Schools out

Had our last exhibition of the year last week, lots and lots of hard, frustrating work, lots of tears and a few tantrums.

My only advice to anyone considering a group showing of art is to show up right at the end when everyone else has finished all the actual work, grab a glass of bubbly, laugh with the punters; and enjoy it.

So thats it then, no more art school for me. One week back at work and I'm already missing it =(
Oh well...

Not sure what happens from here on. I'm told a degree comes my way at some point, and until then I'll just keep on keeping on with what I do best.

Which, of course, is over to you for validation =)



Oh yeah, and I sold this;


"Black over under Black" 2011
Mixed media on board

Ps; The second paragraph isn't what I actually consider the right approach, but often feel like doing.


Six

Recording again

Its true.
So after reading a surprising comment in my TLC mentor's end of term assessment , it looks like I'll be recording more epic/random juice to vitalize the ears with.

Cool.

White Cloud Weekend!

Spent a Western Front of a weekend under the strict lash of Paul Tobin( http://paultobin.co.nz/?page=show&category=1 ) and Ben Wooten( http://benwootten.com/?page=home ) a couple of days ago at the latest White Cloud Worlds Workshop.
Nothing like having two prominent concept designers kicking your flabby civilian art into shape for ten hours a day!

I have to admit to being a little pensive going in as the brief was kept a secret till all the students were safely chained to their oars. Happily though the subject in question turned out to be a long time favourite movie of mine; Kurt Russell's 'Big Trouble in Little China'!

Having had a bit of difficulty in overcoming the last brief I had undertaken at the workshop (yes, the one that led to a tantrum and several girlish screams...) I decided to keep thing simple this time and just do the one character... which of course had to be David Lo Pan =) (We all love the villains eh?)

Deciding not to be too boring I went for the wild (but semi-achievable) concept of a futuristic Japanese Lo Pan in his mortal form, suspended by an anti-grav 'wheelchair'

Have a look below and see what you think, I'm going to be a typical artist and say 'its not finished yet' however thats just because I'm slow =(

With any luck the other students work will be posted on the Workshop website soon

I reckon you should check it out!  White Cloud Worlds Workshops

Ch ch ch Changes!

Thank you Mr Bowie

My wife pointed out to me the other night that trying to keep up with three progress blogs simultaneously might be a handful. She's usually right so I figured what the hell,
 I'll just dove-tail it all into this one. To enhance your browsing pleasure I have (laboriously) 
added a 'labels' tab to the sidebar to allow you to be transported to the section of your 
interest. 


Please enjoy the upcoming posts involving such activities as; modeling,
 scratch building, customizing and even a bit of music from time to time =)


Splendid.

...and two more from way back =)

I quite like the second one.
Yes I know it has pink on it....

New painting.

Not sure what to call this one yet.

Unseen Nz Landscape #1 (a bigger one)

Art Degree process painting #1

Bizarre. But here it is...

Heres the (supposed) final result of my first erasure process painting.


The erasure in this case comes mainly from painting over existing layers although there are places when I decided to wipe away wet or semi dry paint and there are also areas of scraped and 're-deposited' pigment. One interesting by product of the palette knife scraping is the removal of hard, dried pigment from either the work or  my mixing palette itself (as I never really clean them....lazy) This leads to bizarre spots of otherwise unused pigment turning up all over the place. Very satisfying =)

I have titled this work 'Unseen NZ Landscape #1' as for some reason the shapes remind me of the NZ coastline and the colour palette seems to lean that way also.

I could have called it 'Ugrub leads the donkey to victory' 
But then no one would get it...

Miz May

Second 'Babe a month' beauty. Went for a different feel for this one. Bit 'Froudian' I suppose.

Bacon.

Woops!

...and before I forget!


Check out my Deviant art at (link) Sixhawks in a bit and there should be some better quality shots of the Grobin triplets!

Bacon

SuperHeroic May

Grobin! (again)

Lots of fun with these pics, varying the order and approach to resolving the paintings. Think I'm becoming quite fond of old Grobin so dont be surprised to see him pop up more often =)

Cheers!

Gun Girl, a bigger one...

Here she is at full size.

Girl+Gun =GunGirl

Just a quick tone study from last night. My hat's off to the original cosplayer, a wonderful likeness =)

Doppelganger

Heres that self portrait I was working on a month back.

Random fantasy for April

Going for a babe a month as a drawing tool. Here's Miz April

More me

Couple of self portrait roughs fallen by the wayside.

We can work it out.

Some digi painting from today, and the Beatles.






 

And another thing...

Cant remember if this NightWang was sketched first or not. Just liked this face a lot  =)

Oh, and there you go then

Recent stuff, lots of blank canvas and boards about to go rampant.

 And a better photo of Grobin =)

High in fiber, once a week...

Post once a week, I can do that... right?

Some now, rest later

So much to do right now...

Heres a selection of some finished/semi finished works from the last couple of weeks.


'NightWang', a commission for my sister. Had a lot of fun trying not to be rude with this idea...

-GROBIN HOT TEEN WUNDER-

 Also for my sister. 'Grobin' was painted on board for her birthday last week, Happy birthday sis!

 Two random sketches from my upcoming comic... lots of work to go on that...

The title for my friends new web page (based around a lovely painted work of his, I wont take the credit for that!)

...And as for my degree work? 

Yep, well I could go into the formula behind this, but I'm not going to...

Triple threat

Sound, drawing and paint work coming up.
Who's a busy boy then?

Getting into it

Two new pieces for my digital painting study this year. Always loved Goya's work =)

Scary Dairy

Being very inspired by Jerry Goldsmith lately, expect some scary 'Alien' inspired sounds soon...   < : O

'Red Camaro' sound byte #1

Heres the first track Rah and I have been working on together.
Haven't had much practice with mastering so bear with me. Anyone out there who knows anything about mastering can feel free to let me know of any glaring audible atrocities ok =)

Enjoy

http://tlcstudents.ac.nz/blogs/timothyhackett/files/2011/03/CAMARO.mp3

Audio soon

So the new project for school is to create an audio art piece.
Cant be that hard can it?

Well, yes it can!

With any luck will have the track Rah and I are currently working on up in the next week,  spent most of today messing around with mics and interfaces so thoroughly over it now =p

Think I'll break out the Zither and freak out for a bit
.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQRMrYPnWcQ&feature=related


More pics soon, and a bit of prelim sketch work.

Flobbalob

New painting started today, results later.
I hope...

Pic

Some people say I look like this.
Not sure what to think about that?

Start loose, tighten up later

Or so they tell me  =)

Lovely weather over the last two weeks so here are a few works in progress.

And I am a materiality girl

Two weeks into my Adv art Dip and things are going well, I think.
Lots of new words, a few pretty intense arguments over the idea of 'imprinted art classification and evaluation' (much fun) And a whole load of experimenting with, well, anything at hand really.
I'd show some of this but to be honest I really want to be able to explain it as I go so bear with me and I shall endeavor to make sense of what it is I am doing.
One very interesting development is the possibility of me majoring in creative sound art, yes in italics.

Haha! Yes enthralling...

A few artists to take note of this week (if you are down on inspirational action or whatnot) Louise Bourgeois, Robert Raushenberg, Marcel Duchamp, Yoshihara Jiro, Eva Hesse and Katharina Fritsch.

Heres to next week =)

oh yes and a pic

Take it easy kids

NACHOOOOOOOOOOU!

Nacho Libre played a couple of nights ago and I had forgotten how much I really liked this movie

I feel all inspired now =)