With inspiration from the highly meticulous and detailed creations of Aurel Schmidt, I decided to create a series of work (two only) that takes that detailed extreme ideally and focuses on the idea of worlds being created within the detail. Her work mostly involves creating large scale figures created from smaller figures. Just looking at her work makes you think it's an entire world full of vibrant detail among the grime that gives it beauty. A sort of embracing of what others would consider an inhibition but rather looking past that and understanding that what makes you yourself has nothing to do with what surrounds you. Or it could be the opposite looking at it from a literal sense. Though most of her works border on satirical or rather humorous. Taking things too seriously only seems to come into play when bringing effort into action, shown in most of her works in spades....
Enough about that stuff though, I tend to ramble... ah spinach
At first glance this (poorly painted, ugh color) image looks like a cave of sorts, which it is. However it is in actuality a mouth, brimming with gross details and greenery. The greenery within the piece is my take on Spinach.
Have you ever eaten spinach and gotten all those bits and pieces stuck between your teeth and coating your tongue? Well this is exactly what's going on in this image I've created. While i'm not too fond of the paint job, it does give everything a sense of how dirty this mouth is.... though that brings up another question... Whose mouth is this?
The inside of a tree...? So it is a cave of sorts, but it's also a mouth. This is the kind of series of works I wanted to implement here. A sort of adventure down a tree trunk. This little spot here is extra zoomed in... the full piece is bellow
Straight down the esophagus and into the stomach. The full work is actually in the second piece. I decided to create multiple works within the second piece due to other restrictions ( I ran out of paper...) and decided to tell the full story on a single page.
Both the images together in the end, so I can show off my poor water color skills. This was fun before the color part, I need to get better and digitally paint less so I can get use to the proper handling of the physical medium.
Still, I'm pretty pleased with how things turned out as a whole.