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Apr

Obsession

By Jennie 4 Comments

Categories: Creating Art, Nudes and Random
Tags: 3D, Creating Art, Daz Studio, Nudes, Poser, Random, Victoria 4

I am becoming completely obsessed with 3D modeling in Daz|Studio. it started as a way for me to create, pose and light my ideal models then pick my angle for the image to paint. it is the best way for me to get the poses and angles I want, with the models I want and no back talk! it’s free, easy to use and as I am rapidly discovering, very very addictive.

It doesn’t help that there is a wealth of wonderful free or inexpensive content out there and I am a bit of a collection freak so I can’t help but download everything. I’ve spent the last few days trying to sort out all of my resources but it’s becoming a never-ending task! (not helped by the fact that I download almost as much as I sort..) I prefer D|S to Poser even though it isn’t as powerful, it’s substantially faster, and it suits my needs perfectly. plus it’s free.

I used to use myself for a reference or my own mind, but lately my poses and angles have been getting more adventurous, and harder to realize without reference. this provides me with a perfect opportunity to work at my own pace, and play with fun technology. now if only I could stop playing long enough to paint something!

I’d put in one of my images but I’m waiting for the render…

Apr

New Nude - Falling

By Jennie 2 Comments

Categories: Creating Art and Nudes
Tags: art, blindfold, Creating Art, Nude, Nudes, nudity, oils on canvas, painting

falling - 36 x 24 Oils on Canvas by Jennie Rosenbaum

well, after weeks of work I feel it is finally ready. I still think the blindfold is a little static but it is as ready as it’s going to be. in a way, the precision of the blindfold contrasts with the chaos and looseness of the figure. I wanted to capture movement and an element of fear. those who have seen it in person (before this stage) have all said that they don’t know if she jumped or was pushed but that it is free and frightening all at the same time. this is a compliment! I am happy with her motion and the looseness of the brushstrokes. I am probably as happy as I am going to be with the blindfold (knowing that I will never truly be satisfied there!)

I think the impact of this series when brought together will be quite something..

Mar

laws of Physics Cap’n

By Jennie 2 Comments

Categories: Creating Art and Rambles
Tags: art, Creating Art, Nude, oils on canvas, painting

I hate the laws of physics, especially where they apply to blowing fabric attached to points. This falling figure was working so well up till now, great motion, a horrible chaotic feeling and gravity, but I can’t get this damn blindfold to work properly! does anyone want to volunteer to be pushed off a building so I can photograph them and get the physics right? no, I think I am just going to have to tie my poor husband up, blindfold him and blow a hairdryer at the fabric until I can get it to work. and yes, this is the same blindfold piece I was working on weeks ago..

Mar

artwork pricing changes

By Jennie 0 Comments

Categories: Creating Art, Nudes and Selling Art
Tags: art, artist, Boundless, Nudes, painting, Selling Art

Rosy 12 x 12 Oils on Canvas by Jennie Rosenbaum

I’m restructuring and changing my prices and pricing format. the glazed ochre works are going to be priced slightly higher than the regular ochre pieces because about a week’s more work goes into them. all pieces will now be on the same scale as well, before I had works on a sliding scale per inch depending on size, now all works of a certain medium are going to be the same price per inch all the way through.

I am very nervous about this because you don’t want to change your pricing too often, but I think it is time to raise them slightly and to even out the pricing structure. the new prices will go live on the 1st of April

Mar

New Nude

By Jennie 1 Comment

Categories: Creating Art and Nudes

Currently Untitled 20×24 Oils on Canvas byJennie Rosenbaum

This is a quick piece I did to relax from working on the blindfold of the other. I was working on loosening up my hand and technique and keeping it light. to me this seems very much like something done in life drawing class. I don’t know really what I think of it, I like sections but I am not sure about the whole.

what is funny is that I started this piece in the aim of making it rather coy and come hither but because I was feeling depressed when I painted it it came across as doubting and uncertain somehow. perhaps my opinion on the piece is actually influenced by the mood to a certain extent. I don’t know if that’s a good thing or not.. I don’t have a title yet, I was thinking Doubt but now I am not so sure. heh maybe I should call it Ambivalent! as usual feel free to suggest a title in the comments!

