So I’ve made it this far. Who knew when I started out in september 2008 that I could keep up with a visual blogging diary for so so long. Thank you to all who have visited the blog over the year and a bit, and to all those who will visit in the future. This [...]
Posts Tagged ‘cel’
100th POST!!! and also the joys of Hirst, and experimentation of Hirst.
Posted in 2D, Artsy, Conceptual, The Other Stoof, value, tagged 100th post, butterfly, cel, damien hirst, dots, duchamp, fountain, how delightfully unpleasant, new paintings, painting, pills, pluto, shark, sheep, simon skull, skull, visitors on December 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Developments.
Posted in 2D, 3D, Artsy, Conceptual, value, tagged acetate, autograph book, balloon, balloons, cel, celebration, commercial, development, disney, drawing, duchamp, fool's gold, fountain, koons, L.H.O.O.Q., mariee, memory tapes, nadine, nude, painting, success, wall drawings on November 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Continuing with development: I liked how all the previous wall drawings looked together; my subconscious working up again. May develop this later.These two pieces stemmed from the cel idea. They work by playing the character of the fountain against the recognisable mickey mouse. In the first, the fountain is given two ears, in the second [...]
Simulation and wonderful combinations of pure triumph dedicated solely to the production of more constructions of future times
Posted in 2D, Artsy, Conceptual, value, tagged baudrillard, buzz lightyear, cartoons, cel, commercialism, cryptic art, damien hirst, disney, disneyland, dot paintings, duchamp, equilibrium, found-object, fountain, Hal Foster, heroism, indulgence, jeff koons, mickey mouse, minnie mouse, monetary value, necessities, popular culture, postmodernism, price-tag, symbolism on November 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Sooooo get that? its an interpretation of Hal Foster’s views on art, which I kinda agree with. The (postmodern) artist becomes a manipulator of signs more than a producer ofart objects, and the viewer and active reader of messages rather than a passive contemplator of the aesthetic. From that drawing I could go in a [...]
Cels
Posted in 2D, Artsy, Conceptual, value, tagged billy basketball, cartoon, cel, celluloid, disney, duchamp, fountain, freddy fountain, naive on November 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
So here are some cels that I created with the idea of having them as valuable collector’s items from a cartoon that was never made. So I quite like them, especially the first one. Freddy Fountain as a young character (based on steamboat willie/plane crazy mickey). This naivity tries to evoke nostalgia to the days [...]
cartoon cartoon cartoon cartoon
Posted in 2D, Artsy, Conceptual, value, tagged billy basketball, calum can, cartoon, cel, celebrity, celluloid, character, collector's item, comic, disney, disneyland, fountain, freddy fountain, koons, magritte, mask, peter pipe, plastic, storyboard, warhol on November 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
So from the last work, which I have started to assemble poorly as I don’t have experience or the time and resources to work in plastic, I have started to work into the idea of creating characters. Immediately I can jump into the idea of creating this fountain man. I may name him Freddy Fountain [...]
