Buy me some rum and I'll kill your dog.

I realise this is sideways.

It looks better like this.

No it doesn't.

Beginning the CNC routing.

The design is taken from a gothic window pane in Manchester and a window from Notre Dame.

After drawing out the gothic motifs I fractured the images and reconstructed them with solid lines.

Then they get the shit carved out of them.

AWWWWW YEEAAHHHH!

Using the reconstructed gothic motif works a "shit load" better than just the altar style as it is.

POW POW POW POW!

Fisheye triptych.

This is the beginning of a triptych which has to be ready for my exhibition on the 31st March.

One month for it to be painted, dried and routed.

Oh shit.

Faster, faster, faster.

Ghosts.

This is my dad. I'm going to paint his face.

So now that the oil painting is finished, I drew up a gothic style window/alter panel and ran it through a machine called a CNC Router over the painting. 

 

 Boom.

Untitled painting, oil and carving on pine.

The Fun Powder Plot.

And that, son,
is how it's done.

Theotokos

Now to create this Magen David is good in terms of symbolic meaning, but what I need really is to have two figures (one obviously preferably female) to represent Gabriel and Mary.

Gabriel poses less of a threat.

My brother's middle name is Gabriel, so as a young Jewish boy he will be perfect in terms of race and "youthful beauty". Also as an angel, to have an old man would be weird, so Saul is a definite choice as a literal representation of the angel (whilst also making it personal and contemporary).

Mary is more of a problem.

If we take the bibles description of her she is described as a young woman.

Many people argue that she was in her young teens (maybe 13-15) and so I am debating whether to have her at this age, or even younger.

I feel that I might have a problem making her too young, but at the same time, it may be a good way to put this point across of her being so young.

Racially Jesus would have been most likely Galilean Jewish, so darkish skinned and more middle eastern looking. 

But he was the son of God.

Dude could've been green or some shit.

Who knows.

Mary on the other hand was human 100%.

I think.

I highly doubt she would have been white, and to give a further contrast between her and Gabriel, 

I am going to portray her as a young black girl.

Triptych

I have been thinking about a theme for a triptych.

I have also decided that it is going to be a diptych.

The basic idea behind this is to create a quick "sketch" oil painting until I have decided upon figures for the final piece.

The image is the annunciation.

The angel Gabriel drops down from heaven and tells Mary that she's going to have a baby.
Cheers.

Obviously the figures in the image are not Gabriel and Mary.
It's just me.

But the idea is really in the images' symbolism.

Gabriel.
The male.
The upwards triangle.
Hands clasped upwards.

Relays the information to Mary.
The female.
The downwards triangle.
Hands open in a V shape.

Thus creating the star of David.

Selling liberty for a quiet life

I need to look more at HOW I paint.
Not so much WHAT.

I can still make my art Jewish this way, I am, after all, the master of subtlety.

I've been thinking about roots and how those ideas can then be contemporised - how to make them relevant and thus broaden them.

How I see things.
My point of view.
My Jewish point of view.

How long did that take you to come up with that idea?

That's not long enough.