The subjects of images often don't present themselves right away. For me, I try to doodle with as little concious control as possible. I just doodle. Then, as I work on the final version of a piece, I find that it get's me thinking in certain ways about the image and what I am experiencing. This pic is called "It hit me like an act of God." I borrowed it from a song lyric in an Andrew Bird song. It got me thinking about the power of seemingly ordinary things can be. Stuff we consider benign or mundane. I didn't say trivial, just common. Things like love, a home, a child... Stuff we all know but maybe hadn't thought about much. Then I start to connect the "feelings" of a picture with my own experience at that time. I want viewers to be able to see their own things in the images but sometimes, I think, "man, that's too obvious." Obvious or not, it is what it is. Sorry the scan is not better.
7 comments:
i like this new piece a lot! really dimensional and textural, definitely love how his skin looks.
cool shit, keep it up!
awesome, chris. is that for a show?
thanks guys. Chung. I got the pattern from a catfish in my big fish book. cool. Mike, yeah, I am putting this in the show in LA.
really impressive work. I really like it.
where's the chris mostyn children's book? you should get on that. today.
Thanks Mike. I had thought about that at one time. a lot of work. might do it some day.
Hey Chris! Just found your work...we definitely have the same influences. I'm digging your line art especially. Art on, bud!
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