Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds

"Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds"

Aquarelle & ink pen on paper, 29.7x42cm

14/06/2014

This is the first of a series I've been planning for a long time, actually I had the sketch sitting around for a few weeks before I did the outlines in ink, and after that I didn't work on it further for another few months. My vision of how this was going to turn out changed a little during that time, but overall I'm quite pleased with the outcome.

The idea was to capture those girls that are sung about in psychedelic music - Lucy, in this case, or Alice, Hazey Jane, Julia Dream - and make a connection with a specific substance. In this case it's LSD. The song by the Beatles already gives a lot of imagery as to what one might experience on it - I wouldn't know personally, but this is how I imagine it - the river flowing in her hair, tangerine trees, marmelade skies, cellophane flowers of yellow and green and the girl with kaleidoscope eyes. The back of the drawing actually has those lyrics written out, underneath the chemical formula for LSD. I hope I can continue this series with other drugs and songs as well.

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Also, here's a comparison between this one and the old version I drew a few years ago! I remember I was visiting my brother and went to college with him one day. In his Toxicology class the professor was introducing LSD, where it comes from and what it does and I thought that was so insanely cool (but that's probably just the professor, I'm sure should I elect any chemistry or pharmacy classes myself I'll just get the boring stuff). Anyway, I doodled this and then finished it when I got back home. I think I've come pretty far since then, no?

Self portrait with mushroom

I've been thinking about posting my art on here as well, as I think this might be a good platform to give some more insight about the motivation behind some pieces, so I'm going to start that now with my newest piece.

"Self portrait with mushroom"

Aquarelle & ink pen on paper, 21x29,7cm

08/07/2014

There's not a lot to say about this, in a way that most of it is to be kept inside my mind. I'm not good at expressing things through abstract means, I could never draw a pattern and call that a symbol of the anxiety in me. It just doesn't seem right. So I draw things as they are, more or less, I've never actually held that mushroom in my hands, haha. It's a symbol after all, but also very tangible, after something a friend told me. It's there and attainable, but not quite yet. It's quite the anticipation.