Another cross.
Drama
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Dame Edna – Barry Humphries – Art Online
Barry Humphries will go head to head with his alter ego, Dame Edna Everage, tomorrow in a public battle for artistic appreciation. The 73-year-old Australian star, who is recovering from peritonitis that almost killed him earlier this month, has decided to go ahead with the launch of his innovative online art gallery. Humphries has painted seriously since his teens and has agreed to be at the centre of a new art project that will allow internet users not just to download his work for free, but to alter it.
Free paintings and the right to alter them. I wonder if you can also sell them on!
I am interested as my own copyright is loose, but more restricted.
There is one difference, he has the original, in the case of my digitals you can access the actual original. (ask me for the URL)
I am looking forward to seeing these, when I find them I will make another post.
Paint? More from the workshop…
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Here is another cross. This one is a hybrid. The back-ground is paint and the verticals are digital. There is no original either, the base image was from a shot I took of part of the canvas, resized from landscape to square, beefed up the image in post-production. I think it will make a good print.
I still have the 600×600 mm original acrylic but it got tortured out of recognition! A lot of agony & ecstasy.
This one shows a some of what I learned over the three days. Layers. Removing paint in a variety of ways. I will keep going with this. More hybrids, and perhaps the other way around too! I could print the vertical on the texture.
My goal is to make a set of physical ones.
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Some more from the workshop soon, I still have the photos to take.
Later: Saturday, 5 July, 2008
This image is now featured in the Gallery
Re-worked Landscapes
These two are familiar. I used images from Thousand Sketches but did them anew. Subtly different, more in tune with where I am at now.
Hills
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Mt. Lyford
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Transition
I popped in a few casual doodles a few days ago. They appeal more now when I look at them after having had six days tramping. It is the time in the hills that confirmed the landscape project. Now I can see those few doodles as real transition pieces from one project to the next. Look at this one, I don’t think I posted it yet. Looks like a nice sort of bookend to me.
(Later: I had posted it but it did not show??)
Transition
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This reminds me of a story I heard that John Badcock, between series or projects does a self portrait as Christ, makes sense to me.
PS: John Badcock mentioned in Thousand Sketches here and here and here.
Landscapes
North Canterbury
A new project. Landscapes. Unsure as ever but need to follow this. As in the Earth Crosses the starting point is Thousand Sketches. One or two are coming straight over as part of the new series, but mostly I am redoing old ones and making new ones. I want to find about a dozen I like.
Some new aspects I am noticing. The calligraphic lines, all of them in this series. while digital, will have this, I am pursuing this. The other new thing is that I will use these sketches to make oils. I will post them as I do them but on the whole I’d like to present a selected set of them, digital images and corresponding oils.
What I like is that via the blog the unity of the work is maintained. These images can “phone home”.
I wrote this to a friend who commented on my work:
“The whole cyberspace side of it is important to me, I think it will impact art more and more. The objects, even when one off and in paint etc, can have a ‘virtual life’ as well, they can forever be linked to the artists words and to other items in the project or series… books & letters did it occasionally, but it was complex, hit and miss. I think it is a significant step in this era. So I am glad you noticed that aspect of the work.”
Metal III
Steel III
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Metal II
Metal II
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This one came from the same impulse as the last, but without the paper texture.
Pentimento, nice word
Pentimento – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A pentimento (plural pentimenti) is an alteration in a painting, evidenced by traces of previous work, showing that the artist has changed his mind as to the composition during the process of painting. The word derives from the Italian pentirsi, meaning to repent.
Mine don’t show the traces but I repent, repent, repent.
Here is one I like and just tweaked:
What follows is the previous saved version.
Green Peace
Green Peace
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This is one of the Earth Crosses, for some reason I had not posted it up. So here it is.
Later: Saturday, 5 July, 2008
This image is now featured in the Gallery
It was also the basis for an acrylic:
Acrylic Green Peace
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