Floral Anatomy

OK, I got bored, I need colors. Even though this graphic journal of mine was supposed to be all done in black and while but somehow I just felt like some colors was needed. Anyhow, I thorough enjoyed making this piece and the automatic placement of things just felt into places the way I either intended or by accident but visually it all came out quite fittingly. For composition, I usually do not force myself to doodle up a composition prior to the making and processing of of my work, and so the process could be similar to that of the automatic writing, where I just watch the art unfold itself to me rather than the other way around.

Hard Engine I

Anybody who lived through the 80's should have some sort of remembrance of one particular publication called the Omni Magazine. It was a fairly popular sci-fi/scientific/futuristic type of magazine that featured many talented artists of the time. I used to spent hours in the library reading and get inspired by the artworks that it featured. One striking artist that stuck in my mind all throughout the decades was that of Bob Venosa. His organic art was always ethereal, glassy with constant glowing translucent lights and emanating shapes of divine-like forms. I especially loved his particular piece called "Jutta II". So while trying to come up with an image this evening, I thought of Venosa's art and did a similar symmetrical one in my element of style. As you can see my love of compositional symmetry plus mechanical gadgets in combination of a ethereal feminine face is well exemplified here.