Finally getting these pictures up.
Finally getting these up.
Roosters were first domesticated by humans for sacred cockfighting rituals over two millennia ago. Such rituals were used for divination and fortunetelling. The symbolism of this religious tradition is widespread and is present in Judaism, Hinduism, Buddhism, and Christianity. The secular sport of cockfighting is one of the oldest sports in human culture.
This series explores the importance of rules, rituals, and symbolism in human culture. The importance of games and systems of play in Art. The nature of animal cruelty, human and animal interfacing, and how humans see themselves in the clash between the sacred and the flesh.
A couple of updates on what I’m working on in the studio. Hopefully these will be done soon.
I wish I would work in the studio more.
Finally got some pictures of the stuff I’ve been working on. I have a lot more stuff in progress but I wanted to wait till I got better pictures. This piece is part of a huge series I’m currently engaged in called Agon.
Agon: from the Greek for Struggle.
Roosters were first domesticated over two millennia ago not for food but for sacred cockfights in which roosters fought as part of divination rituals and blood sacrifice
This ritual is part of the history of Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism and Christianity.
I am an undergrad head for my department, so I helped host a Halloween drawing party. We need models, and they couldn’t be naked because it was a public venue. So we went in costume like Dr. Sketchy’s. This was my halloween costume.
Also an update from my studio, though this picture is actually a couple of weeks old. There will be more new stuff coming soon, when I get my DSLR to take pictures of the newest finished pieces.
Just to prove that I have in fact been at work in the studio, here are two WIP pictures from my studio.
First one was inspired by some Op-Art research I’ve been doing for my Modern Art class. Also Sword and Sworcery’s song “Impossible Geometry” in a way. Also I used a a shiny paint when I was painting the background so the purple areas have a thin layer of glisten, like oil in a water puddle.
The second one isn’t really done justice, since it’s done in thick impasto with a gel like medium so that there is a surface quality that doesn’t translate well in pixels. also it’s a decently sized piece. I still have a lot more work to do on it.
So I’m back in the studio doing traditional media work again. I’ll hopefully be keeping up with some speedpainting stuff though. This was my first completed piece coming back. The mandala is made with copper leaf so seeing it in real life is pretty cool.
Hyenas are pretty cool. Wouldn’t want to hang out with one though… no actually probably would but he’d have to have a muzzle. Which probably goes for a lot of my friend anyway.
I did another speed paint.
I really want to focus on digital art right now. I’ve been doing a lot of traditional for the last 3 years, and so its been nice to switch over to digital and kind of find a lost friend. I did digital art before I did traditional because I grew up in a small town and buying paint or knowing anyone who knew about traditional painting was rare. So I went online and learned how to do digital work from tutorials. I used to work in Corel Painter, and while I still like it, I’ve finally found some brushes in PS that I like. There so much possibility with digital, I just kind of like fooling around with it and trying new techniques.
