Grant D. Smith (artist of HIPT cover)

nikki4982 · Post by **nikki4982** » 9/1/2005, 7:49 pm

These are the portraits of OLP that Grant Smith painted, and were supposed to be in HIPT's liner notes but were cut. He's the guy who did the album cover.

An explanation from the site:

Our Lady Peace asked me to do paintings of each band member. I wanted them to be inward, reflective, powerful and multilayered. The individual shapes on their faces represent the depth of the man. Raine asked me to paint a bandaged head representing the wounds that were accumulated in spending 3 years, recording over 50 tracks, and almost breaking up had on the band.

Oh, and just as an added bonus, I found this elsewhere on his website:

Grant (right) with Our Lady Peace band members

naveed99 · Post by **naveed99** » 9/1/2005, 7:52 pm

Wow thats some talent!

I like the bandage Idea Raine had, I can even see some blood.

Axtech · Post by **Axtech** » 9/1/2005, 8:58 pm

Those are awesome.

Jer looks goofy(er than usual), yet deep.

Hope · Post by **Hope** » 9/1/2005, 9:24 pm

i agree

afealicious · Post by **afealicious** » 9/1/2005, 10:23 pm

damn those are beautifully done.

and aside from the faces themselves, look what he's done with the backgrounds. especially in jer's.

Hope · Post by **Hope** » 9/2/2005, 1:17 am

my favourite is jeremy, then steve.

pit_girl1 · Post by **pit_girl1** » 9/2/2005, 9:53 am

Those are nifty...except Raine's eyes kinda creep me out. Otherwise awesome.

afealicious · Post by **afealicious** » 9/2/2005, 11:02 am

i've got to say it's jeremy, then raine for me. but all of them are soooo gooood :drool:

Lydia · Post by **Lydia** » 9/2/2005, 12:21 pm

Am I the only one who doesn't like the paintings? They kinda creep me out.

afealicious · Post by **afealicious** » 9/2/2005, 12:47 pm

i wouldn't BUY them...because yes it would be frightening to have huge versions of those paintings staring down at me from my wall...and plus i would imagine they'd be pretty expensive. but if all four of them came resized and put on a small poster, sure why not.

Dabekk · Post by **Dabekk** » 9/2/2005, 1:52 pm

I think cutting them from the liner notes was a good decision - artsy portraits of the band members in the liner notes seems a wee bit pretentious to me, espcially raine with the bandage (not to say that the guy who painted them doesn't have talent, they're not my cup of tea, but they have artistic merit).

afealicious · Post by **afealicious** » 9/2/2005, 1:56 pm

in all honesty i don't mean to imply anything by this. i couldn't help but notice similarities between the two. so, thoughts?

Hope · Post by **Hope** » 9/2/2005, 2:12 pm

creepy.

Random Name · Post by **Random Name** » 9/2/2005, 2:19 pm

see, I was thinking he looked like a tennis player with the headband and the blue and red collered shirt...

afealicious · Post by **afealicious** » 9/2/2005, 2:34 pm

well this is what came to mind for me. *shrug*

Dabekk · Post by **Dabekk** » 9/2/2005, 2:37 pm

like this?

afealicious · Post by **afealicious** » 9/2/2005, 2:42 pm

image hosted by tripod? not really

pit_girl1 · Post by **pit_girl1** » 9/2/2005, 3:22 pm

afealicious wrote:image hosted by tripod? not really

Yeah, I definitely see the resemblance there! :lol:

Dabekk · Post by **Dabekk** » 9/2/2005, 3:46 pm

well frick, it did work for me, for a little while - and believe me, it was very witty. see for yourself: http://spaetzchen-ivil.tripod.com/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderpictures/borg_sm-01.jpg

superrgirll · Post by **superrgirll** » 9/2/2005, 3:48 pm

tripod still