Wandering the woods

I'm off for a bit.
Be back soon.

Take care

Six

Cliftons Art Prize 2012

Have just entered the Cliftons Art Prize for 2012, my first art contest/competition/whatever.

I finished a portrait of my wife a while ago and felt it best represented what I have enjoyed about painting so far;

Work#10 (Emily) 2011

Check it out if you have some spare time;   http://www.cliftonsartprize.com/

My good friend Raoul has also entered a work of his which should not go unseen, check out some of his older stuff here http://www.raoulart.freeservers.com/photo3_2.html

Great. Thats it, you can go to bed now.

Six

Time, why dost thou mock me?!

Too much work and not enough artwork lately, not a ratio I'm particularly happy about!

New project on the way, its for a good mate so secret squirrels atm, photos to follow =)

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.


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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.