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Title: a painting series: "creatures my girlfriend has created to torment me"
Post by: seibei on 12 Jan 2007, 09:27

I painted these for my girlfriend's Christmas present - this is really lame, but these are three creatures that are, umm, involved in tickling?

(http://farm1.static.flickr.com/126/354520501_d42c52eac1_o.jpg)

the crab!

(http://farm1.static.flickr.com/147/354520503_3469392f2c_o.jpg)

the face gnome!

(http://farm1.static.flickr.com/132/354520505_c0a8ebc95c_o.jpg)

the treebear!

let me know what you think! my painting technique isn't great, but I like how they came out.

Title: Re: a painting series: "creatures my girlfriend has created to torment me"
Post by: Will on 12 Jan 2007, 09:32

This is a really small and stupid thing, but I quite like the way you use the colors.  They look much cooler having similar colored backgrounds than I imagine they would if you had gone with contrasting colors.  The face-gnome is a bit phallic though, don't ya think?

Title: Re: a painting series: "creatures my girlfriend has created to torment me"
Post by: seibei on 12 Jan 2007, 09:36

yeah, I figured I could get away with simple designs if I did them in two different shades of a color.

the weird thing is, they match these three mannequins my girlfriend has in her dining room, so I must have been thinking of them when I decided on these color schemes, though at the time it seemed arbitrary.

re: the face gnome, what's a gnome without a pointy hat?  :-D

Title: Re: a painting series: "creatures my girlfriend has created to torment me"
Post by: NiMRoD420 on 13 Jan 2007, 06:27

A gnome without a phallus on his head, I'd imagine.

That said, nice work fella.

Title: Re: a painting series: "creatures my girlfriend has created to torment me"
Post by: Trollstormur on 17 Jan 2007, 07:32

perhaps screen printing would have been better for these. you could have gotten cleaner lines and more uniform-looking shapes.

Title: Re: a painting series: "creatures my girlfriend has created to torment me"
Post by: Nettle on 17 Jan 2007, 13:58

They actually look like they'd make great tshirts!

Title: Re: a painting series: "creatures my girlfriend has created to torment me"
Post by: seibei on 18 Jan 2007, 03:30

I had thought about screen printing these, but I do that all the time, and I haven't painted in a while and wanted to give it a go...it definitely would have looked pretty ill.

Title: Re: a painting series: "creatures my girlfriend has created to torment me"
Post by: Kelema on 14 Feb 2007, 07:35

I'm no real artist, AKA my art experience is semi-limited because I'm a full-time student. HOWEVER I kinda like these three paintings as a series. I think they all belong together, and they'd look great in a whimsical room lined up on the wall. Great 'unity', as my art teacher would say, haha.

I'm a little lost on the concept though.

Tickling?

/shudder/

Title: Re: a painting series: "creatures my girlfriend has created to torment me"
Post by: seibei on 16 Feb 2007, 08:27

it's more like poking and pinching, really, though there is some tickling.

Title: Re: a painting series: "creatures my girlfriend has created to torment me"
Post by: Jeppo on 16 Feb 2007, 08:45

i like them,
especially the gnome.