Saturday 31 January 2015

Furniture

Human Furniture

When I was producing work around clubs I had a very unusual idea on people and furniture. At first I was thinking of adding furniture to create people, which did not seem interesting. However after drawing out the designs another thought came to me. The story started from. "When a person sits on the same chair. constantly playing pool etc. When the individual passes away, everyone will remember the piece of furniture where the person sat.". From there I developed the theme called "Human Furniture". These are all the designs that were made to create the theme. 

Thick layer painting with acrylic paint with a pallet knife, whole design is only drawn with the tool and at times paint brush to fix sections. 

Line drawing with only charcoal. 
 Ink based drawing with wax rubbing, not finished yet.


 Up close photo on the contrast between ink and oil pastels.













And wax rubbing with water colour paint. 







 





These are all the large scale work being produced around the theme on human furniture. All these ideas have all been generated in my sketch book to produce different effects. There will be more to come until then stay tuned.









Sunday 25 January 2015

Clubs


Surreal Clubs

I'm back from a long break. I have been experimenting art genres on illusion surrealism that relates to con-clubs and other clubs in today's society. The artwork explores the decline of people attending the clubs in this century from less active members, lack of entertainment, some clubs are derelict and not suitable for younger generation. In this day in age wine and dinning, actual bands playing and a large range of entertainment are the fashionable trend in clubs. These are all the designs that were produced last two weeks, there is a lot more to come but they are unfinished. At the mean time stay tuned.   


A very late night idea where I had an idea of having "Dancing pool balls with limbs, hats and wigs, dancing on a river of alcohol on a pool table going down to a mouth that has a stage. 







As I listen to a lot of music in the metal genre I had a unusual idea of making a beer tree, have no idea why, just thought it was interesting.















I combined the beer tree on a sheep skull to work along side printmaking. 














 







 
At this section I decided to throw all drawings together without any thought. It was mistake by my part however for some strange reason it looks fascinating.  
 



After producing artwork around the theme I expanded on printmaking for a short amount of time, mostly to practice how to produce refresh print making. These are all the designs were made


Mix media with water colour paint and colour pencils. 
Refresh printmaking