[ndhill]

Hey all.

My name is Noel. I'm a fellow Maine artist. I specialize in digital painting. Here are a few recent pieces from me.

The first is a follow up to a recreational piece I did last summer of [URL="http://www.blackwash-studio.com/img/beowulf.jpg"]Beowulf and Grendel[/URL] which I ended up using in my BFA show. I decided to go on with the next dramatic scene; Beowulf fight Grendel's mother. My idea behind Grendel and his mother is that they represented the last in a lineage of an old, isolated shamanistic clan that still worshipped the Northern European pagan deities. Their continued survival and propagation (and monstrous appearance) has since depended on a combination of inbreeding and black magic. It makes for good motivation for me as the interpreter of these characters but I don't think I could instill all that in one painting. So I've dropped hints such as the burning alter which depicts the Venus of Willendorf and Grendel's body lying on a mound of the skeletal remains of his stillborn siblings.



Another product from what has been an otherwise slow summer for me. This piece is an extension on my BFA thesis series on mythology and spirituality which can be viewed [URL="http://conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=94513"]here[/URL]. This is more of a blatant breakdown of what I consider to be one uninversal aspect of faith. The fear of death. Let me know what you think.



Peace.
-Noel

[Awetopsy]

Interesting. Very interesting.

My name is also Noel... so Hi...

The paintings themselves are definitely competent and I hope you get good marks for them.

Im intrigued by your mythology and spirituality piece and the theology behind it. There are in fact several religions which embrace the idea of death and in fact look forward to it. Many factions within the Muslim faith believe that when dying in Jihad they will go to heaven and be rewarded and they look forward to it. Many ancient cultures used death and sacrifice to initiate contact with their gods and even Christianity today looks at the passing from this life to the next as something to look forward to.

Are these things taken into account?

I certainly dont mean to start any religious debate here. Many members of this board know me to be a practicing christian, Im merely curoious of your views on this.

I think the images you've painted have done their job in evoking a spiritually driven emotional response from me. So in that, Well Done.