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I put together an image very similar to this in my Digital Imaging class and I wanted SO bad to paint it. My Rendering class came up and we were required to do a grapite drawing and an oil painting of a single complex image so I thought I'd remaster this composition with images of my own models. Unfortunately, not only did I not complete this drawing but I didn't even get to start on the oil painting of it because the commission in my other thread came up and I was allowed to use that for this class instead.

HOWEVER, my instructor stressed that I NEEDED to finish it in time for the Muskegon Regional show and so I've been drawing day and night trying to get it done. It's quite a large piece (can't remember the vertical dimension but it's 14" across) and so it took a lot of time just to cover everything!! When I discovered the deadline for the regional show was TODAY and not next Saturday I panicked! SO, I just spent the last two days (day and night......got only four hours of sleep in two nights) in an attempt to complete this. I still don't feel the female figure is complete (she's not detailed enough for her position in the composition), but I am VERY pleased with the monkey on the bottom......my favorite part USED to be the trees, but that was before I started on the monkey two days ago.

Well, here you are.......my drawing of "Origins":


and detail of the bottom monkey......just because I can!

I love the chimpanzee!

Wow, that is fantastic! I always like trees in art, but you are right that the chimp really does stand out most.

Congrats!

Absolutely beautiful, and very well executed. Yes, your chimp is wonderful, but it's all wonderful.

We here on this forum are by nature a very open-minded and progressive thinking group, I highly doubt anyone here could ever be offended by a pair of breasts, or any other kind of nudity, in a piece of artwork. Just thought I'd say!

Absolutely stunning!

Your talent continues to amaze me. The monkey is so lifelike! The entire thing is just stunning- really!

I don't know if this would interest you or not: http://www.huntingartprize.com/
My friend was a finalist this year, and the winner did a graphite piece that isn't nearly as good as anything I've seen of yours!

That's wonderful! I love it!

kirby Wrote:I don't know if this would interest you or not: http://www.huntingartprize.com/
My friend was a finalist this year, and the winner did a graphite piece that isn't nearly as good as anything I've seen of yours!

Bummer, I checked it out and it's only open to residents of Texas......thanks however!

I'll find out by this weekend or so whether or not this piece was accepted in to the Muskegon show. Cross your fingers for me!

(note: I would have liked to have more detail on the female figure but I just plain ran out of time.)

Amazing!

Ahhh sorry, I didn't realize that

Good luck!

Wow. I love it. It is so cool how you put the people coming out of the tree trunk and the chimps on the bottom. The woman's arm looks very detailed to me.

Amazing work.

I doubt many of would go into vapors about nudity (in art or otherwise) but it is nice to have it noted if you are opening the page at work or somewhere else that someone who does get freaked might pass by.

Well, there was apparently a big discussion about this piece during the judging and apparently the judge decided it was too controversial to be included. So, it was a big "nay". Eh. I'll be curious to find out what DID make it however.

Controversial? Do you think it was because of the boobs or the subject?

I think it's a great piece. I work for a museum that has an art school associated with it and I have yet to see any student ("professional" students mind you) have work as good as yours!

kirby Wrote:Controversial? Do you think it was because of the boobs or the subject?

I suspect it was the subject because there were photos and drawings that were FAR more risque......especially since the juror is a professor at Notre Dame (wish I'd have known that ahead of time.....I wouldnt' have wasted my time/money).

Ahhh, oh well. Just keep doing what you want to do and you will continue to be successful. Conservative jerks... sheesh!

Oh my fucking god, an artistic symbolic view of evolution is too "controversial"??? What the goddamned fucking fucked up shit is that??? Not even my own dumbass redneck university would have thought that work was controversial. I'm actually furious on your behalf, I guess as an artist myself I can feel it. Ugh, religious zealots infuriate me no end, they poison everything. Didn't he see you have a representation of Adam and Eve in the garden in there, too?

I just told DH and now he's angry on your behalf as well. He says you should make a big deal over it, call the local newspaper arts section, etc, because nothing makes a book or movie or work of art as popular as hell as when some religious zealot tries to ban it from being shown somewhere. You'll get lots of exposure because people will want to see what the problem is, and they will see a great work of art, and then more people will see your work!

Nah......I only have second-hand knowledge of the conversations and even then it's information that I should not have. Besides, I have some ideas to make changes to it that will make it that much better in the long run and this makes for a good opportunity to make use of those changes (tho' the idea of cutting it up in order to make those changes IS a scary proposition......LOL).

Something like this probably wouldn't even be considered a news story around here anyway. Holland, Grand Rapids and on up to Muskegon is pretty darn conservative territory......I'll make my changes and submit it to places where it's more likely to be seen in a favorable light.

Besides......this is a juried show and so the admission process is always highly subjective. You submit something and it's entirely at the whim of the juror as to whether it will make it in or not. That's just how it goes.

anastasia Wrote:Didn't he see you have a representation of Adam and Eve in the garden in there, too?

LOL, I missed this portion. Yes, in a way I intended for that to be a bit of a background story.....but of course it could be seen as an "awful thing" that it is a black man and a white woman. In fact, I was planning for a while to put a bitten apple in the outstretched arm of the man but didn't want it to be THAT obvious.