Alexander Luke Osborne – Prestige

Following Forever moments

Among  sun touched hills

through caresses offer no eternities

Trough there are no mortal angels

I hear the music of your perfumed wings

and the silence of your kisses

gently playing.

Mirage – Boris Vallejo – Guild Publishing London – 1984

About Boris Vallejo

Born in Lima, Peru, Boris attended the National School of Fine Arts in his native country before immigrating to the United States in 1964. He has since done a great volume of work for the Fantasy field, having worked for virtually every major publishing house with a science fiction/fantasy line. Boris has also illustrated for album covers, video box art and motion picture advertising.

His mastery of oil painting is immediately and abundantly clear to anyone who looks at his work, and his classic sense is as much an homage to the old masters as it is to anyone contemporaneously working in the Fantasy genre.

For sheer dauntless bravura, few have ever pushed the limits as does Boris with his beautiful maidens and fearsome monsters.

http://vallejo.ural.net/about.php3

This are some of Wikins work, that inspires me…

https://plus.google.com/photos/+BuraQT/albums/5717528381490457553

I SENT THIS TO OVER 50 MODELS…

Hello there, (NAME). What are your modelling rates, and where are you based, please?… Alex

DELIVERED TO ALL THE MODELS, THAT I SENT A REQUEST TO.

A year has past, since I had my Stroke. If that is not enough, I have had a tumor in my Stomach, in which, the Stomach had to be removed. It has been tough year, but now, I can see the lighter side of life.

I want to make Artwork to support the troubles and tribulations that I have gone though. Here are a few images, to let you know the sort of thing I am after… You’ll be the one on the right.

The painting is of Aurora. When I was in hospital, and I lost the use of my right arm. I thought, that was it. I didn’t want to live anymore. But one day, I picked up a pencil, and drew this…

Which then, I decided to paint three weeks later…

http://www.ipswichhospital.nhs.uk/Default.aspx.LocID-009new07h.RefLocID-00903200c.Lang-EN.htm

This piece is to reflect the two months I was in Hospital.

I knew right then, there was a purpose… A New Dawn has awoken. I am going to finish this Fine Art Course, with all guns blazing!

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Aurora appears most often in sexual poetry with one of her mortal lovers. A myth taken from the Greek by Roman poets tells that one of her lovers was the prince of Troy, Tithonus. Tithonus was a mortal, and would therefore age and die. Wanting to be with her lover for all eternity, Aurora asked Jupiter to grant immortality to Tithonus. Jupiter granted her wish, but she failed to ask for eternal youth to accompany his immortality, and he became forever old. Aurora turned him into a grasshopper.

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I drew some quick drawings, of what I wanted do…

I then decided to draw it into Photoshop…

Here are a few collages

For many years, Joel-Peter Witkin, has been central to my research. I have written about Witkin many times, and bought most of his books.

I have decided to write about him, along with two other Artists, Jake and Dinos Chapman, and Franko B (Franko Black), for my Dissertation. I will be  discussing all three Artists, as well as the subject of Disgust and the Abject within their works of Art.