Wooo! My postcards have arrived! And they are beautiful - how gratifying to tear open a cardboard box and find hundreds of glossy copies of your very own **reasonably priced** artwork within.
There are nine designs in all - a combination of hand illustration and digital photo-manipulation. Like this little fella on the right. She is a chimera - an amalgam of several creatures.
I remember as a 10 year old boy watching Terry Gilliam on a Saturday morning kids TV show. He was demonstrating how he made his animations (for Monty Python) using pictures he'd cut-out from magazines. Easy and cheap. I was hooked. An arm here, a head there, yes - eyes and hair - I was Doctor Frankenstein! My freaks, monsters and fantasies were suddenly photo-realistic. And they even moved (if I didn't glue them down). Unfortunately, we couldn't afford Terry's animation equipment. Thanks Terry.
Discovering Photoshop years later was another revelation. With this amazing software, I could cut-out photographs, scan my own drawings and then obsessively manipulate them. Plus - I could draw and paint directly into the computer - using digital paint, textures, virtual brushes.... sweet heaven. It would be several years before I slept again.
So anyway, these postcards. Several people suggested I should produce them - get them "out there". Have tried to choose pictures which might actually sell. You know, in shops - Like Iksentrik (not that I've spoken to Ryan yet but...) or perhaps at Art Fairs, Frome's Artisan Market. **I'm thinking 80p each?
All nine images are rather dark, grotesque. I wonder if aspiring towards beauty would actually make a more serious artist of me. Hang on though. Surely the artists job is to reveal the unseen, the hidden, the overlooked - to unmask. This fascination with fear is all about externalising - exposing it. So perhaps when it's "out there" it can be transformed into something a little sweeter.
There are nine designs in all - a combination of hand illustration and digital photo-manipulation. Like this little fella on the right. She is a chimera - an amalgam of several creatures.
I remember as a 10 year old boy watching Terry Gilliam on a Saturday morning kids TV show. He was demonstrating how he made his animations (for Monty Python) using pictures he'd cut-out from magazines. Easy and cheap. I was hooked. An arm here, a head there, yes - eyes and hair - I was Doctor Frankenstein! My freaks, monsters and fantasies were suddenly photo-realistic. And they even moved (if I didn't glue them down). Unfortunately, we couldn't afford Terry's animation equipment. Thanks Terry.
Discovering Photoshop years later was another revelation. With this amazing software, I could cut-out photographs, scan my own drawings and then obsessively manipulate them. Plus - I could draw and paint directly into the computer - using digital paint, textures, virtual brushes.... sweet heaven. It would be several years before I slept again.
So anyway, these postcards. Several people suggested I should produce them - get them "out there". Have tried to choose pictures which might actually sell. You know, in shops - Like Iksentrik (not that I've spoken to Ryan yet but...) or perhaps at Art Fairs, Frome's Artisan Market. **I'm thinking 80p each?
All nine images are rather dark, grotesque. I wonder if aspiring towards beauty would actually make a more serious artist of me. Hang on though. Surely the artists job is to reveal the unseen, the hidden, the overlooked - to unmask. This fascination with fear is all about externalising - exposing it. So perhaps when it's "out there" it can be transformed into something a little sweeter.
Hey! I'm an artist!
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