July 17th, 2010
As you might have noticed I’m back from my vacation. We had a good time, the weather was fine, the sea in Sardinia beautiful as ever, and thanks to a friend of mine, Marco, I now am the proud owner of a Gameboy Camera! Coolest thing ever!
I thought I had been really unproductive at the sea, but now that I browse through the pages I have drawn into my sketchbook I see that it isn’t true, in fact I have been quite productive… I’ll be posting some of these drawing over the next weeks in my “lazy Saturday sketches” series.
November 20th, 2009
Sometimes the forgotten past comes into your life like an unexpected visitor and sometimes you re-discover parts of yourself through it…
A couple of weeks ago me and Elisabeth went with my mother up the mountains, to the village where she was born, to visit our relatives. At one point we took a walk through the woods and I discovered this really weird “pietà” sculpture (a Madonna holding a dying Christ, which you can’t really see in the picture above). What I like about it is, that the face is completely white and the eyes look more like empty holes giving it a pretty unsettling effect. The figure looks more like a ghost or a vampire, than the grieving mother we are used to see.
According to my mother this sculpture was made by a granduncle of mine called Joseph Ploner, better known in the village as “Weber Våter”, who got into wood sculpture when he was 80. Somehow it makes me think that a certain interest for the macabre and the unsettling might have its root in the family… at least on a latent, unconscious level. Now that I think of it, many of the old iron crosses in the village’s cemetery where made by my grandfather (should take pictures of those too, there were just too many people in the cemetery last time).
The unexpected visitor might have opened a door I had forgotten.
October 24th, 2009
October 3rd, 2009
As expected more from the holidays. But this time… somethig unexpected. Because nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition… I mean, nobody expects The Human Chainsaw!
September 26th, 2009
Some more holiday sketches from France (click for a bigger view)
Collioure, a cliff side protruding into the sea
A city in the sky
Argeles sur mer, how will it look like in 50 years? Like this maybe?
August 18th, 2009
I always find it very interesting to see how other artists get from the first drawings to the final piece. So I decided to show this process in my works.
August 15th, 2009
July 11th, 2009
Anarcho-vampire. A character from the online comic Lux Aeterna, I’m working on from time to time. I really should get on with the new episode, shouldn’t I?
A random tentacle guy.
And now some more news on myself: I have twitter account now! Follow me! twitter.com/papernoise
