Happy holidays!

Cartoony Pop Art

Modern Pop Art -style drawing I made. À la Juxtapoz, what do you think?

I was just playing with shapes and rythms.

What do you see in it?

 

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The Black Superman

A Flyer me and my wife did. They wanted a caricature of the actor, with a handmade feel with the style of a circus. I somehow like the general feel of it. What do you think?

Cartoony skin tone painting.

Something I painted around 2003. WhenI wanted to do skin tones.

Pencil Sketch

Something classical art this time. Pencil on paper. Scanned and level adjustment in Gimp.

I wanted to test how well I remember the external human anatomy, and ended up with my version of Zeus. He pulls the lightning from his hair. No reference or model of any kind was used.

As a self taught artist, I had to build a solid understanding of the laws of nature, to be able to create art in it’s various ways.

I have the deepest respect to Michelangelo’s understanding of  muscular anatomy, mass and shape. He was very observant and talented man.

Skin sketch.

Larger version here.

This is a skin tone test I did. I tried to do it visually appealing, without resorting to using very high contrasts. I wanted it to have a somewhat etherreal feeling to it.

I didn’t use any reference either, so it’s not really photoreal. But I think it’s not too clumsy either. I used more subtle features, so the character is a bit androgynic.

Maby i’ll do it in oils, and call it contemporary?

More Surreal Connections.

As I used watercolor and airbrush, interesting visions came to be,,, It describes how we have different sides to us. Sometimes my mind is set on concrete things, and others times, I throw out stuff straight from the top of my hat.  And that’s the way I learn to know myself. At the beginning everything is vague, but starts to make sense, on a closer inspection.

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An Airbrush WIP.

A cartoony airbrush WIP (Work-In-Progress). I think it could be named something like “Car-Ton”. It has references to pop culture, but without repeating it. I guess somebody might categorize it as contemporary abstract-surreal pop art. To tell the truth, I don’t categorize my art. I think (like memes) art is the sum of past, with a direction to the future.

It’s a lot harder to do paintings there and then, but it’s the only way to be fully creative (at least to me).

If only I knew how to continue with it,,, Tell me if it touches a nerve.

Photo: Past, Present Or Future?

To me, many things look like something else, that they are supposed to be. That’s why I make art. The first time I saw this, I knew I had to photograph it.

I photographed this one last summer, a year ago, in Finnish archipelago. It’s an old timber house, with an old combustion engine water pump. It works as a great example, about how long human made complexity still echoes, even when left untouched for decades.

It kind of looks like an old robot. It reminded me of Laputa: Castle in the Sky, an animated film by Hayao Miyazaki.

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Sketching with airbrush.

What Do You See In It?

Seemingly chaotic.
Ink to watercolour paper, and some eraser work, to bring out the organic texture of the paper. I see many things in it, what about you? Look at it closer, it may start to move…

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