The End of the World II

Some more character portraits for the boardgame I’m working on.  Just got the zombie horde and angry mob to go now… they’ll be a lot harder.

animal love @ gallery 285

Here are two new paintings created for “Meet THE DEALER”, an exhibition currently running at the beautiful  Gallery285 in Sydney.  It’s open for another week, so if you’d like to see these works in the flesh, as well as pieces from 5 other young artists, get down to 285 Liverpool Street, Darlinghurst before the 5th March.

mini animal love

My mum likes to tell people that I was the only child she knew who could look at lambs playing in the field and think of lamb chops.  When I announced age 21 that I was becoming a vegetarian she was incredulous.  I’ve always been fascinated by animals, and as a result fairly good at drawing them.  On the internet I’ve discovered thousands of people who share my fascination, and endless email forwards about tigers adopting piglets, and youtube videos of unlikely animals engaging in mortal combat.  These drawings are my response to the strange symbiosis of cruelty and kindness, beauty and horror that exist in this thing we call nature.  All of my animals are drawn life size, and I research those which are extinct as carefully as possible so that the anatomy (if not the colours) are reasonably accurate.

These are a few mini animal lovers, each one is about 10cm x 15cm, pen and ink and acrylic on canvas.

 

animal love

I finally finished my paintings for this semester.  I’ll just post them here with minimal commentary, since I’m now exhausted from 36 hours of continuous drawing.

 

 

 

 

 

And some bonus images… One of my early paintings from the series, and a picture of me in action.

 

 

More Animal Love

Well, after getting that rant out of my system, I’d like to share with you some more cute animal drawings.  

 

Animal Love

My project for this semester is called “Animal Cuddles” (although I’ve just realised that “Animal Love” sounds better.  It’s based on sites like Cute Overload, and those adorably neotenous animal forwards that zoom from inbox to inbox in this great age of interweb.  Here are some of my studies so far.

Homo Novis Tetropsis

But thou shalt find another, from the Lake of Memory
Cold water flowing forth, and there are guardians before it.
Say, ‘I am a child of Earth and starry Heaven;
But my race is of Heaven (alone). This ye know yourselves.’
Plate from Petelia, South Italy, fourth-third century B.C.