Eve in the Garden of Eden

Painting + Photo Manipulation of Eve in the Garden of Eden ready to take a bite out of Original Sin.  Always liked that fruit / apple metaphor.  The piece is pretty lateral with only has two layers of depth, but the snake has some dimension [was my favorite part to work on].  Take look at its slithery tongue just barely touching Eve's fingertip as it eggs her temptation on with its hisses.  I tried to shy away from being cliche...not sure how that worked out.  I also didn't want Eve to be associated with any specific race, so kept her ambiguous.

I've always wanted to do an Eden piece with two parts for male and female, but wasn't inspired enough until I heard the lyrics of Wine Red by The Hush Sound:

Who shot that arrow in your throat?
Who missed the crimson apple?
And there's discord in the Garden tonight...

The rest of the lyrics can be found HERE.  "Don't bite the apple, Eve!"  

For fun--these are the images I used:

The Birth of Man

Ash, dust, bone, breath--and even human rib [yes, that's a supposedly real human rib, not one cleaned off a cow's].  All these items are described in the passage below.  Since Adam was created first, he gets the older look, versus Eve's luscious environment.  Kind of reminds me of a museum piece featured on a banner.  Also wanted something a little harder than a delicate religious painting like The Creation of Adam by Italian Renaissance Man, Michelangelo.

From trusty ol' Wiki:  "In an older Jahwist or Jahwist-Elohist sources (tenth-ninth centuries BC) in Genesis 2:4b, also known as the "subordinating (of woman) account," Yahweh fashions a man (Heb. adam, "man" or "mankind") from dust (Heb. adamah) and blows the breath of life into his nostrils."

Really?  Then why is it called "The Fall of MAN?"  Adam was created first, so he should have known better than to have listened to Eve over God~  Ah, the first family already messed it up for humanity...

PS--I admit these two Adam and Eve pieces are based on modern models.  Just think of it as contemporary interpretations of the beginning of time.  Mind-blowing!  Serpents were around in mythology before dinosaurs!

These are the photos I used for reference:

AVIATION: DARE TO FLY

As promised~  Vintage Amelia Earhart, born end of July.  The red scarf is homage to Snoopy when he faces off with the Red Baron~  :]

AVIATION: Fleet of Fighters

Fear of Falling?  For Old Folks?  No, FOF can stand for a lot of things, but my Dad is the one who inspired this logo.  It's Father's Day this weekend, so this is my tribute to him.  As a Flight Fanatic, he has taken me to the Museum of Flight [I'm talking about the Seattle one with the Boeing planes that abbreviates their wheelchairs with FOF, not to be confused with the Dallas Frontiers of Flight museum, nor the Florida Fantasy of Flight museum].  In addition to the handful of museums I've been to, I've also stepped in quite a few airports [domestic and international] and local hangers [some of which had art galleries like the Art Los Angeles Contemporary].  It's not exactly like Top Gun, but the aerial world is a totally different experience~

I will be doing a vintage female version of Aviation in remembrance of beloved Amelia Earhart.  For now, check out the Blue Angels Fleet Week schedule across the United States--July 4th is coming soon!

STEAMPUNK: Steamy Cognition

Ahhh, my inner geek had to be released after the previous post!  I love the Adventure genre, so there's a flowing logic from the Indiana Jones post to this one~

Who doesn't love this definition?

ad·ven·ture

[ad-ven-cher]

noun

1.  an exciting or very unusual experience.

2.  participation in exciting undertakings or enterprises: the spirit ofadventure.

3.  a bold, usually risky undertaking; hazardous action of uncertainoutcome.

4.  a commercial or financial speculation of any kind; venture.

5.  Obsolete.

            a.  peril; danger; risk.

            b.  chance; fortune; luck.

For this theme, I liked the face of the clock so much, I kept the hat as a small detail.  :]

Also, I've noticed that uploading images to Blogger turns out a lot lighter, no matter how much I try to darken the images in Photoshop...  Hmm...

NAUTICAL: LEAGUE EXPLORATION

There were so many maritime items, sea-themes, and terminology while I was researching references.  This was a hard one to narrow down!  Started with a classic sailor hat, and then went vintage a la Jules Verne.  I'm glad I went old-school~

ADVENTURE: Expedition to the Unknown

Felt like doing a themed logo-type symbol--there may be a small series of these to come.  Good ol' PSD practice.