Inspirations and World War 1

Over the past few weeks I have been looking at old ww1 photos. I find using these photos a very enjoyable experince in my work as I can sit there and ask myself about the people in the photos. questions such as, how they would feel that i was using there image in my art work, how i can use the photo responseably in my work as ww1 was the bloodiest war the world has ever seen.

yesterday doing my normal rounds of the local junk shops and found these photos of a solider from 1917, its not very often that you find photos from this era in such good condition since they are 108 years old( or round abouts that anyway). Here are two examples of the photos, i guess that many people wount be interested in them, but i find them very intersting to look at and wonder about the past.

Update on recent happenings

I havn't blogged for a while so here goes.....last month I was involed in a brilliant painting event called subway deluxe, this was held in Kidderminster. It was the first live painting event of 2011. I want to to thank dom "deed" dunlea and loz samuels for putting on this event for the second time as its always a pleasure to help give the subways a new lease of life. This is the result of a long day painting.

The Amercian art palette

From the day I started viewing art and artist's, i have always admired American artists such as Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol, and Robert Rauschenberg. The main draw to me has always been the colour palette that they use in the paintings. The use of shocking reds, blues and faded colours resonates with the way my dyslexic brain peices together the visual image almost sewing together perfect flat colour with worn out paint effects.

This new piece of work made of an old bed frame reflects the colour palette that they used in their work. I have made the work into a palette itself to be a direct representation of there working practices in the studio. I decided to use the big classical frame to contrast the modern look of the piece to give the simple wood palette more gravitas and to contrast the rough look of the work.

Nathanael.Draws

NEW WORK, NEW YEAR

These are a selection of new canvases that I have created over the past 3 months. I approach the work in a methodical way as I see the world in the physical sense, its a beautiful, layered and sometimes confusing place to be. welcome to the mind of Nathanael.Draws.

BEEN A LONG TIME. BUT A LONG SUMMER OF PAINTING..

In this summer of 2010 i having been kicking of my live painting adventures all over the uk. going down to teignmounth to paint the water sports centre was the first of many. you might think that going down to a lovely little fishing town in summer would be lush weather, how wrong was everyone. the event was organized by mos shaw and kate roberts from the Voetstoots Gallery. a great day was had by all, and hopefully gave the locals something interesting to look at.

next came upfest at the tobacco factory. as the event was a mash up james kelly worked on the background and i worked on the os map paste up. this was an exciting new move for my work as i had never worked whith paste ups of with some before.


then came painting the underpass tunnels in kidderminster . this was to improve the area by brightening up the tunnels with a few licks of paint. i chose to use a de-humanized baby by making it look like a crash test dummy.

its been a busy old summer with more live painting to come as i am finding it very quickly becoming my new addiction (adding to a big list already). i hope that one day on your travels you will bump into one of my paintings and maybe cheer your day up a little.

NATHANAEL DRAWS

hey everyone. Hope that you're all having a nice hot summer. This summer has been extremely busy for me so far with paint at teignmoth, upfest and with my solo show that is coming up on the 31st july @ the 2 degrees gallery in Bristol. the preview night will be starting at 6pm going on too 10pm (or later if there's more fun to be had)!!! after that the show will be open daily from 11am to 7pm mon-fri and 11am-5pm on Sunday. all the work is ranging in size and price so everyone can buy some art to hang on which ever they chose. hope to see as many of you people down there. Nathanael Draws. piece.

INSPIRATION

Over the past couple of days I have been trying to find where I left it because it just went into the ethos. Its always a pain in the rear end when this happens because you have to start the creative process all over again and work out the reason why it went in the first place.

To cut a long story short it ended up coming back when watching the goldsmiths program on bbc 4. it must have come back to me because it was about students preparing for there final show with the tutors confronting them with the truth about there work ergo making me think about my work in a different light, almost becoming the 3rd invisible person in the room.

So a big thank you to all the people out there that make you think differently forcing you're mind to view the one bit of art thats praying on you're mind.