If Looks Could Kill - Graphic Art & Design

Latest Painting:

Medium: Acrylic on 6 x 6″ canvas

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Angelina Jolie is so lovely. Not just for obvious reasons, but because she lives with such intensity.

Drawn by hand and carved out of 9×12″ black scratchboard.
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In the reference photo, she’s speaking to a group of children - totally connecting with them and radiating such joy!

To me, this image is glorious, exalted. I want to redo this in a Baroque style, to do it more justice.

Straying from my signature style, it should be noted that the emphasis for this project was the typography, rather than image quality. Further, the image is not my own, nor was it used for profit, but for a school project.

This is intriguing, the angle to which a dog’s tail wags is indicative of their mood:

• Wagging to the Right = Happy Dog
• Wagging to the Left = Anxious

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Also gives me an excuse to post a Typography project based on my favorite Led Zeppelin song, Bron-Y-Aur Stomp, which is all about the good times had with the best dog ever. That song is also not typically my style, but it’s so upbeat & fitting, for what it describes!

Better organized and far easier to navigate, I present my overhauled Gallery - thou shalt go stare.

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Using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), neuroscientists are able to determine the following:

• Which of 2 images a subject is looking at
• Whether one is looking at a face, animal or scene
• What finger you’re about to move

Already, scans have been used to identify brain signatures of disgust, drug cravings, unconscious racism, and suppressed sexual arousal, not to mention psychopathy and propensity to kill.

Interestingly, John-Dylan Haynes, coins the phrase, “mental privacy,” which is exactly what concerns me about this.

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Visit the Gallery, click on Design, to peep the full sized version of the Illustration I did this weekend, shown top-right.