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 German Shepherd pastel and Tiger pastel portraits are both my first colour portraits when I started drawing/painting again.
I don’t use pastel anymore as I prefer to paint in oils.
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T iger pastel – my first ever attempt at drawing with pastel, I was going through a really bad patch with MS and had huge problems moving my arms at the time. |
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The tiger oil is about never escaping from human intervention which is why the tiger is in front of a wall, regardless of how hard we try to live and let live there is always someone who cannot do that and either tries to help or tries to control, usually trying their best in their own way to make a better world for themselves or others they care about. The tiger’s existence ultimately depends on and is also at risk from human intervention. |
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The lion pencil was in preparation for the oil to give me a feel for the lion’s image, the lion oil painting is something I wanted to produce that shows the fragmented altered perceptions I have from MS yet still keep the sense of a powerful big cat – it will hopefully keep a sense of separateness and independence, despite the changes I am making to the image it refuses to be absorbed or moulded into something else. It keeps its sense of identity. |
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The dragon is another painting along similar lines, often what I see and sense are altered by MS and I wanted to paint something that would express that essential desire to break free – that sense of looking towards distant horizons and wanting to move in that direction. I also wanted to remind myself that sometimes to really live it is worth attempting the ‘impossible’ or ‘unbelievable’ just to see where it takes me. |
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