Autumn [Impressionism]

 Autumn [Impressionism]

91cm x 61cm

Acrylic on Canvas

I apologise for the lack of updating, but with the slow set up of an art studio I've had little time to do any art, except this painting project I spanned out over 4 days. Experimenting with colour blending and testing out my new fan brush.

Fake Wine 101

Ok, it's not really a tutorial, or art, more..craft? But it's always fun to share tips and tricks if you have them. For my last major Photography collage project I needed one of the photos to depict a glass of wine. Now we have wine in the house, but I didn't want to use it as a prop because the wine drinker of the house probably wouldn't be too happy. So, to make FAKE red wine, I filled the glass prop with water, then added pink food colouring and coffee essence to make a dark red wine colour. Pink and brown, who knew? Here's the end result. Any thoughts feel free to comment below.


                                            Before                                                    After

 

Creativity VS Reality pt.2

The construction of my own little art studio is slowly under way. I spent from the hours of 9:30am to 4:30pm today cleaning and clearing space for me to work in, down the back of the house (behind the bar, lovely). More or less all my art supplies have been organized and are out of everyone's way. Now all that's left is the furniture to sort out...

Photo Manipulation

"La Rose"

Nikon D7000

Photo Manipulation

Photoshop CS5

Illustrator CS5

Model: Adrianna Zenuli

(More from this collection soon)

Reality VS Creativity

I know I'm not the only one who has troubles with having an appropriate space for creating art. My house has insufficient lighting, there is no room to place everything as the furniture in my room is too much bulk not enough storage. And today, when I left the house for one afternoon, my $%^*$@# little cousins came over and decided they don't need to respect other peoples property and went through and played with all my art belongings because my relatives let their kids do whatever the hell they like and don't give a rats ass what they do. Normally I'm home to prevent this, but when I'm not I feel violated because I know the adults think it's 'harmless' to let their shitlings $%^& around because art isn't a "real profession" to them.

So I've used the help of the MOJANG(c) game 'Minecraft' to build a virtual art studio I plan on constructing in the back yard regardless of what my parents say because I'm sick of my art (and art in general) being disrespected. Problem is, I'm not a carpenter or a builder and have very little money. Building an art space, even as small as 3m x 3m is going to be a challenging problem. But without determination and try there is no gain or success. (If there is anyone who knows of a handy DIY videos or articles on how to construct a small art studio please feel free to comment and/or link the information in a comment below.)

The idea of the construction and designing of the layout, all the creative stuff, is far easier than the reality of actually building it. Resources, budget, structure, space, etc. If this plan falls through I'm ditching having a bedroom and convert that into a studio and just sleep on the couch.

But anyway here's what my mind is wanting. (I just wish building really was as easy as plonking down a couple of wool blocks. 3 blocks = 1 meter)

       Padlocks. Need to invest in some padlocks.....

Comic In Progress-'Koala Revenge'

For those of you who don't know, I love comics, and as well as wanting to one day be an artist of all sorts, I want to be a professional graphic novel artist. So here's a little something I drew last year, but only recently started colouring. I will make more sense once speech bubbles are added. I thought of this in true Aussie spirit while watching the news.

Geisha

Apologies for no post yesterday, it was my sisters birthday so not much art was done. My creativity is still a bit thin and in need of recharging. So I've been doing some doodling today. Here's one thing I managed to put on paper. I think this might be good in watercolour.