Artist: Michael Shapcott is an emerging artist from Connecticut. His paintings and illustrations take traditional portraiture and add elements of folklore and dream imagery, his main source of inspiration. His work is nothing less than powerful, inspiring, and emotional.
The first artwork is oceania . It is the 3rd in the “Onawa” series. It reminds me of the ocean and the energy of music. Michael Shapcott uses his pen to captures this portrait with the pure innocence and wonder here.From this girl's shinny eyes, we can see the hope and inspirations .
The white shapes in the “Onawa” series are symbolic of our modern day. Those shapes are joined by tribal markings on the women’s faces to express a melding of our tribal past with our technological future. Michael Shapcott has felt that our human ancestry, our tribal history, and our roots in the earth are a part of us and influence our present whether we acknowledge it consciously or not. In the present day, we are very much in contact with technology and are building ever expansive and complicated networks of consciousness, communication and innovation with them as our tools. In the “Onawa” series, Michael Shapcott wanted the white lines and shape to represent waves of this new energy and the tribal lines, markings, and paint patterns to represent the “scarred” or “imprinted” history inherent within us. We are bringing all that we have been and all that we are into this community of new energy and he wanted the women in the “Onawa” series to embody that layered evolution in a hopeful, powerful way.
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This guy is really good! Do you know if he hand draws those his pictures and then colors them with the computer? Because they look as if they are drawn with pencil.
ReplyDeleteI think the colors of his artwork are really interesting. The shapes you were talking about definitely make it seem like he was trying to incorporate "tribal-like" connotations. I do have a question though, where did you get the idea of a technological future? Is it just the feel of the image? Overall, very interesting!
ReplyDeleteThe cool part is he is able to make the pictures look like they were hand drawn. The colors are well balanced the artist is very good. Nice choice.
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