March 2012

Steampunk ideas and other dregs, but something else has emerged and in the perhaps hopeless desire to be a decent artist in the digital medium, i am working to give illustration to various moments in the life of Aleister Crowley and the advent of the New Aeon - i am actually surprised that this type of task has not been done or attempted, but i will attempt this and i want to approach it more like academic painting - I love the use of light and shadow in 19th century painting. This is also important given the underlying wish to depict aspects of the Tree of the Nightside/ the Qliphotic states, in their nightmarish lurid atrocity.

 Denizens of the Astral Realsm of Refuse and forgotten Habits.

Produced in Photoshop CS4, February 2012

Inspired by the wonderful work of Wayne Barlowe - in particular his Inferno work which is similar to what and where I wish to take my vain creations. I was not aware of his work when i started this all but have only become so in the trawling of the internet for inspiration and ideas that one can do at times - in particular when looking up images of Goetic Spirits.

The Nineteenth Key, 

Created in PS CS4, March 2012. 

Featured in a recent Steampunk Exhibition at Post Industrial Design in West Footscray, Melbourne.