tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-70865284048794463982024-03-05T11:50:25.615+00:00David Denton ArtAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05127967710720541987noreply@blogger.comBlogger27125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7086528404879446398.post-14750353606091209082016-05-24T13:10:00.004+01:002016-05-24T13:10:55.092+01:00What You've Missed.<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I moved my blog over to my website recently so here's what you've missed in the last month or so:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><strong>6th May 2016</strong></span><br />
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this week's post I'm going to give you my interpretation of my
painting 'Descent From Möbius Wood' and look at how inevitable
depression is for me. </span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Warning: If you
would rather do the hard work yourself and come up with your own
interpretation then please don't read this. Make a nice cup of tea
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">"People most vulnerable to depression are those who may have:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Already experienced one episode of depression." (O'Connell, 2009)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">There
are obviously more bullet points after this one, but this one is right
up there at the top. This is the central idea behind 'Descent From
Möbius Wood', that once someone has had depression he or she is more
susceptible to having another episode. Seeing as though I've had at
least one episode every year for the majority of my adult life, it's
fair to say that I'll probably have another. It's pretty inevitable.
That is unless I can guard against it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><strong>15th May 2016</strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><strong>How I Price My Artwork.</strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">This
has to be one of the trickiest aspects of starting out as an artist:
deciding how much to charge. The problem is that if the price is too
high it will put off potential buyers, but if it is too low, the artist
ends up working for practically nothing and the art profession is
devalued.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Having a background in
Mathematics I have a tendency to work with numbers, although I do allow
the artist in me to peep through at times and modify what I have
calculated. So let's have a look at my calculations (don't worry, if you
normally shy away from maths based problems there's nothing too tricky
here).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><strong>17th May 2016</strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><strong>Ways to Fight Depression.</strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">In my <a href="https://www.blogger.com/null">recent post</a>
looking at my personal interpretation of my painting 'Descent From
Möbius Wood' (see image below), I touched on the ways that I guard
against another episode of depression. Here, I will expand on that and
look in more detail at different ways to fight depression.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Please
note: if you suspect that you are suffering with depression, your first
port of call should be your doctor. They will be able to properly
diagnose you and check for other conditions, prescibe medication if
necessary, and/or refer you for counselling. You wouldn't try to deal
with a persistent chest infection on your own, without seeking medical
help, so why is depression any different? After all, it is an illness
not a weakness.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Below, I'll detail self-help
techniques for keeping depression at bay. They are things that I have
read about in books or on websites and I have tried every one myself,
admittedly with varying degrees of success. If you want to check that
they are credible ways to deal with depression and I haven't just made
it all up, I will add some links for you at the bottom of this post. Not
all of this advice will necessarily work for you, but bear in mind that
you will need to stick with the strategies and try them for a good
while before discounting them. None are quick fixes and should be
integrated into daily life to have the best effects. Look at them as
regular maintenance to keep you feeling mentally well.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><strong>23rd May 2016</strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><strong>It's Good to Share...</strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Last week, I worked on some free presentations for art teachers to use (you can download Part 1 here - <a href="https://www.blogger.com/null">http://bit.ly/27QiXId</a>).
