Bird of Death III ( suffering and faith)

Bird of Death III

Four Birds

Sketch from notebook

Bird of Death II

Bird of Death II

This pic gives you a reasonable idea of the size of the paper Im using. Here I've used medium willow charcoal, Flat black Acrylic enamel paint and Gesso Canvas Primer on A1 cartridge. Havent used charcoal in ages!! To me, the point with art is, NEVER GIVE UP!! No matter how many bad pictures you do, or how many times you fail at what you want to achieve, or how many times you look at the skill of other artists and hang your head, sooner or later, something will emerge that is worthwhile... Or at least, seems to be at the time:)


This is the slop pile out of which things grow...It aint pretty. But Id have to admit that neither is the finished product, really:)

More Suffering and faith..

Bought some sheets of A1 cartridge, some cheap enamel acrylic from the hardware shop, (ok, Bunnings) and some Gesso primer. Like "drawing" with paint. In the words of Robert Klippel, "trying to free myself up a bit."

Suffering and Faith

The twins

Skull

Sculptural Thinking

Still trying to think sculpturally about the human figure... particularly the female torso... Thumbed through a book about Giacommetti in the NGV bookshop last week. INSPIRING!!

Another Sketch for "the shoppers"

Wanting to do some large drawings on A2 sized paper that express something powerful about the world we live in. Yet to move beyond the A4 visual diary/sketchbook stage, however.

Thumbnails

Made a random impulse purchase of some Derwent Graphic soft sketching pencils that were "on sale" ranging from an H to a 9B compound. Some thumbnails...

Expressionist Face

Loveistruelife

Inspired by someones profile name on a singles networking site. I think from now on, this blog will serve as the forum for all of my art work, instead of breaking it up into "categories." Not sure what I will do with the other one yet.

Paper Mache' Torso (work in progress)

Paper Mache' is still fun when your thirty five years old. And still really cheap too!!