Low brow
104 creative works found
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Collage on canvas
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Medium: Acrylic and Watercolour Paint on Paper / Size: A4 / Description: About an octopus who has developed a suit so that he may walk with the humans. A piece to fulfill my curiosity with octopuses and old looking diving helmets. The character’s odd infatuation with the human race mirrors my own with his species. Completed in 2008. Contact me at lloydharvey[at]shrunkenheaddesign.co.uk / www.shrunkenheaddesign.co.uk
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The spirits of the shadows are a playful lot, responsible for moving your keys or anything you put down. This is a digital oil painting and was created in Artrage. Completed 2008. Contact me at lloydharvey[at]shrunkenheaddesign.co.uk / www.shrunkenheaddesign.co.uk
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Medium: Digital / Size: 14” x 10” / Description: This image started life as an inked drawing on a piece of canvas card, sized 14” x 10” and was scanned into the computer and digitally painted. It took around 10 hours to complete. 2008.. Original Not For Sale Contact me at lloydharvey@shrunkenheaddesign.co.uk / www.shrunkenheaddesign.co.uk
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Medium: Digital / Size: 25” x 15” / Description: This image is a concept piece and was created entirely digitally. Contact me at lloydharvey[at]shrunkenheaddesign.co.uk / www.shrunkenheaddesign.co.uk
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Medium: Digital / Size: 17” x 9” / Description: A digital painting created entirely in digitally whilst watching Batman Begins, Princess Mononokee and Fight Club. 2008. Contact me at lloydharvey[at]shrunkenheaddesign.co.uk / www.shrunkenheaddesign.co.uk
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Medium: Acrylic Paint on Paper / Size: A4 / Description: A small little piece set in some high mountain top, only reachable by thousands and thousands of steps. A lesson this balloon operator learned the hard way. Completed in 2008. Contact me at lloydharvey[at]shrunkenheaddesign.co.uk / www.shrunkenheaddesign.co.uk
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Medium: Acrylic Paint on 3 Pieces of A4 / Size: 3 x A4 / Description: My first Triptych I had ever attempted and is the story of how the plant world has started to fight back, starting with those evil rabbits! Completed in 2008. Original For Sale Contact me at lloydharvey@shrunkenheaddesign.co.uk / www.shrunkenheaddesign.co.uk
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Medium: Acrylic Paint on Board / Size: 10” x 14” / Description: One of my paintings from my Sick, Sad Little World Series. Completed in 2008. Contact me at lloydharvey[at]shrunkenheaddesign.co.uk / www.shrunkenheaddesign.co.uk
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Medium: Digital / Size: 9” x 12” / Description: Painted in Artrage Painter and completed in 2008. Contact me at lloydharvey[at]shrunkenheaddesign.co.uk / www.shrunkenheaddesign.co.uk
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Medium: Acrylic Paint on Acrylic Paper / Size: 10” x 14” / Description: Based on the eighth song from the Tool album 10,000 Days, Rosetta Stoned was a joy to work on. This was a preliminary painting for a the bigger version. The 8th song on Tool’s 10,000 Days, Rosetta Stoned, tells the story of an estranged loner who tells the tale of how he was abducted by aliens and told how the world will end. As the story progresses, the central protagonist reveals that he doesn’t remember the message and as such, is considered insane. Interestingly enough, one possible meaning behind the song is that the abduction never happened and the central figure did, in fact, have a ‘trip’ on DMT, a hallucinogenic drug known to cause alien abduction hallucinations. So, how you choose to look at it is down to you. For my piece, I knew that I wanted to paint the alien. The orb that the creature is holding is what he shows to the loner where, inside, it reveals the secret of how the world ends. Of course, even if such a being could show a person how the world was to end, we as a race would never really understand what it was saying anyway. Its terms of reference would be, for better a word to describe it, alien and thus we wouldn’t be able to gather any understanding to it. Its a little like this: my two friends who play guitar often talk about pick ups and line outs and the such and as a drummer, these sorts of terms mean very little to me and so I don’t understand what they are talking about. Now imagine that a creature from another world had something it wanted to show you. This is in fact another possible meaning to the song itself. The abduction happened, the man just didn’t understand what the creature said. Contact me at lloydharvey[at]shrunkenheaddesign.co.uk / www.shrunkenheaddesign.co.uk To view the full meaning behind this piece, click here
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Eden
by Lloyd HarveyMedium: Digital / Size: 30” x 15” / Description: Painting 5 in the Phantom Abstractica digital abstract painting series. Make your own meaning from this and get absorbed by the movement. Copyright 2009. Contact me at lloydharvey[at]shrunkenheaddesign.co.uk / www.shrunkenheaddesign.co.uk
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Flow
