I am quietly making images, persisting. I find it hard to post them as they seem not to be part of a project. They are floaters, play things and they don’t fully grab me. But this blog is not my gallery, not an exhibition, more like a studio. I want to play, learn experiment. Images follow.
Brilliant Bloggers! Some fine images.
Thank you Jan for putting me on your Brilliante Weblog list. Much appreciated. What I like about it is firstly that it gets me to look at the others you nominated! Some brilliant people indeed, honoured to be on the same list. Secondly it motivates me to evaluate some blogs I like, have another look, revise my Blogroll.
The rules of accepting are as follows:
1) Put the logo on your blog
2) Add a link to the person who awarded you.
3) Nominate at least 7 other blogs.
4) Add links to those blogs on yours.
5) Leave a message for your nominees on their blogs.
So here are mine…
Two from Jared Shear who is a prolific and talented painter. His one-a-day paintings of Cougar Peak for a whole year, blogged on Cougar peak-a-Boo are an incredible testament to the environment.
His more general Blog Terra Peer is worth a good look.
Next is Janey’s Journey because she can do super simple sketches with fantastic flair. I am always inspired.
PrashArt is a master of line & wash. Open this full size image for example.
Simplicity and serenity.
I have been watching Helen Nehill‘s creative stuff on flickr – sort of a blogger, and a creator of Zines.
Elizabeth Love, New Zealand Colour, texture and composition. And a friend of the Agantighe.
Seventh: Lisa Rivas, Flying Colours. I am mentioning Lisa even though she already has the BW award. She is a great blogger, and does digital work – there is the connection.
I am following on with images from the blogs all of the blogs mentioned. Click on the images to go to their blogs. I hope that is ok by the bloggers, let me know if not & I will remove.
Jing Presentation
Interesting Flash Technology. I want to put it to better use!
Circles – and a square
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Acrylics
I photographed some of my acrylic 600 x 600 paintings. Here is an Earth Cross and a detail. Following that are more. I have posted these before, but these images are better.
Earth Crosses
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Earth Crosses
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June 2008 – All Images
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Landscapes at The Daily Grind / The Vault
The show is on. All week Landscape Portraits have been on the walls at the café in the design store. On Tuesday lunchtime we celebrated the “opening ” with a bunch of friends.
I’ll put more photos up soon.
Here is the wording in that card on the wall.
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Sketch
Tired, too much to do, but got this one as I diverted from the essentials.
Red texture
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Square version follows. I prefer it!
Gallery Update
I have tweaked the Gallery considerably. It now has my current draft Bio and My Art statement. (comments on that welcome as I am about to use those more in various places!)
I am working on adding links from the images ion the gallery to their original appearance in a blog post. It is in the blog post that there is more info about the context and where there may be discussion about the image.
I use a flash plugin: SimpleViewer. Great for ease of use. I think I may need to get the pro version… anyone familiar with that? I’ve manually entered what I want in the first three images in the Flax page in the Gallery.
Painting day – a question about acrylic technique.
I worked hard today painting in acrylics. Not much to show for it, nothing to post here in real media, (still waiting for my camera, it arrived from Hong Kong but its at the airport till Monday, but there is nothing to photograph anyway.) I was trying to translate a #0736 Trees from the Thousand Sketches and it was hard. This sort of digital to physical is a challenge.
One thing I did, in a moment of frustration with real paint, was a new digital. It just flew out. It is like the one I was using for a reference, with a subtly different feel.
Bush
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It is now obvious why I found it hard. The mottled effect is done digitally by setting the paper to very rough on those layers. The light spots are pits in the “paper”. Maybe I need to forget about being too true to my digital version & go with the medium? Or maybe persist?
How would you do this in acrylic?