MAGPIE-PIXIE

You know the saying ....

And now for something completely different ?

Well here it is - for myself , creatively .

I watched Little Ashes - a week ago .

And OK - i have to admit , it was because Robert

Pattinson starred in it ;o) If he was not in it ,

i do not think i would have seen it .

However , i was completely enthralled by this movie -

An account of the young lives of Salvador Dali , the

poet - Frederico Garcia Locas - who fell in love with

Dali and the film maker , Luis Brunel .

The flambouyant exhibitionism and the huge ego

of Dali as an artist - believing in himself and

taking art into many facets of creating , has inspired me

to look at things differently and try out new ventures

Dali encuentra Picasso - numera 9

( Dali meets Picasso - number 9 )

Size 9 x 12 "

Watercolour / pen drawing .

I did Dali meets Picasso , because they did meet in Paris

and reportedly did not get on . Most likely a clash of ego`s -

so they are facing each other and shouting .

Picasso - on the left

Dali - on the right .

I then included some objects that each artist

had used in their work .

Picasso - the wings from a dove sketch

tomato plant and leaves , silhouette underneath

the lips . The blue and the rose colour - from his

named painting periods .

Dali - the lips - from The Mae West Lips sofa ,

an egg , and melting hair from

The Persistance Of Memory - with the

famous melting clocks .

Both of them did skulls - and Dali did

a sketch with 7 naked women - which was turned

into a photograph - which i love !

Their faces are made up of numbers -

i hope you can make out all of them ;o)

Picasso is a mirror reflection of numbers

and more angular - from his cubism work .

Dali - an out of proportion

body with long thin legs

I had the thought then of looking up

what the number 9 could mean , not

really thinking of why i did just

go up to that in my drawing . I just could not

find a way to go higher in my drawing

of the faces ;o)

This what i found ..

Nine represents attainment, satisfaction, accomplishment, and our success to achieve an influence in our circumstances. The spiritual meaning of number Nine deals with intellectual power, inventiveness, influence over situations and things. Nine beseeches us to recognize our own internal attributes, and extend these abilities out into the world to make a positive, influential difference , also the perfection of ideas and plentitude of talents .

So after finding this ..

I thought this was very fitting for the artists

i drew .. and you now see my finished piece ,

it has stretched me in a way i have not embraced

before . The time spent thinking what to do

on a blank piece of paper was the hardest to begin -

then humming and hah - ing - is it right , what

else should i place in there .. What do i want to convey ,

made it all worth while in the end -

I really enjoyed creating this piece and it

has given me more food for thought on a

another way of expressing my creative side !!!

While it may not be to eveybody`s taste -

and not my usual artistic way that i create -

something out of your comfort zone - creative wise -

is always a great thing !!