by Lloyd HarveyMedium: Digital / Size: 125” x 62” / Description: Painting 2 in the Phantom Abstractica digital abstract painting series. Make your own meaning from this and get absorbed by the movement. Copyright 2009. This piece appears in the Light Calendar: / / Buy it HERE Original Does Not Exist Contact me at lloydharvey@shrunkenheaddesign.co.uk / www.shrunkenheaddesign.co.uk
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Medium: Digital / Size: 9.2” x 5.2” / Description: Completed in 2007 by digitally colouring ink drawings of 2 tripods, each taking 3 hours to pen. Based on the brilliant novel War of the Worlds by H G Wells. I wanted to really design the tripod in a different way to what had been done before. I wanted to show that the machines themselves were originally designed by the martians to use on their own dusty home world, hence the desert inspired hoods. Also, after extensive reading of the books, I devised my own interpretation of the legs and drew up sliding disk mechanisms that would allow the tripod a graceful movement. I designed them with my own back story, in that the Martian’s had surveyed our planet since the dinosaurs and modeled their walkers on the giant lizards to strike fear into our minds. I was a long process, but it wanted to do it justice. In fact, the tripod design I have concocted is still a work in progress and I will devote more time to their workings. WARN OTHERS ABOUT THE INVASION / Where these T-shirts: / / Grab them here Contact me at lloydharvey[at]shrunkenheaddesign.co.uk / www.shrunkenheaddesign.co.uk
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Medium: Acrylic Paint on Acrylic Paper / Size: 12” x 16” / Description: Based on the first song from the Tool album 10,000 Days, Vicarious was completed in early 2009 and was an attempt at a more surrealistic style. I don’t watch a great deal of television anymore. In recent times I have noticed that there are a lot of people who do nothing but work then go home and stare at the box. This is fine in some respects, I’m not here judging those. But one thing that stands out to me is society’s obsession with the misery of others, violence and strange. It bares a stark likeness to the Victorian fascination with the side shows in carnivals. People who never miss and episode of a soap opera or even delight (subconsciously) at watching grim events on the news, are tapping into vicarious voyeuristic behavior. In my piece, the mountains of televisions represent portals in which we, as humans, stare through into strange worlds. Contact me at lloydharvey[at]shrunkenheaddesign.co.uk / www.shrunkenheaddesign.co.uk
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Medium: Acrylic Paint on Acrylic Paper / Size: 12” x 16” / Description: Based on the second song from the Tool album 10,000 Days, Jambi was completed in early 2009 and is a loose interpretation on the band’s original meaning of the song. In my piece, I explored the idea of the Third Eye and wanted to twist it a little to give it a darker edge. The Tool song is about a sultan who lives an opulent life style, I wanted to try an depict what would happen to a person of that status if they attained a false sense of enlightenment. If one was to become enlightened, or so it is believed, one’s third eye would open in the center of the forehead. So, if one was to become ill-enlightened (its not a real word but it works) then where would the third eye open? ahem Also added to the fool’s punishment, his real eyes burn out and the eye-tongue causes irreversible madness. Featured in the 10,000 Days Calendar: / / Buy it HERE Contact me at lloydharvey[at]shrunkenheaddesign.co.uk / www.shrunkenheaddesign.co.uk
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Medium: Acrylic Paint on Acrylic Paper / Size: 12” x 16” / Description: Based on the fourth song on the Tool album of the same name, 10,000 Days is the second part of the Wings For Marie set. It was completed in early 2009. Because the song itself is surrounded in so much personal meaning to the singer, the piece was trick to approach. I wanted to try to convey something that was respectful and tasteful. The song is about the singer’s dead mother who, suffering from a long standing illness that left her wheel chair bound for 26 years (10,000 Days), was a devout Christian. The singer himself is an atheist and expresses his hope that he is wrong and that there is an after life, there is a heaven and that his mother deserved wings for what she went through. In my piece, I depict the Christian view of Death but instead, he is a psychopomp, a run of the mill ferry man of souls. I wanted to show a visual representation of what the singer was hoping for. A being, waiting for his mother in the after life, to take her up to heaven. Contact me at lloydharvey[at]shrunkenheaddesign.co.uk / www.shrunkenheaddesign.co.uk
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Medium: Acrylic Paint on Acrylic Paper / Size: 12” x 16” / Description: Based on the fifth song from the Tool album 10,000 Days, The Pot was completed in 2009 and was an attempt at a more surrealistic style. In this painting, I wanted to infuse a sense of wonder and mystery to a surrealistic style. I also wanted to capture that magical element that is so apparent in Tool’s music. I didn’t base my painting on the band’s meaning of the song as I had portrayed it (inadvertently) in another piece. Set in a desert, a man encounters a giant pot that has no explanation as to why it is there. Suddenly, a fleshy eye opens and stares intently at the man. The man stares back. The Pot doesn’t blink. The man forgets to drink water. The Pot is indefatigable. The man soon dies. The Pot closes it’s large eye and continues to hide it’s mysteries. See it as a special T-Shirt: / / Buy it HERE Contact me at lloydharvey[at]shrunkenheaddesign.co.uk / www.shrunkenheaddesign.co.uk
