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The Artful Readers Club for March
The Walking Dead Compendium One by Robert Kirkman and Charlie Adlard { and some other folks} Charlie Adlard recently admitted in an interview that he often makes up his characters on the page. A fact which can cause any serious character designer to bow in admiration. As you can see the likeness of the graphic novel with the AMC show is very close. Tweet Review: A long, arduous display of how a few people can entertain the masses. Since I am reading and watching The Walking Dead simultaneously, I am constantly comparing the two. Fans of the television series will be pleased to know that the graphic novel is just as interesting, if not more so. The details are very different in the first 48 issues of the graphic novel, for example, Carl is a lot younger and has a playmate Sophie..whose fate in the television series is quite astonishing. There are endless differences, but the overall storyline remains consistent in both versions which is; what happens to people during a...
Head-dress with rays like the sun, made out of colours of rainbow – an exploration of ego? The sun gives light like this? Of the power of the individual to make art and its costs, including the self-confidence required and the loneliness of the studio? I can’t help but feel there is a sort of return to the image of the Native American and an updating of it.
ReplyDeleteFalling leaves, autumnal theme of death and regeneration. The turquoise rays which stand out so much in the colour scheme – blue is associated with nobility, with the true gaze, with the heights of heaven above?
The white space behind is a significant structuring facet of the painting. It is perhaps significant that the hair is colourless – is there an imaginary scalping going on here, at some level?
A fish swims to or springs from the lips of this blood clouded, Janus-faced totem (significant, because we’re actually coming up to the end of year and January – Janus’s month) with a bloody tear and a fire smoulders to his or her left… A very complex piece of work.
The whole piece is made up of an illustration of a leaf from a Redwood Tree. It is a spin off of the idea of a tree spirit. It is only a section of a very large drawing/painting and colored in Photoshop. I didn't use the obvious tree colors just for something different.
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