These resources show the process that I went through in creating 'The
Insidious Whisper'. This is of course not entirely altruistic; the
thought that I may possibly inspire someone in their art career, even in
the smallest way, is certainly an intoxicating thought. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Regular
readers will also have seen my posts and videos on how I work. Many
people have thanked me on social media for these insights. And they are
very welcome.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I like to share.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> As
children we are taught to share from an early age. It is one of the
ways parents socialise chidren and it is seen as something very
important. Should this be any different as we grow into adulthood?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">See you there!</span></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05127967710720541987noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7086528404879446398.post-6634523486122124002016-04-19T09:09:00.004+01:002016-04-19T09:09:44.543+01:00My Blog Is Moving<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">After reading a book on Search Engine Optimisation to improve my
website, I have moved my blog over on to my actual website. This saddens
me because I have really enjoyed using Blogger and have appreciated people reading my posts.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I will post links to my most recent posts on my site for a while to keep you up to date.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">My most recent post is on the creation of the third painting in my abstract series and you can find it here:</span></span><br />
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<a href="http://www.daviddentonart.com/#!The-Process-Behind-The-Seven-Gates-Abstract-No-3/u91ka/57153a440cf2dd6f7fc50c49"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">http://www.daviddentonart.com/#!The-Process-Behind-The-Seven-Gates-Abstract-No-3/u91ka/57153a440cf2dd6f7fc50c49</span></span></a><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">So thanks for reading and I hope you make the transition over to my website!</span></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05127967710720541987noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7086528404879446398.post-38689240894117664602016-04-03T12:25:00.002+01:002016-04-07T13:21:16.588+01:00Which Genre Do I Fit Into?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<i><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(Again, stick with me and I'll get round to art by the end...)</span></span></i><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I loved listening to John Peel on the radio.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I loved the mix of styles he played, from Japanese thrash to jingly jangly indie pop. I never quite knew what to expect. He exposed whole new types of music to me, which I sometimes liked<i>, </i>sometimes hated<i>, </i>but the show was always interesting.</span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> Add to that the Festive 50 - a chart of the best 50 tracks of the year as voted for by his listeners - and it all adds up to make John Peel a hero and a legend.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I'm not the kind of person who can just listen to one genre and only like one genre, and dismiss all other genres. I like a mixture. Now, I won't use the 'e' word because in general when people describe their taste as the 'e' word it just means they listen to Coldplay, although they also enjoy Nickelback too. In other words: a narrow taste in music. Which is fine, I just like a mixture. A broad mixture.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The problem is that now, everything has been so neatly forced into genres - a process of 'genre-lisation' - that it's very hard to find anything to suit my needs. I thought Spotify may help with its Discover playlist, but all that churns out is music that has been through the process of blandardisation.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The same thing has happened to films. They generally don't get made unless the marketing team can see an easy way to promote them, i.e. they neat fit into a genre box. My favourite film 'The Wicker Man' probably wouldn't get made today because it steadfastly refuses to be categorised. Is it a horror film? Well, the ending is completely horrific but the rest of the film is more of a saucy musical comedy. I even like the sequel 'The Wicker Tree'. (Yes, I may possibly be the only person to like it, granted.) I was expecting to hate it, but despite not being anywhere near as good as the original, I enjoyed it due to its lack of a clear genre.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Focus groups don't help. In appealing to a broad audience, the films become blandardised and wholly average (at best). As a creator would I want my film to be liked by many (and then forgotten) or loved and cherished by a few?</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It should be fairly obvious from my art which path I've decided to go down. My mum keeps hassling me to paint things that will be popular and sell, like pretty landscapes and cute rabbits. I explain that I would be bored senseless and the dream of being an artist would become a nightmare. So I paint what I want to paint without worrying about the genre or whether anyone will actually like my work.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">But this week, I've hit a snag.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This week I've been looking at optimising my website so that search engines can find it easily (SEO: Search Engine Optimisation). In this process I've had to look at keywords that people will search for to find my site. Straight away I had to ask myself the question: which genre do I fit into? Hmmm, not sure. I asked people on social media sites and the closest they came up with is fantasy. Okay, it's relatively close, but I won't be painting elves, wizards or dragons anytime soon. Not that there's anything wrong with that, I just want to do something different. Another factor is that I also want to dabble in abstract work or anything else that takes my fancy. I want to make art, not a neatly packaged, genre-lised, blandardised product.