Pimping myself.
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logansrogueNow, I'm just going to share the links to some of the best fine artworks I personally think I've done to date. They're my own chosen. They don't include any of my major paintings. Seriously - it's something I intend to share with you eventally. My drag paintings are larger than life and twice as exciting, and my Dead Back Shed picture is my first ever painting on a canvas, and I'm incredibly proud of it.
There are some errors in these works, but I'll tell you why I've included them. I hope you enjoy them. They're non-fandom, completely of my own creation. So I won't be offended if they're not that interesting to you.
You might want to open the works in a new window and keep reading these. I'd do the 'open in new window' tag thing but I don't know how to do that - I suck.
Angel Looking Up Just a random throwaway angel picture. I like it though - nice composition maybe.
In Memoriam I drew this the day after 9-11. I wanted to do something in rememberance but nothing too tacky. I hoped I managed that here.
Cupid I was in a bit of an antagonistic shock-art phase when I did this. I was also not a girl that looked kindly on the concept of falling in love. The shadowing in the girl's neck and Cupid's hand is attrocious, but what can you do? I guess I could go back and fix it. *considers it*. I based Cupid off of Wil Wheaton. The whole premise behind this painting was that it was supposed to be a part of a series, depicting modern Greek Gods. I will totally finish this fucking idea one of these days :) Anyway, in modernising Cupid, I thought instead of bows and arrows it could be a syringe that he uses. I probably got the idea from Baz Luhrman's Romeo + Juliet, when Mercucio gives Romeo an e with a loveheart with an arrow through it. Sort of the proto-idea. My Mum HATES this picture with a passion, and it got rather strange reactions. Mostly disgust and discomfort. Most couldn't fathom why I equated falling in love with such a painful and negative thing as having a needle. Thing is, to me, at that time, (and still I suppose), falling in love was pain, was a drug, was a terrible thing that left you strung out, always needing, always wanting, never being fulfilled. I was in the throes of unrequited love when I did this, and I think it shows :)
Eros and Psyche Aaah. Eros and Psyche, an old stand by for artists everywhere. And this one - it's very standard. Nothing ground breaking, nothing amazing. But I like it.
Zebra and Giraffe This is a sketch I did at the zoo. One is ink and brush, and the other is charcoal. When you're there doing source work like this, you don't notice where you're starting or where your pictures are going. You just try to get as much down as possible. As a result, the zebra ended up eating the giraffe's head. Nevertheless, I think they're quite good. :)
Grass Tree Girl We recently (recently as in this year) got a grass tree out the front of our house. They're very odd looking things, and I love them. When I was a kid we called them Black Boys, because that's what they look like at the corner of your eye - an Aboriginal warrior standing there. But that's not allowed anymore - not allowed to call them that, and it's probably for the best. The spirit of this beautiful plant kept speaking to me. I kept walking past and seeing something standing there, someone standing there, and I'd look and it was this plant. So I drew it, and I thought I'd get a male spirit with it. I think a male spirit is associated with it, but I got this nature spirit instead when I drew it. She's a sweet little thing. I don't know if I've done the Aboriginal people a disservice with this picture, but I certainly don't intend it that way.
Jeff Buckley When Jeff Buckley died, I was so bereft, I was absolutely devastated. Finally, after all these years, was a singer I could relate to, a singer that sang the way I felt, a singer that sung of my very soul. And he was snatched away, at the beginning of what could have been a great career, leaving us with only a handful of finished songs and a glimpse of his talent. He was a symbol of my love of music, a symbol of my life purpose - to sing to people's hearts. So I painted him over and over again till I felt better. I finally felt better, but there will always be a part of my heart that belongs to Jeff and Jeff alone. :)
Lisa, Emmy and Lily My sister Lisa was pregnant with her youngest, Lily, when I was in art school. This was a quick oils exercise I was required to do, and it remains one of my favourite paintings. It's part naive art, part something else. :)
Terri The lead character from my comic series, "The Muse". I wasn't going to put any comic work in here, but I feel a deep connection with this piece. Terri is a character very close to my heart, as she's a glimpse of the melancholic girl I was in art school, totally devoted to the beauty of art. She's who I'd be without music. :) Mum made fun of this picture, saying that the girl had an unfortunate mouth and nose. Oh well.
Pretty Orang Utan This girl was such a poser. Another picture from the zoo. I really love these drawings, I think they really capture the animal beautifully. :)
Orang Again Another picture of her. I think. :)
Pantomime Drag I'm *very* proud of this piece. I did it when I was just a wee sixteen years of age. I think it shows a very good command of the medium at such a young age.
Scotty Another one I'm proud of. I was fifteen when I did this!
