Whoa! Disney?!

Oh Disney, while you may be failing at most things I think you’re finally getting something right. I may not be an epic Disney gamer but after seeing artwork most recent game I have to say I am interested.

Maybe it could be the fact it's something dark and crooked that Tim Burton hasn't made?
But I really am just loving the whole weird dark designs and the jagged toony look everythings getting. Such simple lines yet it makes everything look so complicated and irregular beyond belief. Plus the plot seems deep and actually thought through, which seems a rare when it comes to Disney.

Plus where else are you going to see a messed up cyborg Donald Duck?

Too bad they're only releasing it for the Wii though...

Alive and Kicking

Welcome back. After that Gruelling business last year I decided to build this assault course to hone my skills and learn some new ones...

Well finally I decided to update my blog, and so I thought I would start off with talking about the painter I decided to recreate, Édouard Manet.

To be honest Manet isn’t my most favorite artist in the whole entire world but I shall always remember a conversation with one of my art teachers many moons ago about the reflection in his picture A Bar at the Folies-Bergère being wrong. Sure it may be wrong perspective wise but how else would he have managed to get such a wonderful picture of the lady’s back and the gentleman if she was standing in the way of her reflection. After that conversation Manet has always sat in the back of my mind until recently when I decided to recreate his work.

Anyway on to why I chose to recreate this lovely picture:

The picture is of the painter Berthe Morisot, who was Manet’s sister-in-law. I decided to recreate this one in particular due to the brush strokes. They seem so quick and simple yet they blend so beautifully to create multiple tones. The background seems to be one colour yet look deeper and you see all so many other colours and tones blended into the yellow. The hair seems so wispy and simple yet it looks so detailed and though the dark clothes lack detail just bringing in the lighter tone brings out the shape and the warmth that seems to come from the rest of the picture.

While recreating this picture I decided to have a play with the dry brushes hidden in Photoshop and found the chalk brush, though it not a paint brush, it gives texture to the picture.

Now this is my recreation:

As you can seen not as amazing as the original masters work but I tried.