My inspiration for my Final project

War...GOOD GOD!

So war is our next assignment. I'm going scouting today to find a field or hopefully some dirt mounts to piece together an epic food fight. I want to take a WW2 perpective on it with dirt mounds but if thats not possibly WW1 trenches would be awesome. Pump in some fog for dramatic effect. I'm thinking about how in South Park they redid "Saving Private Ryan" and they changed all the guns to walkie talkies which was satirizing Speilberg's ET where they got rid of all guns and replaced them with walkie talkies in the theatrical re-release. Its this type of idea I want to run with. No guns just food. I also am planing on having someone video tape the whole experience. This will not be just a photoshoot but more like a theatrical recreation of a never fough epic battle.

Critique

Well, I had had some high expectations for critique on Tuesday. I have been experiementing with creating new landscapes through photoshop, but I didn't really receive any creative feedback on that or much of anything. Apparently Barbies are clique but its better than nothing. The 2 paintings/photos that gained the most attention were ones that I wasn't even that excited about. It was a straight shot nothing complicated. I put a lot of work into the Dali photo and all I got for feed back was its dark. That is not helpful at all. My proudest photo from this critique was the Dali photo since I was able to manipulate the pixels enough so that it looked like something Dali would produce. Even Fadi thought it was brilliant, but apparently the class was unimpressed. There were some good photos during critique but I think that this theme was too easy. You didn't really have the think of positioning because it was already predeterminded in the painting. Most of the class didn't try to put their own spin on it it was more of just recreating the painting and getting it over with. Other artists that have approached recreating paintings questioned the motives of the artists or what the painting was trying to say. This project would have been more successful if it had not been about recreating paintings but reading between the lines of the painting and manipulating those means that we work so hard to learn about in art history.

My version of Andy Warhol's "6 Marilyn Monroes"

My verison of Jean-Baptiste Regnault's " The Three Graces"

An abstraction of a chewed bone

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painting project update and FOOD WAR

Well, I have 3 out of 6 painting/ photographs done. In the next 2 or 3 days I plan on completely the rest of the paintings. I've decided to do 6 individual paintings so thats caused me to do more work. So far I'm pleased with 2 out of the 3 I've done.

For my war project, since we have to have 6 images I'm doing to host a massive food fight and take a 6 photo series of everything going on it the food fight. perhaps 2 panoramas and then 4 up close photos of people engaging with each other. Its a BYOF type event. I plan on having over 20 people attending this event. As for location I want an open field. perhaps have everyone dressed in their finest. I still have the details to work out as far as wardorbe and hair and what exactly am I trying to achieve with this epic food fight. or more like a FOOD WAR!

Better late than never.

Pups dresses in Drag sometime.

My version of The Anthropomorphic Cabinet by Salvador Dali

Olympi-pup

My version of Mark Ryden's Saint Barbie.

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Yellow ballll time!

3 days of puppums

Thursday's Worm Dog

Where is my BALL!?

My version of Manet's Le déjeuner sur l'herbe

Original Version



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My version

just so ya know

I'm shooting Manet painting tomorrow..still iffy on a location. I went looking today but only came back with cat poop on my shoe. Tomorrow I'm getting up early to go and find a location, got to good will and get all props. 2 of my models dropped out of the shot. so I might use multiples of my 2 other models. I'm going to do a total of 5paintings and pick the best 3.. I really hate when I hit snags in the road, but thats the life a photographer. Models are flaky plain and simple. blah

They cut off my internet..sorry for the delay

Really?....

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Do not Distrub

Weekend 2 for 1

One of My Favorite Painters.

Mark Ryden came to preeminence in the 1990’s during a time when many artists, critics and collectors were quietly championing a return to the art of painting. With his masterful technique and disquieting content, Ryden quickly became one of the leaders of this movement on the West Coast.

Upon first glance Ryden’s work seems to mirror the Surrealists’ fascination with the subconscious and collective memories. However, Ryden transcends the initial Surrealists’ strategies by consciously choosing subject matter loaded with cultural connotation. His dewy vixens, cuddly plush pets, alchemical symbols, religious emblems, primordial landscapes and slabs of meat challenge his audience not necessarily with their own oddity but with the introduction of their soothing cultural familiarity into unsettling circumstances.

