MAN! i know it’s been awhile. been crazy busy. running around. trying to get enough sleep and not get too sick. i really hope you guys like the new painting. this angle was really tricky but i think it turned out alright. i don’t even have a title for her yet but ill figure it out. i’m enjoying it more bc every time i look at it i feel i see something different. i’ll write more about it later. just wanted to get it up for now.
i find it really bizarre that i havent posted this sketch yet since its one of my favorites. it was the inspiration for we do not lose heart
i started painting “the vetrurian woman” and realized there was something missing, i needed something to hold the series together because it didnt really feel complete to me. So i sketched this last night. ive decided to paint these images so the hair from from canvas flows into the next. I’ve also decided to have the rope extend through the entire series as an object of inheritence. I know its taken me awhile to get it together (i know i know) but i really wanted this to be right. the series really is a reflection of my own struggles. its hard sometimes to put something so personal out there without feeling like it will be misunderstood. anyway, peaks of the paintings to come…eventually!
ill start by saying i dont really know how to articulate this in a way that makes sense….the idea of beauty has always kinda been an interest of mine. { im sure its pretty obvious in the subjects i chose to paint and draw }. the delineations made for women to follow and reject, features that are shunned and denied, the rules that women willingly (or unwillingly) ascribe to in order to be considered “beautiful” has been an obession for me for maybe the past 6 months. in my last series { starting with “we do not lose heart“, i looked at superficial images of beauty in order to work out what i personally thought about them and how they influenced my own perception of self. it also fascinated me how certain groups were placed on the fringes of this superficial image of beauty and passively forced to conform to societal standards. i dont really know how to explain this new series (which i hope to paint once i have time) except to say its a phrenology of beauty and probably the closest thing to a self portrait i have ever done since for once i used some of my own features to paint these women
i moved….so its been awhile. i didnt discover my art stuff until last week and i have a couple things in mind so hopefully there will be lots more updates
peas and enjoy
finally got most of my art returned from the show in LA last year. THANKS EVAN! what a debacle because i found a couple of my favorites in the bunch. Havent really had much time to paint lately bc of the move to the new apartment. ill post new stuff once i find paintbrushes and canvas
first sketch ive done in about a million years
I’m wrapping up the lost children series and thought it would be nice to revisit the images and take better pictures now that i actually have a good camera {smiley face} i like this one in particular and, as usual, it started looking terrible.
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