ABOUT LIFE, ABOUT ART (&the rest)

This entry is sort of relaxing because I don't have to write that much. Just some pictures... But this is work too.
Sometimes I'm talking while I'm drawing, because I tell the stories which go through my mind when I see the person I'm drawing. Can tell some, if I remember. I'll write them under the painting.


Unfinished Evalia


Evalia


I know that this is a caricature of sb. ... But I used it to train shadows... so I don't know anymore


A painting most people prefer


Finally, a drawing. It's one of my favourites, even the fingers are too short...
Random name = Mystic


Random name= Performance (Drawing)
I think the story behind it is, that there were some ladies who were dancing for a circus-performance. And it was a long time ago, when it wasn't usual. So they were discriminated a lot, but somehow they went their way. But at last one of the women has been killed, so the others were really shocked and stopped dancing. And this picture is sort of an old poster, which a journalist sees. He investigates a lot about it and asks the women who are still alive. They tell him the story, etc.



Designer's secret (Drawing) (First it was just a sketch)
The story: There's this guy (random name) Josh. He's the guy in the front, a designer.
On the right in the background is his gay friend (random name) Michael who's a bit in love with Josh, but he (Josh) doesn't notice.
And on the left in the background there's a girl (random name), named Cindy. At the beginning Josh doesn't like her, because of her (in his eyes) bad styling and they have something like a fight. But in the end Josh falls in love with her, but he also discovers something creepy next to his *designer-house-thing" ( I don't know how to say it). And from this point on you can decide how the story goes on, because I always change it.


Lory (Drawing)
Lory is a girl who once lived a happy life. Every boy fell in love with her, every girl were jealous. But one day she disappeared. She was gone for years and with the time people forgot her.
However, one day in summer she returned. She was very thin and at first no one recognized her. But as they knew who she was, people created lots of rumours.
Neighbours told each other "I don't know if you know it, but Lory is completely insane. Look, she's always running around with that expensive, blue dress. Like she wants to go out. She never takes it off"
"And she became SO skinny. She looks ill. Poor girl."
"I heard that she's been raped. After it she got so crazy that people sent her to madhouse. Sad story."
"Yes! And now, I heard, she always runs around with the dress which she wore at the evening of the rape. She freaked out one day"

Well, at the moment I'm working on a painting. It's not finished (sorry, I wrote I would show it when it's finished, but at the moment I somehow have a break...), but half-finished.
At the moment I don't like the face (it looks like a witch, I must correct that), one arm and two hands aren't finished, the shoes are missing and I want to make some "light-effects". I don't actually know how I can make those , because I don't like to work with light. It's difficult, so it's not fun.
But here some *timelines* of the painting.
Starts with the sketch, then the red background, trousers/blackjeans.


PART 1 OF TIMELINE

The last three pictures I recently made contain the blouse, its pattern, some contours of the body and the face.


PART 2 OF TIMELINE

Yes,that's it ... Don't steal it, I have the picture at home and copyright!
(If someone reads this)

I just started a new painting. It's a crouching woman, her posture reminds me a bit of a predator.
I got the idea from my favourite Singer Alison Mosshart. She must be awesome on stage, crouching, screaming and running in circles.
Here a song I like a lot of her (not my favourite song, but a very good one)

dna the kills (mp3, 6,388 KB)

This is a wonderful live version (but a calmer one):


This one's more crazy (starts at 0:46)



Yes and last but not least the sketch of the picture:


So that's it. When it's finished, I'll write another entry

Yesterday I watched the film "Vielleicht lieber morgen/Perks of being a wallflower" and it was really , really awesome. I sometimes have the special situation that I cry by laughing while I'm watching a film because it's sad and lovely at the same time. Especially when I watch movies of Tim Burton. But this one wasn't from him. I don't know who created it.
It's about a boy who's going to highschool after a long time. He had a break because his best friend shot himself. I'm not quite sure, but I think he had some blackouts. He's very shy and closed, but after a while he finds two friends: Patrick and his sister Sam. They're showing him the good sides of the life, but at the same time he remembers things his brain faded out. These memories burden him as well as the fact that Sam doesn't reply his love.
I also mentionned movies from Tim Burton. I love those animated stuff like 'A Nightmare Before Christmas" , this one's so lovely and cute.



But I also adore the typical ones like "Sweeney Todd" or "Dark Shadows" with Johnny Depp and Helena Bonham Carter. Dark Shadow is more a funny one, but I prefer his melancholic works, those which are enchanting and playing some time ago.


(Sweeney Todd: Johnny Depp and the adorable Helena Bonham Carter)

Tim Burton's films often are very dark and for some people also scary. Themes are most of the dead or the life after it. But his films aren't that brutal, they're more built on the feelings of the characters. I love them because I find that they're pure creativity. It's a beautiful imagination to create an own story, to invent characters and places full of magic.

At least I want to present a movie which is German. It's called "Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo/ We children from Bahnhof Zoo"... It's maybe one of the most famous movies of Germany, but I don't know what that means... I don't think everyone knows it.
the storie's about Christiane F. , starting to take drugs with 14. She was fascinated by a class mate who was such a grown up one, so she started to go partying with her. At a club she met a guy called Detleff. His friends became her friends. They were all taking stuff like heroin and cocain, so she took it too, just because she didn't want to be an outsider.
She consumes more and more, and has to hustle for money at the train station "Bahnhof Zoo", a place of drug trade and prostitution. Two of her friends die, they had the "Golden shot" (I don't know if it's the same expression like in German), one of them as the "youngest drug victim of Berlin" with 14 years.
At the time she realizes that the heroin destroys her, she's going through cold turkey lots of times.
The film has a happy ending even Christiane F.'s still addicted to drugs with round 40 years old now. Today she ithinks that people from television are following and controlling her because of the book she wrote and the movie. She became insane somehow because of the drug consume. It's a sad story.


We children from Bahnhof Zoo

Nevertheless I wanted to write more about a song which is the soundtrack of the film. It's David Bowie's song "Heroes". I mention it because it's also an important song in the movie "Perks of being a wallflower" and yesterday I realized how beautiful it is. In the movie "We children from Bahnhof Zoo" it's more a negative, no, melancholic song. But in "Perks of being a wallflower" it sounds very positive and I liked it so much.
The following is a Trailer of "We children from bahnhof Zoo" , containing the song: