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"Feel Out The Forms" [ Reveal of FINAL Watercolor Painting! Yay!]

Hello Friends and Collectors,

Here it is, in all of it's glory...the Completed "Feel Out The Forms" Painting!

Thank you all for being so patient. ^_^

"Feel Out The Forms" [ Final Painting ]
- Copyright 2012 Le Robinet Gay Art. All Rights Reserved. -

All the Auction Details are here [opens in a New window] : "Feel Out The Forms" auction Benefitting the The Northwest Network of Bisexual, Trans, Lesbian and Gay Survivors of Abuse

[ I will be adding more explanation of this Artwork shortly. ]

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ADDED 04/18/12 at 12:50 pm:

~ * BackStory * ~

About “Feel Out The Forms” [watercolor on thick-illustration board painting]:

This piece started out with the pose, as most of my artworks do, because the figure is the focus... I don't see much of a chance for the scene to be successful if the figure doesn't have a captivating, appetitive or otherwise – interesting pose going on (akin to the saying “you can't make a good painting if you don't have a good drawing” or other variants of foundational-skill/preparation). After deciding what pose I wanted to portray I started thinking about the background. I have noticed that the backgrounds in a lot of homo-erotic/gay art pieces are left a solid color, or if there is any indication, it seems like an 'after-thought'...I wanted to change this trend –at least in my own works. Don't get me wrong: I'm not saying I won't ever do a 'simple' background piece ever again, and I can also see the practicality in not spending time on the background (I even did the 'simple-solution'/'minimal-backgrounds' myself) when I was busy with my art school course-work, but as I am working on a piece I start to get antsy, and I start to ask myself what do I want to 'say' in this little 'stage' --this time? I often jot down little key-words that pop into my head, and for “Feel Out The Forms” the words “flourishes”, “home decor”, “whiplash curls” ,"ornate" and “opulence” came to me. I also wrote “A touch of feminine with the masculine” and “Textures-fibers-visual interest” below that on my sketchbook page. I guess this is like my 'road-map' and it is certainly coming 'in-handy' as I am typing this all out.

About the Designs in "Feel Out The Forms": I didn't just want to make up the designs, so I referred to a book of Islamic designs for motifs that I fancied. I eventually found a design that I felt would work well for the wall border/trim-design, and another design inspired me to create the “alien-flowers” as I have since dubbed them...they were amongst my favorite parts during this artwork's progress! Oh, perhaps I should add a bit about what I meant by “a touch of feminine with the masculine”: well, I meant that I wanted some soft and delicate elements to counter-balance/-act the masculine subject and the highly-erotic action being depicted...I am sensitive to sexism, but I do think that people generally associate home-decor and furnishings to originate from women, so this association 'worked' to get me inspired for the piece.

Other Inspiration/Note-Worthy: I also strongly believe that my love for the work of Art Nouveau artists, especially Alphonse Maria Mucha, influenced my the direction my gay works are taking at present. Mucha always has such ornate and lavish décor surrounding his 'pin-up' vixens (well, of that era), so I wanted my Male 'pin-ups' to have the same privileges! ;^P .

About the body-type of the figure: I wanted this piece to have a 'manly-man' –a man with some nice muscle-y--curves and toned 'meat on his bones'...basically the opposite of me, as I am a skinny, nerdy man blessed with the frame of a 'twink' for all time! I guess I could bulk up a tad?! ...but I will never be the Adonis-like characters many of these leather-daddy and bondage porn-stars evoke. Oh well, I guess I wouldn't be an illustrator if I had a bod like them! Heheh! I accept it! Anyway, one cannot survive on 'twink' bodies alone, so I was much more 'turned-on' by this figure versus a slim one ('this time-around'). I'm also happy that I decided to add the beard and body-hair to his legs (one of the most challenging parts of this painting) because I like men with a little more scruff/edge currently...that and tattoos... (I am strongly considering doing some pieces with tattooed hunks now) Deee-lish! The background also started to take on an 'exotic' feel, no-doubt because of the Islamic motifs, so I wanted the figure to look like he could be Middle-Eastern or some mixed exotic ethnicity ( I need variety from time-to-time...what can I say?! :) ).

