"Revisit" Prompt Submissions!

The prompt was to revisit an old piece. great work all around.

DA

DA is the featured artist. Debra wrote: " My friends helped me decide to revisit this piece, which first took shape in 2023 while I was playing with acrylic paint and palette knives. The face in the image was unintentional. For this month's Choir prompt, I decided to develop the face into a sharp-toothed ghoul with an expressive eye. Meet "Dreameater," 11 x 14 inches, acrylic on canvas board."

I voted in the poll. But I voted for a different one. I'm glad this one won. I love the way the earlier work became a cool texture for the face. In the picture I didn't recognize that the colorful spots were paint underneath the black and white. I thought that you had glued paint brushes onto the canvas. I don't know how I saw that now. But either way. It looks cool. I think you merged the old one with the new one in a really cool way.

follow Debra at @doobsolo

Joanne 

Joanne wrote:

"I used to write stories of other worldly beings, their habits, their terrain and what would happen if we humans were to immerse ourselves into their worlds.

No longer being able to do this due to neurological problems.  I created these 2 pieces fairly early on my artistic venture 18 years ago.

"They are called The Watchers, I see them looking through the thin veil that separates our worlds and you would never know quite know their purpose.

First was done by making light scribbles on paper then added colour and pens. The second piece are the characters in the bottom right, I feel they are the sort of priests within the grouping, if you look in the background you will see some sort of falling figures which I later moved into the Reach series.

This new piece was done on a tie dyed tote bag that I made as an example in one of my Batik workshops I gave. Now being as it is I plan to unpick it, stretch over canvas and frame as it's fairly fragile in it's current state.

Not being so well I created this months piece on a small table by the side of where I lay. I bleached, dyed, drew, sewn and used all sorts of other fabric mediums to further try and create a more colourful version of some of the creatures that I may find in this other world of The Watchers

I always see these as a jump off point to the true story that if filmed would be so much darker in content and colour, but being visually unable to see depth of greyscale etc this is what I end up with in the meantime."

I love this description of the piece. I love that you are kind of revisiting a revisiting. First you wrote about these characters then you made art out of them. The tie dye piece is great. very psychedelic.

Follow Joanne at @artist.joanne.callaghan

Katrin

Katrin wrote: 

"Maybe I didn't understand the task correctly. Anyway, I turned to this large canvas (160x112 cm) that I had lost my connection to. I'm feeling blue, not red at the moment.

I wanted to paint over it completely more than once, but especially the cat in the bottom left stopped me. So I created a layer using the foil technique and dripped on some alcohol so that the underpainting (and the cat!) still showed through a little.

Finally, I managed to say goodbye to the cat and a few other areas I couldn't let go in the past and moved on to something new. This is what came out.

For me, it is about finding inner peace and silence. The painting helps to find a way back to this quiet place inside, even if there is a lot of trouble, chaos and noise around. A sentence, that recently emerged during my intuitive writing process using random techniques, has stayed with me while painting:

"Too many noises make us deaf and we no longer hear our own inner voice."

I gotta admit. When I first opened the original painting I gasped outloud because it is so good.  But after reading your description I really like what you did. Especially the part about having to say goodby to the cat. There is something very emotional about that. It kind of hit my heart. But in a way that's what the inner peace is about. I really loved what you wrote and I love both versions of the piece. 

Also I think that you've said "I don't think I understood the task..." a few times in your submissions. It always makes me laugh a little bit because I'm always excited to see what you made and what you wrote about it. You can submit anything, Katrin.

Follow Katrin at @mutmalerei.katrin.uffelmann 

Lulu

Lulu Wrote:

"In 2022 I made a piece of digital art inspired by the viral crayon portrait of Asuka from Neon Genesis Evangelion. I had just gotten back into art a few months ago, and I was determined to make my work uniquely transform the subject matter. But the drawing came out soulless, overly technical, and boring.

This time around, I started with an 8x10 canvas and used every single piece of art supplies I could find. I layered markers, gel pens, solid gel, varnish, highlighters, sharpies, watercolor pencils, metallic paints, and every single texture of acrylics. It's rough, textured, and always reflects the light in strange ways. It’s something that couldn’t have been made digitally.

This is my first time entering physical art for a prompt, but it seemed right to use my old paints for something like this. Revisiting this piece showed me how much I've grown in the last couple of years, and I think you’ll see more paintings from me in the future."

It's cool to see a physical piece from you Lulu. I like how it's still identifiably yours even in a different medium.  I'd be curious to see how you could incorporate your digital and physical artworks in the future. Like if there's a way to do a digital drawing and then print it out and paste it or do some kind of transfers or something like that. I don't know there's a whole universe of potential there. Looking forward to seeing what you do next.

That's it for last month! I'll post the poll for next month ASAP!

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