Here's my contribution to the 'home' theme of the Art Blocks for Ghana project. I found out Ghana means Warrior King & I wanted to incorporate forms found in African sculpture so I tried to incorporate all this & ended up with this Warrior King relaxing at home with his pregnant wife and first born son.
These exploratory thumbnails show my thought process-I started out with the image of a communal tree or village, playing around with sculptural iconography. I guess it's all pretty cliched stuff, certainly not representative of modern Ghana. I was thinking of imagery from a more primitive time in the past. The meaning of the word Ghana led me to the 'Warrior King' motif which I eventually combined with the 'home' theme for the final image.
(Thanks to Don Shank for the Gesso tip!)
16 comments:
wow this is gorgeous, love those bold shapes!
very awesome!
Is that Venice beach in ur header?
belly
Thnx Chenny
Abz-yes, it's based on a visit to LA last year.
GurB-bellies
Nice to see you painting, Matt! Love the colours...
will you come to the exhibition on L.A in March? I like the research very much.
I really like this piece ! and it's great to get to see the previous researches they're fantastic !
brilliant thumbnails
I'm especially fond of the SPEAR- excellent!
Do you need research for spears?
@UM-Thnx Uli, hope to do more painting next year
@Stef-Maybe! Good excuse for a trip south!
@ KAVI-thnx for the support
@Artur- I think the fun I had shows in the drawings
@Crookie-I worked from the model sheet you drew for me!
wow! these are inspirational! :D love looking at your new posts!
Lovely colour work! What did you use?
@Abi-Thanks, glad to inspire
@Jess-Cheers my dear, it's gouache, sweat & tears
Gouache sweat and tears, I never tried that.
There's blood in there too . . .
LOVE IT
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