This painting is extremely difficult to capture, and I found that it actually photographs better not in natural light. So here it is again. I still hate it like poison, especially as a thumbnail, because it just looks so "dirty"... Regardless, thank you for your patience
18x24"
Arches hot press
Watercolours, white ink
Some acrylics (violet interference)
• Work-in-progress shots
• Close-up I ; Close-up II
• Started 26th October ; Completed 27th November
Thank you `zerocomplex, ^sphilr, *lolitaAgogo, `johnpaulthornton, `athenatt and `JurgenDoe for your constant support.
And Shawn... for waiting a whole year for this collaboration to come into fruition...
This is the first painting I've ever made using a projector. Shawn provided the line art based on an idea I had which celebrates my love for Häagen-Dazs' amazing ice cream, specifically my favourite flavours, which always involve cherries (and which they discontinue sporadically), such as Brandied Black Cherry, Cherries and Cream...
It's nice to move away from highly emotional work once in a while and focus on something that's purely fun.
Please enjoy, and thank you for taking a look
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The colours:
Oh my god, this colours are awesome. They make you feel some kind of spirituality, a vast extent but even allow your eye to differ between the star spotted sky and the waving foreground.
Imagination:
Hmm... when i look at this painting i get the strong feeling to order myself a big jumbo cup of ice-cream. The woman is bathing in cream, the strawberry ice on her head, the cherrys in her hands. The smell and taste going upwards from her in streams. This picture can speak right to your senses of smell and taste. Can't you taste the cream on your tongue and smell the scent of the cherries? I can!
Eroticism:
This picture has its very own way of eroticism. The way she hides her breasts and her look is inviting the watching person to "taste" her. She is like the forbidden fruit, near enough to reach, wonderful in taste, but somehow forbidden.
Comment:
Hmm... *searching* "DARLING!!! Where did you put my ice-cream!!!???" Oh... sorry! I forgot... uhm... yes. Ok. I suppose this is the point where i should say something like "Wow... impressive... unbelievable" but i don't. I do it my very own way.
~The day i came over to your profile was one of the most important days for me, because i was allowed to take a look in your way of thinking, seeing, feeling and drawing. Some people just see a picture and go away, but i, i taste it with all my senses. I feel the emotion in each line and can catch the threads of your thoughs for a while during the time that i may look at this beautyful piece of artwork.~
Thank you very much that you enrich my being with your artwork. *hugs*
Beginning with the female subject, each artists' signature use of detail and dream like imagery combined does not fail to disappoint the eyes of the viewer. Each and every single brush stroked curve and line upon the female subjects body flows as gently as the ice cream that covers her. The miniscule creases and curves upon her voluptuous lips and silken hair look beautiful, even more so in this strange world she resides in. Slight streaks and lines underneath the woman's eyes and ears, properly simulate wrinkles and subtle hints at age and lingering beauty. A bright color palette perfectly emulates the color and texture of ice cream and gives the piece a deep breath of life and flourish. Even the landscape feels as if it has a mind of its own and simple pops off of the image and straight into the mind of the viewer as it cascades into our imaginations and expands within our thoughts to create a grasping effect on or attentions that will never let go.
As one looks more and more upon the exquisite design style of the piece, your mind is transported to the same strange plain of existence as the mysterious woman. The various curves upon the female subject's body as she loving embraces herself as she stands in a swirling pool of silky custard with cherries floating gently above the surface. How the ice cream encircles the subject as she is drenched in the creamy embrace of the succulent flavors of ice cream, cascading over her body and gently caressing her form with the same love she shares for the creamy treat. The smooth, icy crown of ice cream as it gently rest upon her head, subtly reflecting the light of world about her, all fits so well in this abstract concept of one's personal love for ice cream.
A small thing that could be suggested to fix this piece would be to perhaps alter some of the background depth. As enthralling as it appears, maybe adding some of the cascading ice cream that pours from the ceiling to pour upon other ice cream structures and further exemplify the engrossing feeling that the woman feels in her personal wonderland.
The ice cream, as it surrounds her, can easily mean that whenever the woman indulges in her treat, she is transported to a world that completely surrounds her in the very thing that she loves so dearly: ice cream. It is a place where she is the queen and all of these creamy succulent structures of her domain are her castle and throne: her perfect haven.
What more is there to say about this piece at this point? How the piece truly gives the viewer an outstanding view of art and imagination? How the two artist working together created an outstanding piece that almost transcends both genres in themselves? Such words would not be able to do enough justice to properly express in words the beauty this piece embodies. Exceptional work from both artists, and I look forward with great anticipation for more.
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