man vs beast

I have included in my very final piece men trying to tie down these huge unidentifiable shell type things that are hovering above them i like the idea cruel as it is if man vs mighty beast in the case of my painting it is unclear what the thing is or why it might even be a threat but it holds some power

Abel Auer

 I particularly like Abel Auers painting techniques and brush work it reminds me of my own methods his colour pallet reminds me of Peter Doig with the dial turned up seeing this work makes me wish I use wilder colours and be more adventurous with it.

I also really like the variations in paint application sometimes dry allowing raw canvas to show through and in other places smooth I'v done this to a lesser extent in my own work.

David Huffman

 I really like David Huffmans collaging technique it makes his work more interesting to look at and to really explore like a 'Where's Wally' book his work also has a humour about it that you can't quite pin down and its not as simple as the costumes being silly. I have been told my work has an element of humour to it which is I guess something I do try to include its certainly not trying to be deadly serious. Huffmans work also has an aspirational quality showing black men excelling in sports and exploring new horizons with there space suits on.

 he also has a good sense of spacing the image above illustrates this well, I tryed to play around with this by using a panoramic format. with the bold use of dark colours at the top something I'v done in all paintings during the FMP slightly unsuccessfully as the panoramic was hard to fit rock peaks in and I didn't leave enough space at the top

salvatore Arancio

"His artistic signature is photo-etching, but he works across a range of media such as collage, animation and video. Arancio’s main interest lies in the potential of images. Departing from their literal meaning, he creates new juxtapositions that are both beautifully evocative and deeply disquieting. He looks to nature and science for his sources of inspiration, while unsettling any hint of the sublime by re-framing the images and the viewer’s experience. His constructed landscapes contain a sense of both the familiar and the unknown that enhances their symbolic readings and implications." (properly referenced in bibliography)

here is an article taken from the guardian on salvatore Arancio who i still wished i looked at alot earlyer in my foundation year i think the last part of this text is sertanly true in his work and something i think about all the time when doing my own work the sence of worshiping or being drawn to somthing mystirose that you have no understanting of a good example of this feeling is the opening scene of 'a space odyssey 2001' where an obalisque aperes before these mokey men and they all go ape shit witch if im not mistaken Arancio has also coined with this piece which is a still from 'a space odyssey 2001'  with his own workings

Salvatore Arancio, Sentinel, 2009, Video for Projection, 9 min 13 sec

this feeling must be what dirives conspiracy theroists and ufo alien entusiasts mad carreied away with the feeling theres more to life i get it but with a ditached  distanced glance as in its the human condition to feel this way but i see it like for instace what would you rather belive if given a choice (your own thoughts aside), than humans realy went to the moon and walked around even dicked around with a golf club and poped a flag down thats still up there or that its all one big hoax.

http://youtu.be/ML1OZCHixR0

this clip sums it all up for me it couldent be more perfect it dosn't give anything away it just tickles that part of you that wants to belive there must be something more out there and thats somthing i think Arancio dose well and somthing im trying to allude to aswell.

Salvatore Arnancio

 I wish i had looked up this artist sooner i'v had his name writen down for a while now this work definately sums up some of the the emotions i want to stur in people when the look at my work even in past progects that sort of ancient primordial mystiros obasique that surgests some man made devotion to something un-undersood im going to try and find find some pictures of these mystirose shell mounds that aborigionals in australia acumulated that wer immense in size.

 

More Glenn Brown

Here is some more Glen Brown this thime his studdys of Chris Foss

 Chris Foss'

 Glenn Brown's

  Chris Foss' 'stars like dust' 

I think the title of the Chris Foss painting has perfectly put in 3 words the whole consept i was origionaly trying to explain in the beginning with the micro maco idea the fact that we live on such a scale that stars in the grand scheme of things are like dust and debris.

 Glenn Brown's

glenn brown

i love glen browns use of black in the background it adds a crispness to to the painting it cuts it out and gives it an feel of weight i also like the dark and light nex to each outher within every brush stroke throughouth the whole image.

iredecent critters

the green enenemy tendrils seen above have a glowing qualitly i try to capture when painting my space clouds galaxys seen in the sky of my panoramic paintings it also looks see through at the same time its hard to explain

heaven and earth book

Far beyond the range of the naked human eye exists a realm of growth and symmetry that possesses almost haunting beauty. Microscopes and telescopes can plow this realm, revealing stars too far or particles too small for us to see. Magnified 115 times, kettle limescale blooms in flowerlike clusters. A single pollen grain magnified 5,000 times resembles a beehive fortress and, enlarged and reenlarged, a butterfly wing takes on the aspect of a field of warrior's shields. The Hubble Space Telescope captures the pillars of gas and dust of the Eagle Nebula, 7,000 light-years away. In awesome color photographs, Heaven & Earth presents the universe in a grain of sand and on a scale almost beyond imagination.

 this book seems to have teh same veiw on micro macro looking at the beauty and detail in the very big and very small

rock formations

here are some of the images that led me on to the idea of earth being stranger than fiction you don't get crazy rock formations on other planets as far as we know these is the type of phenomenon that sci-fi artists would be re imagining to envision alien planets you just can't make it up.

mars

i would like to maybe do a few paintings as if stitched together digitally like this i love how messed up it is from sheer distance the data has to travel to earth

another awesome picture of Mars would like to incorporate textures like the ones seen on the surface in my own paintings.

Magic Eye

I always think magic eye looks like some kind of static from some gamma rays or something the static you get on your T.V. is residual radiation from the big bang I did end up using these patterns to describe some sort of sonic or psychic interference by collaging it into my painting buy im not going to show it in the exhibition its not very good worth another try though

I might make the focus of this project alien landscapes with a lot of influence from surrealist painters likse Dali and Max Ernst. I want to intergrate elements of Micro/ Macro in theses scapes using textures

Richard Powers' Sci-Fi covers remind me of Miro, Max Ernst and lots of other surrealist painters

http://johnkstuff.blogspot.com/2008/06/cool-50s-sci-fi-covers-by-powers.html