Snow Leopard Oh I love this one. The teacher brought a stuffed snow leopard into class, borrowed from the city museum, and we had to paint it. The thing stayed with us for a week or two, and after a while props from the un-rubbish room (A room where rubbish is brought and invariably snaffled up by poor scavenging artists to be used in their art) started appearing in front of the kitty. There was a saucer in front of it, and a tin of Dine cat food :) Too funny. Anyway, it was a challenge making a dead stuffed killer kitty look lively. Very challenging.
Snow Leopard II Our friend the cat again.
Tina In high school, I had to use what was around me as source material for my work. As a result, I drew my siblings a lot. I roped them into all sorts of things to help me out. Tina's job was wearing a pretty dress and posing here. She makes a marvellous model :).
Brendan Speaking of marvelous models - hel-LO sailor! Or should that be Brendan? I drew Brendan Fraser here, and he was kinda almost naked in the picture. *fans self* I love my job.
Onto more explicit artworks...
Who Is There? This curious mermaid picture has naked titties, so I couldn't put it up at photobucket. It's nothing to get excited over. It's a quick ink sketch done over in watercolours.
Beautiful Nude This is one of the first women to flirt with me where I was sorely tempted to respond. She was so fucking beautiful, with gorgeous red hair and a cheeky face. I said I often thought about nude modelling, and she asked me why I didn't go up there with her on that day. I was like, "Guh uuuh..." These days? I would so have said yes. LOL! I was more demure then though. Anyway, I regard this picture with great affection as I would have boned that girl into next week if I'd only had my wits about me! :) Aaah sweet lady, how you perverted me to the paths of dyke-i-ness.
Lady Fey You know, this isn't really a great work of art or anything, I just really like it. I like the line, the smokyness, the naked ladyness, the wings. It's just cool.
Okay. So that's it. I guess I haven't done much that's impressive in original work. *shrugs* Oh well, I'll have to remedy that. One day.
There are some errors in these works, but I'll tell you why I've included them. I hope you enjoy them. They're non-fandom, completely of my own creation. So I won't be offended if they're not that interesting to you.
You might want to open the works in a new window and keep reading these. I'd do the 'open in new window' tag thing but I don't know how to do that - I suck.
Angel Looking Up Just a random throwaway angel picture. I like it though - nice composition maybe.
In Memoriam I drew this the day after 9-11. I wanted to do something in rememberance but nothing too tacky. I hoped I managed that here.
Cupid I was in a bit of an antagonistic shock-art phase when I did this. I was also not a girl that looked kindly on the concept of falling in love. The shadowing in the girl's neck and Cupid's hand is attrocious, but what can you do? I guess I could go back and fix it. *considers it*. I based Cupid off of Wil Wheaton. The whole premise behind this painting was that it was supposed to be a part of a series, depicting modern Greek Gods. I will totally finish this fucking idea one of these days :) Anyway, in modernising Cupid, I thought instead of bows and arrows it could be a syringe that he uses. I probably got the idea from Baz Luhrman's Romeo + Juliet, when Mercucio gives Romeo an e with a loveheart with an arrow through it. Sort of the proto-idea. My Mum HATES this picture with a passion, and it got rather strange reactions. Mostly disgust and discomfort. Most couldn't fathom why I equated falling in love with such a painful and negative thing as having a needle. Thing is, to me, at that time, (and still I suppose), falling in love was pain, was a drug, was a terrible thing that left you strung out, always needing, always wanting, never being fulfilled. I was in the throes of unrequited love when I did this, and I think it shows :)
Eros and Psyche Aaah. Eros and Psyche, an old stand by for artists everywhere. And this one - it's very standard. Nothing ground breaking, nothing amazing. But I like it.
Zebra and Giraffe This is a sketch I did at the zoo. One is ink and brush, and the other is charcoal. When you're there doing source work like this, you don't notice where you're starting or where your pictures are going. You just try to get as much down as possible. As a result, the zebra ended up eating the giraffe's head. Nevertheless, I think they're quite good. :)
Grass Tree Girl We recently (recently as in this year) got a grass tree out the front of our house. They're very odd looking things, and I love them. When I was a kid we called them Black Boys, because that's what they look like at the corner of your eye - an Aboriginal warrior standing there. But that's not allowed anymore - not allowed to call them that, and it's probably for the best. The spirit of this beautiful plant kept speaking to me. I kept walking past and seeing something standing there, someone standing there, and I'd look and it was this plant. So I drew it, and I thought I'd get a male spirit with it. I think a male spirit is associated with it, but I got this nature spirit instead when I drew it. She's a sweet little thing. I don't know if I've done the Aboriginal people a disservice with this picture, but I certainly don't intend it that way.
