Mcmahon
8 members found (show all)
-
Alice McMahon ...
United States
-
David McMahon
Australia
-
Erin McMahon
Australia
59 creative works found
-
Pastel on Kitty Wallis sanded pastel paper, from “The White Album” series. The tooth of this sanded paper takes many layers of pastel. I prime the surface with rust colored nupastel rubbed in with turpenoid before working. Inspired by the Beatles cover of Carole King’s tune of the same name. “Chains, my baby’s got me locked up in chains and they ain’t the kind that you can see, oh oh these chains of love got a hold on me, yeah!” In April 2007, “Chains” won round 2 of the International Saatchi Showdown Online Competition and was shown at the Saatchi Gallery in London. I received this email January 6th, 2009 from the Saatchi Gallery: Dear Alice I am delighted to inform you that your work is currently being exhibited in the Saatchi Gallery – please find attached a photograph of your work on display. Below is the label that we are using for the work. SAATCHI ONLINE ROUND WINNER ALICE MCMAHON WHITE Chains 2006 / Pastel on paper 55×38 cm This work also has received awards in Chicago Pastel Society’s National Juried Show 2006; Pastels USA, Pastel Society of the West Coast, Auburn, California / 2005; Best Drawing, Plaza Art Competition, Beverly Arts Center, Chicago 2005.
-
From the Black Butterfly series. Charcoal on mylar drafting film with white illustration board underlay, 24×30”. I started this 4 years ago, intending it to be an ink and watercolor wash piece. I never got up the nerve to finish it – it is quite large and I wasn’t very comfortable with watercolor. The references I used were photos of myself and my husband in our early 20’s. Symbolism: My husband is a musician, and the butterflies in the series are representative of the artist’s muse. All of the models for this series are artists from various disciplines (actress Marilyn Monroe is Aphrodite in one work). In this piece, the lilies and the intertwining branches are taken from works by Leonardo Da Vinci. The Celtic elements of triple spirals and knot work are symbolic of our three children, my Irish heritage, our intertwined lives and inspirations, and are also appropriate as a reminder of our journey to Ireland this past year.
-
Model: Bubbler Brett Manning SYMBOLISM: From the Black Butterfly series, charcoal on mylar drafting film, with white backing paper 19×32” From a reference photo self-portrait by Redbubble friend Brett Manning, aka brettisagirl. The piece is inspired by Brett’s artistic “muses” (the butterflies) art, fashion, design, illustration, drawing, her Frankie, coffee, chocolate, her kitties, her puppies, and 60’s music, especially Bob Dylan. The butterflies are “ideas” that flutter around her head. The necklace is a nod to fashion, and to the lyric in Bob Dylan’s tune of the same name. “The World’s Biggest Necklace” is also from Egyptian mythology. There are eleven butterflies, symbolic for myself and my ten siblings. “Isis” lyrics by Bob Dylan: I married Isis on the fifth day of May, / But I could not hold on to her very long. So I cut off my hair and I rode straight away / For the wild unknown country where I could not go wrong. I came to a high place of darkness and light. The dividing line ran through the center of town. I hitched up my pony to a post on the rise, / Went in to a laundry to wash my clothes down. A man in the corner approached me for a match. I knew right away he was not ordinary. He said, “Are you lookin’ for somethin’ easy to catch?” / I said, “I got no money.” He said, “That ain’t necessary. / “ We set out that night for the cold in the North. I gave him my blanket, he gave me his word. I said, “Where are we goin’?” He said we’d be back by the fourth. I said, “That’s the best news that I’ve ever heard. / “ I was thinkin’ about turquoise, I was thinkin’ about gold, / I was thinkin’ about diamonds and the world’s biggest necklace. As we rode through the canyons, through the devilish cold, / I was thinkin’ about Isis, how she thought I was so reckless.
-
This work was featured in the group “Out of the Past.” Charcoal and white pastel on mylar drafting film with moonstone Canson backing paper, 10×8” From the Black Butterfly series. I’m creating a few small works for the series – pieces that are priced to sell. They will be presented in vintage swing frames and displayed at the gallery on pedestals.
