JO BLAKELY - ILLUSTRATION

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A new piece about how we see ourselves. "Upon Reflection" #bodyimage #figurativeart #mirrorimage #brokenmirror #galleryart #contemporaryart My reflection is not who I am. #smashtheimage #bethesoul Jo Blakely's photo.

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This piece I have so many names for! I have settled, or stuck, with an early one: Multiverse.

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Altered Boy. Digital Painting. From my series Kintsukoroi: Healed with Gold. #artist #artistoninstagram #abuse #church #sexabuse #instaart #contemporaryart #galleryart #cutting #pain #artgallery #healing #survivor #rape #noexcuses #ibelievesurvivors #fb

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Study in oil. Work-in-Progress. #artist #oils #portrait #artistsoninstagram #fb #instaart

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A Helpful Hand - digital painting. Something a little lighter this time! 

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Exeunt -- Jo Blakely, 2015, digital.

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Doing the challenges from FACE OFF for my own art. This is from Season 9 episode 2 - A Beautiful but Deadly Siren - I chose the Portuguese Man O’ War. 

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Here’s a thing I’ve had around in my head for a while!

Okay, so I’m pretty sure that by now everyone at least is aware of Steampunk, with it’s completely awesome Victorian sci-fi aesthetic. But what I want to see is Solarpunk – a plausible near-future sci-fi genre, which I like to imagine as based on updated Art Nouveau, Victorian, and Edwardian aesthetics, combined with a green and renewable energy movement to create a world in which children grow up being taught about building electronic tech as well as food gardening and other skills, and people have come back around to appreciating artisans and craftspeople, from stonemasons and smithies, to dress makers and jewelers, and everyone in between. A balance of sustainable energy-powered tech, environmental cities, and wicked cool aesthetics. 

A lot of people seem to share a vision of futuristic tech and architecture that looks a lot like an ipod – smooth and geometrical and white. Which imo is a little boring and sterile, which is why I picked out an Art Nouveau aesthetic for this.

With energy costs at a low, I like to imagine people being more inclined to focus their expendable income on the arts!

Aesthetically my vision of solarpunk is very similar to steampunk, but with electronic technology, and an Art Nouveau veneer.

So here are some buzz words~

Natural colors! Art Nouveau! Handcrafted wares! Tailors and dressmakers! Streetcars! Airships! Stained glass window solar panels!!! Education in tech and food growing! Less corporate capitalism, and more small businesses! Solar rooftops and roadways! Communal greenhouses on top of apartments! Electric cars with old-fashioned looks! No-cars-allowed walkways lined with independent shops! Renewable energy-powered Art Nouveau-styled tech life!

Can you imagine how pretty it would be to have stained glass windows everywhere that are actually solar panels? The tech is already headed in that direction!  Or how about wide-brim hats, or parasols that are topped with discreet solar panel tech incorporated into the design, with ports you can stick your phone charger in to?

(((Character art by me; click the cityscape pieces to see artist names)))

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^^^I think she is on to something. I think the future is going to be a golden age of architecture thanks to 3d printed buildings and lovely green spaces.^^^ I think she envisions the same world I do. I think it would be fun to create artwork along this idea. 

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Final illustration for Wild Swans - Hans Christian Andersen’s fairy tale. The swans are her brothers that have been bewitched into becoming swans - she must save them by knitting them sweaters out of nettles.” Girl hero - but not very badass. :-P

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Sketch for work-in-progress based on the fairytale Wild Swans by Hans Christian Anderson.

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My first contribution to the daily design challenge based on reference. digital sketch. 1 hour.

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From my archives...one of the illustrations I did that was inspired by The Shahnameh - the Persian Book of Kings. This is my take on the Simurgh a fantastical bird who raises the abandoned albino boy Zal - who goes onto greatness. Created digitally using MangaStudio4ex

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Liz & Pip

One of my illustrations from my children’s book “Liz & Pip” about a greedy, grumpy lizard and a clever little mouse. A story about Greed Vs. Sharing.

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A couple of images from the Japanese Folktale I illustrated for Heinemann Publishing called “Three Strong Women” I had so much fun illustrating this. All the gorgeous fabrics.

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Raven Girl

Playing around with a more painterly style. 

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Sample pages from my graphic novel Paris Ballad. A romantic comedy with a thriller twist about the triumph of love over adversity and the occult.