Eating its own tail painting

Most recent painting - Eating its own tail


This is a painting I completed yesterday, I am quite pleased with how it came out. My artwork seems to be getting increasingly busy and bustled, but I spose my drawings have always been this way and now im just painting more like I draw. Im very glad this turned out as it did, there was a point when I started this one out where I thought it was going to be a real diasaster...

The title is a reference to the ouroboros (the snake eating its own tail)

Upcoming Exhibition

Im having some of my paintings shown in an oxfam art exhibition
called painting for poverty. Preety excited/nervous about it haha.

27th march - April 5th (11am-11pm)

at Solomon Grundy, Wilmslow Road, Withington Manchester


http://www.citylife.co.uk/arts/news/12792_art_community_unites_to_paint_for_poverty

Demon Eye - New painting - My biggest yet!!!

This is my newest painting called demon eye, an exercise in abstract expressionism. It's also my largest painting thus far at a meter by a meter..

I am quite pleased with how it came out, I wanted to produce something more dark and moody than some of my other work, something inbued with more of an inner tension and I think I achieved this broadly.

the creative process that went into the painting was one of going with my first feeling or my gut feelings and seeing how it turned out. It was also painted in an almost action painting sense as I experimented with different ways of attacking the canvas as it were, and different methods of applying the paint. Sometimes with broad brushstrokes, othertimes with an almost stabbing
motion.


I like it though , its preety messy i'll admit but I think it looks good and works on the whole.

Latest Painting Dance

This is the latest painting iv'e done, not been doing so much recently because I am poor so i'm saving my money up a bit, hence not being able to buy many art supplies. I am thinking at some point soon I want to work on a much larger scale though, maybe metre by metre canvas and bigger. Iv'e always liked doing big paintings because you get a real sense of achievement when they're finished and they wow you a bit more in scope....


Anyway latest painting - Dance (Acrylic on 35.5cm by 35.5 cm canvas)

Slightly different from some of my other paintings due to the fact that the forms are spidery and thin , the concept for this painting is two lovers dancing, but in an abstracted fashion or at least thats my interperation of it. The figure on the left being the male and the figure on the right being the female.

Latest paintings 29/12/08

These are my three latest paintings produced within the last week or so, and in order
of when I completed them

Grinning banker - Acrylic on 24cm by 18cm canvas-
Did this as a bit of fun, the reason he's grinning so widely and obscenly is because he's still getting a big bonus at the end of the year!! It's a very strange painting, I kind of just did it in the spur of the moment, and it's very different to what I do normally. The face is identifiable but very abstracted and warped so that's it's almost monsterous.














Fragments of Microcosm - Acrylic on box canvas
Painted over an old painting I had because I didn't like it very much and ended up with this. It's a bit darker in the colours I used for it than my usual paintings but I think it works still. It's called fragements of microcosm was because when I looked at it, it looked like a small weird ecosystem or something on the microlevel. The sketch which the painting was based on was called fragements/fragemented so I went with that and called it fragments of microcosm.










Swirling Mass - Acrylic on 18inch by 24inch canvas
Based on a sketch I did , this painting was quite gruelling and took me about 4 or 4 and a half hours to complete. I am quite pleased with the results. It has a much darker background than many of my other paintings (which tend to have light backgrounds) and this makes the eye concentrate a lot more on the central shapes or swirling mass in the center I think.

Some new paintings

The Priest - Acrylic on Acrylic Paper

This painting is something I just did on the spur of the moment.














Self portrait - Acrylic on 60cm by 80 cm canvas

Another attempt at a self portrait painting, but on a larger scale, came out better than the others
though still needs improvement.














Cutting the cord - Acrylic on 24cm by 18cm canvas

Abstract painting i did yesterday, very pleased with how it came out















Magic Eyes - Acrylic on 12 inch by 16 inch canvas

Abstract painting I did today, again pleased with it.

Organic improvisation series is complete!!

Ive done my 3rd and final painting in the planned series of three named organic improvisation -





















Did it in the same method as the 2nd one, that is I scribbled on the canvas then created the composition out of the scribbles, so that it was improvised in a sense.


Here is all of them together , in the order I think suited them best, all are acrylic on 30cm by 40cm canvas.

Do you like them?? hate them??? have suggestions for improvements??? Leave a comment.



Im quite please with how they turned out overall, though perhaps the middle one sticks out a bit.

Organic Improvisation 2

2nd in the planned series of three organic improvisation
paintings.

This one was actually more improvised than the first as I created it without any sketches, so in a sense this is more trully improvised than the first painting.

I actually like this one quite a lot, it is preety simple in composition but I think its preety effective.

To me It looks very fluid and flowing, like shapes floating around somekind of metaphysical soup!

Three stripes on Red - New Painting

Did another painting two days ago, called three stripes on red. Kind of an attempt at doing a more moody minimal style of painting.

I can admit that this is much influenced by Rothko
as you may be able to tell, though I tried to give it my own touch and make it original as much as possible. Im preety happy with how it turned out overall.

New Painting - Organic Improvisation 1

First of a planned series of three, this is called organic improvisation, calling them improvisation because I wanted to create a harmonius composition with each . This is so far the only one iv'e done , going to do two others some time in the near future.



< Heres the sketch













< And the final painting, changed a few things, intially was only going to have black and white as the colors but I changed my mind and decided to add some grey, yellow and red, to make it stand out a bit. Preety pleased with it overall.

An introduction..........

Hello, I am Chris Godber, a 22 year old self taught artist from the north
west of England. This is going to be my art blog, so I’ll write a bit about my art and
what it means to me, as well as what to expect from future posts.

Much of my work consists of abstract images and forms , and is usually in the form of acrylic
paintings on canvas. I make images that arise from my mind which are non-objective
and non-representative , at least not representative of anything in tangible reality.

Every painting is different of course though and this is not
the only kind of art I make, but it is my primary output. I like the freedom
that abstract art permits, in that an image or idea can be expressed in
any way the artist chooses, rather than having to conform to certain
principles and techniques to gain a look of realism , or to capture an image of the
outside world in a realistic manner. It is freedom for the mind and the imagination.

There is no esoteric philosophy behind any of my images, they are
what they are, a visual transcendent wordless poetry of sorts is how I like to think of them,
at least this is what I aim for (wherever this aim is achieved is another matter entirely)

I will elaborate further on my art and what it means to me, as well as maybe blab a bit
about some other art related stuff on this blog in the future, but for now I think this
will do for an introduction blog.

Here are some of my paintings, I will probably blog a bit about individual paintings later
on as well , explain what they mean to me, but for now I'll just show a few of them.

Unfolding - Acrylic on 60cm by 80cm canvas



















Winter Dreams - Oil on canvas














Incremental squares - Acrylic on 35.5cm by 35.5cm canvas














Ambient red Rectangle - Acrylic on 60 cm by 80 cm canvas