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">When it came to the painting stages I added many layers of paint that later would be revealed when I scratched off certain areas. I'll let the time lapse video show this better:</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Just a short post this week because it's been a busy week. I've redesigned my website (amongst other things) and it's one of those tasks that has come as a surprise to a fledgling professional artist. Being an artist for me is not just painting: it's blogging, social mediarising, (I think that's a real word, if not it should be) accounting, record keeping, film making and web designing. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">The website design is something that I could hand over to a specialist company to do for me but as an artist, if there's anything that involves art and design, then I want to be there, in with the nitty gritty. For me, it's a lot quicker to do it myself rather than tell someone else what I would like to have done. I've made mistakes along the way and it's still not perfect but I'm quite happy with the new design.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">This is where you come in: rather than reading loads more of me rattling on in a blog post, I would really appreciate it if you could head on over to my website and have a look (see link at the bottom of the post). Then I'd appreciate it even more if you could give me any feedback.</span></span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"> Is everything easy to find?</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"> What do you think to the colour scheme/design?</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"> Is it conducive to buying prints? (Sadly I can't just be arty, I have to pay bills too.) </span></span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">I posted a similar request on the social media sites and I've had some really constructive comments that have led to me refining my initial design, so I do actually act on what people have said to me. Any feedback would be very welcome.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">So I'll thank you in advance and I'll see you again next week where I'll fill you in on my latest abstract work.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">You may have noticed on my website that I've recently taken a slight departure from my usual detailed paintings and gone for something more minimalist. I've been forced into this by the fact that my hand can't cope with day after day of fine detail work and - prepare yourself for a technical medical term - has decided to get all hurty. The word 'forced' makes it sound like a bad thing, but while I love painting details, I've really enjoyed doing something different.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I decided to base seven abstract paintings on the paintings in my main 'The Seven Gates' series. You could think of my detailed work as intricately programmed techno and the new abstracts as my minimalist ambient works, if you're into that type of thing. This first one is the companion to 'Descent From Möbius Wood' (see above). It is based on the same idea of the inescapable nature of depression and how it is always lurking in the background ready to pounce when guards are lowered.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I've found lots of things about this new series exciting: the difference that moving a line slightly makes to the feel of a painting, the ability to be looser with the paint, the chance to complete a piece of work in one week and being able to develop new techniques. I've already tried three new methods that I can use in my main series so there will be a certain amount of cross pollination.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Technique #1: Adding washes and then sprinkling on salt. It leaves a really interesting texture.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Technique #2: Putting paint on thickly in lines and letting it dry for five minutes, then wiping away any paint that hasn't dried with a wet brush. This leaves very fine lines where the paint has dried.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Technique #3: Painting many layers of thick paint and after drying, scratching away areas with a craft knife to reveal the layers below. Again, this gives a great texture. I noticed this technique while making this painting but there isn't evidence of it in the finished piece. Fear not it will make an appearance in future works. I've got some other ideas up my sleeve too as each painting will get looser and more fragmented. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In the planning and painting stages I listened to music to help me get the right feeling in the brush strokes. I has a <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">playlist of tracks that fit the em<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">otion I was trying to get across. The main<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> track I used was <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">'Endorphin<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">' by Burial.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">When I'd finished, I tried some different crops and it came down to a choice between the painting at the top of the post and this one:</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I possibly liked this one more on an aesthetic level but it felt too forceful, the top diagonal pushing the viewer down too quickly, whereas the one I went for has a greater feeling of space and drifting towards the inevitable conclusion.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">So despite being forced into it, painting abstracts is something that I'm going to keep doing. (</span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I'm really
