I hate you USB..

So this morning as I sat down to begin working, rearing to go...I plugged in my USB key with EVERYTHING on it only to find that it had decided to stop working over night.  3 repair men later and I had to accept that it was gone, along with all the work I had on it.  Panic set in until I eventually realised that the majority of my work was already thankfully on my blogs so minus a few recent pieces I was good to go...Still though, someone was incredibly sad today :(

I decided to revisit some of my older work to calm me down.  I had originally done A1 size line drawings which I loved the simplicity of but I wanted to experiment with some colour.  Taking inspiration from Andres Serrano's Piss Christ, I focused in on reds, yellows, oranges etc. and also included the text which I had previously worked with.

 

 

I tried to go about it in an unplanned fashion, putting down paint wherever I wanted on impulse which is VERY unlike the way I work...OCD central here, I have to have everything pre-planned.  However I liked the end result. the way in which the colours worked well with each and the way the text pops out.


To calm me down I also experimented on Photoshop. How I thought that would calm me down I'll never know, its possibly the most head wrecking programme there is.

 

However, I had gotten the idea of Holy Vending machines from fellow printer Meg and thought it would be a good idea to try.  So with the help of found images and also my own photography work and etchings, I created a series of "Holy Vending Machines".