Henry Wellcome

Went and saw Medicine Man, Henry Wellcomes' exhibition with items such as Darwin's walking stick with a skull on the top, chastity belts and sex toys from Japan. More will follow about this later on... 

Mexican Miracle Paintings 

Art and Medicine. 

Eroné

A few images from one of my favorite artists at the moment Eroné a french artist who use pens, screen print and his computer to create really interesting characters. I have fallen in love with his style and I see it more and more in my own drawings.

A half finished sketch of mine with the similar way of drawing lines like Eroné, will ink it up and color with Promarker pens later on. Interesting style and relaxing to draw.  

Brick Lane

 After Stolen Space we went walking around in Brick Lane and I mean the place it self is an exhibition and especially for me who haven't been there before. Every corner is covered with street art, not all good of course but still.

But here and there you find something really good like this piece. What I like about it is the usage of colors but simplicity as well. Fine lines but but very effective.

I especially like the face and the teeth it's a powerful end of the whole piece. I only wish I could use a can like that.

 This is something really amazing, it's a huge portrait made out of hundreds of small dots in different colors. At a distance it's barely  noticeable and when you get closer you see that all the dots are controlled "uncontrolled" drops of color. This is definitively something that I have to explore perhaps on my so far all white board.  

 

 I like the arrangement of these two because it reminds me of my style I like to draw curvy women with a comic style. I mean it is a little bit 'more' to draw heh. And now when linocut is coming up after christmas I want to do some poster like prints with simple but graphic illustrations. I often use the pattern in the background on the picture to the right so when I saw this and the style I thought that I would steel the concept of this sometime in the future.

 

Two other pieces I liked in Brick Lane and I could be posting pictures all night if I wanted to but that's not going to happen. Brick Lane is best experiencing in real life at the spot when the weather is good and when you have the time to just walk around. It is a lot of creative (in street art way) art and it has a lot of good ideas.

'Essence Of Adolescence'

On the 19th of October me and my regular exhibition group went to Brick Lane for various galleries and random street art.

First off was the Stolen Space gallery with 'Essence Of Adolescence' - By Word To Mother a series of paintings on wooden panels done with mixed media. According to Stolen Spaces flyer the exhibition is an 'enlightening glimpse into the artist's visually obsessed mind. Word To Mother invites the viewer to take a glimpse of his inner mindscape'. He mixes cartoons, typography, tattoo art, more serious illustrations of fears and more emotive thoughts that face him.

Whats interesting with Stolen Space is that the exhibition starts out in the street with a 'statue' of mixed road signs and road lights. I can't really describe it but i actually liked it. A little bit urban messy and I got flashbacks from all the recycle art in Barcelona. The sign for the gallery is a old like cinema sign which has a good retro feeling as well.

Stolen Space is a quite small cubic like gallery with a clean sterile feeling to it. The wooden panels used as canvases differed in size and as you can see on the picture to the right the arrangement is creating a more powerful emotion than all of them hanging in a row.

My first feelings when I saw the paintings of 'Essence Of Adolescence' was that I really wanted to paint one of them wooden panels. Funny enough I actually found a board the day after in Neasden and I have spayed it white and it's ready to use.

Other than that as I said before Stolen Space has quite a sterile feeling to it and because it's small the exhibition doesn't take that long. If that's good or bad is debatable but personally I like taking
my time and get lost in the gallery. 

But even though it was a small exhibition and I didn't have any expectations at all I really liked it. The art itself is similar to how I draw but the concept and everything else is different. Interesting to see how different styles in my own style rather than a really amazing portrait from 100 b.c.

'Essence Of Adolescence' has inspired me to go further with what I do and also to start painting on wooden panels. I have done it in the past and what I remember it is a good feeling. Last but not least it raised my eye for mixed media which is helping a lot for Illustration.

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