well, im off on maternity leave waiting to pop miss flump-a-lump out and i have finally started working on my book! im REALLY excited about it and cant wait to try to take it a bit further.... updates to follow! anyway this evening I have been mooching (nothing new there then!) through some of the portfolios on one of my favourite websites www.childrensillustrators.com and for my memories sake and the enjoyment of anyone that may stumble across my blog.... ENJOY!!
How cool are these?! I didn't quite 'get' the first sentence of the post when I read it... "
Take a close look: ‘This is clearly a painting’. That’s what you’ll most likely expect, wouldn’t you? Now, take a further look and imagine that these are real life people with paint on them..."
Now I get it and again...How cool?!
Alexa Meade, from USA, has created a new art form it seems. She likes to blend people into her creations in a pretty unusual way. With her aesthetic, she manages to play around skillfully combing paint, portraiture, photography and performance.
Alexa Meade thinks completely backwards. Most artists use acrylic paints to create portraits of people on canvas. But not Meade - she applies acrylic paints on her subjects and makes them appear to be a part of the painting!
Meade is an installation artist based in the Washington, DC area. Her innovative use of paint on the three dimensional surfaces of found objects, live models, and architectural spaces has been incorporated into a series of installations that create a perceptual shift in how we experience and interpret spatial relationships.
When asked about her about her thought process. Here is what she said:
"I paint representational portraits directly on top of the people I am representing. The models are transformed into embodiments of the artist's interpretation of their essence. When captured on film, the living, breathing people underneath the paint disappear, overshadowed by the masks of themselves."
I think this is my favourite.......
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