Gardens and cows
general - No Comments » - Posted on August, 20 at 5:03 am
Yesterday I had the opportunity to walk through St Davids Gardens. These are very formal and border Salamanca Place. The stark bare branches are just fabulous at this time of year, but there is a hint of spring.
The magnificent magnolia’s are starting to light up the city with colour and form. Before I caught the bus into the city I played with an image that has been stuck in my head…
I just love the way the cows all look at you from their paddock - what is it they are saying? Just a bit of fun…
Legs again
my art, prints - No Comments » - Posted on August, 18 at 12:01 pm
The prints I’m working on at the moment - at least some of them - are aiming towards a little exhibition in October in the Top Gallery. It will be an opportunity for me to see if the group of prints work in an exhibition space, and say what I want them to say - whatever that is!
The above print is actually a detail from a larger print, but as always I’m drawn to the leg section rather than the whole. I’m working it as a print of just the legs as well. The thing about a lithograph is that it only lasts as long as the stone is kept with a protective coat of gum to seal the image tightly in, and of course as soon as you want to work up a new image thew stone is ground off, taking away the image layer. As opposed to the etching, which is on a plate that lasts as long as you want really. Discarded only to the scarp metal merchant, when all is said and done. I tend to be impatient with my lithograph stones, always wanting to move onto the next image, so I don’t tend to print many of each lithograph.
The print above is a combination of lithograph for the legs, etching for the flora and watercolour paint and ink to add detail.
Mountain views
mountain - No Comments » - Posted on August, 17 at 4:37 am
Catching the bus about the place means waiting at bus stops which means a few photo opportunities for catching the moods of the mountain. I have decided to delete the Mountain blog to make some extra space in my hosting account and just post my now occasional mountain views here. Above is a view from the shopping zone of Lenah Valley.
So for the quick glimpse at what is happening on Mount Wellington every now and then, it will appear here with mountain as a category and should theoretically be searchable under that!
Life’s a cup of tea
general, my art, prints - 2 Comments » - Posted on August, 15 at 2:17 pm
Everything seems to come to a point of intensity form time to time, and this seems to be one of those times. The car broke down, again, the computer - partners - got a serious virus that required a total format and there is a sudden pressure on the equipment at uni that just hasn’t been there for ages - right when my work is at one of those peaks where everything starts happening. After many hours, days weeks and months of preparation and small beginnings. But that’s life - isn’t it?
At least there is always a cup of tea.
Or perhaps even a gin and tonic on this rare occasion of plumbing the dark corners of stairways.
Anyway, the masters project is moving along and despite all my kicking and screaming it doesn’t look like finishing before June next year, when I will have all the projects I’m working on to a more finished degree and will surely be totally fed up with thinking about it! The above image is from the sequence of prints in the Precipice series, which may change title and display format at any time along the way to being deemed a finished piece! This print is two or three away from completing this group of nine, which may at any time turn into a group of twelve, or whatever. Such is the ambiguity at this point of the research and considering the effectiveness of the work. Ambiguity? Or is it flexibility? Must be time for that gin….
