Bird lady

Okay I forgot to take pictures of the exhibition, so that will happen soon. But here's some details of what I'm trying to play around with at the moment.

Redrew the sketch on the computer, I was trying to emulate the rough lines I get while drawing with ballpoint pen. I fixed up the pose and the feathers.


Some rough colours to test out the scheme, for some reason I always end up playing around with colouring ladies in shades of blue and green.


A close up, not sure if I want to leave it as simple colouring.


A close up, playing around with the shading.

musings

Gwah, only a few more days till the exhibition and it's getting a little frentic. I'm going to take some pictures of the place this morning so they'll be up tomorrow. It's all very exciting, it was one big hub of activity yesterday and promises to be the same today.

Anima/Animus Redux is mounted on some board and is downstairs as part of the main exhibition. Anima/Animus is upstairs since it didn't really fit downstairs. All well, at least they all get displayed.

I have an interview with QUT this Friday, which is really unexpected since I was very sure I wasn't going to get looked at since my portfolio's was pretty dodgy. I'm still wavering over the art versus game design thing but it does look like I'm more likely to go for game design.

I did talk to a few teachers and it seems like I always say "If I have to do something commercial then it may as well be something I like". So maybe "art" will be a part-time thing. Though for me it's very hard to seperate the two, I like them equally as much but for slightly different reasons.

Seems like I'm finding a fair few things to stick in this blog. Here's some drawings from Drawing class.




This set is more of a process of how I went from little sketch, to bigger one to finalised piece.

Doodling

Had a showing of everyone's final works, and "Anima/Animus caused bit of a stir. Mainly because it's supposably an unexpected side to my personality or as how people know me.

Here's some sketches of some drawings I want to fiddle around with during the holiday while I await for the uni entry rounds. Fingers crossed.

Scribble

The rope sculpture installation is finished. It's almost like a set of strange Christmas decorations. Thanks go to Ray, Stephan, Cherie and Ted for helping me out with this yesterday.

Final Battle

Just about finished, hopefully the first 8 of these are going into the exhibition. Glad to get them done and I feel pretty happy with them. It's my first time doing something this big and a lots happened with them over the last 2-3 months.

So here's the final shots! The actual pictures aren't this dark but since they aren't with me I can't adjust the pictures accurately.

The Anima/Animus series
Mixed media drawings

Animus (Pussy)

Anima (Cock)

Animus(Bitch)

Anima(Beefcake)

Anima/Animus Redux series
Mixed media drawings

Hey Baby,Hello Ladies

Kiss Kiss Bangalore

She looks like she can suck

Muscle Mass

Redux Female

Redux Male

The last few months have been really amazing and it all ends this month. I've think I've come a long way and bizarrely grew up too. I'll post more when the exhibition ends.

Jump Start - Pictures of advanced project development
Fast Track - Progress shots and notes of changes to the project
Progress shots - Some progress shots from 12th Oct
Anima/Animus - Advanced progression of the project
Progress 5th Oct - Progress and notes of the project
Arist Statement 1.0 - The first version of the artist statement
September Progress - Some early progress shots
Project Arms2.0 - A discussion on changes in the project
Other Works" - Works that Project "Arms" reference
Project "Arms" hybrids - variants on Project Arms
Project "Arms" - All about the Project
A Look - Retrospective on past drawings

Promotions

This is the posters/flyers that we've been working hard to get around Brisbane, so hopefully people will come to the show. It was designed by the awe inspiring Natalie. You can check out more of her stuff at her DA account.



Some of the artist exhibiting:
Natalie Hogan
Teagan Watts
Ann Roworth
Alice Carpenter
Carly Milligan
Nick Simpson
Deborah Baas
Alichia Clements
David Mackee
Tegan Croft
Ann Valentine
Joanna Symons
Erin Miles
Thomas Heading

Jumpstart

I've been neglecting this blog lately since everything is moving really fast. Only about less (!) than two weeks till the exhibition. So here's some progress shots.

Had some troubles integrating the heads of the females so on the suggestion of a teacher, I went at it with a stanley knife. The result is quite nice, I was a bit worries but the more I look at it, the better I feel about it.



Not quite finished with these yet, they're almost there. These are "Anima/Animus Redux". Might get darker tones in here.





Some continuations of Redux, they are different now so some new shots will be coming up soon. It's really hard trying to find "smexy" male poses so I got a really good suggestion from a class mate for the man picture here.



Rope family's grown a bit, since last Tuesday, there's about eight pieces so we'll see if this installation will get finished.