-
From the Black Butterfly series. Portrait of Shan Zuo Zhou, charcoal and white pastel on mylar drafting film with blue-gray Canson backing paper, 16×16”. From a reference photo by Steven E. Gross. I am a member of the 33 Collective Gallery located in the Zhou Brother’s Art Center, Chicago. The Zhou Brothers have been generous to allow our co-op gallery to use the entire art center for our group show this month. The show opens Friday March 20th, 2009. The Zhou Brothers are always on hand at the center and are very supportive of the members of the gallery and of their artists in residence. I am fascinated with them, their persona, and their work and decided they would be perfect subjects to draw for my series, which always features creatives as models. Brother #2, DaHuang Zhou will be tomorrow’s subject for Daily Drawing. The butterfly is borrowed from a Chinese watercolor design, and the Chinese symbols stand for “inspired-dream-vision-revelation” As noted in my earlier blogs, in this series the butterfly is symbolic of the artist’s muse. The title of this work comes from Chinese literature by Zhuangzi – [Chuang-Tse] “One day about sunset, Zhuangzi dozed off and dreamed that he turned into a butterfly. / He flapped his wings and sure enough he was a butterfly… / What a joyful feeling as he fluttered about, he completely forgot that he was Zhuangzi. / Soon though, he realized that that proud butterfly was really Zhuangzi who dreamed he was a butterfly, or was it a butterfly who dreamed he was Zhuangzi! / Maybe Zhuangzi was the butterfly, and maybe the butterfly was Zhungzi? This is what is meant by the “transformation of things.” – Zhuang Zi (369?-286? b.c.) The Zhou brothers short biography: The Zhou Brothers are one of the most accomplished contemporary artists in the world today renowned for their unique collaborative work process. They always work together on their paintings, performances, sculptures, and prints, often communicating without words in a so-called dream dialogue. Their thinking, aesthetic, and creativity are a symbiosis of Eastern and Western philosophy, art, and literature that informed their development since early childhood. Their indomitable spirit allowed them to leave behind their brilliant success in China, where they were hailed as national heroes for their early work, to step onto the world stage. They have since achieved international acclaim while continuing to work in the West. The Zhou Brothers, Shan Zuo and DaHuang Zhou, were born in China 1952 and 1957 respectively. They studied drama and painting at the University of Shanghai from 1978 to 1982 and the National Academy for Arts and Crafts in Beijing from 1983 to 1984 where they received their MFAs. During the beginning of the 1980s they became leaders of the contemporary art movement in China. In 1985 they won the National Prize of the Chinese Avant-Garde of the Ministry of Culture and the Prize for Creativity from the Peace Corps of the United Nations. They were also honored as the first contemporary artists ever to show their work in an exhibition that traveled to the five largest museums in China, including the National Art Museum of China in Beijing and the art museums in Shanghai and Nanjing. Realizing that the political and cultural landscape at that time would not allow them to expand their careers, an invitation to exhibit in Chicago in 1986 presented a timely opportunity to make the transition onto an international stage. The Zhou Brothers have consequently maintained their home and studios in Chicago while actively exhibiting their work nationally and abroad.” Companion piece, portrait of Shan Zuo’s brother DaHuang Zhou:
-
BEST VIEWED LARGER* This shot taken using 5 Exposures generating one HDR image, taken at sunset from Mc Mahons Point on the Northern shore of Sydney Harbour. / For those visiting Sydney , Berrys Bay/Balls Head is easily accessable from by tain on the North Shore railway line . This side of the harbour offers panoramic views and the cheapest way to explore Sydney is with an explorer pass . Equipment: Nikon D300, Nikon 18-200 lens, no filters, processed usin Photomatix HDR Software My continuing experience with HDR is a learning one some tries work the way you expect sometimes they are a bit different… but hey it’s fun !
-
This work was featured in the groups 1 on 1: The Fine Art of Portraiture and Out of the Past. Grace # 2 of 3 , Charcoal on Mylar film, 30×20” from the “Black Butterfly: The Muse” series. The 3 Graces: Aglaia (radiance) Euphrosyne (joy) Thalia (flowering) It was the poet Hesiod who named the Graces in his Theogony: “Then Eurynome, Ocean’s fair daughter, bore to Zeus the three Graces, all fair-cheeked, Aglaia, Euphrosyne, and shapely Thalia; their alluring eyes glance from under their brows, and from their eyelids drips desire that unstrings the limbs.” From a reference photo by Rolling Stone magazine photographer Baron Wolman, groupie Sally Mann, San Francisco, Nov. 1968. (No relation to the photographer of the same name) Sally married Jefferson Airplane’s Spencer Dryden in 1970. Here is a quote from Baron about the groupies: “As concert promoter Bill Graham has given me all access to any of the concerts he produced, I spent quite a bit of time backstage with the bands, their roadies and their women. What fascinated me were the lengths to which the women, the groupies, went to prepare themselves for their backstage appearances. Because I also wanted an excuse to photograph them, I suggested to Jann they might make an interesting story. He agreed and Rolling Stone Magazine No. 27 became known as “the groupie issue.” It was widely promoted, read and commented upon, even turned into a book.” -Baron Wolman I saw these photos in an old book picked up at a resale shop. I fell in love with the groupies, and Baron was so gracious to allow me to use them for the drawings. The feminine effect of the references are enhanced with the flowers and butterflies. In this case, I decided to draw Sally holding the lilies, as she married soon after the photo was taken. It’s also about peace & love & hippie-ness, baby. :) While the rest of the models I’ve used in the series are in the arts themselves, I was intrigued with the idea of groupies – and their intrigue with rock & roll artists of the late 1960’s. It seems to me they were using their own bodies and persona as an art form to attract their artistic “muses.” I guess you could consider some of the works in my Black Butterfly series “Cover Tunes.” I believe the borrowed references are vital to the series to relate the idea of inspiration, and its relation to talent and celebrity. These “tunes” well deserve a stylish, honorable replay. Many thanks to the talented people who have loaned their vision of the muse to aid me in illustrating my ideas.
