There is a blog I found through another site, which is called The Virtual Paintout. Basically, each month the artist selects a view from Street View in Google Maps and paint from the photograph of the view. The brief is that you paint a specific place. So for this month, the artist must paint from a street in Corsica. I thought this would be quite fun and decided to give it a try. Now, I’ve never painted a street or landscape so it was going to be a challenge for me. I quickly knocked up the front view of a house. I know, it’s not a very good painting, but it’s a first attempt and was done in very little time. It’s done in my little journal, meaning the space is tiny. I was also very tired when I painted it, but I was desperate to give it a try, so here it is:
I also wanted to show you Head-E Lamarr. Who, you ask? Head-E is my sculpted head. I thought it was quite a funny title to give her and it works for me because Head-E alludes to something computerish, whilst also referencing a very famous actress of the golden era of films. The brief for this was to design a piece based on the word ‘Dismantle’. I was going to go all steampunk on her, thinking cogs and machinery, but then I had a brainwave! I had bits of RAM lying around and I had already moulded wires into the plaster and made them stick out of her eye. So I thought, what about a cyborg? A broken cyborg. A bio-mechanical being. So, I carved a piece into her head so that I can stick the RAM in, which represents her brain. I also carved part of an exposed brain, showing the duality of man meets machine. I then added an LED light to her eye, then carved out parts of her jaw to expose bone and muscle tissue. She is a work in progress and I will be adding more to her.
There is a stick on the RAM that says ‘Void if removed’. I love that! It says so much, so I decided to leave it on.
