You are THE WORST :)
GET OUTTTTT. Oh, and by worst, you mean BEST. :p
The last post will be up later tonight :X
Chris, if you happen to see this, am I missing any other weeks?
This artists website: http://www.bymichaelo.com/index.htm
Michael Oswald (I actually talked about this picture a little bit in a previous post I think). This guys really good with photo-manipulation (The thing that I was trying to work on last summer). This specific picture is really funny though. There are two things that I might think this picture might mean — can’t determine which one. The first idea: So many times when you meet someone new, that you though looked like a nice, friendly person, they don’t turn out to be what you thought. Not that they turn into a little red devilish hobbit thing, but personality wise they are completely different. The other idea is that someone just got under this girls skin so much that shes falling apart. I guess both ideas work.
Ridwan Chandra. My very first post on tumblr was another one of his works, and since they are so incredible I decided to post another one! Out of my favorite artists, he may very well be in the top three or so — his works just have so much detail. I also really enjoy his quick sketches for the same reason, they have so many little details in them that if you look over the picture quickly, you miss half of it. The colored works that he posts in his gallery all have such a unique color palette. It seems like he uses almost every single color, but there is still just something about it that I can’t place that makes it really nice for the eyes to look at.
His Gallery: http://meganerid.deviantart.com/gallery/ … check his stuff out. like srsly.
(oh, view in high res!)
Christiano Siqueira again. To be honest, I’m really not too sure whats going on with this picture, but I really, really like it. I said this in a much earlier post in the semester, but when a bunch of bright, saturated colors are put up against a dark background it just always seems to look nice, whatever the actual picture may be. Don’t have as much to say about this one as I did the others, but another thing that I find pretty cool about this picture is the way that the body mapped out through the white dots and reflections.
Oh, his website (if you want to see a bunch of other really cool pictures) : http://www.crisvector.com/
I saw this piece by Christiano Siqueira and laughed. Totally cool spinoff of Atlas carrying the world. The title of this is called oil planet, and most definitely relates to all the recent oil spills. In regards to the picture, I love how you can see the struggle within the figure, just as in the Atlas sculpture you can also see the struggle … It show’s that the weight and problems of the world are both very heavy and severe. I really also love how the oil is magically rising off of the world. It makes no sense whatsoever, but compositionally I think it made the work a little bit stronger. The idea of a simple background was also a good choice in my eyes so that it did not take away from the point he is trying to get across.
So my parents were on vacation over in North Carolina for the last week and when they got home (yesterday night), my mom gave me a really awesome book all about Frank Frazetta’s work. I asked her where she got it from and she told me that she found it at a garage sale, for ONE dollar. how freaking insane. I only skimmed through, but I’ll read it over the weekend … this was one of the images that I saw while flipping through that caught my attention. The book says its oil on board, 16x20. What I find really cool is that from start to finish, this thing took barely over a day (including two complete preliminary sketches). He quotes, “If I’m going to capture the excitement and the spontaneity of the image in my head, then I have to do it with a great burst of energy and do it quickly! … Towards the end, when the thing is maybe 85% done, polishing, getting the details in, slows the process down - that part’s not as much fun.”
