Red Samurai.100 x74 cm oil on canvas
Well, it's been a while since the last time I've been updating my blog. I better do it from now on with some higher frequency.
I guess I've been lazy about it, but in general, I always find some excuse for why not doing anything including writing telling my self I could instead, better sketch or collect some reference for a new work. Well this is the life of an ADHD artist. Anyhow I do find pleasure on sharing my works thoughts, and process with friend and anyone else who find it interesting.
Here is a work I made the last summer, while me and my girlfriend where residing for 2 month in Amstelveen near Amsterdam. We made this change so she could do some summer job she had found there selling some cosmetic products from the dead sea. When talking about it with her this days, I've come to understand,-- it seems that ,although I wasn't out of home most of the time, I liked Amsterdam a lot more than she did. Maybe it has to do with the bad experience of the shity job she had... Well, she survived it and I'm proud of her.
- The Red Samurai -
The inspiration for this piece came to me first, after I've found this yellow can photo on flicker. don't know why, but I really liked it and wanted to use it for a new piece.
Though I didn't know how to arrange the rest of the set for the painting and had no idea for what would be the "story"... A few days latter I met a friend I haven't seen for many years at the corner of a street . Surprised and again inspired, the idea of using here as a model popped out in my mind and as Shira accepted the offer we shot a session of photos at the same weekend.
I was very pleased from the set of photos I had in my camera, but for some reason I was not able to look at the yellow can image and taping it in my head to any of Shira's photos, resulting a good idea for a painting. The inspiration was gone !
It was about 4 month later when I browsed her set of photos once again to be engaged in a new idea for a work.
Shira did a great job and I'm happy I did not bother her for nothing with this shooting set ( that was almost embarrassing.) Anyway I would like to thank her, my dog Lizza( the second model) and also to RavenDragon from Canada http://www.flickr.com/photos/ravendragon/4657422500/in/faves-zachcoart/ Who took the initial yellow can photo that was eventually not included. however The lighting in the image,
is based upon his photo. When shooting Shira's photo set, I tried to illuminate it according to this yellow can. It is a very cool image and I hope one day I'll be able to use it for some work or a sketch.
Here you can find the reference I used .
As you can see the are no real reference photos for the samurai robot, beside the two silver hydrants as the samurai's helmet. I had to imagine all of the rest, while looking at red cars and other metallic red objects in order to create it, was quiet challenging...
Work in progress.