Viewers are initially drawn in by the comforting beauty of Ryden’s pop-culture references, then challenged by their circumstances, and finally transported to the artist’s final intent – a world where creatures speak from a place of childlike honesty about the state of mankind and our relationships with ourselves, each other and our past.

Clearly infused with classical references, Ryden’s work is not only inspired by recent history, but also the works of past masters. He counts among his influences Bosch, Bruegel and Ingres with generous nods to Bouguereau and Italian and Spanish religious painting.

Over the past decade, this marriage of accessibility, craftsmanship and technique with social relevance, emotional resonance and cultural reference has catapulted Ryden beyond his roots and to the attention of museums, critics and serious collectors. Ryden’s work has been exhibited in museums and galleries worldwide, including a recent museum retrospective “Wondertoonel” at the Frye Museum of Art in Seattle and Pasadena Museum of California Art.

Mark Ryden was born in Medford Oregon. He received a BFA in 1987 from Art Center College of Design in Pasadena. He currently lives and works in Los Angeles where he paints slowly and happily amidst his countless collections of trinkets, statues, skeletons, books, paintings and antique toys.

mmm...meaty nuggets...SQUIRRLE!

Changing my mind

So, the Turkish bath idea is not going to work and I've grown tired of entertaining the idea of juggling nakedness and nudity. So i'm changing one my paintings. I am going to go for Mark Ryden's " Saint Barbie." This will be a brilliant recreation.

SPECIAL THURSDAY

Here are 2 finished images from my special thursday shoot. I made the balloon a little bigger as well as the basket. Dropped a background and BLAM done.

The toughest part of completing this project was trying to meet my own expectations. At first I was really unhappy with how the set turned out, mainly the ballon and how the scale balloon to box was just not right. It semed to come together very nicely. I'm happy with these two images, and I might possibly do more editing later on the other photos.

I've always wanted to build my own set of some sort I just never really had a reason since I rarely shoot in a studio setting. I think this is something I'd like to continue as soon as I start making more money. Since materials set me back a bit.

Anyways,

To Whom it may concern,
Enjoy.

3 for 1 special :)

Non je ne regrette rien.
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Whats up with all these oncoming Chickens?
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My Kindom for an Asp

Pup-odalisque and the slave

Pup-odalisque and the slave

Updates on Projects

So I'm still in the process of constructing my Thursday shoot. On top of all that I am also trying to plan out my next project. I choose my paintings, but now I feel that a recreation of a painting isn't nearly enough. Should we not question what the painting was trying to say then contemporaize it?

For The Picnic on the Grass by Manet, I was thinking of doing a role reversal. Where the naked woman who stares at the viewer is a youthful boy or man and the ones conversing are women. That specific painting was about taking your secret lover out while your wife is doing who knows what. So now its more empowering to women, who can keep a secret agenda of having a boy toy to have picnics with.

For the Goya, I choose myself as a the subject and instead of bats and owls and cats being the monsters. I want to incorporate my own monsters. The piece is called "the sleep that brings forth monsters". And that exactly where I am going to go with that.

I have been weighing my options on the turkish bath but I don't know if I could successful orchestrate such a photo. If i did it documentary style I could just waltz into a YMCA into the women's locker room and secretly start shooting women showering. If only my shutter was silent. I could bring a group of girls in with me but none of us have YMCA memberships. I need to find my girls.. at least 6 and I can just photoshop clones of them.

if that doesn't seem possible then I have the swing. Florida doesn't have lush gardens like that. And this painting is the same thing as Manets just a commissioned piece to show a man and his misteress. I feel like that would be redundant.

I'm not sure whats going to happen with this project. I'm wishing myself good luck.

By the hammer of THOR!

This is how I ride around these days.

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Puppums in a Shepard Fairey design


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Can you guess what part of Puppums this is?

New Project Ideas

Our next project is to recreate a painting in the form of a photograph. So i've picked a few paintings that I wouldn't mind recreating in my own way.

I have choosen 4
1) Ingres- Turkish Bath
2) Fragonard -The Swing
3) Goya- El Sueno de la razon produce monstruos (The sleep of reason brings forth monsters)
4) Manet- The Picnic

I know that Goya's work is a etching but its still really awesome. Now to figure out how to pull this off.

Look Mama.

I brought you my ball!

AGAIN! another 2 in 1 puppums post.

Washing-pup could never tell a lie.