August162012

“Le Chateau du Malheur”, 2012, acrylic and colored pencil, by Elmer Paisley

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12PM
Portrait of Anna Tararova as Eleanora Paisley, acrylic and colored pencil on board, 2012

Portrait of Anna Tararova as Eleanora Paisley, acrylic and colored pencil on board, 2012

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August52012
“Nature in Balance” (acrylic and colored pencil on board, 2012): My representation of Erda, the primordial earth mother (from Wagner’s “Ring” cycle). She pops ominously out of the ground from time to time and sounds like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jlpYIE5mN4s Above are her daughters, the three Fates who weave the Rope of Destiny on the World Tree. Beneath is the Rhinegold, bringing light to the depths under the river Rhine.Erda: “I know whatever was;whatever is,whatever shall beI also see:the eternal world’sfirst ancestress,Erda, warns you.My womb borethree daughters,conceived before the start of time;what I see,the Norns nightly tell you.But direst dangertoday brings mein person to you.Hear me! Hear me! Hear me!All that is shall come to an end.A dark daydawns for the gods:I charge you, shun the ring!”

“Nature in Balance” (acrylic and colored pencil on board, 2012): My representation of Erda, the primordial earth mother (from Wagner’s “Ring” cycle). She pops ominously out of the ground from time to time and sounds like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jlpYIE5mN4s


Above are her daughters, the three Fates who weave the Rope of Destiny on the World Tree. Beneath is the Rhinegold, bringing light to the depths under the river Rhine.

Erda:

“I know whatever was;
whatever is,
whatever shall be
I also see:
the eternal world’s
first ancestress,
Erda, warns you.
My womb bore
three daughters,
conceived before the start of time;
what I see,
the Norns nightly tell you.
But direst danger
today brings me
in person to you.
Hear me! Hear me! Hear me!
All that is shall come to an end.
A dark day
dawns for the gods:
I charge you, shun the ring!”

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June72012
To be honest, this wasn’t intended as a kind of historical/political commentary or anything; I just did a really bad job on her face so I blacked it out.But that’s the beauty of art! You can interpret it however you like, so long as you don’t know it was a mistake.

To be honest, this wasn’t intended as a kind of historical/political commentary or anything; I just did a really bad job on her face so I blacked it out.

But that’s the beauty of art! You can interpret it however you like, so long as you don’t know it was a mistake.

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May232012
Inspired by a lovely stump which I had the immense pleasure of sitting upon today.

Inspired by a lovely stump which I had the immense pleasure of sitting upon today.

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May222012

Odds & ends from my sketchbooks

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April102012

Textures

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April12012

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March312012

Working out s’more stuff for my Sandman illustrations. 

Top: Proposed idea for a two-page spread integrating text from the story (thumbnail upper left): Prof. Spalanzani pulls back a curtain to reveal Nathaniel courting Olympia while a crowd of masked eyeless faces look on and Coppelius (disguised) plots in the foreground on the left

Bottom: Nathaniel is traumatized as a child

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March262012
“While Nathaniel composed this poem, he was very calm and collected; he polished and improved every line, and having subjected himself to the fetters of metre, he did not rest till all was correct and melodious. When at last he had finished and read the poem aloud to himself, a wild horror seized him.” from “The Sandman” by E.T.A. Hoffmann

“While Nathaniel composed this poem, he was very calm and collected; he polished and improved every line, and having subjected himself to the fetters of metre, he did not rest till all was correct and melodious. When at last he had finished and read the poem aloud to himself, a wild horror seized him.” from “The Sandman” by E.T.A. Hoffmann

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March202012

More stuff from my sketchbooks

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2PM
Collage. For Greta Cawley. This was so much fun to do

Collage. For Greta Cawley. This was so much fun to do

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1PM
Stained glass window depicting Death. At one point, this was a large part of the composition of my portrait of Elmer, but I ended up deciding against it and painting over it. I’m glad I changed my mind about it, but I really should have kept this and finished it on its own.

Stained glass window depicting Death. At one point, this was a large part of the composition of my portrait of Elmer, but I ended up deciding against it and painting over it. I’m glad I changed my mind about it, but I really should have kept this and finished it on its own.

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1PM
Just playing around in my sketchbook

Just playing around in my sketchbook

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1PM
Character design for Loki (Loge), the trickster from Norse mythology, inspired by Richard Wagner’s Ring cycle. “Ihrem Ende eilen sie zu…”

Character design for Loki (Loge), the trickster from Norse mythology, inspired by Richard Wagner’s Ring cycle.

“Ihrem Ende eilen sie zu…”

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