There's calm in your eye
This picture started so differently, I wish I'd scanned it before I started reworking it this morning. Last week I was listening to Neil Young's 'Like a Hurricane', one of my all time favourites, and I had an urge to make a picture to show how it made me feel.
I started with a magazine photograph of Alexandra Burke and I was struck by her eyes, so a drew a more or less straight copy, and placed in on a painted and collaged background, but it wasn't doing it for me. So I let it sit.
THEN... Lesley from PRINTED MATERIAL posted me a comment AND on her inspirational site I found this:
Here are a couple of Hans Silvester's amazing photographs.
I find these images so beguiling, at the moment I am having to have a daily fix.
So my piece of work was reborn, also taking inspiration from my photographs of thistles for the spiky headdress.
So this morning 'Alexandra' got a coat of white gesso and a whole new hairstyle!
I hope you enjoy sharing my though processes!!
I have come quite a way from my original visualisation - thanks Neil (and Lesley)
