James Roperさんのイラストまとめ

I would always lightly sketch the body in first before painting the abstract coloured element, with water colours and pencil crayon. Then I'd finish the drawing off. Had I done it the other way round it would have been too much pressure not to f-up the coloured bit 😰

...my love of Bernini's sculpture 'The Ecstasy of St Teresa' and it's comparisons between spiritual and sexual release 😍 The image of an abstract spiritual body being revealed beneath an outer physical skin partly came from Buddhist imagery I'd seen such as...

My 'Rapture' series 💥 One of my most loved (and disliked) series of work. I've seen this work imitated quite a lot since, which I feel shows that I tapped into something universal (FYI, I started it in 2004 😋). The original idea came from...

These three paintings contain collaged imagery from still shots taken from the Japanese animation #Akira. The film had a huge influence on my early work. I loved how single frames from explosions were like sublminial abstract paintings

'Standpoint Conversion' (acrylic on canvas, 2007) My titles often allude to both spiritual and scientific principles. The #Baroque which influences me is likewise a fusion of opposites, from the ethereal nature of the spiritual to the luxurious pleasures of the material realm

'Inhibitor' (acrylic on canvas,110cm x 110cm, 2007)
In 2003 I heard this lecture by neuroscientist V.S. Ramachandran: https://t.co/3tlNvNyNXA His theory of 'peak shift' became a key reference point with regards to my interest in the exagerated forms within anime and Baroque art

With this series of smaller acrylic on canvas paintings (40cm x 40cm) I emphasised the semi-abstract nature of my work. By taking the 3-4 colour tone forms of #Japaneseanimation and reducing down their readability they almost became entirely #abstract colour formations.

My block colour style worked great as vector art so I started to render some compositions in my Hypermass series purely as digital images like this piece. In a way this allowed me to free up my painting style which you'll see later on.

At the time I painted the @thisisseventy7 mural I was living with @RobJamesBailey who went on to become an amazing illustrator.

He kindly allowed me to use his computer to try out images of my work in Adobe Illustrator.

@ArtMatthewStone It's a composition technique I picked up from the Baroque. Always take your viewers eyes on a ride 🎢