ALL WE HEAR IS... LADY GAGA

It was Swiss Surrealist HR Giger's birthday this week, so on social media, I reposted my 'Lady Gaga - Tribute to Giger' artwork that I did a while back (see This Week's Most Viewed, below). As a supplement to that, here's the original study of the face, which took me weeks and weeks to get right. In the end, I had to resort to geometry to properly make sure everything was in the right place (hence the grid... yes, very ironic).

 

 

PENCILLED IN

As mentioned in the previous post, November's work-in-progress is now out of bounds due to being on display at Custard Factory. This has necessitated starting a new piece before the other is finished. The difference, is that this time I am making pencil shapes first, rather than automatically painting onto the blank grid. Whether this will result in a piece of work that looks significantly different than its two companion pieces is debatable. But at the moment it's a refreshing change to spend longer composing in pencil.

Untitled Work In Progress, Pencil on Canvas, 60cm x 60cm, Dec 2017.

ORIENTATION

Updated from 1st June 2016

I was recently between projects, and decided to do some quick postcard-sized pieces. There's something very satisfying when you can do several pieces of art over a couple of days, as opposed to take months over a single piece.

I've always loved the beauty and simplicity of classical Japanese illustration. It's amazing how the art can look incredibly contemporary to our modern eyes, when in fact some of it is five hundred years old.

What's strange, is that the smallness of each panel kept prompting my mind to think up a linking narrative, as if they were shots from a movie storyboard, or panels in a graphic novel. I never did come up with a story.

Medium: Graphite Pencil on Watercolour Postcard

Below: Extreme Closeup, showing surface texture

NEXT APPEARANCE: MONSTER CLUB, NOVEMBER 7TH, BIRMINGHAM, UK

It's been a while, but after a tricky start, I'm in the middle of some macabre figurative art for Paul Newman's MONSTER CLUB show. It's reminded me how satisfying drawing is, so pencil art will definitely make a re-appearance in my repertoir over the next year.

 

Below: TRIBUTE TO HR GIGER ( detail ), pencil on cartridge paper ( Work In Progress ).