More Daphne... part 3

More Daphne... part 2

Some older work...

Finished this one a few months ago. It works well with a lot of the other pieces I've posted here. Based off one of my Denmark photos. It still needs a title...

More Daphne...

I keep returning to this same mythological image... I'll have to figure out why.

Finished it yesterday. 24 x 30, oil on canvas.

I think I might be using the "Daphne" image as a defense. Being in a new city, new school, new art department, etc... I feel like I'll have to deal with criticism from unfamiliar sources, develop a "thick skin" (or, in Daphne's case, tree bark). 

Although, all I've received (so far) has been praise. 

I've got another one started. I should have it photographed next week.

Icarus II

It's finished!

Added a little wire sculpture and some feathers to it. Reworked over the whole image with compressed charcoal. I missed the "sketchy" feel of the original drawing.

Icarus

So... there's this piece I'm working on... 

Started out as a simple doodle, a few spheres, curvilinear lines, nothing meaningful. Then I added an eye (I do this a lot in random sketches, don't ask me why.) It evolved into an abstracted face, a head, shoulders, landscape, heavenly bodies... then finally Icarus.

(Awfully bad photo of my pencil sketch. I need a scanner. I had to REALLY mess with the levels to get it to come out somewhat recognizably.) 

I don't always know why I create these things, they just happen. 

I really hate to say that I identify with the Surrealists since every neophyte hack of an art student can't seem to get enough Dali. But, the illustration of dream imagery, mythological hints, and the fact that this sketch began purely subconsciously, I think I'm pretty deep into Surrealist territory.

I'm transferring this sketch on to canvas... Here's what I got so far...