Introducing Estelle Asmodelle - Artist of the Day

If you're looking for your daily dose of art inspiration, you don't have to look further. Here we have Estelle Asmodelle today, an amazing abstract artist also known as an Australian model, belly dancer, musician, activist, inventor, and academic. If anyone has ever told you being beautiful, smart and talented at the same time is impossible, well, let me prove they're wrong.

Hostile World by Estelle Asmodelle

Asmodelle's art gallery is a real collection of masterpieces, painted with the finest quality professional Liquitex acrylic paints, using the style of abstract expressionism. It's not hard to fall in love with her style, the powerful colours she uses, the wild and passionate compositions which enchanted me at first sight.

Estelle Asmodelle, born in Australia in 1964, started painting as a child, had her first exhibition at the age of 10 at the Berrima District Art Show. After school she started painting abstract pieces which were displayed at public arts events and finally she had her first solo exhibition ‘The 26 Cent Exhibition' at Wollongong City Gallery and, because it happened to be successful, her works were also shown at the Sydney University Art Department. 

The Journey by Estelle Asmodelle

Without any exaggeration we can say she was already successful as an artist, gaining more and more attention with her talent, during this period Asmodelle studied towards a physics and maths degree at Wollongong University.

With many years of work and notable exhibitions behind her - such as solo exhibitions in Sydney (Global Gallery, Gigi Gallery and several others) Australia, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum Japan, and over 100 group shows including Los Angeles - her digital designs are also worth to mention as gold and silver medal awarded works within the web designer awards networks.
Estelle has published her first art book in 2010 entitled as 'Transience', containing a collection of her canvas works created over a period of 20 years, also this year she's planning a second book with the title 'Aesthetic in Abstraction', focusing on her digital works.

Angels waiting in the Wings by Estelle Asmodelle

To see more of her works, you can check her Facebook gallery and also her works are available to purchase at her store which contains more than 100 original paintings by her!

Tripping Without Drugs Is Now Available For Everyone via Music

"And I don't know where to go For all my life I've been so close"

Glue Trip is not a usual name for a band. It's rather something you secretly do in the school restroom during a long break. Lucas Moura and Felipe Augusto added a totally new meaning to this phrase, creating psychedelic dream pop accompanied by beautiful lyrics.

Lucas Moura and Felipe Augusto in their masks

The name came from a friend of Lucas, who recorded a few songs but never showed them to anyone. Once he showed a couple of songs to a friend and after listening he told him that the music reminded him of some kind of “viagem de cola” (literally glue trip in Portuguese) so he started to use this translation.

Watching their video clips feels like you're high as hell; I can't even imagine what it feels like when you're literally high.

 "I came across this band when I smoked pot and couldn't get myself get over their music especially Lucid Dream and Elbow Pain."- says a fan of the duo. I'm not into drugs but lucid dreaming is absolutely my thing so I confirm and totally agree with him, especially when it comes to talk about the video of Elbow Pain which I highly recommend you to watch!

The animation of Elbow Pain is also called as Chimera - according to Greek mythology, a monstrous fire-breathing hybrid creature, composed of the parts of more than one animal. It is usually depicted as a lion, with the head of a goat arising from its back, and a tail that might end with a snake's head.

"I can say that is a now collective, cognitive. An interdimensional travel experience within all that we are.
How to see and live a life? How have the answer that none of the gods can have? We often do not know what it can really be." - explains designer and illustrator Daniel Vincent editor and director of the music video of Elbow Pain, which was originally recorded on a pair of broken monitors.

Here's what people think about it:

"...how high you need to be to make a video like this?"

"I'm drunk as fuck and this is art. Even if I was sober, I'd consider this art. Keep doing you."

"I think the meaning of the visuals is waking up. Waking up and realizing how corrupt the world is. How wrong it is the way we live. As you can see, he wakes up with the third eye freaking out trying to make sure hes not crazy because he sees it all and no one else sees it. Truly amazing."

Watch the music video of Elbow Pain here:

*sources:

youtube.com/gluetrip

http://amusicblogyea.com/

wikipedia.org

#ARTOFTHEDAY 05.20.17

Beautiful photoshoot by @achrafbaznani (Achraf Baznani) Moroccan Artist Photographer as today's #artoftheday!

#ARTOFTHEDAY 05.18.17

This 16 years old girl, Ellie ROCKS! Here's today's #artoftheday by @bleakdrawing! Hope we can see more of her works soon!

5 Ways to Get Inspired - Tips for Artists

Many times I feel I have so much things to say and then when I sit down to share my thoughts I see the white sheet in front of me and I can't fill it. Same thing happens when I try to draw. If you ever had a similar experience I have some useful tips for you!

#1 Use Pinterest!

If you haven't used it yet it's time to create an account and jump in!

I can spend hours browsing amazing illustrations, ideas, or even tutorials. 
My method is to create a (secret) board for every project I feel I need to be more inspired about. 

I browse Pinterest in an actual topic and I don't only save pictures but videos, short films, music and even expressions, quotes, poems. 

I know it sounds simple but it really helps me while brainstorming and gives me new ideas every time.

#2 Watch Short Films!

I don't know how much time you've got so I won't tell you to watch a full movie at the topic you're looking for inspiration, but watching a short film takes only a few minutes and can be very inspiring!

I remember the day I've watched The Black Hole. 
I guess that's when I began to draw with ink. 

Short films are very impulsive because they don't have much time to impress; this is why they work very well and can indicate radical thoughts, feelings and expressions.

#3 Dream!

There are hundreds of exercises on the Internet teaching you how to induce dreaming and how to control your dreams. 

Lucid dreaming is a good option to look into your mind and meet your thoughts in an unusual way. 

When I used to learn how to control my dreams I remember a few times I could tell I'm dreaming but I just sat in my dream and let the thing and words and pictures flow out and come to life in front of me. 

I imagined a huge white wall as my "paper sheet" and the pictures drew themselves to the wall. 

When I woke up I had concrete pictures and forms and ideas in my head. If you're an open-minded experimental type give it a try!

#4 Move!

Moving rests your mind and helps reduce stress. 

It will freshen your body and also your thoughts. 

Many of my friend use to go for a long run when they face a problem which they can't find a solution for. 

They go for a run and just let go of their thoughts and things are just flashing in while they are moving. 

I have personal experiences as well, so if you run out of good ideas and creativity, boost them with a good run!

#5 Go Social!

I often make that mistake that I isolate myself because when I create I like do it alone and sometimes this means a few days or even weeks of silence.

There's nothing wrong with it when you work- but what if you just vegetate waiting for inspiration? 

Talk to others, go out forget the whole thing for a while - creativity is not something you can force. 
When you feel burned out you need new impulses to turn your mind on. 
We can often forget it how important it is to get 'fresh' experiences. 

It's also useful to sometimes talk to other artists. You can share your works with each other which can easily lead you to a new project. 

Use social media sites like Instagram, Tumblr, Facebook and Twitter to collect some artists around you!