This triptych is my most important piece of this year. It is digital and let me explore a very surreal style coupled with 3 different Greek myths. The first piece is the most easily recognizable because it is a direct reference to Botticelli’s Birth of Venus, except I superimposed myself as Venus and the characters are all very abstracted. The second is the myth of Cupid and Psyche, where Venus sends her son Cupid to kill the most beautiful earthly girl out of jealousy, but instead he gets shot with his own arrow and soon falls madly in love with her. This piece has the most atmosphere in my opinion, and is my favorite of the three. The last piece is the metamorphosis myth of Echo and Narcissus where the mute nymph Echo falls in love with the hunter Narcissus who falls only in love with his own reflection. I like the impossible position I put Narcissus in and the mystical purple haze of the sky in the background. Not a fan of the grass and the trees as it looks kinda children’s coloring book-y, but I really had no idea what else to do.
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This marker piece was a really fun broken perspective piece. I’ve always been fascinated by perspective that is incorrect, seen in the size of the boy compared to the room, and how none of the items in the room seem to be in perspective of the room. It creates a sort of surreal atmosphere, coupled with the classic relatable items in the room of a boy such as band posters and pornography.
This digital drawing is an album cover for a friend’s SoundCloud. She basically told me all the elements she wanted in the drawing and let me have creative liberties. This was great practice for commission work because sometimes it’s hard to keep your style when you’re also thinking about what someone else wants in a piece. The girl is under a crashing wave and surrounded by different face parts that are the same color as her glowing necklace. There’s really no meaning to it that I know of, my friend just told me to do it like that.
This painting depicts Madonna serenely looking down surrounded by a halo in the typical religious Renaissance style, however, I decided to challenge a lot of the ideas of how religion should be depicted. I painted her in the nude, which may be very subtle because you cannot see past her shoulders, but would have been very controversial in the 1600s-1800s when religious art was all the rage. Also, around the halo is a crown of eyes, which is alluding to the relief carving of Akhenaten, Nefertiti and their Three Daughters, which is a polytheistic ancient religion and would have had Christian art critics of the time pretty much defecate in their pants. Botticelli was a huge inspiration for me, and I took common themes from his paintings such as the pose and the smile.
For this project we were asked to explore form and proportion and anatomy. While figure drawing is my absolute favorite thing to do, I decided to slightly diverge from this and think about the figure in a more abstract way. I created a triptych in acrylic, all with very diluted secondary colors in the background and primary colors in the figure. I then outlined the figures and general shapes with a sharpie. Included in the slideshow is a picture of all three arranged how they would look when hanging. I used visible brush strokes and stark outer contours with very little or no inner contours to produce this abstract effect. |
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