New Art for The New Year

Cubism Art is a style of art that I have been fascinated with, but have had a great deal of difficulty in figuring it out. I first became interested in Cubism Art when I saw a collection created by Pablo Picasso several years go. The thing that drew my attention was the bright colors and odd lines. At first it was confusing to me because it seemed like there were lines in places where lines didn’t belong, but somehow it worked.

As I started finding other artist that created art in this Cubism style, I found most of them bored me and I was not attracted to it at all. However, I always kept going back to Picasso’s work trying to figure it out.

The past couple of years I have tried to create my art using the Cubism style, but I (for some reason unknown to me) could never make it work. Instead it would just be aggravating and frustrate me. I could never feel comfortable while trying to work it out.

Then last month I was trying to work on some new art, when all of the sudden, and much to my surprise, there it was. What I had just created was the Cubism style of art. All of the sudden, in that moment, I finally understood Cubism Art. I understood the purpose of the lines and what made each individual piece of the art all flow together as one. Finally, I got it! However, it still felt boring to me.

Now that I understood how it worked, my next challenge was to figure out how to bring this style of art to life. I had to figure out how I could mix this Cubism style with my Whimsical style. I am happy to announce that for this New Year I have New Art of which I call “Whimsical Cubism”.

To start with I have three pieces of Whimsical Cubism art; “Heart”, “Flower” and “Butterfly”. All three pieces turned out to be really fun, happy pieces, and for those that like bright colors (like I do) you are going to love it. I think that this is going to be one of those things where you are going to either “love it” or you are going “hate it”, I can’t see anybody having the attitude of ‘take it or leave it’.

So, which is it for you?

Whimsical Cubism Heart iPad Case by debipayne
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Whimsical Cubism Flower Necklace with Background by debipayne
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Trick-or-Treat

I am not a huge fan of Halloween. I don’t like the creepy, bloody and gory things that you see during Halloween. I am especially not a fan of all the horror movies! However, on the flip side I do like all the cute things about Halloween. How cute are all those little children dressed up in their little costumes. Scurrying about from one place to the next looking for that next piece of treasured piece of can while stumbling on the costume or trying to carry their bag of goodies along with any other accessories to their costume. I do like how for one day you can dress up and pretend that you are anybody (or anything) that you want to be.

When thinking about what product designs I would use for Halloween I had a difficult time coming up with something. I do like Jack-o-Lanterns and I am often amazed at how some people can carve them so elaborately.

I wanted to make a Trick or Treat bag and I thought that I would use some cute Jack-o-Lanterns. As I began sketching out the pumpkins I got to thinking about the words Trick-or-Treat and decided to name my pumpkins Trick and Treat. Since none of us like to be tricked, I gave Trick a sad face, and of course Treat got a happy face.

After I was finished with the pumpkins and I was looking at them and it was funny because Trick and Treat reminded me of Laurel and Hardy. So I guess you could say that I have Laurel and Hardy Trick or Treat Jack-o-Lanterns.

Trick-or-Treat Canvas Bag by debipayne
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