Location: United Kingdom
Reinhard Schleining is a writer and illustrator, born in Vienna where he studied Psychology and Fine Art.
drawing and illustration based work which got me working as an illustrator and storyboarder in london – until blacklisting strategies bullied me out of the scene :) it's a nice reminder of how powers at large are operating behind the scenes. my agents in london back then told me that there's hardly and art director in the UK, USA and Australia (where Synergy is selling their artists) who wouldn't know me. many of them were even fans ...
hope you like and appreciate
one of a series of five images entitled THE SQUAT. back then, they were meant to visualize a graphic novel project with the same title that i was working on. as you see after going through my website, plans have massively changed since then ... kids might not get the chance anymore that i felt they'd have back then.
one of a series of five images entitled THE SQUAT. back then, they were meant to visualize a graphic novel project with the same title that i was working on. as you see after going through my website, plans have massively changed since then ... kids might not get the chance anymore that i felt they'd have back then.
one out of six images of a fashion editorial entitled ZABRISKIE POINT SHOREDITCH that i'd created for london's cult photography and fashion title "125 magazine". while creating the series iused so-called "look books" to carefully draw new clothing collections that i dressed my actors in – and then took the movie "zabriskie point" by michelangelo antonioni as a loose backdrop reference amidst which clashes were staged in london's back then uber cool east end district "shoreditch". like the THE SQUAT series, this is all history now. plans have changed beyond recognition ...
one out of six images of a fashion editorial entitled ZABRISKIE POINT SHOREDITCH that i'd created for london's cult photography and fashion title "125 magazine". while creating the series iused so-called "look books" to carefully draw new clothing collections that i dressed my actors in – and then took the movie "zabriskie point" by michelangelo antonioni as a loose backdrop reference amidst which clashes were staged in london's back then uber cool east end district "shoreditch". like the THE SQUAT series, this is all history now. plans have changed beyond recognition ...
this image served as key visual on my myspace site, befriending prince, banksy, woody allen and david hockney – if only their profiles. unlike facebook, where you can only "deactivate" your own data, but not remove it, myspace could be left behind without leaving ghosts roaming about there ...
this was a transitional period where i increasinglz left the computer behind for colouring and instead focused on the original pencils instead. i couldn't be bothered about ligne-claire inks anymore and the fiddling on photoshop increasingly got on my nerves. so please find black and whites for your delectation ...
cover illustration for the 005 issue of draft magazine, a free literary magazine ––– draftmagazine.net – love, life, culture, reality (or, if the main and all sister websites are presently sabotaged, download pdf's from mydrive.ch – login: reader@draftmagazine – pass: "thanks"
one out of 6 images from the GODDESSES and DEMONESSES series created for the 000 issue of draft magazine "unspeakable". the series was inspired by and dedicated to gustav klimt's 150th birthday.
cover illustration for the 001 issue of draft magazine, a free literary magazine ––– draftmagazine.net – love, life, culture, reality (or, if the main and all sister websites are presently sabotaged, download pdf's from mydrive.ch – login: reader@draftmagazine – pass: "thanks"
beginning to paint in a traditional way, using resin oil colour. this was the cover illustration for the 001 cover of draft magazine. painted on laminated print of the pencil. it is also the editorial illustration of a mad short story in the magazine called "the king and the princess" - two modern fairy tales colliding.
this newly, properly painted product with altered (updated) faces of the princess and the king was then used as the cover image of the author's new book "MORE LOVE", a sequel to the successful "LOVE ETC" book, containting five more short stories (plus its "bonus track", a groundbreaking essay on sex) meant to be shedding ever more light into the intricate psychology of our romantic endeavours.
here we finally have a series of works done with traditional means. it is said that the brothers van eyck were the 'inventors' of oil painting while the truth appears to be that they were bringing secret recipes of 'tempera' to a perfect, non-decaying, non-cracking completion. it further appears that they didn't really paint with oil in the sense that alla prima painters from the impressionists onward did, squeezing them out of the tube. but instead had a recipe for embedding the pigments in resins that could be converted from water based emulsions to oil-based emulsions and vice verse, thereby allowing countless layers of glazing. and alternate layers of chiaro-scuro and colour.
i have tried to understand this procedure in modern terms and also found a way to add wax into the resin, giving it an even more interesting texture. my career as an art teacher being curbed and persecuted as it had been, it now appears that the actual technique will be kept "secret" – in the same way that cultivation related matters have been kept secret for most of mankind's history – but now are not anymore.
belongs to VENUS in a diptych kind of way.
after an italian contemplation card of the holy virgin.
a free rendition after a north african postcard
free rendition after a photograph by japanese araki.
oil paiting version of the earlier pencil and computer illustration above ...
from an improvised silver point drawing, all the way through underpaint and consecutively modified until present oil.
“THE TUNNEL”
“THE RIVER”
“DIOR NOT WAR”
“GOYA DEFEAT”
“PAYBACK TIME”
“SERPENT”
“CANDY”
“MADE KNOWN”
“ISIS - MARY”
“VENUS”
“LOOKING IN”
“LEOPARD”
“KIMONO”
“LIBERTY”
“DIOR NOT WAR”
“COWGIRL”
