February 2008

painting of susie bubble by Erin Hamilton, it’s small and sweet.

I’m new to blogging, and I don’t do it very often, yet I really appreciate it and the personal touch different people contribute in their posts. One of my favorite blogs, partially due to the person writing it and her way with words, is style bubble. It’s well written and details a tasty aesthetic for fashion I really appreciate. I referenced a couple photos off her site of her and put a bird in there along with a feather headdress of sorts. The strange part is the day I finished this, I looked at her newest post and she had a link and imagery of this designer Beddug who makes bird headbands. nice and synchronized right?

This is in progress, (I still need to detail the rest of the frogs):

I’m working on a painting of frogs with the idea of frogs being like the proverbial canary in a coal mine to humans environmentally (which according to science they are). Short story, they have all kinds of problems due to pollution from pesticides, water contamination from all kinds of sources, and due to a slight raise in temperature there is this fungus killing all sorts of frogs called chytrid fungus. mmm, light hearted and pleasant right.

Well I thought so too. My goal is to make this as pretty and delicate of a painting as possible to contrast the disease, much like the delicacy of life and the gruesome and also beautiful things we go through in the process of living and dying.

A detail of the skeleton: