Summer project to myself, for myself

A few may know that I am a surreal artist as well as a young designer. SO! I've decided to set myself a project to do over the summer.

What I want to do is to be able to view my art pieces and see what they look like as prints on t-shirt designs and or on jackets ie; denim and leather.

This will and may be a long process in getting everything done. Of course experimenting with my drawings and bringing them into Photoshop, then there's making flats, buying a a cheap t-shirt for a rough idea or placements, ect, ect. Then there's finding a place who would allow me to print and have it done professionally, models to wear them, promoting them and selling them. This would all be in the near future obviously but it's best to think of this now because you never know if it goes well or if it goes badly.

But this is what I'm wanting to do, it may take time, I may not even get to the stage of getting my ideas made but I wont know unless I try. Which I'm doing today!

One step at a time....

Peter Popps - Cubed Shoes

From photo to painting... Thomas?

The other day I thought it would be a good idea to download an app called photo booth, and after playing about with the app I managed to capture one of the most oddest pictures I have taken. I'm not going to lie, I am absolutely loving the the image. It's creepy, surreal, interesting, scary, it's everything that you wouldn't expect to see in a picture and the fact that I've managed to create this is amazing. The quality of the image gives off a paint like texture which then gave me the idea to recreate the image onto a small canvas.

I used water colour and a 20x20 cm canvas from Wilkinson. Recreating this image onto canvas was great fun, I decided to change the second lot of eyebrows (underneath) and turn them into heavy bags and I also decided to turn the image into a surreal character.

How does 'Thomas' sound?

I like to give the characters in my drawings/paintings names. It brings them to life, makes them seem individual, free and special. That to me is what surreal art is like, you have complete freedom to change a perspective and make it your own, whether it is giving a character a name, a certain style or even deforming a face and making it seem abstract and unique. 

Surrealism has been around since the 1920's and is by far one of my favourite art genres to be involved in. You can have freedom in all art genres but there's something specific about surrealism and abstract like art that makes some sort of sense, it brings out the creative mind and makes you look at other things in a different perspective.

Art is in your hands and can be developed and created in anyway you want, experiment with materials, go out of your comfort zone and expand your mind to new things...

You many never what you can create next or even come across.