painting by Bbijann

I love the composition and the use of colour.
Check out Bbijann's Deviant Art profile to see more of his work.

this time I'm serious..

Dear new Titanium White oil paint tube,
I promise I'll use you,



and not abuse you and turn you into a dirty hairy disgrace like my last Titanium White.


I promise I'll put your cap on every time I'm finished with you, and I promise to only use the intended hole for extracting paint and not random holes I accidentally make by giving you rough treatment.
I promise not to treat you rough so you won't have these accidental holes everywhere that leaves a layer of paint on the both of us, and everything we touch.


I will do my best to keep you clean so you won't be covered in a greasy film of oil that somehow never dries, but makes you sticky so that dust, hairs and random bits of crap attaches itself to you.


I promise not to keep you underneath a pile of painting rags and dust bunnies on the floor, but in the box where the other paint tubes live. I promise they won't be sticky either, or full of holes and missing their caps, rubbing themselves on you to the point where I can't figure out if it's really you or just some random - oh, I don't know, Yellow Ochre or French Ultramarine.

I know I promised all of this to my last Titanium White oil paint tube, but this time I'm serious.

(Ps. Don't feel threatened by my little new tube of translucent white... yes, it does some interesting new tricks, but at the end of the day, it can never replace your reliable coverage )

flesh tones painted by Hedda Gjerpen

http://www.gjerpen.com/

renaissance bodies

A lot of John Currin's work is vulgar, some of it is ironic while also referencing the old masters. I'm not too interested in the more vulgar paintings he makes, but I like how he has drawn inspiration from the renaissance painter Lucas Cranach the elder when painting the bodies in this painting:


I've always liked to look at how the body has been represented in art through the ages- the old masters really painted a lot of interestingly shaped bodies.

Spot Portraits by Timothy Cummings

I'm getting more and more interested in seeing/making art with lots of dots and patterns on the subjects. I like how making patterns on the subject can both take away from the subject, cover it up and at the same time add something to it, make it something different or even more like itself. Also the end result is often very mad and busy, and that is a bonus in itself;)

I love Timothy Cumming's Spot Portraits, I like how the patterns are sometimes like tattoos and decorations, sometimes like some kind of disease, and other times like they've been painted on, totally covering and obliterating the subject.





The fact that I love this painting proves that I never fully got over my teen angst:









I know I posted lots of paintings, but there's still more! See more spot portraits here: http://www.daboragallery.com/spotportraits.html

painting by Watanuki Ryo

See more of this artist's work here.

painting by Yugo Kohrogi

It's a banal thing to comment on, but I like the use of colours in this painting.


SO can this classify as portrait painting, or what?

death by Oreo's

Daniela Edburg, Death by Oreo's, photography, 1975:



James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Portrait of the artist's mother, oil on canvas, 1871:



Daniela Edburg has more interesting photos on this theme, most of them are less gothic and more colourful (Miquette, do a google image search, as they're totally your style!).

portrait painting by Will Wilson

Batwoman

By Albert Joseph Penot, ca 1890.


He he, such a gothic painting!

painted portrait by Tone Thunberg

I like how the background is reduced to blocks of colours - it's a nice contrast (and brings attention to) the intricate retro floral pattern on the girl's top that also continues on the piece of fabric behind her (curtain? piece of clothing??(do you love brackets like I do?)).

paintings by Julie Zarate (six06)

I discovered this artist on Flickr and immediately fell in love with her stylized iconic lady-portraits. The combination of bright white faces, as if they're masks, and blood red with pitch black and golden tones is very dramatic. I like how in some of her paintings, the faces are painted in with skeleton face painting, it reminds me of Día de los Muertos, and that is always a good thing (remember, I'm a goth and all that).

Aww look at her black skeleton hole painted nose, isn't it great?:

I love ornamental hair like in this painting:


Check out the artist's website.

an old painting of mine

I didn't like this painting when I made it, but now I do and I wonder where it is. I either sold it or gave it away.

oil on canvas

beautiful memento mori paintings by Nina Rupena

I love what she has done with the stenciled lace and the yellowed sepia colours- like in faded photographs, faded memories. I think it looks like a mix of something spiritual and beautiful and something decaying and rotting. A perfect memento mori.. oh dear, I'm such a goth :)





The paintings are oil paint and stencil on canvas.

Eva paints Eve

One of two commission oil paintings I've been working on recently.

paintings by Anya Janssen

Oil paintings on canvas.. . I'm thinking of something clever to say, but all I can think of is this: :o <- that's my expression when looking at the paintings.








I think I just got myself a new favourite painter ;)

www.anyajanssen.com

paintings by Isabelle Inghilleri

These are possibly not the newest of her paintings, as I saved them to my computer ages ago, but they're still some of my favourite works by Inghilleri. I like how she has used lines in these paintings.


The file name of this picture is "all dressed up and nowhere to go":

fantasy art by Frank Frazetta

Frank Frazetta has drawn both Vampirella and Conan. I don't care much for either of the two characters, but I like the way they are drawn. Plump bodies, pretty colours, mystical mossy forests, people with wings, far-away planets.. it's a little cheesy, and it's probably not the style they would have preferred us to go for in art college, but it's fun and I love it.












I love sci-fi and fantasy art made in the 60's-70's. It's something about the muted colours, the softness and graininess in comparison to contemporary flat colours and harsh lines. Also there's a more erotic, calm and mysterious feeling to them than the harsh sexy, action fuelled weaponry fixated stuff I see a lot of now. Things where better before ha ha... naah.. even my grandmother disagrees with that.