I am leaving today for London (for 2 days) for a job interview, so won't be getting any art done for a week or so. I'll blog you when I get back Pete |
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Wednesday, October 8, 2008
Off to sunny ole London
Sunday, October 5, 2008
Whats On The Easel
Have you noticed the dates all screwed up on my blog entries.. I think I have found a bug in the blog system.. If I edit an entry, it adds a day to the entry date... weird. Anyway.. 2 down... I have officially finished the sneakers, and the bowl.. still working on the strawberries (haven't done anything since last time... damn that crimson takes a long time to dry), and the cointreau and cigars. first the sneakers. I had to finish off some details.. eyelets, laces, paint drips, stitching etc.. On here, as photos it may look as if I haven't done much at all. You'll just have to see it in the flesh.   Pete |
Friday, August 29, 2008
Archibald Prize 2009
Debbie-Lee came to me the other day and mentioned she had met someone who would be a good subject for the 2009 Archibald Prize. She had met Ivan through mutual friends. Ivan is an Indiginous actor on stage and film. He is also one of the stolen generation, so he not only fits the arts, sciences, letters & politics criteris of the Archie, but is quite topical in this year of saying sorry our aboriginal brothers and sisters who were taken from their families as children.
I met Ivan last week and we discussed the project. We were keen to try and represent something of Ivans life rather than just a pictograph. We decided to try and portray the inner conflict Ivan has... being born into Aboriginal culture, yet raised by white foster families.
Our initial sitting just consisted of discussing the project and outlining a few ideas as rudimnentry block sketches. Then we set a date for a sitting that culminated in a number of photographs that I could use as reference material for the final painting.
I then spent some time formatting the outline in my mind, and finally put pencil to paper to create some study sketches to test the viability of the cencept I had in mind.
These are the final two.. I have decided on the second sketch as it portrays more of Ivan's features and poses him as standing proud as an Australian Aboriginal, comfortable in his heritage. The surrounding figures are various poses representing the westernised Ivan, complete with accompanying mixture of emotions.
What do you think?
Or, version 2.
Comments are always welcome.....:)
I met Ivan last week and we discussed the project. We were keen to try and represent something of Ivans life rather than just a pictograph. We decided to try and portray the inner conflict Ivan has... being born into Aboriginal culture, yet raised by white foster families.
Our initial sitting just consisted of discussing the project and outlining a few ideas as rudimnentry block sketches. Then we set a date for a sitting that culminated in a number of photographs that I could use as reference material for the final painting.
I then spent some time formatting the outline in my mind, and finally put pencil to paper to create some study sketches to test the viability of the cencept I had in mind.
These are the final two.. I have decided on the second sketch as it portrays more of Ivan's features and poses him as standing proud as an Australian Aboriginal, comfortable in his heritage. The surrounding figures are various poses representing the westernised Ivan, complete with accompanying mixture of emotions.
What do you think?
Or, version 2.
Comments are always welcome.....:)
Friday, July 25, 2008
Artists in Residence - Thailand
Debbie-Lee and I just returned from 12 days in wonderful Phuket, lying on the beach and everything else that goes with a vacation at a tropical resort.
We stayed at the Kata Thani on Kata Noi beach, the southern most beach on the western side of Phuket. Kata Noi is pretty quiet and doesn't have all the razamataz that Patong has, so we went into Patong on a couple of the rainy days to do some shopping, site seeing etc.
I was amazed at the number of art galleries and of the resident artists that sit there all day and paint for the tourists. From a skill standpoint they are very talented, and can create a very reasonable copy of any painting you give them a photo of... Want a Van Gogh in your loung room, a Dali in the study.. no problem, and all for about A$100.
Two things struck me...
1) How little these artists get paid for their work, yet they create quite good works of art
and
2) How unfullfilling it must be to spend every day copying someone elses art work, or at least someone elses style.
In the U.S. there are many "art galleries" that are about the size of a small Bunnings that focus on selling this type of affordable art. In the U.S they source from Mexico, where I presume they have the same sorts of art factories as I saw in Phuket. I know that you can also source these paintings from Indonesia and the Philippines, and I guess many other 3rd world countries.
In Australia, although a few of these "affordable art" stores exist, it is not a phenomenom that has taken hold.... but when it does, it will not bode well for the local art industry.. Think a struggling artist has it tough today... wait till they are competeing with $100 specials from Thailand.!!!!!
We stayed at the Kata Thani on Kata Noi beach, the southern most beach on the western side of Phuket. Kata Noi is pretty quiet and doesn't have all the razamataz that Patong has, so we went into Patong on a couple of the rainy days to do some shopping, site seeing etc.
I was amazed at the number of art galleries and of the resident artists that sit there all day and paint for the tourists. From a skill standpoint they are very talented, and can create a very reasonable copy of any painting you give them a photo of... Want a Van Gogh in your loung room, a Dali in the study.. no problem, and all for about A$100.
Two things struck me...
1) How little these artists get paid for their work, yet they create quite good works of art
and
2) How unfullfilling it must be to spend every day copying someone elses art work, or at least someone elses style.
In the U.S. there are many "art galleries" that are about the size of a small Bunnings that focus on selling this type of affordable art. In the U.S they source from Mexico, where I presume they have the same sorts of art factories as I saw in Phuket. I know that you can also source these paintings from Indonesia and the Philippines, and I guess many other 3rd world countries.
In Australia, although a few of these "affordable art" stores exist, it is not a phenomenom that has taken hold.... but when it does, it will not bode well for the local art industry.. Think a struggling artist has it tough today... wait till they are competeing with $100 specials from Thailand.!!!!!
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