Monday, September 5, 2011

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

Saturday, July 16, 2011

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.

Wednesday, June 8, 2011

...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)

Sunday, June 5, 2011

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...

Thursday, May 26, 2011

Miz May



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

Bacon.