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Currently in the middle of completing the same art project that the Year 9s I’m taking are doing at the moment.

It goes something along the lines of:

Collage/Portraits/Surrealist landscapes.

Photographed and edited by me

@ Sculpture by the Sea, Cottesloe, Western Australia

floramichelle:

Sculpture by the Sea, 2012

Photographed by my sister / edited by me

@ SxS Cottesloe, Western Australia

floramichelle:

Sculpture by the Sea, 2012

I’m considering painting over these with oil paints. I hate the sgraffito images now, so they’re hiding away somewhere unbeknownst to me (probably the bottom of my wardrobe actually)

I do still like the half black/white contrast, so I would consider only going over the black part… But the trouble is, the “white” is discoloured in areas so that it definitely looks as though it’s been cooked/burnt.

Totes gonna fix this!

My clay bust so far…

Since this photo was taken (early yesterday evening), I have built the head right up and closed it, pushed parts in, pushed areas out, built up areas with extra clay, scraped back a shitload of clay, only to then rip its head right off today!

I’ve spent the past couple of hours opening the neck up a bit more and restarting the head, so it’s still only half a head at the mo’.

I hate proportions! At least the head’s back to being slightly large again now, so I can play with it more

I have a small canvas that I’ve painted orange and haven’t done anything with since… Small buzz of inspiration to just do some kind of portrait on it and that be that. I just wanted to do an orange/blue colour scheme

artemisdreaming:

Portrait of Oscar Wilde, 1895. Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec.

Large image: HERE

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Toulouse-Lautrec had befriended Wilde in Paris and had drawn him several times. He was in London on the night before Wilde’s trial for gross indecency in May 1895, and asked to make another portrait.

They met, but Wilde, who knew he was facing ruin but had refused the pleas of friends and family to flee to the continent, was too nervous to sit. Toulouse-Lautrec went back to his hotel room and drew from memory the haggard anxiety and premature ageing of a man still only 41.

He added the background sketch of the houses of parliament to locate the portrait in London, but it was a prophetic touch: in the trial Wilde was asked about the location of a male brothel in Westminster. It was, he told the court, near the House of Commons. mr-oscar-wilde.de

(via artlistpro)

Artist Inspiration: ADRIAN ARLEO

Adrian Arleo is the best. I had only seen and been inspired by one of her works when I started my own sculpture. Hers was a bust with feather textures and birds nestled upon its shoulders and inside it’s crevices. I’d decided I’d change it so that it would feature bees instead of birds, and have a honeycomb texture rather than the feathers she implied.

Apparently I was not original in the concept - seeing as she has the honeycomb thing all sussed already! She’s carved a piece of wooden dowel into a hexagon shape and imprinted the clay to create the textures :) Now I know what to do!

(Source: dystopiabella)