Creative Cogitation

As I sit down to write this blog I real­ize I fin­ished Rock Me! a month ago.  I can’t believe that much time has passed before I finally got it posted on my web­site and of course do this thing.  But I guess I must push on as I really do want to paint tomor­row, oh wait it’s 2 AM which means I want to paint today!

One thing I decided to do start­ing with Rock Me! was to cre­ate a series of smaller more afford­able paint­ings.  I have heard per­son want­ing to start col­lect­ing me might want to start small and work up to a larger piece.  There is an advan­tage in these smaller works in addi­tion to afford­abil­ity to my collectors; to some extent they do go together faster, my invest­ment in mate­ri­als is a lit­tle less, and they take up less space in my stu­dio while being stored.  The down­side is, I am not used to work­ing this small, to some extent work­ing in the smaller scale with smaller brushes takes as much time as work­ing with larger brushes on a larger scale and doing abstract back­grounds on this scale is limiting. It feels odd to cre­ate non rep­re­sen­ta­tional flow of color on some­thing so tiny.  But I am endeav­or­ing to do this very thing.

I love the idea behind Rock Me! It’s a spin off the idea behind of iPod Tweety and iPod print ads in gen­eral.  My first sketches had the full body of umbrella crested cock­a­too includ­ing the spread wings.  As I fooled around with the sketch in pho­to­shop I realzed what enam­ored me most about this idea was the full head of back lit feath­ers.  I really felt like it con­veyed Rock & Roll’s energy.  The sug­ges­tion of the open beak com­pletes the image of the rock affi­cianado howl­ing and grind­ing to his or her favorite song. I decided not to zoom in any futher as it would have been too much black.  DH thinks I went too far… 

Red also seemed appro­pri­ate.  I love the energy of blood red.  And black is a very pow­er­ful color too.  As for the back­ground I just wanted it to appear splat­tered with sound, vol­umn, energy.  As I do my abstract back­grounds I real­ize I think they not only rep­re­sent emo­tion, but are accom­pa­nied by music as well.

Rock Me! by Jake Beck­man. An umbrella crested cock­a­too rocks out to iPod tunes.

I think I resem­ble this ani­mal, I am pretty much a rocker babe. I hope you like this lat­est Binary Bird as much as I do.  Rock on!

If you would like to find out more about Rock Me! or buy it, check out it’s page on my web­site. Feel free to comment-like it, hate it? 

Jake

Artist, AKAJake.com Come Expe­ri­ence the Art!

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