Artistic Inspiration

2012-01-03 1 note

One does not simply paint The Starry Night into Mordor

My friend has a mounted photo print of Van Gogh’s “Starry Night,” so after getting the idea from an image on Reddit, we decided to turn this print into a one-of-a-kind painting of a “Starry Night in Mordor.”

I used a box of acrylics and created a study, mixing paints to match not only Van Gogh’s colors, but the colors in the reproduction.

After turning the tree into a tower, and creating the eye, I added pale dots to mimic the effect of the canvas showing through dry brushstrokes.

Finally, I painted on the glaze to create a unified texture.

2011-12-27 0 notes

Helen Frankenthaler, Abstract Painter Who Shaped a Movement, Dies at 83

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Merry Christmas from Banksy

2011-12-26 408 notes

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happy holidays from atomos~

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2011-10-12 42 notes

The inspiration for my Uncle William Series, as told by my cousin, Shannon

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My uncle Willy has Downs-syndrome, which in return made him the most consistently happy human being I know. Always laughing; he is blissfully ignorant of anything negative. Well anyway for my birthday I wanted a signed photo of him my Uncle took way back when in rural Texas of him looking like a cowboy. The result was a very difficult situation of cornering off what was actually singable for him. This also happened in the middle of Jasons Deli.

His signature kind of depends on what the people around him guide him to do. It also varies from time to time. This time it was very long vertical lines; he practiced on some napkins before hand.

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2011-06-30 12,418 notes

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$poorartists: Paige Bradley created one of the most striking sculptures I’ve seen in recent times. Her masterpiece, entitled Expansion, is a beautiful woman seeking inner piece but fractured and bleeding with light. “From the moment we are born, the world tends to have a container already built for us to fit inside: a social security number, a gender, a race, a profession,” says Bradley. “I ponder if we are more defined by the container we are in than what we are inside. Would we recognize ourselves if we could expand beyond our bodies?”$

poorartists:

Paige Bradley created one of the most striking sculptures I’ve seen in recent times. Her masterpiece, entitled Expansion, is a beautiful woman seeking inner piece but fractured and bleeding with light.

“From the moment we are born, the world tends to have a container already built for us to fit inside: a social security number, a gender, a race, a profession,” says Bradley. “I ponder if we are more defined by the container we are in than what we are inside. Would we recognize ourselves if we could expand beyond our bodies?”

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Get lost in my universe: Colleen Blackard