-
There’s a story to this one. After a long drive down a narrow, wet, dirt road and a trek down a slippery, sloppy track (very overgrown), McMahon’s Lookout revealed … a white-out!!! We’d well and truly descended into the wet white stuff so after all that effort, here’s the view!! / Landscapes Trees Cards EOD Rusty Flowers Architecture Macro CatchAll DM / /
-
David was playing the part of a young gravedigger in director Conor McMahons rural horror film “Dead Meat” where mad cow disease has infected the local population turning them into, well you guessed it flesh eating Zombies. This was Day 1 for David and he was just dressed up in rural garb about to fling himself in front of a car when I took this portrait of him in the fairy woods of Leitrim. / I love this portrait as it is timeless or more to the point it harks back to the Golden age of movie heroes and stars and David is one here.
-
Grace #3 of 3 From the “Black Butterfly: The Muse” series. Charcoal on Mylar film, 20×16” From a reference photo by Rolling Stone magazine photographer Baron Wolman. Groupie “HARLOW”, San Francisco, Nov. 1969. I saw these photos and fell in love with them – Baron was so gracious to allow me to use them. I added the flowers and butterflies, from a pattern on scented drawer liners. Here is a quote from Baron about the groupies: “As concert promoter Bill Graham has given me all access to any of the concerts he produced, I spent quite a bit of time backstage with the bands, their roadies and their women. What fascinated me were the lengths to which the women, the groupies, went to prepare themselves for their backstage appearances. Because I also wanted an excuse to photograph them, I suggested to Jann they might make an interesting story. He agreed and Rolling Stone Magazine No. 27 became known as “the groupie issue.” It was widely promoted, read and commented upon, even turned into a book.” -Baron Wolman While the rest of the models I’ve used in the series are in the arts themselves, I was intrigued with the idea of groupies – and their intrigue with rock & roll artists of the late 1960’s. It seems to me they were using their own bodies and persona as an art form to attract their artistic “muses.” I guess you could consider some of the works in my Black Butterfly series “Cover Tunes.” I believe the borrowed references are vital to the series to relate the idea of inspiration, and its relation to talent and celebrity. These “tunes” well deserve a stylish, honorable replay. Many thanks to the talented people who have loaned their vision of the muse to aid me in illustrating my ideas.
-
BETTER VIEWED LARGER This shot taken from McMahons Point Wharf just before dawn, is one of those magical moments where you are glad you nevergo anywhere without your camera. The lavender colours were true to the name of the bay “Lavendar Bay”. That sunrise was awe inspiring. The wharf is just 5 minutes across the harbour from the ferry terminus Circular Quay Equipment :Nikon D300, Sigma lens 10-20mm / Technique:HDR , Photomatix, 5 Bracketted images
-
Storm Clouds - McMahons Point - Moods Of A City - The HDR Series
by Philip JohnsonUS$4.99–US$114.00
BEST VIEWED LARGER This shot was taken from McMahons Point on the north shore of Sydney harbour, as a storm front moved through McMahons point offers great views of the Sydney Harbour Bridge, Opera House and the Sydney skyline. A great place to get that magic shot, easily reached by ferry from the circular quay ferry terminus Equipment: Nikon D300 , Nikon 18-200mm / Technique: 5 bracketted shots, Photomatix, Capture NX
-
From left – Bobby O’Brien, Nobby McMahon and Kevin Slater celebrating Kevin’s 75th birthday at the Candelo Hotel, Candelo, New South Wales, Australia. / Taken Sunday, 7th December, 2008 12.38pm
-
Morning Landing - McMahons Point Wharf - Moods Of A City The HDR Experience
by Philip JohnsonUS$4.99–US$114.00
FOR BETTER VIEWING GO LARGER *Thanks for dropping In and viewing,commenting on this work, for who decide to Favourite this work I am Honoured.! The Sydney Harbour Bridge spans Milsons Point on Sydney Harbours North Shore. to Millers Point in historic Rocks.area that dates back to the early days of Sydney. If you visit Sydney the Bridge Climb is very popular where you climb to the summit of the Sydney Harbour Bridge. As you can see we get some incredible sunrises as the sun hits the east coast of Sydney This image was taken from McMahons Point Wharf and shows day breaking over the point and the mill pond like surface of Sydney Harbour, the Sydney Opera House can be seen past the bridge. / Equipment used: Nikon D300 & Sigma 10-20mm lens / Technique:HDR , 5 Bracketted Images processed in Photomatix Pro
-
