Looking for textures and patterns:The fasteners on the suspenders of the girl with the skeleton are butterflies..the stockings are spider webs. So it seemed an interesting idea to make Cello Girl's fasteners out of spiders and the stockings with a pattern of black roses.
I was quite struck by the burlesque show we attended the other night. Not purely for the aesthetics but the concept..I'd never dream of going into a strip joint..it seems so seedy and ...well,clinical (don't ask me why i used that word but it seemed right). But Burlesque seems to exist on a very different plane of artistic being. It is fairy tales for the adult..I can only point you back to Grimm's Fairy Tales in which the magical comedic and beautiful appear with the dark, horrific and terrifying. The mixture,like real life, seeks to not only remind us of our mortality, but also of our immortality within our dreams and desires, our aspirations. It takes us out of the ordinary and presents us with another world of possibilities and fantasy.
Having spent a night in such a wonderfully shadow filled Technicolour cavern of beauty, you'd expect the exit from the theatre to be dour cold and empty.But you'd be wrong...burlesque presents us with a reality that affirms life alongside dreams and fantasy. It tells us that we are human...we will one day perish..but life is for living and love is a many faceted jewel for us all to share...and we carry it in each of our selves if we only took the time to discover. Of course it might just only be about watching pretty women take their clothes off and I'm just deluding myself!
Blimey!...I didn't plan to write that, but that's the effect it has had on me.
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Sounds like a truly Scorpionic experience.
I like seeing the Cello piece in the middle of the other images. It's like finding something familiar in someone else's home.
DM...What a lovely thing to say!..I think some consider this to be a rather cold and detached drawing,but I have invested a huge amount of time and deliberation into it..there is so much more to do.And whilst I spend all day working on my other picture..this one was always going to be slow to emerge.But Thank you so much for the encouragement!...and yes, 'Scorpionic' is a good description..my experience of things is always emmersive!
Hello Fair Artist Niall who does such beautiful and fun artwork,
We have been watching you. We are artist also. At least that's what they call us. You may even know us. We'd like to invite you to a member of our very Private Club. We're very selective and only an elite few are welcome on our hallowed grounds. We pick you.
We even have a little 'chit chat' room just for the likes of you. It's rightfully called Dante's Pub. But when your enter BEWARE! You are entering the abyss of the artist mind! You may not find your way out.
You're welcome to watch from afar while drinking your brew or pull up a chair and join us for a little chat. Be sure and register and then log in. After all, this is a very private club. We don't allow just any wanderer in our midst.
Don't dilly dally now! It wont cost you a pence. Check out The Artist Challenge and Dante's Pub- that is if your daring and think yourself worthy to be amongst the souls we've claimed?
Farewell...until we hear from you,
Master Mike and the Pub Wench
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