What inspires me

In the past me and my work have been inspired by many things. A few years ago if you asked me what inspires me i would say that the simple beauty of nature and all the colours it created does. I look back now and say " well isn't that all a bit sappy". Well it is but i do see where i was coming from.

You have to admit, the rainforest is rather pretty. I think i was inspired by the all the greens and the undisturbed way that the forest has. The way the light hits every leaf creating a wonderful golden glow among the endless tress. But yes, like a said i now think it's sappy. I would enjoy painting and drawing the natural rainforest along with a select few of the animals that came with it.

 

The main animal i would paint is monkeys and apes. I truly loved them. I could think of nothing better but to sit down at the table after a long, hard day at school and get out my water colours and paint an orangutan on a random scrap piece of paper i had ripped from one of my note books.

 

My art wasn't the only thing inspired by monkeys and apes but my future career was as well. The crazy nature of monkeys made me want to become a primateologist.( some one who works with and studies monkeys and other primates.) I had a real interest in both their behavior an their environment. However my love for art was too strong so i no longer wish to have that career.

For a while i found the you tube cartoon series of "Bravest warriors" to be inspiring an it made me want to create my own super hero like characters and comic books. I did in fact make my own comic book series but i lost it. (Oh well, it will appear somewhere for me to read once more.)

I then found my self fading into the darker side of art and steering away from art found in natural beauty. Some may say i was becoming inspired by more abstract things. One artist i was inspired by was Oliver de Sagazan. A lot of people will say his work is very scary and they won't like it but i find the deeper meaning to his work to be quite intriguing. 

 

 

You can't say i didn't warn you. I love the way he creates the sculptures using tiny pieces of wire and air drying clay to create them ( The hanging person is only the size of a barbie doll in reality.)  He also makes the "sculptures" like the one you see at the bottom by putting wet clay over the top of his won face. ( I don't know how he breathes either!) The clay faced monsters are created in front of a live audience and they are photographed and filmed. I am inspired mainly by his amazing use of air dying clay and wires so i used to create mini sculptures myself. I also love the use of colour in the reds and blacks standing out from the paleness of the clay. I used this in my art as well.

Now  i am stuck. I don't have any inspiration, i just have me. I don't look at a monkey and want to paint it. I don't see a bravest warrior and feel the need to create a comic. I don't see some thing creepy or made of clay and have the urge to make a little sculpture. This of course means i have stopped creating "art" for the moment because when ever i look at a blank canvas my mind goes blank along with it. I hope that one day i will be inspired again but for now i will remain sitting on the sofa having my life sucked away by the abyss that is the television.

Photos

As part of my art work, i have to take photos relating to artists of my choice. The work of Karina Marandjian really caught my attention (you can probably see why) He work is very different from most others. It is this factor of it that i love. Photographs of the models are taken and then edited on the computer to make them a bit more different and feel more impossible. For example spikes are added.

Examples of her work- 

 

 

The photographs she has taken inspired me so i decided to take my own using similar colors and themes.

The red in the photograph is made by covering the flash on the camera.

 The photo represents how the person is looking into the mirror image of herself and wishing to be that person rather than the one she is now.

The light is made my using no flash and shining a white light onto one side of the face.

Light is made by covering the flash.

The light here is made by the person standing under an orange light and no flash on the camera is used.

These photos are not the Photoshopped ones. The colour in them is made using different camera settings and light.