... Images of Masculinity: May 2011

Tuesday, May 24, 2011

Introducing Rafi (Raphael Perez)

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This week's featured artist:

Rafi (Raphael Perez) http://www.gaypaintings.com/

For my last two posting on “It’s Raining Men”, I’ve featured the artwork of the prolific and unusual Israeli Artist, Raphael Perez, also known as Rafi. His image

has become the “mascot” of my Project to collect stories for a an anthology to raise money to support marriage equality, currently in New York State.

When I approached Rafi through his deviant Art page at http://shharc.deviantart.com/ to be include his work in our Blogs, he was so enthusiastic to participate that he emailed me dozens of pieces of his art, as well as a collection of interesting photos.

Some of his pieces show that Rafael Perez is a classically trained painter, with stunning images full of reality. But his main style is what he refers to as “naïve”, but I call “graffiti style”, living in New York where these sorts of images pop up on walls like mushrooms.

Today I am including a combination of his works in both styles as an introduction.

I hope you love them like I do.

"Kiss My Ass"

Next week: Rafi photos.

Tuesday, May 10, 2011

The Fantasy Oriented Art of Adrienne Wilder

This week, I am featuring the fantasy oriented art of Adrienne Wilder http://cityofdragons.daportfolio.com/ Author of Dark, Dangerous, Erotic, Urban Fantasy http://theatlantadens.com/ "The nightlife in Atlanta just got a whole lot scalier."

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Adrienne's bio:
I'm a writer and Artist of dark urban-fantasy, and I enjoy using my artistic skills to bring my characters to life. My work is primarily done in a digital paint, using Corel Painter. I usually use photos I find in magazines or the internet (sometimes several to get the right pose and (proportions) as a model for me to go by, and then paint my characters in the poses of the photo.
My dragons (not shown here) are of course completely out of my head, because they don't exist to model for me. (I wish they did). I prefer realism for my character art (hence why I like to work with a picture for a model), but I have also done some line art (graphic novel type) work as well.
It takes anywhere from ten to fifty hours for me to complete a painting, depending on the complexity of the work. Drawing my characters not only gives me inspiration for the stories I write, it helps bring them to life inside my head. I learn almost as much about my characters when I draw them, as I do when I write them.