Maybe it’s the cool colors 😉 I like the cross hatching around the face and under the bust on the outside and the way the hair turned out…. Another thing I learned from the group show was that I wasn’t playing around enough I got a little stuck on what I thought I should do rather than going with the flow…. I have a show theme in mind, but mostly it will evolve over time rather than being pushed.
It is so exciting to see the image emerge from nothing but straight lines and the mood change with different color additions. This technique is great for loosening up and relaxing as well as seeing the disparate lines that make up an image…. Layering the colors and lines more, creating more tonal differentiation and more background work, taking it to a more complete work.
Step 3 in my blog project is where we start actually exploring what I want. We’ve established the type of people who inspire me and who I am, Now we need to work out what I really want from myself and my career.
“They would rather have their own time and place to introduce their children to something like nudity.”… Rodin showed us the depredations of time and immortalized the nude as a part of all of us, rather than seeking to attain perfection, he showed us who we were and what we will become…. Nudity is the most natural state of all of us. it is often raw and exposed, it can reveal that we are often naked to the world and display the fragility of the human body.
That photos of heavy-duty consensual sadomasochistic sex may be alarming and not for faint hearts, but they are a lot more fun to look at than all those flowers he insisted on photographing?There’s a new exhibition of Mapplethorpe’s work in Edinburgh that is raising some interesting questions about the artist’s choices and subject matter…. Vilified or loved, his image (yes the one with the bullwhip) will be synonymous with the fine line between art and pornography.I think there aren’t many pioneers of art these days, as our boundaries grow broader and we accept more than ever before there are less walls to break down, less ways to shock people…. I guess history will be the judge as to whether shock or subtle wins in the end.Just a further note, I never understood why people got so shocked by Mapplethorpe’s works, Bosch painted scenes that were just as graphic and anally retentive (heh).
Things have been somewhat emotional lately, and a recent movie kinda made me tap into some really biiiig issues I am not going to get into here. Now while freakouts are very harsh and upsetting when I can run off into my studio and pour them out in art. Drawing is especially good for this…
Jennie's Palette 