About Colour III – Ray Cesar

One of my first entries in this blog was about my interest in colour and especially in artists that break the mould and do something that sets them apart from others. Those artists who give a step forward from the mainstream aesthetics and use strong colours to show darkness, which is not the norm among dark artists at present .

One of my favourite digital artists does just that. He’s a dark artist despite his images being very colourful. His characters are all very pale, children or child-like, very delicate, but with very dark insights and intentions – Dark within, not outside. His digital palette mixes some tones of the Fifties palette with more vibrant glassy pop colours. The fact that the colours are so intense and overwhelmingly present, makes RC’s characters and scenes even more intriguing and mysterious. You know what you can expect from a bloody figure, from an image in grey, black or ochre tones, but not from an image in red, black, turquoise or with floral patterns! Even his blacks and whites are shiny and glossy. Of course, what makes the characters so interesting is not just the colour, as Rc's images are very naughty, but colour plays a great role in the narrative and the psychological drawing of the scenes.

Below it is a link to Ray Cesar’s website. I hope you enjoy it as much as I do. (His bio is quite funny!):

http://www.raycaesar.com/pages/GalleryIndex.html