Your Art, amateur or professional

[ItCreatesEmptiness]

Greetings fellow seekers of the weird,

after two years of silently lurking in the shadows of this wonderful forum and enjoying your strange and interesting conversations I finally want to introduce my self to you fine folks.

Reading of the Vastarien Kickstarter stirred me from my long running passivity, for even though I am very much a amateur, I wanted to contribute some kind of art to this beautiful project.
This got me wondering whether anything I have made before would even be worth submitting.
Which in turn made me wonder what unseen art of other members might be slumbering in their private drawers, tattered notebooks, on their desks, or elsewhere.

I would be happy to see anything you might have created for yourself, others or any other purpose.
Amateur works are as welcome as professional ones.
You do not need to restrict yourselves to pictures or paintings, music, videos, anything self made is welcome.

To get the ball rolling, I will post some of my own paintings.

best regards

 

[ToALonelyPeace]

My amateur art from an introduction art class. It's scratchboard. The lighting is off, I know

 

[ItCreatesEmptiness]

My amateur art from an introduction art class. It's scratchboard. The lighting is off, I know

Beautiful ToALonelyPeace. I hope you continue with that class and create more interesting things.

I too went to different art classes over the years and found the setting inspirational as well as motivating.

 

[ItCreatesEmptiness]

Here are some older, rather crude drawings of mine.
The first and third one are ballpoint pen with watercolors.

I actually enjoyed the feeling of cheapness of the material, it put me into a more sloppy and relaxed state of mind while drawing.

Maybe these will lower the threshold for those of you, who are unsure of the quality of your works or material.

The last one, with the fungi, I drew at autumn, after gazing at those strange creatures spurting from earth and decay and being reminded of Mr. Ligotti's wonderful "Autumnal".

Also, ToALonelyPeace, I would love to see more of your drawings.

 

[ToALonelyPeace]

Thank you for your kind words. I'll try taking another art class this summer since it's been a long time.

I especially like your piece of a head of bumps, mouths, and growing fern stalks. A wonderful blend of color.

 

[miguel1984]

These two are copies I made from some of Paul Klee's drawings.

 

[Grimalkin]

Ah, I see that it is permissible to post one's art work here, and I will hopefully get it together and add a few of my own creations. At this time, with an aging laptop, I have difficulty doing much of anything except reading. (Has anyone else noticed there are always close to 100 guests online here while usually on 1 or 2 members lurk?) Now, if I can just figure out how to upload a file, I will certainly share some stuff. Please curb your enthusiasm.

 

[ItCreatesEmptiness]

thank you for your posts and paintings miguel1984 and Grimalkin! they have after long abscense motivated me to log in to answer.

thank you for sharing these miguel1984, i like klees work too

I like the mood in your painting Grimalkin, it has something ethereal and weird. does it has a connection to a story or idea?

 

[ItCreatesEmptiness]

i currently immensely enjoy working with textures of thickening acrylics.


this one was the first internal image toward the title "king in yellow" (which i still have not read completely)


this one was a experiment on craquelure, which went a little bit out of hand

the next three are more photo-manipulations (including digital drawing)
they share the theme of "home", and incorporate landmarks of my hometown, including a seemimgly hounted villa from before the second world war.




this last one shows the etheral snail of humanitys nightly dreams for the cosmos, sailing towards moon and stars in little snailhouse-rockets to infect them with corrosive slime. I guess these snails fly more often these nights.

please feel free to show anything new (and old) you have created, regardless of quality or medium.

i am currently finishing two other works, one of which started with images invoked by Mr. Ligotty's "the night school". I will share them as soon, as they reach adulthood.

 

[Grimalkin]

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I like the mood in your painting Grimalkin, it has something ethereal and weird. does it has a connection to a story or idea?

Hi, ICE. No story, just inspired by mushrooms, ghosts, jellyfish, and black paper.

 

[ItCreatesEmptiness]

I see Grimalkin, like rhyming with forms. i like it.



i have found the last picture of this panting, before it was destroyed by ignorants.
here i tried to capture a inner image that stayed with me since i read Mr. Ligotty's "Vastarien".
The Mirror was connected to Lacanian concepts of the "ecstasy of absence" and was supposed to invoce this in the viewer.

i still plan to continue and finish this painting on a different canvas when the time is right.

 

[ItCreatesEmptiness]

this statue was based on a idea that i had while reading "the call of Cthulhu" again.

"what if the descriptions of the body of Cthulhu were based on wrong assumptions? all these descriptions were made by people with limited knowledge of biology and anatomy or based on stylized sculptures of seemingly mad cultists."

maybe such misinterpretions would be similar to descriptions of Europeans that would see strange animals in strange lands and would try to describe them later on without proper knowledge of their anatomy or biology.
(I have studied biology and found strange pictures and tales of European adventurers in Africa and Australia especially intriguing.)

in trying to reverse these "misunderstandings" the narrator had about Cthulhus body, i "realized" that it probably was radially symmetric (simmilar to sea stars and polyps, common for sea life) which (from the protagonists/cultists view) maybe was too strange of a form to regard as a sentient entity. therefore this polyp like thing with four appendiges in each of its three body-layers, was Anthropomorphised into a bilateral thing with two "legs" and two "arms" and one head. what about the other appendiges on its "back"?? well, those were interpreted as one "tail" (even though there were two tentacles there!) and two "wings".
the wing interpretation was further useful to explain those strange fleshy hair/feather-like additions on some of the appendiges.
someone with more biologic background would maybe see them more similar to external Gills, which need a big surface area to better exange chemicals in the seawater.
but for the protagonist of the story those would definitely seem more like feathers/veins on wings (or like fingers of bats).

well, it was a fun little thought experiment and this statuette is it's offspring i guess.

 

[Rosemary]

I generally prefer to work in black & white, usually with pencils or fineliner pens.

Here's two examples, both are drawn from photographs and movie stills (in that case, the great movie "Possum")

I wish I could draw without a reference, but it requires a lot of training.

 

[Ligrotesque]

I was originally an exhibiting fine artist before entering art conservation and later academia. Here is an image of one of my oil paintings. They all had a real sense of claustrophobia while using very traditional art materials.

 

[Ligrotesque]

Despite what I just showed, I also prefer B & W.

 

[Cal]

Some drawings of mine done in pen & ink on paper... Just joined this forum so hey, love Ligotti, just been rereading Matt Cardin's Ligotti paper's.

 

[Ironrose]

I'm not sure my art is so much in theme with this site. I did a lot of drawing and painting in my 30s (1990s) then wandered off and did other things. Now I'm back - sort of. I'm doing a figure drawing group every Tuesday morning, mostly with charcoal. Here are two of my better ones. I struggle...

 

[MorganScorpion]

Sometimes I make miniature carpets in cross stitch.

 

[Ligrotesque]

A 3-D Piece

 

[Grimalkin]

Glad to see an art thread going on. Here's a few of mine, all done on paper, canvas or board: