painting, drawing, painting, drawing, painting

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.

Interested?

a couple of drawings that i finished recently, the first one i was planning on selling at some point and the other one was just a sketch that will probbaly end up in a drawer or other non-descript pile somewhere rotting, so let me know if yer interested.

this first image is before colour

this second one is after colouring, you decide which is best...


going to try to post more loose works like these as they are created, like an online gallery, just until i pull my act together to get a real website. so let me know if you are interested in purchasing some original artwork

a lengthy process

just thought i would drop a sneak preview of some sculptural pieces i have in the works. These are part of an ongoing project that i have been working on at different times over the past few years, keep your ear to the ground

Paper-Chasing

Originally this blog was intended for the specific purpose of the exploration of artiistic pursuits integrated with the urban realm, however i have decided that rather than create an entirely new blog page i would instead broaden the scope of this page to incorporate more of my artistic pursuits.

Recently i have found myself without a real space to get messy by way of studio practice and as a result i have sought to alter my practice by returning to primarily dry medium. First stop: Paper town!

I been hitting the sketch book pretty hard to explore a few ideas and just get the movement rolling, so kick back, relax and enjoy a few recent pages of my sketch book......