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use colour! I'm so used to painting greys this will be a real treat.) </span></span>I may alternate between detailed and minimalist to give my hand a break, even when it's better. If you're an artist too then trying something different may also excite you and feed into the work that you are more familiar with. Give it a go. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">People often comment on or ask me about the depth in this painting and how I created it. With difficulty is the short answer. But let's have a look in more detail. (Sadly I haven't got any work in progress photos for this painting so I will illustrate the text with details from the painting itself.)</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This process continued through the remaining layers, each one darker and more detailed than the one before. The struggle was in judging the darkness of each layer so that the final layers would be almost black, but still contain detail. Let's look at a tree from each subsequent layer to illustrate:</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In my posts on how I made <a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=7086528404879446398#editor/target=post;postID=7673857273466047997;onPublishedMenu=posts;onClosedMenu=posts;postNum=6;src=postname">'The Insidious Whisper'</a>, I wrote about how difficult it is to paint within a very narrow band of tones. It was exactly the same in this painting; the darkest trees were a complete nightmare. Getting them to look cylindrical before I added any details took me many attempts. Then keeping the details dark enough but different enough to be visible was another headache. It was a process of trial and error: paint a bit, dry it, then modify the paint and repeat until the desired tone was reached.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">I thought it was about time that I looked at the process behind my first painting in the 'Seven Gates' series: 'Descent From Möbius Wood'.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Unlike the others in the series, this image came to my mind fully formed. I had seen a tree that looked like a spider emerging from the ground in a local wood and knew that it would make a great subject. I just had to wait for some fog. And a sunny morning. It took a while...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">When children <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">paint pictures of</span> trees, the<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> trunks</span> tend to be brown. But when stood in a forest concentrating on the colours pre<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">sent within a tree, purpl<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">es, greens, greys etc. can all be seen. There is actually very little brown evident. <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">So when I was processing <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">my</span> photo of the forest, I tweaked the saturation to bring out these natural colours. This helped me enormously when it came to adding subtle colour washes to the trees when I started <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">paint<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ing.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I often get asked the question "Have you signed it?" or more commonly, "Why haven't you signed it?". In fact, I sign all of my original paintings. It's just that I sign them on the back. My paintings aren't exactly conventional so why should the way I sign my name be conventional?</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Each </span>of my paintings take me over 250 hours of work. I spend a fair while planning each one and a lot of time painting the numerous little details. </span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I plan compositions that will lead the viewer's eye around the painting to show all of the delights (dark delights admittedly) it contains. </span></span>I use panoramas because I think that they are immersive. My main aim is to bring the viewer into another world and keep them there.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Why would I want to add something to my paintings that would immediately break the illusion and bring the viewer crashing out of it? </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The succinct answer is that I wouldn't.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Just a</span>s the director of a film puts his or her name at the start of a film, I put my signature on the back so that everyone knows the painting is by me, but as soon as the painting is turned over and viewed it can be properly enjoyed as I intended. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">With the prints of my paintings, I add the edition number and my signature to the white border on the front that surrounds the print. Keeping the signature off the painting means that the viewer will<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> see it subliminally</span> and only look within the painting itself, <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">just as</span> an author's name being <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">at the top of</span> every page of a book is <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">rarely noticed</span>. It would be an odd book if the autho<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">r's name was inserted somewhere in the text itself. That's how I feel about signing on my actual paintings.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Wh<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ere</span> an artist signs <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">a piece of work is a personal matter so I'm not saying t<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">hat everyone should <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">use my method. But this way suits me just fine<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">. </span>I want people to experience my paintings in the best possible wa<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">y and to me the key word is 'immersion'.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I am becoming increasingly tired of new films, in particular overblown, overcomplicated CGI fests. I am no longer interested in watching the extras on how these films were made. The magic has gone.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Compare this to the films of one of my he<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">roes </span>Ray Harryhausen, <i>Jason and the Argonauts </i>for example. The magic is still definitely there in abundance. There are moments that can be easily missed such as when a skeleton jumps over a fallen soldier. Think about that: a stop motion model jumping. Just how did <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">H<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">arryhausen</span></span> do it? Or what about a moment from <i>The Valley of Gwangi</i> when Gwangi is captured by some cowboys lassooing him. The viewer can see the rope go from the hands of the live action cowboys, across the screen and around the neck of a stop motion model, that also moves around the screen. Again, how did he do it? It's the thrill that I get when I watch a good magic show. My brain is fully engaged in trying to work it all out.