We continue to beaver away at our strange ships…
… we are very pleased with our progress…
… we’ve managed to keep the grand scale, and dynamic perspective…
… bet have seriously advanced the unique alien-ness of our strange ships…
… and we love the wonderful atmosphere of these images… they’d make awesome scifi book covers (:
It’s very hard to get any of the AI programs to create interesting spaceships…
… they all want to create cheesy, clunky, cliched, starwars-type airplanes-in-space, Flash Gordon type things…
… it took us days of creating, then blending, then re-blending to get these…
… but they are definitely what we were after, or at least much more like it, especially the scale and atmosphere (:
We not only have new work… we have reconstructed our old home gallery in Jormundgandr!…
… at the moment, it’s very spartan compared to how it used to be…
… spartan is great for giving space to the art…
… but we do have a tendency to fill our spaces with gorgeous clutter, so we’ll see how long this space remains this clean (:
We’ve recently been posting images we made several days ago, in the order that we’ve been making them (we are about 5 days ahead of what we are currently posting), but we liked these images so much (we made them this morning) we’ve decided they can jump the cue. While we were making them we decided they were the illustrations for an imaginary J G Ballard story we started developing in our head, in tandem with creating these…
… in this story several rich woman, gathered on a sprawling estate, and wanting for nothing, but never happy…
… decide to kill their fat-cat husbands, and live without men…
… we never know if this is a local event, or part of some world-wide societal collapse…
… but, in a very short time…
… these woman are eating their dead husbands, and worshipping the forest and the lakes. In a few years they will all be carrying home-made weapons, and dressed in animal skins, and hunting men…
… if you are familiar with J G Ballard, you’ll know that, although he didn’t write this story, he used most of these elements in various stories he did write. There is often a lot of water in Ballards stories, and societal decadence/collapse.
This series is several steps removed from ‘Blue Gossamer’, but clearly utilises the filmy, translucent drapings…
… we love the wonderful elements…
… the stunning, flame-haired young woman, her Victorian heart just bursting with unrequited passions she barely comprehends…
… romping heedlessly through a moonlit, foggy old boneyard, hoping desperately for some kind of fulfilment… but doomed to marry Cecil, a very successful accountant friend of her papa’s.
These are the more or less direct transmission of theme from our last images…
… we’ve still kept the gorgeous, stylised, Art Nouveau poster look…
… while bringing the theme firmly away from the last vestiges of Boschian weirdness…
… and into lovely Nouveau sweetness…
… while also managing to keep the luscious palette from the Boschian fantasy, but adding the wonderful, green gossamer gowns (:
We are loving this visually delicious style!…
…we love the babes…
… love the weirdness…
… adore the pallet…
… and the wonderful consistency (:
Our Boschian iterations morphed into the above style…
… while you can still see their Boschian roots, these images are far more stylised, almost like Art Nouveau panels…
… and the colours are more like Maxfield Parrish than Hieronymus Bosch…
… the stories are more Edgar Allen Poe/H P Lovecraft than Medieval morality message, the images are more balanced and designerly, which is how we like it (:
These are as full-Boschian as we got with this iterative progression we’ve been on…
… they are still postmodern interpretations of Boschian landscapes, but we feel they still totally emit the Boschian vibe, even the very 21st century based babes still have a medieval allure…
… we’ve really enjoyed riffing on Bosch, and we haven’t finished by any means, but what we are doing now has evolved past being a ‘homage’ to Bosch, and has become ‘influenced/informed’ by Bosch…
… we’ll post some of that soon…
… in the mean time…
… we hope you enjoy all this weirdness as much as we do (:
Yes, we totally invented the term ‘Postmodern Boschianism’!… but we feel it is perfect for what we have created, here…
… we have placed very un-Boschian babes in very Boschian settings…
… but we feel we have very successfully captured the medieval morality message-ness that underpins Bosch’s work…
… these could be a hysterical, puritanical Christian message that ‘hot girls go to hell’…
… or they could be a statement about mental illness…
… or they could be images of gorgeous babes chilling with their adorable demon friends in medieval times…
… what we love most about them is the attitude of the central characters to all the weirdness around them in these dark times… they are unfazed, merely interested, and definitely not intimidated by all these angry weirdos (:
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