Sunday, April 15, 2012

Pillow Poem 21

I recently finished "Pillow Poem 21," a japanese Shunga painting of two boys making love while riding horseback through the waves of a turbulent sea.

The painting is below: click on the link to purchase a large 13 by 19 inch print for 45 dollars, or a smaller print for 17



I had a photo shoot with Danimal a couple of months back for my painting "Hood Ornaments." At the same time, I took photos for a bunch of other projects as well; I knew I wanted to make this painting, so I had taken photos then as well. First, I had already downloaded photos of horses in the poses I wanted; I photographed us making love in the proper poses to be able to photoshop us onto the back of a horse later; below is the finished stock photo of us on the back of the horse.


Than I drew us on handmade bamboo paper from China using vegetable ink and a fine brush. Below is a photo of the painting in progress. Finally, when the ink drawing was complete, I painted it with watercolors.


Here are some other photos from the same photo shoot, all with the intention of making horse-back love paintings, some of which will soon follow!










Danimal, looking adorable



And a few more for other projects



And another painting I did using the stock for the horseback love, although now they are up in a tree


Pillow Poem 20, which you can purchase as a large print for 45 dollars or an 8 by 11 print for 17. Click on the link below!







1 comment:

Dean Grey said...

Felix!

Pillow Poem 21 looks great!

I've never worked with bamboo paper before.

From your image it looks so transparent. I wouldn't imagine it could hold up to watercolors but I guess it does.

Nice to see how the idea started from start to finish!

-Dean