{"id":222,"date":"2011-09-27T06:26:18","date_gmt":"2011-09-27T06:26:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ryanwilliamsart.com\/artblog\/?p=222"},"modified":"2011-09-27T06:26:18","modified_gmt":"2011-09-27T06:26:18","slug":"when-worlds-collide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ryanwilliamsart.com\/artblog\/2011\/09\/27\/when-worlds-collide\/","title":{"rendered":"When Worlds Collide"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb_share_1\" style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px;;width: 55px;\" name=\"fb_share\"><div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#appId=125029517579627&amp;xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"http:\/\/ryanwilliamsart.com\/artblog\/2011\/09\/27\/when-worlds-collide\/\" send=\"false\" layout=\"box_count\" width=\"55\" show_faces=\"false\" font=\"arial\"><\/fb:like><\/div><figure style=\"width: 450px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Worlds Collide\" src=\"http:\/\/static.desktopnexus.com\/thumbnails\/126336-bigthumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"This is what happens when worlds collide.\" width=\"450\" height=\"318\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">On this day, we would finally be free of taxes.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Months ago I was laying in bed quietly and in the dark. My mind, as it always does at 1am, started to run, no&#8230;sprint, and I was forced to chase it down. Before I could catch it and finally drift into the land of slumber I had a funny idea about my future works of art.<\/p>\n<p>I enjoy most subjects to paint, but I admit that I am most interested in the genre that gives me the most problems &#8211; portraits. There are two problems for me when it comes to painting portraits. The first problem is that I want to paint portraits but I realize there isn&#8217;t much interest in buying a portrait unless it was commissioned by the buyer or it happens to be someone whom the buyer knows about and loves. The second problem I have is that I&#8217;m just not that good at portraits. I confess that I could simply duplicate a portrait to get a likeness but then I am locked into that pose and I want to paint from life &#8211; not from a photograph. These problems generate a catch-22 for me. I need to paint more portraits to become a better portrait artist, but I also need to sell a painting or two before my home is flooded with canvases. Perhaps I needed to generate a portrait of well known people in the news, or characters from books or movies. Hmmm&#8230;&#8230;movies. I have some experience there.<\/p>\n<p>So while these thoughts crossed my mind in the middle of the night, I started to think about the movie paintings I have done for my brother these last 6 years. I have covered 5 movies all together but none of them really focused on a person so much as a scene. The scenes were narratives and were trying to pass along the feeling of being a character in the film. Why not take it a step further and try to convey a character&#8217;s personality on canvas? But again, a simple portrait is unlikely to generate any interest from potential buyers so how can I create interest in this idea? Wouldn&#8217;t it be nice to grab a fantasy world, then grab another fantasy world, then smash them together into a super-duper-hypothetical-and-perhaps-hysterical-world-that-creates-a-strong-response-from-the-viewer (takes a breath)? Ah, now I have something.<\/p>\n<p>So today I announce the beginning of a new genre for my art; I call it &#8220;Character Mash-ups.&#8221; The idea is to take a well known character and have him or her interact with another well known character from a completely different and unrelated story. Perhaps these are fictitious characters or perhaps they are historical, but the point is that the encounter will be the result of a commonality between them.\u00a0 I will be looking for a humorous slant for most of these works, but I might invoke a little drama in them too. I have already started on my first project and I think the subject is pretty silly. I hope to get a laugh and a sale out of this. I can hear you screaming now, &#8220;Enough! What are you painting?&#8221; Ah&#8230;well check back next week for a sneak preview.<\/p>\n<p>Hehe&#8230;.I&#8217;m such a joker.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Months ago I was laying in bed quietly and in the dark. My mind, as it always does at 1am, started to run, no&#8230;sprint, and I was forced to chase it down. Before I could catch it and finally drift into the land of slumber I had a funny idea about my future works of &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/ryanwilliamsart.com\/artblog\/2011\/09\/27\/when-worlds-collide\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">When Worlds Collide<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-posts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ryanwilliamsart.com\/artblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ryanwilliamsart.com\/artblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ryanwilliamsart.com\/artblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ryanwilliamsart.com\/artblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ryanwilliamsart.com\/artblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/ryanwilliamsart.com\/artblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":232,"href":"http:\/\/ryanwilliamsart.com\/artblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222\/revisions\/232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ryanwilliamsart.com\/artblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ryanwilliamsart.com\/artblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ryanwilliamsart.com\/artblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}