Rock Dreams

Usually when I have studio visits, at least so far, I get a lot of "oh you should look at (insert Renn. or Dutch painter here)" or suggestions to look at completely unrelated abstract/conceptual artists that are only vaguely similar to things I'm doing. But yesterday was pretty awesome.

Thanks to Rich I found a copy of Guy Peellaert's Rock Dreams book to look through. I'd only seen a few of his paintings. Including this one of Marc Bolan, which is one of my favorite paintings in the world, and I'm gonna scan the book so I can have a pretty copy to look at until I can afford to buy the book. shhhh. Until then here's the version from his website



So gorgeous. That little picture doesn't do it justice, he really needs bigger pictures on the site. There are some other really good ones too, like Bowie and Lou Reed, Alice Cooper, etc. For the most part I'm not super fond of his subjects except those few, or the saturated color style, but I love that he did things very similar to what I'm interested in, and he made it work.

But of course then Carole had to kill my buzz today by saying, yet again, that he was pure illustration without any content, blah blah blah. Whatever, his paintings were bitchin', that's all that matters.

I'm gonna finish Phil, Donnie, Tom, and Billy as technique practice, and then I've got some really neat ideas (to me at least) for the next paintings. And if I'm lucky they'll be half as pretty as Guy's painting of Marc.

Here's his website with lots more crappy tiny pictures of his work: Click Click