Radio Signals Art » bow http://www.radiosignalsart.com Broadcasting... Sat, 11 Jun 2011 12:18:08 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Princess Kristen http://www.radiosignalsart.com/2010/04/28/princess-kristen/ http://www.radiosignalsart.com/2010/04/28/princess-kristen/#comments Wed, 28 Apr 2010 05:08:55 +0000 Radio http://www.radiosignalsart.com/?p=120 The last two days I am… Read the rest

]]> The last two days I am more than a little obsessed with mixing up fashions from the 16th century.

Princess Kristen

]]> http://www.radiosignalsart.com/2010/04/28/princess-kristen/feed/ 0 Arterial WIP Gallery http://www.radiosignalsart.com/2010/04/27/wip-arterial-part-01/ http://www.radiosignalsart.com/2010/04/27/wip-arterial-part-01/#comments Tue, 27 Apr 2010 23:43:42 +0000 Radio http://www.radiosignalsart.com/?p=118 I was asked if I could… Read the rest

]]> I was asked if I could do a medically themed image for a commission and I’d already had an idea like this brewing so I’m going ahead with it.  I asked what was too far, she said disembowelment.  I knew I wanted to explore medical themes in my work without resorting to images of the human heart and the ribcage and stuff, those have been done to death. Spines and skulls are cool, but they feel kind of heavy metal to me.

first sketch

But the arterial and vascular system…  It looks like string, comes in beautiful red and blue, and is a way to express the inside of the body without ever actually having to look at anything inside the body.  All the evisceration without the gore.

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]]> This was originally a series of posts over a number of days while I was working on this image.  I’ve condensed them here with the progress gallery.

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Apr 3, 2010

Last night, while I was having dinner and getting ready to make the 12 hour pilgrimage out to see her in the hospital, my grandmother died. I cannot easily describe to strangers how deeply important this woman was in my life and how close we were, and this morning I couldn’t find the will to get out of bed until this image, one that has already been slowly developing in my mind during the last days of Actaeon, leapt into view in my mind’s eye.

I am also writing for the funeral, but this is for me.  Drawing it is soothing. It fills the space around me.

Apr 4, 2010

The art of stealing moments.

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Apr 5, 2010

My grandmother had a wrought iron wall piece for hanging pots and pans, that has very much inspired the way I’m rendering the cage.

Apr 6, 2010

I just really wish I could give her a call.

Apr 11, 2010

Her eye coloring was really special, and this doesn’t even begin to capture it. Blue ring around a brown center. The blue ring was so shocking, and gave her a doe-eyed dilated look from far away, and a much more intense impression up close.

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