Finally managed to get a better photo of this print.
It’s a weird print - it seems to change depending on the angle you look at it from (probably because it’s a 2-block lino print and the two layers of ink are not completely opaque), so photographing it is particularly difficult!
A limited number of prints of it are available on my website and on my Etsy Store.
Just a quick reminder that my first 5 Limited Edition prints are all available at http://www.lazaruscorporation.co.uk/shop
Or at http://www.etsy.com/shop/LazarusCorporation if you prefer to buy via Etsy.
…and this is an example of the artwork I was doing a few years ago (I was obsessed with the medium of collage/assemblage - it really suited my mindset then).
Also, I’d varnish anything that moved with thick sepia-coloured wood varnish.
While I’ve been doing plenty of photography this year, it occurs to me that there are some areas where more effort is still needed.
So:
I put my day-job lunch hour to good use today by making plans for creating a whole selection of new masks (Venetian carnival masks all decorated in a very non-Venetian style) for an extended series of photographs with different models.
The “Bone-mask” is already complete (posted here a week or so ago). I’m now exploring some other ideas for mythographic/mythopoeic masks, and have a (still growing) list of nine other masks to make. This is getting very Lavondyss-like.
The photographs will be of blurred, nude bodies, only partially emerging from the shadows, with just the mask and occasional limb in focus (very shallow depth-of-focus).
A slightly better angle on the mask after today’s paint-job.
The mask is for a series of photographs of a model wearing the mask. Very tight focal length, so that the nude body is blurred and only the mask is in sharp focus.
If you’re based in Brighton and want to try being a masked artist’s model for a day, here are the details.
While my free postcard sets are (slowly) getting discovered by art lovers, I’m planning my next pieces of artwork.
I already have a few ideas for a second “Medea” photoshoot that I’ve shared on Tumblr before (they consist of a similar shoot, but with smoke and tribal markings: not entirely sure how to do that - especially the smoke - but I’ll work it out).
I’m also halfway through a project to make some Letterpress posters. The letterpress work has been done, but I’ve got a couple of lino prints still to cut before I can finish them off. I’m hoping to have them finished in Jan 2012.
The Book of the Erinyes is still ongoing, albeit on the back-burner at the moment. Hoping to finish that at some point in 2012.
And I’m scribbling down ideas for more pieces every day - it’s a very creative time for me at the moment :)
…do a short photography project next week (while the Book of the Erinyes project is temporarily on hold), but I have no available models and precious few ideas at the moment. I suspect this may cause difficulties…
Why is Brighton so bereft of willing victims models, goddamnit?
Five new masks from artist Françoise Duvivier (click image to see them all)
“Vola” by Françoise Duvivier - more of Françoise’s creepy doll-art at http://www.lazaruscorporation.co.uk/artists/francoise-duvivier/doll-art
While I’m still working on the Book of the Erinyes I’ve already started thinking about the next piece of artwork.
I’m torn between following the Greek Mythology arc (maybe something based around Maenads/Bacchae?) or swapping to something even further back into the dawn of history (I’m particularly drawn by ancient Sumerian myths around Inanna & Ereshkigal).
And I think we’re live with the relaunch of my art website.
This weekend is “no guarantees” weekend - bug-fixing and tweaking for various different browsers will be going on. Seems to be OK in Firefox and Internet Explorer.
So many people proclaim a love of art, yet so few want to be part of it.
I just need a ready supply of people wanting to model for photographs like the ones I did a couple of months ago (below) and then I can keep producing artwork at a regular pace. For some reason it’s hard to find people to model in Brighton - never had that problem when I was living in Nottingham.
(If you’re in the south of the UK - within striking distance of Brighton - and you want to help create artwork by being photographed then LET ME KNOW!)
I’m creating a print run of around 20 of these “broadsheets” alongside the Book of the Erinyes.
They’re 20” high x 15” wide posters printed with wood & metal movable type (letterpress) and lino prints.
There are still two more lino prints to do (which will fill the spaces underneath the two blocks of text) which I hope to get finished & printed in the next 2 weeks.
