Showing posts with label discus thrower. Show all posts
Showing posts with label discus thrower. Show all posts
Thursday, March 19, 2009
Tiled Discus Thrower
For days I have been trying to upload an image to tile like this on my home page at Twitter, but Twitter is hesitant, no, downright resistant.
Actually, there are currently issues with uploading background images and their technical department is 'working on it.'
Being impatient, I made a tiled image of my little discus thrower to see what it would look like!
(click on image for larger size)
Monday, September 01, 2008
Discus Thrower
Discus Thrower, ©Brenda Clews 2008, oil pastel on paper, 13" x 17", 33cm x 43cm (click on image for larger size)
Began by playing with some new oil pastels while watching a movie, abstract at first rubbing and painting the soluble colours but I'm a figurative artist and so overlaid them with a guy inspired by the famous Ancient Greek Discus Thrower, in turn obviously inspired by the Olympics that I watched obsessively for two weeks. It is amazing how our experiences come through in our art. As I outlined him, first putting in and then removing an arm to give him a paradoxical angle whereby he can appear to be facing the viewer or with his back to us, depending on the light -squint & you'll see him from behind, look and you'll see the barest representation of a face to incline you to think he is facing us- I thought, to me he represents a 'force of nature.'
In my recent paintings I have chosen to work slowly with an eye to detail; this, by contrast, was an explosion.
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