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Medium: Acrylic Paint on Acrylic Paper / Size: 12” x 16” / Description: Based on the eighth song from the Tool album 10,000 Days, Rosetta Stoned was a joy to work on. The 8th song on Tool’s 10,000 Days, Rosetta Stoned, tells the story of an estranged loner who tells the tale of how he was abducted by aliens and told how the world will end. As the story progresses, the central protagonist reveals that he doesn’t remember the message and as such, is considered insane. Interestingly enough, one possible meaning behind the song is that the abduction never happened and the central figure did, in fact, have a ‘trip’ on DMT, a hallucinogenic drug known to cause alien abduction hallucinations. So, how you choose to look at it is down to you. For my piece, I knew that I wanted to paint the alien. The orb that the creature is holding is what he shows to the loner where, inside, it reveals the secret of how the world ends. Of course, even if such a being could show a person how the world was to end, we as a race would never really understand what it was saying anyway. Its terms of reference would be, for better a word to describe it, alien and thus we wouldn’t be able to gather any understanding to it. Its a little like this: my two friends who play guitar often talk about pick ups and line outs and the such and as a drummer, these sorts of terms mean very little to me and so I don’t understand what they are talking about. Now imagine that a creature from another world had something it wanted to show you. This is in fact another possible meaning to the song itself. The abduction happened, the man just didn’t understand what the creature said. Contact me at lloydharvey[at]shrunkenheaddesign.co.uk / www.shrunkenheaddesign.co.uk To view the full meaning behind this piece, click here
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Medium: Digital / Size: 5” x 7” / Description: Created in a trail version of Photoshop, June 2009, this piece started out as an acrylic painting on textured canvas paper. I felt I had painted myself into a corner with this piece, so I transferred it to the computer to finish it. The Witch King came about, not from Tolkien’s creation of the same name, but more on the idea of a Burrow Wrights, Liches and Psychopomps. Whilst researching another painting, I found numerous articles on these types of ghostly beings and decided to create a character based loosely around these archetypes of the fantasy genre. Ghosts, to me, represent a manifestation of the fear of the unknown, the almost unexplainable. Although I don’t personally believe in the existence of such entities, my non-belief doesn’t stop me from illustrating them Some of the print types available: / Greeting Card / Framed Print / Laminated Print / This piece appears in the Dark Calendar: / / Buy it HERE Original Does Not Exist Contact me at lloydharvey@shrunkenheaddesign.co.uk / www.shrunkenheaddesign.co.uk
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Medium: Acrylic Paint on Acrylic Paper / Size: 12” x 16” / Description: Octopuses interest me greatly. Their numerous tentacles represent such freedom of movement and a real sense of foreboding. In movies, the giant octopus or squid (Kracken) is always portrayed as an evil entity where, if such a huge creature existed in life, they would be no more evil than a daffodil. Eyes have become somewhat of an obsession of mine since working on a project based on the band Tool’s album 10,000 Days. Cycloptic creatures in fantasy are cast in the same light as giant sea ‘monsters’ and are even tagged with a ‘freak’ label in our world. Combine the two together and you would assume we have a deep sea dwelling animal of pure evil… but the cycloptopus isn’t and evil being. It’s just misunderstood. Complete in 2009. Some of the print types available: / Framed Print / Laminated Print / This piece appears in the Dark Calendar: / / Buy it HERE Original For Sale Contact me at lloydharvey@shrunkenheaddesign.co.uk / www.shrunkenheaddesign.co.uk
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Medium: Acrylic Paint on Acrylic Paper / Size: 12” x 16” / Description: For now, as I’m pressed for time, I can only leave a short description but I will do a more detailed one soon. This piece is based on a polymer clay mosaic piece my Mum did (photo coming soon) and was created because we have a joint art exhibit coming up in October. Complete in 2009. Contact me at lloydharvey@shrunkenheaddesign.co.uk / www.shrunkenheaddesign.co.uk
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Medium: Digital / Size: 3.8” x 5.3” / Description: A digitally coloured sketch (sketched done in early 2009, painted October 2009) of a very proper, upper class, snobby Owl. Original Sketch: / Contact me at lloydharvey[at]shrunkenheaddesign.co.uk / www.shrunkenheaddesign.co.uk
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2009 acrylic on 24” x 36” canvas. I had this idea a while ago, maybe even a couple of years and now I have finally finished it and I think it may be my best work yet.
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