This work has been featured in the group “Out of the Past” Study for a larger work, charcoal on mylar drafting film, with digital underlay of a Walt Whitman poem. Image size: 9 1/2×7”. In vintage tabletop swing frame: 12 1/2×11” overall. Facsimile butterfly. Another small work to be included in my “Black Butterfly: The Muse” solo show, which is scheduled to open on September 18th in Chicago. In the series, the butterfly is a symbol for the artist’s muse, and all of the subjects I’m drawing are in the arts. I’ve been reading poetry recently, and am pleased to include Walt Whitman in the series. “Whitman and the Butterfly / The reference photograph, taken in 1877, was one of Whitman’s favorites. He used the butterfly-on-hand as a recurring motif in his books and intended for this photo to be reproduced as the frontispiece in this sample proof of Leaves of Grass from 1891. To foster the image of himself as one with nature, he claimed that insect was real and one of his “good friends.” But a band visible around Whitman’s finger matches the wire under the butterfly artifact (above). This colorful cardboard prop was tucked into one of the first Whitman notebooks donated to the Library in 1918. The word “Easter” is printed down its spine. Dr. Bucke, one of his literary heirs, said the butterfly was Psyche, the poet’s soul.” source: “Good Gray Poet: Revising Himself”, http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/treasures/whitman-goodgraypoet.html
-
Need A Bigger Puddle #2- McMahons Point Sydney - The HDR Experience
by Philip JohnsonUS$4.99–US$114.00
BETTER VIEWED LARGER The greater part of Australia has been in drought for many years, with severe water restrictions levelled on its citizens. These seagulls are taking the opportunity to celebrate lifting of water restrictions in Sydney after a long period of water restrictions. I just wish that the puddle was bigger so I could get a better reflection of the Sydney Harbour Bridge. Equipment Nikon D300, Nikon 18-200mm / Technique: 3 bracketted exposures, Photomatix, capture NX HDR
-
Pastel on peach Fabriano paper, self-portrait in my Fine Arts Building Chicago art studio, from life in a mirror reflection, 2005. The view behind my portrait is the actual view of the Venetian Courtyard of this historic studio building, an artist’s haven for over a century. I often frame my work in vintage and antique distressed frames, especially mirror frames.
-
Images are from original charcoal drawings by Alice McMahon White, on paper or mylar film.
-
This work was featured in the group “Out Of the Past” Small work: “Le Papillon” charcoal and pastel on Mylar, 9×7” This young French student artist wandered into my studio one evening during our open studio event. I liked her look and thought she would be a good model for my Black Butterfly series, so I asked if she would mind posing for a few photos. We had a fun visit, and she showed me her lovely Moleskine sketch journal and we also exchanged emails. I took quite a few great photos of Melodie, so I most likely will do another small work or two from them. She was a delight. Also, I am happy to realize that “Melodie” is the Muse of Music. These small studies present their own challenges. I like to complete them in one sitting and the scale is difficult for detail, but I feel that I did capture the subject’s hopefulness and creativity in this small work. Presented in a vintage tabletop swing frame.
-
Featured in the group “Out of the Past” From the Black Butterfly series, The subject is an artist, and the butterfly in the crystal ball is her muse. The narcissus flower in the frame is also symbolic of the subject looking into the mirror. Charcoal on mylar drafting film in vintage 1967 mirror frame. Image size 20×11” framed to 30×17” Model, Myspace friend Lana Gentry, from a photo by Kristy Evans.
-
From the “Black Butterfly: The Muse” series. Charcoal on mylar film, in vintage c. 1924 frame, with bubble type glass. 18×12” overall, framed. Completed in two sessions. Luna moth. Candle from this, my own reference photo:
-
One of the things I love about Sydney Harbour – apart from the obvious icons – is the fact that you don’t have to wander very far,and you’ll find someone kicking back, dangling a line, in the hope of catching a fish. Always seems quite a strange but wonderful contradiction somehow. / Taken towards McMahons Point mid January 2008. / Landscapes Trees Cards EOD Rusty Flowers Architecture Macro CatchAll DM
RedBubble is a great place to find art, design, photos and writing from over 80,000 talented people.
You can buy their stuff
On stunning greeting cards, awesome t-shirts or beautiful prints to hang on your walls.
Risk Free Returns
It’s really simple. If you’re not happy with your purchase for any reason, we’ll fix it.
About RedBubble
Since February 2007 we’ve shipped over 243,800 items to more than 70 countries around the world.
Join In
Sign up for your free account, upload your work, join some groups and share your creative genius with the world.