ART BY ADRIAN RUYLE

Author: adrianruyle

  • Enhancing the “Rolling Surf” Art Car – 3

    My pencil visualization of mermaids disporting in the ocean with a sea creature, suggesting their undulations in the flowing waves…

    MGmermaidsketchThe car’s seascapes now range in color from deep blue, like ultramarine, to a lighter blue with a green tint faded in.  It gives, I think, a  dramatic focus in these areas.  I foresee the mermaid tails, painted with a range of blue-greens, playing off the background waves’ color to a similar dramatic effect.

    Mermaids are said to have no souls in their natural state.  And they are, one would assume, cold-blooded from the waist down.  I would paint them as such.  Show them as graceful and intelligent creatures — perhaps playing and swimming like dolphins  — but quite removed from humanity.

    Their otherness might even have sinister overtones…..

    Siren-mermaid-withskulls

  • Enhancing the “Rolling Surf” Art Car – 2

    In addition to seascape painting, the “Rolling Surf” art car already includes a pair of mermaids I sculpted  to hold rear view mirrors.

    mermaids
    mermaid sculptures in progress
    Mermaid completed
    Mermaid completed
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    Mermaid closeup

     

    Adding more mermaids – in the waves, or riding sea creatures – offer great possibilities, both decorative and thematic.  Here are three brilliant examples by other artists, which show how mermaids could  arise out of sea foam,  or swim dramatically through the surging waves …. Mermaid-and-pirate-shipThe_Mermaid_Song_by_GENZOMAN mermaid-illustrations-8

  • Enhancing the “Rolling Surf” Art Car

    Enhancing the “Rolling Surf” Art Car

    The “Rolling Surf” art car. as it stands, really expresses a mood, without much detail.

    I started it on the heels of completing  the “VolksWagner” art car,  which I had studded with the god of  fire, Valkyries, a dragon, and Rhinemaidens  — all set on a warm, vibrant wood-grain background.

    I wanted here to explore a contrasting piece with less fire, less yang.  Something in cool grey. Something that flowed, as in

                                                  break, break, break

                                         on thy cold grey stones, O Sea

    The present “Rolling Surf” art car is the result.  It is a  fine matrix for further development…but what development ??

  • Dragon art bike found !

    My beloved Dragon Peugeot, reported stolen in my last post, has been found !  Someone saw it abandoned beside a house, saw our posters, and bingo !  Many thanks to all who helped look for it.

    PeugeotDragonHead

  • STOLEN ART BIKE

    Stolen from front yard behind gate last weekend.  My treasured creation gone!  If seen, please call police 707 778 4372 Case # 15-0173,  or call me direct 707 479 7211PeugeotDragonHead PeugeotDragon