Tuesday, April 27, 2010
recent developments
This is the finished work propped up on top of an older work. When (if) the sun comes up I will take another pictureAs the image progressed I started to realise that it is a good metaphor for life in a small and tight nit community. the interconnections, the tangles and surprising histories. The bulbs began to sprout mouths eyes and fingers. It got a bit weird for a while there before I managed to get these body parts back into some sort of order.
I needed to go bigger...this is three panels 80 Cm square
So I color coded each strand to enable me to follow the tangle and scaled everything up to an 80 CM square canvas.
This is a corner of a painting where I happened to find a washed up Shearwater tangled in seaweed. I found the seaweed interesting ...actually more interesting than any other thing.
A couple of landscape/still-life paintings 50x90 CM
You cant' step into the same room twice. (my current motto)
Monday, March 29, 2010
The other computer broke
Still painting; settling in to the routine essential for clearing the detritus.
I lost the little lead that joins the camera to this computer so cant' upload
Current struggle is to not actually try to make a 'good' picture; the best arrives quietly and without fanfare. Stealing into the corners and wilting if subject to the ego driven desire for greatness.
Clancy and Billy at the edge of the mighty Murray
Thursday, March 18, 2010
sheerwater skull and seaweed chalk on paper 50x35cm
A few hours of close exploration of the things we found at the beach on Wednesday.
Teasing out the intricacies is deeply satisfying
Now back to the housework
18th March
Study of Shearwater; washed up among the driftwood on Roaring BeachUsing chalk on black paper I am working from light-to-dark
12x10 CM
Acrylic on board.
40x30 CMA study of the blue winged parrot
I am trying to get the rhythm of the marks and colors to tell the story
Using many overlays of thin transparent colour
Wednesday, March 17, 2010
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