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The limitations placed on Harryhausen forced him to be creative to get around problems. I'll admit there is a fair bit of creativity in the use of CGI but when you have the ability to do anything, things seem to turn out a little b<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">land or even </span>worse...</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The world of music can also be helped by limitations. Now that we can record music on to a computer rather than tapes, we have the ability to change any of the elements at any time. It is often advocated in books on the subject that musicians should set things in stone as soon as possible. For example, mix all of the drums and bass together and lock them so they can't be changed. That way problems have to be sorted by being creative with the other instruments, possibly creating something that wasn't originally planned.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">After a weekend of rest my hand was feeling a lot better but when I tried to paint on Monday morning the pain came back straight away. I think it may need more rest. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">So now I'm planning the fifth painting, making my free association lists, designing a creature and going out taking reference photos. And so far it's been the trickiest one to plan, but that's a story for another time. All of this means that the next two paintings will probably be finished at the same time in about two months. It's frustrating because I was only a month off finishing the fourth although it's probably best that I protect my hand.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This morning<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">, </span></span>I came up with a crafty plan <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">to alleviate my hand issue. I thought <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I would paint</span></span> in some of the slightly larger areas of the figures with my left hand. Turns out I'm not ambidextrous and they ended up looking more like this:</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Let's backtrack and have another look at my initial drawing<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">; you will see that the huge <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">figure </span>has a<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">n almost human face with what I was thinking of as a <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"cracked earth explosion" around his eye. As you do. This linked in with the sheer <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">destructive power of the whisperer.</span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I stuck with this idea for a fair while into the painting process until I s<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">tarted to block in the main elements<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> (see above). <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Even with a dark area around the eye the head would have been lost due to the strength of the patterns on the arm. I need<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ed something with a lot more pres<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ence to balance this<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">. Oh so much easier said that done.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This problem coincided with me p<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">icking up a nasty stomach bug so while I was recuperating<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">, lying on the settee watching films, I s<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">tarted to think about and sketch ideas. <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">After</span> further<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span>consideration, I decided</span></span></span> that a<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">t this stage in the series of paintings <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">the creature would still be trying to conceal its true appearance. (In the next painting the disguise is definitely starting to slip<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">.) A mask was needed. I didn't want to <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">include any new materials in the painting so I went with the mask being made from crumbling concrete. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">My first <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">sketche<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">s in Photoshop show the mask without the towers but again<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">, it didn't have enough presence.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The mask draws heavily on ideas taken from the free association p<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">hase of my planning. I've got a pretty good idea what my subconscious was up to but I'll leave you to come up<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> with your own interpretation. That's a lot more fun.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I drew the mask so that <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">the figure</span> was directly facing the viewer<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">, <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">brazenly going about his business. I liked the fact that t<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">his put the head in an impossible position. It made it more disturbing for me. </span>Which alw<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ays makes me chuckle. </span>When I started to add the mask to the painting, I decided to change the <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">angle of the pit to d<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">irect the viewer to the smaller f<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">igure. I also changed the number of sections on the top of the head to <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">make it more angular<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> and less friendly<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> (I know, the orig<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">inal<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">'s not that cuddly is it?)