An Artistic Feminine Force

In her October gallery show Laments and Lullabies, artist Lori Earley showed her latest surrealist figurative artwork. Being an artist who love to draw la femme faces and figures, I cannot help but be drawn to Lori’s work which I found in Hi Fructose Magazine.

“While her femme fatale portraits mature in style and intensity, they retain her signature ethereal quality that embodies an undeniably feminine force.”  –from www.loriearley.com

“My work is a fusion of personal experiences and influences – moody atmospheres, victorian-inspired couture, and timeless elements all laced with clandestine symbolism. The figures I paint exist in their own esoteric realm and time, and each painting offers a glimpse into their anomalous world.” – Lori Earley, Artist statement

Creepy Art by Louise Bourgeois

 

Parisian contemporary artist Louise Bourgeois.  What a piece of work she is? 

Photo of Louise: Maplethorpe Gallery

Halloween Art

Artwork:  Las Catrinas  from Sokalife.com  How would you like these creepies in your back yard? Maybe if she shared a smoke…

Art That Looks Back at You

Surreal bronze eyes double as park benches in Lafayette Square, New Orleans. by Louise Bourgeois

Turning-A-Blind-Eye from Studio8e9.com

Eye Candy Sculpture by Rosanne Palumbo

Here’s to looking at you, my dears…

Jennifer

Jennifer

Earth Account

The Art of David and Theresa Silverthorn

I’m fascinated by these meditative mandalas which capture the essense of unification and expand the visual range of one’s soul.  (Quite a few are very ‘female/vaginal’ to me–a triumph in the feminist spirit.) Of course, I have to love this one…

Artwork…

 

Thought I’d share a few more pieces of my work from the past few months. 

The first in titled Wednesday, followed by Indra.  My current collection can be viewed on J. Rains Art – also listed on my blogroll.  This portfolio site may have a  name change shortly.  I’m looking into an illustration portrait business idea…we’ll see.   In any case, hope you enjoy, keep comments productive, and forgive me for my seedy self promotion.

And one more before I go…one of my favorites called Lucky.

Peace….

Mosaic Portraits

I love these incredible mosaic portaits created by S.A. Schimmel Gold, who composes the Worholesque pics with hundreds of tiny, hand-planced scraps of postcards, menus, and junk mail.  An avid recycler, she even mixes the water-based, non-toxic glue by hand. 

Her portraits of some famous people are fascinating (I find myself wishing I could read the works in the tiles she has pains-takingly cut and glued together to shade and enhance).   She also does personalized portraits of people using photographs as references.  Being an artist who is fascinated with faces, I just love these works.  I’m not sure I’d be patient enought to attempt this, but these faces are inspiring me to work my own art.

Check out more at:  www.schimmelart.com/

Curious/Strange/I Can’t Stop Looking At It…Art

The curiously strange oil paintings created by uber-creepy-story-and-movie-writer Clive Barker has got this Wit mezmerized.  Bought this book a few years ago and enjoyed the jouney into another world…not so far from our own…could be at the end of that empty field at the edge of town…know what I mean.  In any case, the teen Continuum members have picked up the second book, which got me thinking, and re-looking at the artworks of Mr. Barker.  There is a dark place in the Wit Continuum’s brain that loves pics like these; worthy of second, third, even ten glances.

 

In an interview Clive said that he actually started the paintings first, then sat back and his mind soared into a story surrounding them.  Clever, and quite obscure way to illustrate a book.  Fascinating  more so because of that I should say.  There was supposed to be a movie with Disney, I think, maybe in the working stage 5 years ago or so, but nothing has hit the screen yet.  Still waiting…(perhaps it was dropped–too creepily creative maybe??)

Iconic – Illustration by The Wit Continuum

Iconic - 4/09

My own illustration inspired by Edie Sedgwick (this is not a portrait of her, mind you).  I take a photo I like and work with it a bit.  This was done in charcoal, pencil, and outline black pen.

David Hockney Favorite

This is my absolute David Hockney painting favorite,  Mr. and Mrs. Clark and Percy. 

“Contemporary British artist David Hockney conbined a number of individual reference photographs and studies of different aspects of this scene to create this very large composition depicting his friends Mr. and Mrs. Clark at home with their cat, Percy.”

Tate Gallery, London, England. 

Source: The Indispensable Cat

Fractal Images

Fractal generated images are computer generated and crafted out of mathmatical formulae. 

Fascinated with these mind-bending designs that seem to define infinity. 

Dainis Graveris has collected 60 prime examples on a blog, all generated using a freeware fractal program called Apophysis (for Windows only). 

Check out these . . .

 

This last one really gives me the feeling of traveling. . .focus on the center, you’ll see what I mean. But come back soon.

Peace…

David Hockney’s iPhone Art

I was astounded this weekend to see this incredible use of new technology, by none other than 71 year old artist, David Hockney who turned his four month old iPhone into tech-culture art.  Amazingly he even sits his high tech canvas on its own easel.  Using input commands on a color screen, Hochney has painted flowers and landscapes.

“I lie in bed and send illustrated art lectures to friends and also my own iPhone paintings,” said Hockney.  “I like to draw flowers by hand on the iPhone and send then out to friends so they get fresh flowers.  And my flowers last!”

Hockney had previously created computer screen art with a stylus and electronic tablet from what I’ve read, so this wasn’t too hard for this incredible talent.  I’m still amazed.  The Wit Continuum is rough when it comes to technology, learning slowly through the years and still ages behind.  This app would probably take me a year to figure out. 

Still….intrigued and impressed.

Peace…

L’Espirit d’Escalier

Back again with this Thomas Demand monograph.  “The title actually refers to so-called “staircase wit”, that concise French expression for the chagrin of missed retorts – those hapless comebacks one only ever thinks up belatedly (i.e. when already descending the stairs):  “I should’ve said (fill in the blank)!”

Haunted by Blue Dogs

With the Westminister Dog Show starting we’d like to mention one of our favorite dogs of the art world.  It would have to be Tiffany, the muse behind Louisianna artist George Rodrigue’s Blue Dog series.

              “It was one of these myths, the loup-garou, which inspiried Rodrigue’s most famous series, The Blue Dog.  Painted for a book of Cajun ghost stories, this were-wolf-type dog was an already familiar legend for Rodrigue, who heard the story often as a boy.

               With no image for the loup-garou, the artist searched his files for a suitable shape.  He found it in photos of his studio dog Tiffany who had died several years before.”

More of Rodrigue Bio:  George Rodrigue.com

Black Dress IV

 

Perfect Black Dress

Poster by artist Kimmy Han

All Posters.com

Mirror Mirror On The Wall…

 

Would you hang this mirror in your living-room?

Writing for Environmental Graffiti, Thomas Davie shows the work of interactive artist Danny Rozen who created a mirror out of 830 wood blocks.  The clever concept:  a tiny camera gathers image info, sends it through a computer which then shifts the hundreds of tiny blocks into the image in front of the device. 

“The result is a sort of ghostly image, imprinted upon the wooden pixels like a haunted trace and just like a real mirror the image moves in real time – although the effect is more like some kind of spirit mimicking its subject than your average mirror.”

Sounds spooky…and looks a bit spooky too.  Imagining the sounds the tiny haunted blocks make when when you move past it……..    

Link: Thomas Davie for Environmental Graffiti