jk, I only do it in my note book, I dont condone doing it anywhere else - but I do think it is a really cool form of expression - in the right place (paper).
I will say this, it is a style that is butchered and very unpleasant 90% of the time, I used to think it was totally lame, no artistic expression at all, but I have a cousin/artist in Chicago that is an EXTREAMLY good painter. Well he got into it and I was looking in his notebook, and his stuff was AMAZING like beautiful paintings he had done - but still it can be a hard style to like…
oh i like your style! i’m down with grafitti. :pirate: very nice.
as for the grunge image: it’s nice, though it’s a personal preference that a certain picture be taken and “grunged up,” rather than creating a picture entirely from brushes and random cut-outs. a lot of grunge tends to be cliche too. bar codes, for example, are way overdone now. in my opinion, at least. :-\
the image has wonderful composition though. keep up the great work!
sonmi, I totally agree with you about my grunge… and really that is all it is… a bunch of cutouts and some brushes all just thrown together :-\ I want to give it a real go eventually - like you said gunging up one image… but I suck at it right now… gotta get the feel for this weird look. Thanks for the good comments on the other stuff, coming from you its a real compliment!!!
Where I go to school there are a few old buildings off the beaten path that people go to to express themselves… actually there is a huge photo exhibit in the university library showing most of the really good pieces that are there… it is really cool, esp because it is like a piece of living art - ie always changing and developing as people put up stuff over old stuff.