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messing about in the sun

sion — Sun, 15 Aug 2010 17:03:55 +0000

yesterday Denise came over & we did a bit of playing with various media – neocolour & inktense pencils, india ink, paint & and some exhausted dye. My little pencil landscape jobby is lame proof of how much I hate trying to do landscapes. My desire for realism (or at least truth & meaning) . . . → Read More: messing about in the sun

magnolia free

sion — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 12:48:18 +0000

re covering up the design guideline thingies: gel medium and gesso = fail. Texture paste, however, slathered on thick & smooth, appears to have been a win. I think I’m leaving the previous one as is, and this one might be finished enough too. Oh no that’s right; there’s one incongruously still-green leaf . . . → Read More: magnolia free

magnolia too

sion — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 17:23:58 +0000

not finished, but I’m tempted to retain the sort of fading-to-nothing effect of the rough placement lines rather than painting it all solid … shall see. Equally tempted to put it aside for the time being and paint the completely-dead shrivelled thing it is now, but having issues with the other canvases the same size . . . → Read More: magnolia too

magnolia

sion — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 10:33:07 +0000

I think, anyway. Been eyeing off a pair of trees on opposite sides of the street for weeks on the way to/from the toothless terror’s school, and the other day one of the owners was pruning so I begged for a branch & brought it home to paint. Of course by the time I . . . → Read More: magnolia

from the ceramics workshop

sion — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 13:41:56 +0000

one of my workshop buddies sent me the pics I took on her phone at the workshop (my camera’s batteries went flat on the last day, naturally).

This was the first torso. The second (the one I posted the other day) is supposed to be all distorted, FTR – it’s not about pregnancy, it’s about the kidney . . . → Read More: from the ceramics workshop

an intro to ceramics

sion — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 13:54:17 +0000

I’ve spent 5 days these holidays doing a ceramics workshop with Geoff (head of the art dept). Paperclay is cool. That’s proper kiln-fired clay, not this stuff, just for the record – real mud containing a buttload of recycled paper plus nifty stuff called deflocculants and suchlike. Bloody cold to dip . . . → Read More: an intro to ceramics

in case you needed to know …

sion — Wed, 12 May 2010 12:59:14 +0000

awesome diagram. ‘Scuse norty bits.

I’m just back from a school excursion to Sydney for the Biennale, so I’m too buggered (and in demand from the small blonde person) to write a proper post. Had a ball . . . → Read More: in case you needed to know …

creative by the sea

sion — Tue, 04 May 2010 14:27:52 +0000

Anyone going up? As of today, Wendy Martin has her hot little hands on (amongst other things) a stack of Betta patterns and some of the specially-dyed fabric to make them with. We also sell the same fine cotton poplin we make all our dyed fabrics with in black for the Betta background, so . . . → Read More: creative by the sea

technology is awesome

sion — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 16:15:22 +0000

proof of finished drypoint plate:

test proof (on scraps) of etching plate that goes underneath to add colour:

composite done in corel to give an idea of how the two will work together in the final print (any grey tone in the etching will be either blue or red in the edition. Possibly green too):

it’s VERY cool . . . → Read More: technology is awesome

drawing a blank …

sion — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 15:03:31 +0000

for a post title.

More stuff wot we bin doin at school. I won’t bore you with the pictures, but we’ve to do TWENTY drawings of a white bowl in our sketchbooks. Or a bucket, if you’d prefer. TWENTY. The same bowl/bucket, but it’s okay to change angles a little between each drawing. . . . → Read More: drawing a blank …