Jeff Buckley When Jeff Buckley died, I was so bereft, I was absolutely devastated. Finally, after all these years, was a singer I could relate to, a singer that sang the way I felt, a singer that sung of my very soul. And he was snatched away, at the beginning of what could have been a great career, leaving us with only a handful of finished songs and a glimpse of his talent. He was a symbol of my love of music, a symbol of my life purpose - to sing to people's hearts. So I painted him over and over again till I felt better. I finally felt better, but there will always be a part of my heart that belongs to Jeff and Jeff alone. :)
Lisa, Emmy and Lily My sister Lisa was pregnant with her youngest, Lily, when I was in art school. This was a quick oils exercise I was required to do, and it remains one of my favourite paintings. It's part naive art, part something else. :)
Terri The lead character from my comic series, "The Muse". I wasn't going to put any comic work in here, but I feel a deep connection with this piece. Terri is a character very close to my heart, as she's a glimpse of the melancholic girl I was in art school, totally devoted to the beauty of art. She's who I'd be without music. :) Mum made fun of this picture, saying that the girl had an unfortunate mouth and nose. Oh well.
Pretty Orang Utan This girl was such a poser. Another picture from the zoo. I really love these drawings, I think they really capture the animal beautifully. :)
Orang Again Another picture of her. I think. :)
Pantomime Drag I'm *very* proud of this piece. I did it when I was just a wee sixteen years of age. I think it shows a very good command of the medium at such a young age.
Scotty Another one I'm proud of. I was fifteen when I did this!
Snow Leopard Oh I love this one. The teacher brought a stuffed snow leopard into class, borrowed from the city museum, and we had to paint it. The thing stayed with us for a week or two, and after a while props from the un-rubbish room (A room where rubbish is brought and invariably snaffled up by poor scavenging artists to be used in their art) started appearing in front of the kitty. There was a saucer in front of it, and a tin of Dine cat food :) Too funny. Anyway, it was a challenge making a dead stuffed killer kitty look lively. Very challenging.
Snow Leopard II Our friend the cat again.
Tina In high school, I had to use what was around me as source material for my work. As a result, I drew my siblings a lot. I roped them into all sorts of things to help me out. Tina's job was wearing a pretty dress and posing here. She makes a marvellous model :).
Brendan Speaking of marvelous models - hel-LO sailor! Or should that be Brendan? I drew Brendan Fraser here, and he was kinda almost naked in the picture. *fans self* I love my job.
Onto more explicit artworks...
Who Is There? This curious mermaid picture has naked titties, so I couldn't put it up at photobucket. It's nothing to get excited over. It's a quick ink sketch done over in watercolours.
Beautiful Nude This is one of the first women to flirt with me where I was sorely tempted to respond. She was so fucking beautiful, with gorgeous red hair and a cheeky face. I said I often thought about nude modelling, and she asked me why I didn't go up there with her on that day. I was like, "Guh uuuh..." These days? I would so have said yes. LOL! I was more demure then though. Anyway, I regard this picture with great affection as I would have boned that girl into next week if I'd only had my wits about me! :) Aaah sweet lady, how you perverted me to the paths of dyke-i-ness.
Lady Fey You know, this isn't really a great work of art or anything, I just really like it. I like the line, the smokyness, the naked ladyness, the wings. It's just cool.
Okay. So that's it. I guess I haven't done much that's impressive in original work. *shrugs* Oh well, I'll have to remedy that. One day.
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Nancy, Nancy, Nancy
Date: 2003-12-20 11:28 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2003-12-20 11:40 am (UTC)Re: Nancy, Nancy, Nancy
Date: 2003-12-20 11:56 am (UTC)Re: Nancy, Nancy, Nancy
Date: 2003-12-20 04:20 pm (UTC)Then they are morons :-( You should try to get some freelance accounts. Your artwork is incredibly wonderful. <~~~ points to own icon :-)
Also you mentioned making an mp3 of yourself singing something Christmasy. I would LOVE to hear you singing - haven't managed yet as I have NO sound card on this blasted machine at home. However I do have one at work, so if you pointed me in the direction of said MP3 I could download it to my Yahoo! Briefcase over the Christmas holidays and then download it to my work computer when I go back on January 5th. Pretty please?? :-)
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Date: 2003-12-20 05:51 pm (UTC)~Erin
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Date: 2003-12-20 07:20 pm (UTC)Alas, I have no artistic talent. But I know good stuff when I see it.
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Date: 2003-12-20 10:26 pm (UTC)wow-ee!
Date: 2003-12-21 04:17 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2003-12-22 10:00 am (UTC)I especially liked how you have experimented so succesfully with different mediums and subjects. Fantastic!
Hugs,
Elia
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Date: 2003-12-22 11:50 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2003-12-22 12:16 pm (UTC)