Massive picture! But you knew this was coming. Horses have influenced my work since I was little. Even as a got into humans and their anatomy, I was able to place certain bones and muscles I learned from horses on the human body.
Sunday, May 8, 2011
Source Material & Inspiration 2
Massive picture! But you knew this was coming. Horses have influenced my work since I was little. Even as a got into humans and their anatomy, I was able to place certain bones and muscles I learned from horses on the human body.
Source Material & Inspiration 1
Anything by Alphonse Mucha. The art noveau style is very influential to me and I would love to be able to recreate something of his.
Sunday, May 1, 2011
Influences 2
One of the influences the I have in my art is actually an author, Chuck Palahniuk. He is the author of several well known books including Fight Club. His books are always very weird and quirky and sometimes take on a dreamlike quality, which incidentally relates to my theme in art this year. One book of his, called Diary, centers around a failed artist whose husband, a carpenter, had attempted suicide and fell into a coma. She started getting calls about people's rooms in their houses going missing. It was a very weird and, like most of his books, had an amazing twist at the end. I've worked my way through almost all of his works by now (I started in Decemberish) nad he continues to inspire me.
Influences 1
When I do my art, whether it be on my own or for this class, there's a few songs that I will play on repeat, all of them completely different. Subconsciously I incorporate them into my work. Some of them are abstract (like Hey You) which relates to my theme of dreams. Here's the ones I can think of off the top of my head. There's more but I usually am on shuffle when I hear them and then will play them over and over.
Hey You - Pink Floyd (Pretty much the whole of The Wall album, but this is the most played)
Sail - Awolnation
Let Go - Frou Frou (an Imogen Heap band)
A Better Place, a Better Time - Streetlight Manifesto
Gouge Away - The Pixies (And the whole of the Doolittle album)
Kids - Sleigh Bells (And the whole Treats album)
All of these song are very easy for me to listen to while doing art and are each inspiring in their own way. Absolutely none of these bands are similar to each other in any way, which is interesting. The constrast from Streetlight Manifesto (Ska, which is punk with horns pretty much), to Sleigh Bells (heavy electronica), to Pink Floyd is very large.
Hey You - Pink Floyd (Pretty much the whole of The Wall album, but this is the most played)
Sail - Awolnation
Let Go - Frou Frou (an Imogen Heap band)
A Better Place, a Better Time - Streetlight Manifesto
Gouge Away - The Pixies (And the whole of the Doolittle album)
Kids - Sleigh Bells (And the whole Treats album)
All of these song are very easy for me to listen to while doing art and are each inspiring in their own way. Absolutely none of these bands are similar to each other in any way, which is interesting. The constrast from Streetlight Manifesto (Ska, which is punk with horns pretty much), to Sleigh Bells (heavy electronica), to Pink Floyd is very large.
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