Saturday, 5 January 2013
I Wish I Was
The last part of my dear personal project was hiding in my drawer, so to speak, and waiting to see the light of day for quite some time. I can be terribly protective and shy about some of the things that I do.
Anyway, I like to combine the handmade feel of traditional techniques like painting, drawing and collage with the flexibility of Photoshop. The text is quite flat but in combination with the image the whole thing becomes alive and hopefully not to sentimental. Writing in English has its advantages, besides the obvious one that you can reach more people. My limited vocabulary prevents me from trying to hard, to sound pretentious which I probably would and on the other hand it allows me to express thoughts and emotions that I would not in my native language. When speaking or writing in another language you almost become a different person which is liberating an adds a new enriching dimension to your life. To possess another language is to possess another soul, said someone famous. Here and here are the other two parts of this little project made in different media.
'May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness' Neil Gaiman
Labels:
collage,
drawing,
illustration,
photoshop
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
very nice technique
ReplyDeleteis it possible to buy prints of these?
would love to have that frog on my office wall :)
keep it up
Wonderful art!
ReplyDeleteAs always your art is an beautiful inspiration and the sentiment behind the piece is something that I can completely relate to.
ReplyDeleteI hope you have a wonderful and creative 2013 xx