Art

Growing up with a famous artist as your grandmother is pretty darn cool, it also rubs off a little. Art runs through my vains, much like candy into my open mouth (fuelled by my fist of course), so it's no surprises that I started doodling pretty pictures at a young age. As I slowly began to colour inside the lines it became apparent that I only drew particular things; horses, faeries and... mermaids. To this day not much has changed... I still as above am heavily into all facets of fantasy, and I guess this has been reflected in my art. 

No, unfortunately as much as I wish I had the skill to do so, I haven't carried on in my grandmothers footsteps, However I did pay strong attention to detail, and have studied her in her art classes, and fought with my sisters several times over who got to put the pegs in all the easels ;)

Nor have I painted great artworks in mediums such as oil; acrylics or drawn in pastels. I chose at this point in time, to create my works on watercolour with graphites and felt pens. 

However I did pay strong attention to detail, and have watched aminously, and been a model for several of her art classes.

Some of my greatest influences in art would have to be;

David Delamare and his adaptations of everything fantastical, especially his mermaids in oil...

Selena Fenech an Australian artist who concentrates on mermaids and faeries equally...

Another artist that I have stumbled on recently is Olivia De Bernardis. She focuses mostly on pinups and sensual art (secret favourites of mine) and pays great attention to detail on every corner of the female body. Although that may sound dirty to some, it normally would have disturbed any mother when I slowly bought all of her works in the form of coffee table books - thank goodness mum like myself has been exposed to many different forms of art. I like Olivia, take great interest in studying the female body, and enjoy recreating adaptations of simple scenarios into something more playful and sometimes more sinister.

Images such as these only feed my thirst to create and be something... more I guess? I know the art that I am currently producing is quite good, and I have managed to grasp the female form quite well. The only thing I am missing though is connecting the two. I want my work to be more life like, and I feel through studying Olivia's work I am already getting better at this. David & Selena's works however, open my mind to new possibilities and new ways to engage with what I am thinking, and how I place it on the paper.

In time I hope to be any measure of a combination of the three, and I need to spend way more time then I have available currently to do so. When is the right time though? Never, really.

In between now and never works perfectly well for me :P

Forever yours,

yoursirensong xox