Sean Mcarthur
Australian
Artist
I figure this is all you'd want to know when you come to an artist's website. I mean all the formal info does nothing for me when I check out someone else's site. Ofcoarse if you want more info then just email me. I hope to meet lots of different people through this site so if you want drop me a line......
I sit looking into the image maker in my head...I think 'OK I feel like drawing so what image or scene will capture how I feel right now?' Then, like an idea you just have to write down, I see it...something which illustrates how I feel...Quite often this image is a human form. Its my feelings I am expressing so I often use a generic muscular male. Every part of the figure, once sketched in rough is earnestly refined to express the feelings that inspired the vision.
Years of struggling to improve my rendering of human anatomy enabled me to make more convincing and expressive characters...When I see the human form nude in the life drawing forum its like finding a vein of gold. I marvell at the subtle shades and lines caused by the bones and muscles that I have become so familiar with over time. It can be breathtaking, each pose creating a new combination of the anatomical elements. The torso and back are so supple the muscles being used tighten the skin and the body appears luminous by the effect of light reflecting off other parts into shadow areas.
I use my own photography and life drawing as a resource for my art. Its a 'purist' method for collecting imagery. Basically I hand craft the elements that I use to make my work from scratch.
Turmoil is something art deals with really well, I get things off my chest in my work and its such a bonus if someone says they really like the work. I have recently begun using myself as a model partly to have the images at hand and partly as an expression in itself. Its like.. 'There, that's all of me..look what happens to everything around us it all turns to shit, it all dies, it all gets pulverised and buried...and I'll end up the same one day'....Hmmm...so yeh enjoy the web page and keep a look out for heaps of changes and additions...
I cant remember if she didnt want to model or if I called her in at short notice but this drawing captured the fact Kristen was a bit pissed about it...she was cool by the end of the night.
Modeling for my own work was a natural step for my art to take...
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