Feralo is the creative portfolio of Noah Spahn. Spahn is a painter with degree in Studio Arts from Biola University, a deep interest in several marked periods of Art History, and Artists ranging from Caravaggio to Immendorf. His work is typically a veiled glimpse into some facet of his current musings. The mediums used vary as much as their application, whilst the human form is generally the vehicle. Themes may include transcendental aesthetics or the rejection of visceral urges amidst the complexities of commonplace social environs. He has also been known to produce the occasional ‘automatic painting’, the interpretation of which probably lies in the realm of his unconscious. During his 25 year career as an Artist, Spahn has worked as a commissioned limner, 3D modeler, architectural draftsman, aerosol muralist, portraitist, graphic designer, creative consultant and advertising director.Tumblr (3.0; @feralo)http://feralo.com/<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ln5xrd6jHX1qz9v0to1_500.png"/><br/><br/>http://feralo.com/post/6781881953http://feralo.com/post/6781881953Tue, 21 Jun 2011 22:12:41 -0700Jenny Morgan<img src="http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_le98juuOvj1qzjtxio1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>There just isn’t enough time to devote to processes of creative execution; at least not as much as I used to have! I have a few new ideas for social paintings. But I find that I can only develop them over the course of several days. Anyways, I am glad to have the liberty of at least some creative time. These guys were borrowed from some earlier works of Degas.</p>http://feralo.com/post/2530089822http://feralo.com/post/2530089822Thu, 30 Dec 2010 10:55:05 -0800drawingDegas<img src="http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_le6i0uahZ11qzjtxio1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>This wonderful painting was commissioned by a friend. I seem to recall that he had no particular preference for what I painted, so I took the liberty to explore new styles and mediums.</p>http://feralo.com/post/2510429534http://feralo.com/post/2510429534Wed, 29 Dec 2010 01:29:06 -0800commissionpaintingplant<img src="http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_le6hqqe6Ya1qzjtxio1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Revisiting the compositional idea from a previous series, this painting explores the nuances and intricacies of unspoken communication. Whilst working in downtown San Diego during the time that I created this composition, I was struck by a clear, observable pattern. There was an apparently direct correlation between the amount of clothing worn by business professionals and their level of success. The women who appeared to be the most successful wore short skirts and low-cut blouses. Whereas the most successful men wore dress shirts, neck-ties, cuff-links, business suits and had very little visible skin. I incorporated these observations into a painting that commented on this wardrobe paradox and left an open ended question as to the relationship of the two subjects in the painting. This is a very large painting that is now in the home of a private collector.</p>http://feralo.com/post/2510207286http://feralo.com/post/2510207286Wed, 29 Dec 2010 00:59:06 -0800tensepaintingprofessionalism<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_le6jlcH2881qzjtxio1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>One of the many portraits that I did in my college studio. Sometimes the paintings look better before they are finished.</p>http://feralo.com/post/2509999189http://feralo.com/post/2509999189Wed, 29 Dec 2010 00:35:06 -0800katiepaintingportrait<img src="http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_le6j1i2X1X1qzjtxio1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Thinking about the source of my visual aspirations, I created a composition that contained homages to my favorite artists. To begin with, I was initially inspired by the painting by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres which bears the same name. That was the starting point, but I continued by unwrapping my subconscious, a practice of the young Salvador Dali. Recognizing the female form as the source of my artistic inspirations, I copied a portion of another Diego Velazquez painting: ” St John the Evangelist at Patmos”, it is bearly visible beneath the portrait of Dali. Rather blasphemous and irreverent, I was equating my visual inspirations to be as devine as those of St John. All of this was painted over one of the multitudes of ‘Obey’ posters given to me by Shepard Fairey.<br/> I can remember painting it in my dorm room, I didn’t have space or an easel, so i just propped it up on top of my drawers. This painting was first displayed at an extremely conservative University where I had to cover the ‘private parts’ with tape before it could be hung in the gallery. When I later tried to remove the tape, a layer of paint came with it. However, the effect is rather intriguing.</p>http://feralo.com/post/2509564953http://feralo.com/post/2509564953Tue, 28 Dec 2010 23:48:00 -0800Diego VelasquezLa SourceVelazquezpainting<img src="http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_le6gu9xr021qzjtxio1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p>A study after one of Diego Velasquez’s studies for his painting that is sometimes referred to as ‘Three Men at a Table’. I found this study of particular interest because it contained a woman in the middle seat, yet many of his biographers have claimed that the final painting is an allegory of Velasquez’s life. Where he, as the painter would be seated at as the fourth person at the table and each of the people seated at the table represent him at a stage of his life.</p>http://feralo.com/post/2509054718http://feralo.com/post/2509054718Tue, 28 Dec 2010 23:01:21 -0800Diego Velasquezpainting<img src="http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_le3yfhDCxG1qzjtxio1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>This painting marked an important event in my progress as an artist. It was during the initial stages of this painting that I bumped the coffee table, knocking a large brush loaded with red oil paint onto our cream colored rug. At that moment I realized this would be the last oil (large) painting that I could do while we live in this little apartment. But it looks great hanging on the wall above our dinner table.