SA-tirist: May 2010

Tuesday, 25 May 2010

Women and Body Image

Good article, well layered.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/fashion/stellamagazine/7725736/Women-and-body-image-a-mans-perspective.html

Monday, 24 May 2010

Okapi Shoot

A small pre-view from the Okapi shoot - still a very rough draft, but just to give an idea...

Thursday, 20 May 2010

Wednesday, 19 May 2010

The concept behind the Okapi shoot which is to happen this weekend, is to re-create Waterhouse paintings in an African setting. I have always been a fan of the pre-Raphelite artist. There are many parallel's that can be drawn between the mythology and mysticism in his work and the ideology behind Okapi as a brand. You will taken back into the pre-colonial Africa of Rider Hagard's 'She,' ruled by God's and Goddess's with ritual, sacrifice and skins.

Hylas and the Nymphs -

In this epic painting Gaye (see below) will replace all of the Nymphs trying to seduce Hylas (and his Okapi bag)

The Lady of Shallot -

Waterhouse painted this to illustrate Tennyson's tragic poem.

Here is a rather whimsical extract from the beginning;

"Only reapers, reaping early,
In among the bearded barley
Hear a song that echoes cheerly
From the river winding clearly;
Down to tower'd Camelot;
And by the moon the reaper weary,
Piling sheaves in uplands airy,
Listening, whispers, " 'Tis the fairy
Lady of Shalott."

Lamia -

(also know as Lilith I think?) was (in Greek mythology) the beautiful Libian Queen who ate children, she was also known to have a serpents tail - this idea was popularised by the Keats poem that Waterhouse was probably illustrating here.

I had to change my model for the Okapi shoot and have decided to go with equally breathtaking Gaye McDonald who will fill the positions of the paintings above;