Inspiration Comes When Your Not Even Looking

So my near and dear friend Danielle informed me that she reads my blog! And not only that, but she has a suggestion for a featured artist.

David Shrigley. He mixes high brow and low brow (heavy on the low) art.
And after looking at his stuff, I felt inspired myself.

So this first one is basically full on Shringley style.


The second one I took some creative liberties and made it more my own. I really like it.




So thanks Danielle for the suggestion!!
Also, I started this blog for my drawing 2 class, but it is definitely something I am going to keep because I really enjoy it. So don't fret! The posting won't stop!

Artist you should know....

http://aaronmeshon.com/en/

Artists

This week's artist you should know is PICASSO!
We watched a video in Art History III narrated by a English man who his friend. He was a really cool dude born in Spain, but lived a lot of his life in Paris. Of course we all know he had a blue period and a cubist period, but he did other really cool stuff as well. But he liked to party and do drugs, and was really superstitious, posessed a huge ego, and had loads of angst! How cool?

He was a master painter at like 10,

He painted self portraits of himself dressed in costume, mostly a harlequin,

Painted a lot of allegory (this picture was really supposed to be about Picasso, but then he changed it to his dear friend who committed suicide. The blue represents spirit, but this painting is really about death),

and he made really cool sculptures, he would make two, then keep one and sell the other.

I think I am going to go to the Picasso museum in Paris this summer!