Deconstructed Figure

Happy New Year

Summer in the Southern Hemisphere means homage to Brett Whiteley's beach motif

Tis the Season to be Drawing...

Can You Help Me?

The Notebook

I've been finding some rhythm with the keeping of the notebook, or visual diary as its called in Art School. I always struggled to keep a visual diary, as every time I opened it, I found the blankness of the page daunting. The blankness of my mind even scarier. Now, occasionally, I catch the ideas before they drift off into the fog. I have learned how to use one, mostly through years of trying and failing. Giving up. Starting again.

Having a visual diary, is incredibly helpful as it is the capturing of ideas rather than the refining of them that is important. I was told this often. I had only ever understood it as a restriction and a chore until recently.

These two are drawn from memory from real life.

The sweetest music...

The Waiting Room
Pencil and Gesso on A1 Cartridge

Inspired by triplets I saw at the doctors on Saturday, and the drawings of John Brack

Lament
Cardboard, Paper Mache, Gesso, acrylic and found object

I am really not one for tricky conceptual ideas. But I still like to play around with sculptural elements. Its something Ive been interested in for ages. Thats why I really like John Brack. He strips it all down to the basics.

Bad News?

I see the eyes of sick people all the time. Lying there waiting. Will it be bad news?

Nil by Mind

The waiting room

Ages ago, I saw this woman in a corridor of the hospital reading a tiny prayer book. She was rocking back and forward slightly and stopped when she noticed me passing.

Unfinished Business...

Still trying to work at the crusading violence theme and trying to transpose that onto our culture of acquisition and consumption. Have not made much headway with the last couple of drawings but this one is starting to head in the right direction. Still trying to take some small amount of inspiration from Goya's Caprichos. Not so much the style ( as if I could ever get near to him) but the ideas.

Not having much luck, really.

Noisy Miner

Sketch from notebook

Suffering and Faith

The twins

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...

Since its that time of year...

The Shoppers

The Ritual

Eat this scroll...

Fish head