Technorati Tags: art, artist, creating art, Nude, oils on canvas, painting

Mar

yet again

By Jennie 0 Comments

Categories: Creating Art and Rambles

Storm - 12×12 Oils on Canvas (detail) by Jennie Rosenbaum

I’m stuck spending too much time on marketing and not enough on painting. I know the marketing is paying off, I know it is going well, but if I don’t have the works then I don’t have anything to market! it’s a fine line as an artist, especially when you have aspirations like mine, but I cannot let my work suffer on account of my business brain going into overdrive. it just feels like there is so much to do and so little time to do it in.

time to get back in the studio and poke some brushes at some canvasses (but not palette knives, I’ve given up on those for a while)

Feb

Ding Dong

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Categories: Creating Art and Nudes

Freedom - 36" x 36" Oils on Canvas by Jennie Rosenbaum

The block is dead..

thank god! I was going crazy there for a minute! nothing like some visual stimulus to help get out of that mindset. Sometimes it’s looking at art and being inspired, sometimes it’s sitting down and watching a movie. ok, often it’s watching a movie. Last night it was V which is still brilliant, even on the umteenth rewatching. combining the beautiful imagery of V and then putting on Rent on my iPod allowed me to drift into my painting state.

I’m not ready to post what I painted, it’s not quite finished. It’s another blindfold piece so I have to glaze the blindfold on still. but so far I am happy with it.

so far.

Feb

RIP

By Jennie 2 Comments

Categories: Creating Art, Nudes and Rants

RIP by Insane Jennie

One of the unfortunate aspects of my detoxing from my nerve medication is the incredible mood swings. the rage, depression and fear override everything else making me almost insane. The drug reaction emphasizes my obsessive characteristics making me pick away at things incessantly. This was one of the results during my second stage which I am now, thankfully, over. (one more stage to go)

When I paint one of these white pieces I have to repeat lines over and over again to get the perfect result. it’s obsessive in nature and frustrating but almost meditative. it gives me a chance to examine each line - is that the best I can do? does it have the right shape/clarity/gravity? was the last one better? there is no going back and I get stuck between my expectations for myself and what I can realistically accomplish with a fast drying medium.

Add the two together and well, you get this. This piece started out pretty well, in fact I finished it in record time. then the obsession started - maybe I can do better, this isn’t quite right, this line isn’t perfect.. so I changed a little bit. then I changed a little more, then I started to descend into madness. The magnified obsession started to take hold and I slipped into a spiral of picking away at the piece until I took it apart and slowly killed it. there is no other word for it. I flew into a rage and destroyed the piece, stabbing and ripping the canvas and ruining my knives, then collapsed in depressed misery.

I haven’t been able to paint since.

I am going to lock myself in my studio tonight and paint something - I have to get over this block. I feel like I killed this work in cold blood and I am afraid of doing it again. but I am going crazy not painting either. which is worse? insanity while painting or insanity without painting?

Feb

Hasty Turnaround on Nude Ad Ban

By Jennie 1 Comment

Categories: Creating Art

Water Nymph Resting by Lucas Cranach

London reverses ‘overtly sexual’ Tube poster ban - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation):

“On reflection in this context, the Cranach exhibition poster should not have been rejected and we’ve now approved the advertisement to be carried on the Tube.”

Conservative lawmaker John Whittingdale, chairman of the influential House of Commons culture, media and sport select committee, described the original ban as “absolutely bonkers” earlier this week.

talk about your quick turnaround! good on them for reversing the decision quickly and admitting a mistake. it strikes me as an oh shit! fix it quick! sort of response but it certainly was the correct decision and I am impressed that they didn’t immediately go on the defensive and make this situation boil rapidly out of control as happens so often when nudes are the subject!

personally I wish I was in London and able to see it - it looks like a very interesting exhibition.

Technorati Tags: art, art news, art world, censorship, controversy

Jan

quips and quibbles quaint

By Jennie 0 Comments

Categories: Creating Art and Reflections

Verso - 18" x 18" Oils on Canvas by Jennie Rosenbaum

I’ve been wondering for a while about my little picture descriptions. I used to write little 1-2 line descriptions, almost like a little obscure story, a window into the piece. they were not poetic exactly but slightly lyrical in nature.

Time stalks us all, beauty is a fleeting moment - Statuesque is that moment preserved forever, perfect, captivating, sad.

Give into the yawning chasm beneath you, surrender yourself and slide into oblivion.

Elfin, ethereal, flowing, Silf is timeless beauty, sensual and strong but Solitary. She turns her back on the world and lives within her own.

The body is poetry, each line and curve a verse. Sometimes hard and unforgiving, sometimes flowing and golden, always unique.

Some are better than others.. I guess I’ve been wondering, are these wanky and posery or are they a little flash of insight? would I be better off creating descriptions or keeping in this theme of writing down what the images say in my head (a disturbing and strange place).