What is Eco? Part 1
Added 2020-10-07 19:46:37 +0000 UTCLast year I wrapped up work on the Ars Goetia artbook - It was a long labour of love that took me from the final year of my illustration degree to eventually shipping some time after my first studio job. While I loved every minute of the process and I don't doubt i'll revisit the Goetia again someday I was left thoroughly exhausted, and certainly not in any condition to begin considering my next artbook, as much as I knew I wanted to do one someday.
I didn't expect to begin the long process of developing something like Eco as soon as December of the same year I shipped my first run of Goetia books but as it happens I found myself having completed the painting I eventually titled "Not A God". It was a return to my pastel period from my earlier years on tumblr (Around May 2015 if you ever want to go digging in the archive) and a chance to reacquaint myself both with a wider palette and to revisit doing more abstract or symbolic illustration work after a year of tighter figure design and the more muted hues of the Goetia. At the time I didn't think of it as the first in a series, much less a whole artbook, but in the months since i've come back again and again to what I started to call "Eco" paintings.
I want to use the platform here with my patrons to start talking about my plans for the paintings and what "Eco" paintings mean to me, and how a book composed for them might look. This is just an opening introduction - the meat of what I want to talk about is going to take a little longer - I wanna talk about the influences on "Eco", why the name, why the palette, the time a couple of the paintings got exhibited in New York right before lockdown arrived, the works. Thanks for coming along!
