My finished painting: Singularity Dream
My Singularity droid is finished and I'm happy with the addition of dog and butterflies.
Here is the entire piece:
Some might remember my original sketch, dreamt up during one of our power outages this Winter.
And the watercolour study
I often make a few sketches followed by adding colour (usually digital watercolour) before I decide on a final piece.
After living with this one for a few days I realized I wanted to tell more of a story.
As I am playing with the idea of the Singularity, that time when man and machine become indistinguishable, I wanted to play with some imagery that represented the human nature of our past. The addition of the butterflies was used as a symbolism for the human soul. What had been originally a tree branch from my actual view here became the smoky dream of the figure.
Again, I began painting out some of it to get a feel of it with the butterflies
During the period that I was thinking and dreaming on this painting I began doing other sketches of similiar characters and I found myself giving them neo-Victorian garb, as if the creatures were longing or curious about their human past.
making this piece really gave me the storyline for this series of paintings: The neo Victorian garb of a future timeline where creatures dwelt in contemplation and search of a human past.
This had me realize I really wanted this piece, "Singularity Dream" to include more detailed Victorian skirt rather then the simple drapery I had given her. And as I am playing with the idea of this future wondeing about a human past, I thought the addition of a dog (human companion since time immemorial) made sense. I wanted his interaction to almost be his attempt to lead the creatures to find their humanity; thus the tug of his mouth on her skirt revealing more of the 'human soul' butterflies.
This was the sketch for that idea:
For me, painting and art is a sort of play or story telling. I have these characters or scenarios in my head and it's a joy to put them down for others to see.
I often use my original work as graphic design and love to see it put onto things. I have been rather lax with this of late, since starting my Singularity series, but decided to play with this one after finishing it yesterday. I hope, too, that my new website will be more focused on this idea of across the board artwork as things. I hopefully will be sharing more of my attempts at rebuilding my website from the ground up and sharing the process. But, for now I'm enjoying just using Society6 to test them out.
Here we see our girl as Tshirt, Phone case, bag and I sort of like the disjuncted way I could place her on a back pack. It has a funny sort of dissembled robot feel to it, that makes you look at it and wonder, "what is that?"
I am really happy with how the piece turned out and am currently working on my next finished piece in this series, made from another sketch I shared with you before.
If you are interested in this piece on things (or as prints) you can get them for now at my shop here, but as I said I hope to offer more variety and directly from me as I get my website back up and running. Steemit has really inspired me to try something new with the artists portfolio website.
If you like my work please upvote, resteem and by all means comment, I love comments!
Check out my other posts:
- A bear from my Animals in Chairs Series
- My dada drawing Bulldog Clown
- My Painting Study "Singularity Danae"
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I've just recently caught up on the reading about your singularity ladies, and I love the idea. And even more so, the image they create, of the Victorian age, and the thought that they are just whimsical beings, marveling or questioning their whole 'story'. Not at all perplexed, negative, down about it, or anything so...typical. Just wandering and wondering within the world they now inhabit. And the fact we don't know what that is, makes it even more interesting. Just happy little beings, though I realize they ARE full sized. Such fun to ponder. (Though I'm glad I won't be here, if it comes to fruition. I like us as we are, foible-full beings of flesh and blood).
love the composition and colors , and the work is awesome !
butterflies can be a sign of thoughts never get into words..and forgotten memories .................., enjoyed your beautiful work
Thank you so much, yes the symbolism of the butterfly is varied and often represents the soul or the mind or the psyche especially the Monarch, so I felt they were a good representation of this pictoral story :)
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Absolutely marvelous!
Thank you!
She is so beautiful @donnadavisart, also like how you managed atmosphere on whole piece. For now, my favorite :)
Oh good. I'm trying to decide on my Pandora Singularity piece if I want her standing in a wood or a room of an house that is in decay. I might share a couple sketches and ask Steemit, which they think is the best way to move forward. I like that it can be like a salon sometimes and we can discuss our work and garner opinions for the next move. :)
her 'hair' is my favorite. wonderful!
I observed the Singularity Dream born and the final version!
I love it on a cover phone :) and you should stamp it in high quality! So much light coming out of it
I love how much thought is put into these pieces, how you're delving in so deep and telling a story.
It turned out so beautifully! The addition of the dog is a great touch. (Because what's a Donna Davis painting without an animal?!)
Oh, and the "disassembled robot" backpack is kind of amazing.
I know, the addition of animals or the only subject as animal is often my choice :) In life as well as art ;)
I thought the backpack was kind of surreal and cool as well, if I do say so myself. The leggings are also quite stunning , I should post those as well!
Love the art and singularity. Interesting to see the woman on a mission down a path with a dog trying to stop her perhaps. Cute. Funny. Beautiful. Thanks for sharing, hehe. I'm Oatmeal Joey Arnold. You can call me Joey.
Well hiya Joey, can I can you Oatmeal? But never late for dinner as they say ;)
Yeah, you can call me Oatmeal. Haha yes never late for dinner. Good to see you Donna.
Anything with a border collie gets my vote! Another great process described!
The herder and protecter, now is he helping the human to come out or attacking the robot within? Who can say, well the viewer can say, I like that art is an 'open ended' story, like a 'choose your own adventure' :)
WOW!!!!!! You are so talented! This was the image I saw earlier that caught my eye! I absolutely love it! I love the backstory to it too, it fits perfectly with what I was imagining from the earlier post. Fantastic work! :)
Thank you so much. I really like this series (it is going to be a series of paintings now, I just love to focus on a series) and it really came about because of Steemit and my interaction here and other artists on the platform. I really love sharing the storyline too, it's like making a story with pictures :)
Absolutely! It adds another depth to the image :D