Here is a real combination of previous art work of mine, and a drawing I just finished. Before I explain to you what drawings are layered into this image, I want to explore what it looks like, and the influences it reminds me of however. What influences am I talking about? Doesn’t it remind you of some 20th century surrealist art? Like early Salvador Dali, or Joan Miro?
It does to me. Joan Miro is famous for using large, boldly colored, abstract shapes in his paintings. I was not thinking that I’d like to do what Miro or Dali did here however. As usual, I was just going with the flow of my creative processes, and happened upon decision-making points that seemed to guide down to what you see as a result.
The Big blue shape in the right-center area, along with the four white dashed lines ending in black and white dots, are really the culprits that most remind me of Dali’s early work and Joan Miro’s work. So, while this piece may not be anything new to the art world, it still is a step I find some excitement with in the results of my own art making.
The background layer is composed of a Micro-Chimerism (a series of mosaic styled art by Art of eVan) titled Organic Tell-Tale. That drawing is quite intricate and detailed as a strange landscape of plants, a big bowl, and portrait of Shakespeare in the sky. That’s right, Shakespeare is in the sky in that drawing. I couldn’t help but flesh out his features as a background image that was printed on one of the papers I used for drawing on.
Here in this picture, you can see Shakespeare’s left eye (oculus sinister) peeking out from behind that blue Miro-esque shape I described earlier. He’s not looking at the viewer however. His eye looks like it’s fixated on another line of interest off to your left side. It looks, however, like it could very easily look down at that balloon shape in the lower left-hand corner of this representation.
The composition of the shapes shapes lead the viewer’s eye down to the lower left-hand corner of this picture, then are lead up, then to the right, and then back down to the lower right-hand corner. Your eye mingles around with all the precarious shapes hanging around in the middle and bottom border. You notice a smaller, cord-like structure leading up to what appears to be an eyeball that’s larger than the Shakespearian one. It is indeed an eye-ball. It is part of the top layer drawing I used for this image. That top layer drawing is the blacked out elements I selected from Question Scoops. I had inverted their color to white however, rendering them as snowy and icy shapes, along with the blue shapes.
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