Ghosts of the Present

Just finished another piece for my drawing class.  We had to combine 2 or more photographs into one drawing.  Nothing new for me, so I wanted to include a narrative.  I can’t take credit for the photos used.  I did get them off of a creative commons search, but unfortunately I can’t remember where I got them.  If they happen to be your images, I apologize for not crediting you.  Rest assured I won’t be selling this piece, it’s just for educational purposes.  I messed up and used fixative after I got done with the first figure, making it really hard to go back into the drawing and rework the material, so I went over top of it with white charcoal.  The result was more of a ghost image than I wanted, but it served it’s purpose of what I was going for anyway.  The message is nothing new.  Just taking a look at the beauty of the female form and the idiotic obsession with weight that has been forced into the minds of today’s women.  Hope you like it.

 Ghosts of the Present
2011 Charcoal on Toned Paper
approx. 12x18

Linky McLinkerson

So I decided to start a Tumblr feed as well as this space...exposure you know?  I figure not everybody does facebook, and not everybody uses blogger, so what the heck?  Tumblr allows people to follow on their mobile devices.  So cool, whatever.  Here's the link, and if you follow it through, you'll see some of my most recent thoughts and work. 

http://ericloftin-impulseart.tumblr.com/

In the mean time, check this new one out.  It's a combination of conte and ink on Yupo.  It has the potential to be really fun, but the problem is the ink doesn't like to dry very fast...like ever.  It's been a month and this one is still tacky to the touch in places.







 In Dreams
2011
Conte & Ink on Yupo
20x26