Rock Art by Jenny Widding

Yesterday I went to the Raubtier and Pain gig at Gamla Teatern in Östersund.
  


I was lucky enough to get the chance to photo the bands during the gig



Peter Tägtgrend / Pain



Pär Hulkhoff / Raubtier



I also got my PAIN sketch signed by Peter



This drawing was a gift to my friends in Eastbay Events who organized the gig



After the concert I got backstage, checking out the big guns of Raubtier!

In cooperation with the italian rock photographer Annalisa Russo and my friends from Porn Queen, I have made a new video. This is a speed paint movie based on a photo of Slash, shot during the concert at Arena Civiva in Milan 28 july 2011.




Crank up the volume and check out the soundtrack in this video. The song is called "Leave that bitch" and is from the "Devils Way EP" released this summer. Thanks alot to PORN QUEEN for letting me use this song! :)

I've just come home from a very special week in Oslo, a week mixed with both business and pleasure. 

Unfortunately it ended with the horrible terror attack. My thoughts goes out to the ones who lost friends and family....

I have been sketching alot for the Norwegian metallband "Borknagar" the last months, and I brought a prototype for a Borknagar hoodie along with me. 



I had a meeting with Jens F. Ryland from Borknagar in the rock merchandise shop "Rockmerch" located in Thorvald Meyers gate in Oslo, where I showed him my hand painted Borknagar hoodie



Jens also introduced me to Glenn from Rockmerch, and hopefully this meeting will result in a cooperation in the future.



And this was the pleasure.....

This design was inspired of the good old Guns'n'roses days,



Axl Rose, painted on a grey cotton hoodie for my brother.

The header on this blog includes pieces of 4 paintings that deserves an own post:



Slash - This picture is made by using ordinary ink markers on paper




Myles Kennedy - a small oil painting (18 x 24)




Sixx A.M. - Another Oil painting. This picture is not quite finished yet, colours will be added to the background.




Last, but not least: Alter Bridge - A black and white Acrylic painting.
This was actually the first canvas painting I ever did for my rock art collection

Just a quick update, showing pictures of one of my first complete works, with design on the front, back and the hood.



At first I painted their logo on the hood, with silver color and black outlines... 



... and put the quote "I hope your wish came true - Mine betrayed me" on the front.



Topping the whole project with a backpiece painting of the lead vocal singer Tony Kakko

A small collection of some birthday presents I've created lately...

The first one is a painting I did for Carro's 30 year party. As you probably understand, Carro is a devoted Twilight fan.



The next one is an oil painting of a Yorkshire Terrier / Chihuahau mix. My husbands has a co-worker who wanted to give his girlfriend an oil painting of her dog. The result turned out like this! Happy birthday to you, Jeanette! 



At last, my youngest son wanted  dinosaur clothes as a birthday present.



HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

I've finally started designing my next tattoo. Inspired by the tought of getting new ink on my body, I created som classic tattoo symbols with skulls, roses and a koi fish






This last skull will probably end up as a piece of my arm tattoo...

I painted this Chris Cornell portrait on the back of a hoodie a couple of months ago.

 

This hoodie was my reunion with him after his "experimental solo project" that actually led to a divorce between him and me. But lately I missed his amazing voice, and now we date again, having an agreement to NEVER talk about his affair with Timbaland.... I guess it won't be a surprise for you that more Cornell art is on it's way....

Today I give you Todd Kerns, Slash's bass player - who I find quite complicated to draw.



I did two marker sketches of him: one fullsize and one closeup of his face. Both pictures turned out quite well, and I was especially satisfied with the closeup sketch. I got some really nice feedback from Mr. Kerns himself on this work, and it is a great honour for me that he is using my work as his profile picture on his facebook fan-page!




I get so proud everytime Todd publish anything on his FB-page, and it's my picture that pops up in my timeline



These pictures are practise for a big project I have in my mind - a serie of painings with Slash's live band.
Slash, Myles and Todd is nailed! Two to go!

Sometimes you create something, that just doesn't feel right... Like a little something missing to make the work complete... My oilpainting of the guitarist DJ Ashba gave me that feeling. I felt that I had to spice it up with a little extra to improve it...

So I pierced his lip....

He did NOT scream ! :)

Had a little accident, and with one arm in a cast it's hard to write on the blog. But anyway, this time I give you a little something that still has wet paint on it... This is my biggest painting so far, and to be honest he scares me a little bit. The Canvas is 80X80 cm, and it is a portrait of Slash.

I always try to improve my technique and style, so I decided to try paint a shirt with more than one colour.

This time i choosed a very famous picture of Nikki Sixx, where he is covering half his face with the bass head. I really enjoy painting pictures with more than the face. Including the hands, some tattoo's, jewelrys and maybe an instrument in the picture gives the picture a more personal touch.

   

Another great inspiration and favourite artist to do is Nikki Sixx!

 

On the front of the sweather i created a logo by using pieces from a drawing in Heroin Diaries book, mixed with a big blood splat and a quote from Nikki himself: "Music Feeds Me"

My second "Getaway Rock Festival" project was a T-shirt for my hubby. He wanted me to make one of the headliners during the festival week; A Megadeth T-shirt. But me and Dave did not get along, he has not the most charakteristic face for doing a t-shirt portrait either, so instead I created a T-shirt with an artist with tons of charakter:

LEMMY!
Motorhead was headlining day 2 at the festival. I found this cool picture of Lemmy on front of his book "White Line Fever" that I used. This T-shirt got alot of attention at the festival, especially in the hotel lobby after party! Completely strangers came up to us and wanted to buy the shirt. Cool!!!!! :)



Back home from Gävle i decided to make som hoodies. I had one boring grey hoodie lying around, and I started to paint a Slash picture on the back of it. I did a little mistake by using a model picture without the complete guitar on, and at that time I didn't have the confidence to improvise a guitar neck, something that made the backpiece look a bit strange when the hood is up. Slash's face and hat turned out real nice, and it's quite easy to paint a person with this much karisma and charakter. And of course... You can never have to many clothes with Slash on...



I later made a Motorhead hoodie for my son, using the same picture as a model for the backpiece.