Mrs. Turner, 11x14" oil on canvas
Mrs. Turner, 11x14" oil on canvas
So my usual "save some endangered art" Monday is a little different today. This week I'm offering a variety of prints from my punk/goth/Elizabethan/mannerist series for $3.00 a pop. And since I have 3 of each image available, you can grab more than one if you want, so they don't get lonely. These were a test run of prints from a while back, the image size is only 7 inches high on 8.5x11 inch paper, and the actual paintings have changed a bit since these were made -- I have a habit of going back and "adjusting" my artwork. Guess that sorta makes them collector items, right?
For the cheapskates out there, this week it is $3 instead of $1 for a variety of reasons: these are heavy stock glossy prints that come all fancy in a plastic pouch, hence they cost more to mail, but mostly because stamps and envelopes cost this girl money if you can feel me. But hey, it is still cheaper than a large coffee concoction at Starbucks.
So hit me up as to your choice(s): arabella@elephantstonerecords.com
Thanks everyone!
My newest gal. I don't know what happened, but layers of different pink colors just kept getting laid down until it became outrageous...
Lady Delphine of Dogole (1596 - unknown )
Charming, delicate and imaginative, she was described by her brother, a
prominent Earl, as the richest and stupidest girl to ever hail from
Dogole. When the nuns gave up on her convent education and sent her
home, she stopped in a port town to shop and see the 'pretty ships'. It
was there that she met a pirate captain; not realizing she had been
kidnapped she then married him at sea and unwittingly, funded his crew
for years after being told they were freedom fighters. After the death
of her husband, she gained control of his fleet only to lose it in a
South Pacific storm during her expedition to find Candy Apple Island.
It is believed the sea chanty 'Ditzy Dame of Dogole' was inspired by
her.
I've also added the short biographies finally to the newer portraits on my website a while back: www.ArabellaProffer.com family trees and all that will come eventually...eventually.
Here's the odd thing about actor Alan Rickman. I got into him when I was 12, and he was probably 45 or something, odd I know and I don't know how it happened really. But I wasn't alone. I've found that if you sit in a room with other 30-40 year old women even today and someone says quietly, "you know who's kinda hot, Alan Rickman" the whole room will go completely ape shit. Yep. It still happens even though the man is, let's face it, old.
Now, when the first Harry Potter movie came out, I noticed a weird trend. Very young goth gals and not-so-young goth gals suddenly took notice of him and more and more fan sites popped up -- especially those dedicated to him as Severus Snape. Considering the man is in his 60s and is still rather "beakish" I found it fascinating. But I guess his character is the ultimate goth wizard fantasy for some? And all these Harry Potter-Goth chicks started posting online fiction of various, um, fantasies involved Alan Rickman as Severus Snape. They're a new teacher at Hogwarts -- and they bang Snape. They're a substitute teacher at Hogwarts -- and they bang Snape. They're a new student and an S&M situation happens...you get the idea.
I didn't see the last movie, and I've never read the books though I know a little about them. But what I found VERY fascinating was the fan art and erotic art dedicated to both Snape as a character, and just, Alan Rickman as Snape. I would put some examples of what I mean up, but I don't want some artist to get mad at me. I am by no means making fun of it, I just think it is really interesting. People are doing cartoons of Snape and Potter's mom a lot, but mostly, art of themselves in various sexual and romantic situations.
To see what I mean, just go to www.DeviantArt.com and type in "Snape" in the search. There's a billion drawings, cartoons and so forth of what I'm talking about.
]]>My new chicky-poo: Lady Alexis of Veron, 8x10"
Seriously, I never understood the whole goth aesthetic and Gothic Lolita thing where they take fashion leads from Victorian and Edwardian eras. I think Elizabethan era fashion is way more suited to the goth sensibility -- but that's just me.
I know a lot of Americans when asking about, or describing my work to others, always call it Victorian which is so not true; for some reason of all the British periods "Victorian" seems to be the only one they can remember or reference. Maybe I'm just lucky I always had good history teachers? I love it when people call the Georgian period "Marie Antoinette-ish". For the record I go from pre-Tudor War of the Roses on to Elizabethan, Stuart and then until the middle of the Georgian period. Victorian or Edwardian fashions and portraits just never interest me. Regency though, I could maybe dig that.
Lady Christina of Albramere, 11x14"
Yep.
My new chick and her pussy: "Lady Lenor of Terra" oil on canvas 11x14"
This was my second time ever painting a kitty, he turned out okay I think. Just wish the color and details could be better with these darn digital photos. Ah, sometimes I miss the bright red Run Lola Run hair I had throughout college.
I finally killed off the old "Belanna of Bravad" painting and made her new again...after almost 6 years. The old one (on the right), her face, hands, the costume and everything was always bugging me. It didn't start bugging me until after I had showed her in public once. This past month I finally went ahead and made the new improved version. I still kept the hair, background and the leopard print all while making the costume a little more accurate for the mid 1500s. She looks a little sassier too, like she could totally be a Suicide Girl pin-up. I may just take the old one off my website because everytime I look at it I do the, "what the f*** was I thinking?!"
Official: Friday, Oct 12th 2007 @ Asterisk Gallery in Cleveland
"My Own Private Empire: The National Portrait Gallery of Kessa"
This will be my recreation of a museum setting for my portraits, about 30 total. I'm hoping this will travel to a few other cities as well. What started out was just some punk rock looking Elizabethan portraits in 2001 has become a monster project. Fake lineages, country maps, biographies and period costume research -- all while trying to keep my style throughout. Everytime I sell one of these puppies, I get all fussy because then it screws up my family tree I created. Oh well, time to actually work and stop slacking off.
I've been trying to come up with a good holiday card design for this year. Last year I waited too long and I ended up buying run-of-the-mill Pointsettia cards. My family is used to my own designs so I think they were a little perplexed by that since afterall I'm the "artist" and why didn't I come up with something original, goddamit. At the last minute I was able to get a few hilarious and semi-perverted cards from www.superindustriallove.com for friends, but again, people were perplexed by that too I'm sure.
Usually I go with an art deco theme in my drawing for this, as it is pleasing to the people in my life who aren't so, uh, weird I guess. I've done Day of the Dead, New Years, Groundhog Day and Talk Like a Pirate Day cards (people again wondered WTF those were when I sent them out in September), but general holiday cards I'm kind of stumped at the moment and super feeling lazy.
Do you think this is too depresso or goth for Xmas?
This was originally made as a poster for the band Alcian Blue, but yeah I'm feeling too lazy to draw anything new right now. That Groundhog Day card took me for freakin' ever!