The Little Foxx & the Imagination Factory: Paintings

I did this painting in 2003 with Gauche paints.  One of my first with this medium.

I had to do two mood boards, use two different
colours, reflecting two emotions. 

The colours were obviously blue and red.

I then made a window using triplex board and
placed it on the two mood boards.

The mood boards were made from various
pictures which I cut out from magazines.

Using the cut out windows I selected two areas
from these mood boards and cut them out.  So
on my painting are two cut out pictures.

The face and top of her hair is a cut out from the mood board and a small portion of the vase is also a cut out.  I then had to link these two cut outs.

After watching the movie "The Ring" and enjoying some of the visuals I decided to use that as inspiration by painting more flowing hair that would reach toward the jar. I was strangely fascinated with eyes at that point and thought the iris and pupil had such astonishing detail so I painted a huge round eye and another at the top of the painting that reflected fear.  The red streaks that emit from the top eye was inspired by The Sandman novels and the artist of that graphic novel, Dave McKean.

M. C. Escher was another influence and checked floors seem to rule my mind and taste. So i used, somewhat of an optical illusion effect with the checkered pattern and ball as well as the partially invisible girl at the top with the blue face. 

Ultimately i wasn't too pleased with the end result of it all but I had learnt a lot and it was loads of fun.