Wednesday, March 14, 2012

The Rage of the Gentleman Painting

This painting is about a monkey who got taken away from its mother when it was a baby and put in a circus and cruelly trained to act like a human. His entire life, this monkey has been angry and lonely and confused, but eventually he forgets that he was once a monkey and gets lost in the world of humans. However, he still has a permanent frown on his face and this constant emptiness hollowing out his heart, but he can't remember why, because he can't remember who he is. So he just continues to smoke, blindly doing what he was trained to do, with an emptiness eating him up inside, and he lets himself disappear.
I made his eyes more focused and as I went farther towards the edges of the canvas, I made it the texture less focused and more hazy because I really want his eyes to be the focal point that you're drawn to. 

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