Drawings from the dark side. Spooky graphics by Laurie Lipton

2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55

American artist Laurie Lipton from the age of four he has not parted with pencil and paper. Moreover, a pencil, and sometimes coal, she needed only black, and paper, respectively, white. She didn't need books, toys, or cartoons - just sit and draw … eerie pictures, "heavy" even for an adult. Skeletons and skulls, the dead and children with crazy eyes and unhealthy faces, plots as if from the nightmares of the mentally ill - and this is far from a complete description of all those drawings that are obtained by today's adult Lori Lipton. And the older she becomes, the more detached, darker her work. Although acquaintances consider the artist herself a bright and kind person.

What's wrong with her work? Perhaps, the reflection of the negativity that ordinary people take out on others, and Laurie, being bright and kind, tries to hide deeper in the paper? The artist herself says that she is inspired by the work of Hans Memling and Albrecht Durer, which helps her improve her technique and even more carefully write out all the creepy characters. But Laurie's most powerful inspiration comes in the form of snatches of conversations and phrases, either spoken to her or overheard on the street. All that seemed interesting, the artist records in a notebook, and at home she turns words into images, and phrases into plots.

So, sometimes the image of a person is born first, which Laurie carefully writes on virgin white paper with a charcoal pencil. The following can be an outfit, or a hairstyle, and then an idea for the interior will appear - whether it will be a long corridor, an edge in the forest, royal chambers, or a tiny room in a communal apartment. Despite the fact that not everyone will like such creativity, Laurie Lipton is not discouraged, and calmly refers to the fact that many criticize her or openly dislike her. However, at one time this did not prevent her from winning a drawing competition at the Saatchi Gallery and holding exhibitions of paintings around the world, mainly in Germany, France, USA, Spain and Great Britain.