A few last things: I wanted to mention my use of pencil in this piece (because I already wrote out a quick 'blurb' in my sketchbook about it!) Here goes: I'm not a fan of “goodbyes”. I like to leave my pencil lines and to not-always re-ink/paint the linear areas of my works because I like to leave a 'history' of my process...or rather (–more specifically), of the moment my hand created the lines. I strongly-feel that it adds “an energy” that I feel 'polished'/'professional'/'highly-finished'/'clean' art pieces lack...then again I am severely-biased, as my 'love-affair' with all that IS the simple, iconic, classic PENCIL started long ago! In short, when I do cover my pencil lines, I do so with much hesitation! PHEW!

Okay, this IS the LAST thing: I wanted to mention the term/vocab that is a form of the pencil drawing + shading before I started to add the Watercolors, and the term is “Grisaille”, here is the definition from Dictionary.com:
gri·saille
[gri-zahy, -zeyl; Fr. gree-zah-yuh] Show IPA
noun, plural gri·sailles  [-zahyz, -zeylz; Fr. -zah-yuh] Show IPA for 2.
1.
monochromatic painting in shades of gray.
2.
a work of art, as a painting or stained-glass window, executed in grisaille.

{For more in-depth information visit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grisaille ~A GREAT entry!}

I learned about this in my 1st year of Art School when my Analysis of Form class visited the Legion of Honor Museum in San Francisco...it has always 'stuck-with-me', and I wanted to impart this art knowledge to the masses! ^_^.

I like working on the shading and establishing the crucial areas, because it really helps me to achieve more accurate and subtle-details of the male physique in the painting-stage.

I am so happy that I could add more of the detail,whimsy, and 'fun' that I enjoy putting into my non-gay/homo-erotic illustrations, and I hope you enjoyed this installment!

I hope you enjoy my newest Painting, and that you will consider bidding on it!

Again ^_^ : All the Auction Details are here [opens in a New window] : "Feel Out The Forms" auction Benefitting the The Northwest Network of Bisexual, Trans, Lesbian and Gay Survivors of Abuse

Kindly visit me again soon!

Best Wishes, Jesse
 

Hello Friends & Collectors,

My newest watercolor painting "Feel Out The Forms" is finally complete and I've posted it to my Blog, here's a EASY Link to Open my Blog in a New window:

LeRobinetGayArt.blogspot.com (top Post)

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I also posted it to eBay ( http://www.ebay.com/itm/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=330718373537 ) for a 5 day auction and 25% of the Winning Bid will go to:

The Northwest Network of Bisexual, Trans, Lesbian and Gay Survivors of Abuse

(From the Northwest Network Website:  http://nwnetwork.org/who-we-are/  ):

The NW Network increases our communities’ ability to support the self-determination and safety of bisexual, transgendered, lesbian and gay survivors of abuse through education, organizing and advocacy. We work within a broad liberation movement dedicated to social and economic justice, equality and respect for all people and the creation of loving, inclusive and accountable communities.)
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Best Wishes, Jesse

Please be so kind as to visit me at THE Le Robinet Gay Art BLOG from time-to-time, I promise to try my best to bring you stimulating and Artful (Art-Full!) content: Here's the link to my NEWEST post: http://lerobinetgayart.blogspot.com/2012/04/painting-progress-pics-feel-out-forms.html

Sincere Thanks!

As a artist,Person,Human being,I see so many things in the world in my day. Even talking to someone hearing what they have to say,I learn so much everyday. Waking up seeing the beautiful skies and the sun. Seeing all of the beautiful people. Seeing the animals and birds. I enjoy listening to the stories that people tell me,A stranger or a customer at my job. Even traveling,Seeing the mountains. I'm mostly through all things so inspired by the beautiful lord above,He is the one that made all this possible for each of us,His creations and his love and rightousness,We all so bless. Our talents and gifts is because of him to. I love when I'm able to see something  in my day that inspires my next art piece,That desire to want to paint and draw or sketch this amazing art thats in my mind. I'm so thankful for our specialness,That gift,that blessing.

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