</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This design c<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">aused some major headaches in the comp<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">osition. <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">With the mask<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> present, the <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">balance of the painting was pushed to the right. I had to <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">add more <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">to</span> the image on the right, painting an extra inch strip of backgroun<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">d</span>, to shift the composition <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">back and I removed some distracting buildings and a tower from the right. (Later on when I added the large foreground tentacle in the lower left ha<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">nd corner the composition shifted to the left and I had to rebalance it using the smaller tentacle on the right and by strengthening the tentacle in the upper right hand corner. It certainly was a back and forth process.)</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The scariest part of this painting was adding the final washes<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> to enhance the fog effect. I teste<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">d ideas first in <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Photoshop and on spare pieces of board before tackling it on the main painting. Any mistakes made during this stage could have resulted in a lot of repainting. The way that I worked was to ma<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">sk off the foreground areas with masking fluid and then wash over the whole painting with very dilute white paint. I then <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">masked off more areas and <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">added the wash again. I repeated this numerous times. The pictures below roughly show this process, the yellow areas showing the areas masked at each stage.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The final problem is the sheer amount of depth I was trying to put into the painting. Due to the fog, I needed to have paler tones in the background gradually getting darker into the foreground. So <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">when working on the background tentacles I was only had an incredibly narrow tonal range to play with.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Putting all of these issues together meant that I was mixing colours with a 000 brush and modifying them using the tiniest pin pricks of colours. I would then dry the paint to check it against the surrounding colours and modify it again. It was a painstaking process.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">As the painting developed I was constantly revising the tones that I<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">'</span>d already done either by repainting or adding very dilute washes (I deliberately kept my colours on the light side so that I could do this).</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In the final stages I applied many white washes over certain areas to enhance the fog effects. This was ever so slightly stressful (understa<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">tement ahoy) </span>because if something went wrong it meant a lot of repainting would have to be done. I kept looking at the painting in Photoshop and trying out the washes before I did them in real life. This saved me numerous times as I was able to test things first.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">To see all of this on a larger scale version of the painting<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">, visit: <a href="http://www.daviddentonart.com/#!emotional/c1t44">http://www.daviddentonart.com/#!emotional/c1t44</a></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">'The Insidious Whisper' stems from times when a person's inner monologue goes rogue and becomes his or her worst enemy. But it does it slyly and sneakily, hidden in the mists of the mind so to speak. When this happens, it's not the most useful of things and its main objective is to criticise and generally put down its owner. What makes it so devious is that these thoughts are very hard to spot. But spotting them is the key to turning them around and beating back the foul beast.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">My original idea was to have a large hulking creature sat in a wooded area, framed by a circle of branches and other foliage. (The work of Brian Froud - see above - was lurking around somewhere in my subconcious especially in the fairy tale fantasy feel that I was after.) On the creature's shoulder would have been a crafty little character whispering into its ear, a bit like the cartoon devils in various Looney Tunes cartoons, but more disturbing obviously. I went through the usual process of making lists of words through free association (for more on this <a href="http://daviddentonart.blogspot.co.uk/2015/12/the-process-behind-welcome-1.html">click here</a>). This radically changed the setting and the respective sizes of the figures. The whisperer became a large powerful beast and the other character a more dejected emaciated figure.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">To help sell the idea of the scale of the large figure I wanted to have interaction between him and the environment. I built scale models of the shack and other elements and took photos of myself in various hard to maintain positions. I then played around with this in Photoshop and twisted the figure into an even more improbable position. All of this work helped to solidify the final positions of the characters </span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">in my mind</span></span>.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">After this planning I drew out a rough outline of the buildings in perspective and the figures. After scanning this into the computer I played around with the positions of the tentacles - you can really see the Lovecraft influences coming out here - to lead the viewer around the painting, give a greater sense of scale and also use the z-axis in an interesting way.