink flowering tree peony (Paeonia suffruticosa), rising out of a mound of gold leaf and gold ornamentation on printed paper.
The printed papers I use are of Japanese origin, which I source from Carta Pura in Munich www.flickr.com/photos/kasaa/4330976492/ The red, blue, black and white chequer-board and wave and flower patterns come from here.
Some buildings come from Renaissance frescoes, old views of Siena, and current affairs publications. The 'tree' to the right of the 'apple' tree uses part of Kandinsky's 'Cossacks' www.artrepublic.com/prints/9578-cossacks.html , and the red dog by the lake on the right comes from H. Bosch's 'The Conjurer' www.oceansbridge.com/oilpaintings/product/93995/theconjur...
I like both the above artists as their work invites the eye in on a journey around the painting, and what happens around the fringes of the work is often treated with equal importance.
Some of the clouds are from fabric patterns, and the text in the sky comes from early Christian Irish devotionals. The Gaelic script comes from an Irish printed book from the turn of the century from my father's things, and the plant b/w drawings come from an old botany manual.
The cat and the bird inhabiting different parts of the painting are there as competing elements in a food-chain or hierarchy of interests, and to provide an element of tension.
I live about 15 minutes from this spot, and every time there is a sunset in Newcastle I think about whether this place will have the perfect sunset ive been waiting for. I think this photo is close... it has the great reflections and misty/fog in the distance, so it'll be hard to top. I need some new locations close to home...
Got some Ink in LV, so did the dear wife...a first experience for both of us. I guess you can say we lost our tattoo virginity in Vegas. Ha! Photos shall come later, but both jobs were near and dear to our hearts.
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Still in Melbourne. The first day we didn't visit a lot this city... Just before we're heading back to the hotel, we heard a soft music. There was a street concert with the Red Ink band. This was fresh and very pleasant!
Guess I'm sticking with the colorful theme from week 1. Nothing symbolic here, just wanted to try to create some interesting color transitions with ink in water. Some slight Photoshop with the surface water as I found the rough surface much more visually interesting than an ink slick on the surface.
I have been working on this location "Squids Ink Jetty Belmont" for a while and never had a really good sunset but tonight the colour did appear for all of 5 mins at most. This is a 7 shot pano stitched in CS5 and best viewed on black - Click L
Lee Filters used - 1.2 Soft & .9ND stacked.
Lens - Carl Zeiss 50ml 1.4
Canon 5D Mark11
An image of the old squids ink jetty before it fell apart. They have replaced the jetty with a new one but it definitely doesn't have the same character as the old one.
Pleine mer devant Ty Plates, association pour la sauvegarde et la restauration des Plates du Golfe du Morbihan.
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Arco Tetrápilo. Carrapa. La Vía de la Plata alberga multitud de restos arqueológicos desde las Médulas hasta Sevilla, la ciudad de Caparra, en Cáceres esta separada 5km. de la autovía que la condenan injustamente a un "Mira ahí debe de haber unas ruinas romanas" pero continuar el camino. Esta vez no pasé de largo como otras veces y me desvié. Gran acierto. Estilográfica Pilot Namiki Falcon y tinta Carbon Ink.