Overjoyed

I made my first trip to the local art store Overjoyed this weekend. It took about fifteen minutes to walk there and as a result I had a swollen foot, a new membership card and wonderful materials to keep on creating.

The staff were so helpful and welcoming - I really came away feeling 'overjoyed'. Having stocked up on supplies, I now have the means to introduce colour into my work, which is a very exciting prospect indeed.

Iv'e been looking at Roy Lichtenstein for inspiration and wish I could hop on a plane over to the Tate Modern to see the Lichtenstein Retrospective they are currently showing.  However, I still have memories of the collection of his work in MOMA New York. Firstly I remember being completely surprised at the size of some of the works, they completely hit you in the face when you enter the room. It was an exciting visual surprise. The familiarity of the comic book world in his images, to me was inviting, it played with your mind. It forced you to think about what he was saying as an artist in today's society, behind these chosen characters, their speech bubbles and dots, because what you were looking at was a painting. Not a printed comic, a skillfull methodical portrayal of the reproduced.  

All in all, it always feels modern, new, like a freshly squeezed orange.

The colour research has also brought me back to personal favourites such as the Futurists and Vorticist Wyndham Lewis as well as some of Paolozzi's screen prints.

So it's time to get started...

Posted April 22, 2013 02:08

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