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Once the drawing was finished I printing it out and transferred it on to the illustration board ready for the painting stage. As you can see from this initial sketch I was going with the idea of a cracked earth explosion around the eye on the whisperer. This would change later on in the process, but we'll find out about that next time...</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">See you then! </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I've suffered with some form of depression on and off for pretty much all of my adult life. But because I'm not too bad at hiding it, I can function reasonably well. I only realised that I had depression when I heard an interview with Stephen Fry. He talked about how he didn't want to commit suicide but he wouldn't be that bothered if he died. (He would have put it much more eloquently.) At the time this really resonated with me. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Since then I've had numerous bouts, some severe in nature. It's a shockingly bad illness that has been stigmatised throughout history. (I would probably have been burnt as a witch for being possessed by demons in ye olden days.) If you break your leg everyone has a right laugh, signing and drawing pictures on your pot. Not so with depression. The most common (and unenlightened) ways to deal with it are either with a chirpy "Cheer up, it may never happen" or to simply give the sufferer a wide berth and some shifty sidelong glances to make sure that they don't suddenly become prone to a desire to partake in an axe attack frenzy. Very helpful.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I started this series of painting to come out of the depression closet (finally we get to the paintings). Each image is my way of defeating a certain set of thought processes. For example, 'Welcome' is all about self destructive thoughts. So if ever any of these crafty thoughts pop into my head, I can identify them and link them to that sultry seductress. Recognising the thoughts is the first step in getting rid of them. They try to stay hidden but the paintings have given me a glimpse into their secret world. It certainly helps to know thy enemy.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I have plans for the future to develop more paintings on a similar theme. The Seven Gates series is based on my own personal experience, but I want to include a wider view of depression in my future works. But that's a way off yet. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This may all give you an image of a depressed artist sitting alone, beating his head against a wall when a colour is slightly wrong and generally looking glum. But no, you're more likely to find me dancing around the room to a bit of Closure in Moscow. I'm actually pretty happy doing what I'm doing. Since I left teaching a few years ago, I haven't had any episodes of depression. That's a very telling statement, let's repeat it and I'll put it in bold just in case you are thinking of becoming a teacher. </span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Since I left teaching a few years ago, I haven't had any episodes of depression.</b> </span></span>Maybe this is why I feel able to write about it all now. I still get some stray thoughts but I'm finding it easier to identify and get rid of them. This is all the more surprising when I consider that I've gone through a few massively bad life events in the last three years. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">So my paintings may be on the dark side, but at the minute I'm a cheerful little fellow who likes nothing more than a great film (Laputa: Castle In The Sky would be quite nice), an engaging board game (Time Stories anyone?) and plenty of cups of gorgeous tea. </span></span><br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05127967710720541987noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7086528404879446398.post-14960197577478292812015-12-24T13:46:00.001+00:002016-02-28T10:37:17.262+00:00It's Christmas Time.<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">It's Christmas time. Hooray. At this time of year it's customary to look back over and reflect on the previous year. And at Christmas I'm not one to mess about with customs. (One of our family's customs is to have ready salted crisps with our Christmas dinner. Covered in gravy. Gorgeous.)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">This year has been a year of big changes for me, especially with taking up art full time. So how's that going? Very well, thanks for asking. I went through a period about a month and a half after I'd started where I felt the need to be around people at weekends and in the evenings due to being on my own all day. I've always thought of myself as not being the most social of people so this came as a surprise. I was sure that after this trial year I would have to get at least a part time job, just to have more contact with other people. But now that phase has passed and I'm back to being quite happy on my own. (Although I've found that my accent has started to get broader. How does that happen?)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">I'm roughly keeping up with my schedule of finishing one painting every two months. I've nearly got the third in my Seven Gates done but I'm going to wait until I feel a bit fresher after Christmas to do the finishing touches and fog effects. A mistake with the fog could cost me some serious time so I want to go into it a bit less tired. Here's a sneak peak:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Because I'm living with that painting at the moment to make sure that I don't want to change anything, I've started planning the next two in the series. One required me to buy 500 plastic soldiers and the other has changed radically from my first idea due to it looking too normal. Can't be having that. </span><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05127967710720541987noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7086528404879446398.post-30276774257437274152015-12-19T08:29:00.001+00:002016-02-28T10:36:33.028+00:00The Process Behind 'Welcome' #1<div style="font-size: 18px;">
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05127967710720541987noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7086528404879446398.post-74257838331657032272015-12-19T08:27:00.001+00:002016-02-28T10:36:07.247+00:00Review - Eldritch Horror<div style="font-size: 18px;">
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