</p>http://feralo.com/post/2487840518http://feralo.com/post/2487840518Mon, 27 Dec 2010 14:28:29 -0800oilpaintingdrinkersdrinking<img src="http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_le3ydiCa8Q1qzjtxio1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>This painting is from a very strategic modeling session. My wife and I planned out each pose based on our favorite figurative paintings throughout art history. This pose was taken from The Toilet of Venus ( aka ‘The Rokeby Venus’) by Diego Velasquez (1599 - 1660), 337 years before I painted this!</p>http://feralo.com/post/2487825826http://feralo.com/post/2487825826Mon, 27 Dec 2010 14:27:18 -0800Letinudepainting<img src="http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_le3ya14Hmd1qzjtxio1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>At the end of a fantastic memorial day weekend filled with weddings, sight seeing , great food, friends, movies and fun, Danielle and I thought that a painting would be the best way to top off the weekend. A world traveling friend had brought some new paints and brushes (from China) during the week as well as some clothes from Thailand. Here is Danielle (looking purposefully cheerful for this painting), wearing a fine linen shirt and hiking pants. I was especially pleased with this painting since I have not been painting with watercolors in quite some time. This painting seemed to emanate from that divine source of inspiration that Salvador Dali claims must be present for a masterpiece to be created.</p>http://feralo.com/post/2487799283http://feralo.com/post/2487799283Mon, 27 Dec 2010 14:25:12 -0800paintingdrawingblue couch<img src="http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_le3xueBlzX1qzjtxio1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>This was a moment of inspiration. We have two couches and they were set up facing each other with a glass coffee table in between. There was a large bowl on the coffee table with three bananas in it. I was sitting there talking with Danielle and thought: “wow, I should capture this moment”. She agreed to stay still and I did my best to draw quickly.</p>http://feralo.com/post/2487678571http://feralo.com/post/2487678571Mon, 27 Dec 2010 14:15:49 -0800drawingbowl of fruitcouch<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_le3wk8qNo01qzjtxio1_r1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>This is one of my all time favorites, it has a long story about the process by which it was created. The head of the Art Department at my school said that he liked it very much because it was sac-religious: comparing the Mother of Christ to a Donut. A pastry. A sweet and tasty treat which was nothing more than a sugar coated hole. I think that this guy might have been more than a little deranged. I chose the subject matter from the page of a Catholic calender in my grandmother’s kitchen. The donuts came in when I needed a background and that was the snack that I was currently eating. Nothing more.</p>http://feralo.com/post/2487331043http://feralo.com/post/2487331043Mon, 27 Dec 2010 13:48:00 -0800paintingoil paint<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_le4ndzIYHb1qzjtxio1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>This is a painting for a co-worker, who gave it to her boyfriend as a gift. We work in a large office and our jobs don’t intersect too much, so when I offered to paint her portrait we had to set up a meeting after work. The preparatory sketches were done in a study room at the University Library. I then made this acrylic/watercolor painting based on my initial studies.</p>http://feralo.com/post/2494770589http://feralo.com/post/2494770589Mon, 27 Dec 2010 11:31:00 -0800paintingdrawing<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ky1ph5gEHZ1qzjtxio1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Deadlist drugs compared to press coverage and estimated usage</p>http://feralo.com/post/396776630http://feralo.com/post/396776630Wed, 17 Feb 2010 20:30:00 -0800data visualizationdatavisualization<img src="http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ky0evhUGeP1qzjtxio1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Data visualization on the war</p>http://feralo.com/post/395477657http://feralo.com/post/395477657Wed, 17 Feb 2010 15:35:40 -0800data visualizationwarAfganistantroops<img src="http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kxceyjRU871qzjtxio1_400.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>I think that all I have out of these ingredients is the coffee, but it sounds tasty!</p>http://feralo.com/post/371351035http://feralo.com/post/371351035Thu, 04 Feb 2010 16:35:00 -0800keoke-coffee“it seems to take a very unique combination of technology, talent, business and marketing and luck to make significant change in our industry. It hasn’t happened that often.<br/> - Steve Jobs (1994)”<br/><br/> - <em><a href="http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/31896381/from_the_archives_a_revealing_interview_with_steve_jobs/print" target="_blank">http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/31896381/from_the_archives_a_revealing_interview_with_steve_jobs/print</a></em>http://feralo.com/post/370792960http://feralo.com/post/370792960Thu, 04 Feb 2010 09:20:33 -0800Steve JobsAppletechnologybusinessmarketing“Computer games don’t affect kids, I mean if Pac Man affected us as kids, we’d all be running around in darkened rooms, munching pills and listening to repetitive music.”<br/><br/> - <em>Marcus Brigstocke</em>http://feralo.com/post/365280605http://feralo.com/post/365280605Mon, 01 Feb 2010 08:30:11 -0800Computer gamesPac Man<img src="http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kwm14ucext1qaro0lo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>This is the best Mac flair I have ever seen <p>(via <a href="http://partyended.tumblr.com/" class="tumblr_blog" target="_blank">partyended</a>)</p>http://feralo.com/post/352882492http://feralo.com/post/352882492Mon, 25 Jan 2010 10:14:40 -0800Macappleenvysnow white<iframe width="400" height="300" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/v1gTI4BOPUw?wmode=transparent&autohide=1&egm=0&hd=1&iv_load_policy=3&modestbranding=1&rel=0&showinfo=0&showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br/><br/><p>How awesome is this? A Guido talk!</p>http://feralo.com/post/342846356http://feralo.com/post/342846356Tue, 19 Jan 2010 08:38:12 -0800Pythondjangogooglegoogle-appsapps