Seasons of My Soul

This is a piece called "Seasons of My Soul";  named after and Rumer's album. This is part of the challenge/project I have set for myself where I produce 30 pieces based on album titles.


I really enjoyed this piece. The central light representing my soul and the branches growing from it representing aspects of that soul- Seasons if you will.


I normally use inks with this sort of work but they didn't lend themselves to the black card I was working on- thinking now maybe silver ink or gold would. Instead, I used acrylic paint; building up enough coats to produce the depth of blue I was after. This took some time and was hard on my eyes so I could only work on it for short amounts of time.


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The Lady Killer

This is a piece called "The Lady Killer";  named after and inspired by Cee Lo's album. This is part of the challenge/project I have set for myself where I produce 30 pieces based on album titles.


With this piece I was attempting to portray a Lady who kills rather than someone who kills Ladies. I used pencil and graphite sticks with a little red pastel for the eye. I used a painting of Elizabeth Bathory who was a 16th century serial killer and placed the knife infront.


I like some elements of this composition but don't think, now, that I needed the knife (which I also found difficult to draw). I'm not happy with the sharpness of the nose or the lack of shading on the forehead.


I may re-attempt this at some point in the future.

This is a piece called "The Defamation of Strickland Banks";  named after and inspired by Plan B's album. This is part of the challenge/project I have set for myself where I produce 30 pieces based on album titles.


It was a difficult piece to come up with a concept for. I decided to play around with Photoshop and used synonyms for defamation to produce this portrait. The photo all this is layered on being of a man who looks to have lost everything. I enjoyed producing this piece and it was surprisingly easy (with the help of online tutorials (google text portraits).


I'm relatively new to photoshop and the program at times is a little overwhelming but its fun to have an actual purpose when using it like I did for this.

Loud

This is a piece called Loud;  named after and inspired by Rihanna's album. This is part of the challenge/project I have set for myself where I produce 30 pieces based on album titles.

I used soft pastels and ink. I used a style that I developed myself that originated from years of doodling that began after seeing Chakotay's tattoo on Startrek Voyager- which is supposed to be Native American. I enjoyed creating this and pieces like this

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Creating

I'm started my blog on Tumblr but am not really that keen so I thought I'd give blogger a try.

This is a blog dedicated to my art. My hope is that it will keep me creating, growing and developing as a an artist. I've no formal art training but do have a genuine love of drawing, painting and just generally creating.

I find that sometimes my art suffers when stress in my work life increases. This is ironic as drawing is a big de-stresser for me! It just seems that when the going gets tough sometimes I push away the very thing that I need; I imagine a lot of people do that.

I've set myself a project to keep myself producing. I want to create 30 pieces of art work. I'm using titles of albums as stimulus. Slowly, I'm working through the UK top 30 album chart as of the 20th of January 2011. Currently I've completed 8 pieces which I'll share here.

I've also got a great deal of artwork that I've produced over the last few years which I'll share and blog about.