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The arts are looking up this year so far, well for my own participation anyway. So far this year i have painted a whole bunch of walls, in the process of finishing another drawing, several sculptures in the works, just completed a collaborative mural job, currently have some drawings in an exhibition and had another gallery contact me about an exhibition later in the year.

So its all looking up in terms of the creative process and opportunity knocking, now if i can start slinging some coin for these activities i will definitely be on the path of some definitive goal achievement.

heres a little taste of the mural we completed today, designed to brighten up a local child care centre. Being a child friendly place and the owners being pretty flexible we were able to rock a nice clean simple cartoonish style which was real fun to do rather than my usual slaving over attempting different fades and effects.


This is a another drawing in its pre colour stage, hopefully ill get it together to colour it tonight. The concept came from a quote by Plato 'Only the dead will see the end of war' which was in the prologue to a movie i watched the other night...well kind of watched....ah, it was on when i was drawing!

I have had no formal training in the creation of typefaces and to the trained eye it probably shows but i am pretty happy with how these drawings are shaping up overall. Once i get a few done and i am feeling the flow, i want to make some on a larger scale and on some better quality paper. At the moment i am making these with pencils and marker primarily but when i take the next step i ant to utilise watercolour or gouache to get the look of the backgrounds in old disney movies or that old book cover style feel.