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FreQee Exhibition

FreQee Art Show

Opening Night FRIDAY 31 AUGUST 7pm.. POWERHOUSE, NEW FARM, BRISBANE

From the organisers of last year's Dex exhibition comes this year's installment featuring Qees painted by about 50 or so local Brisbane artists.

Here is my Qee so far. Want to know what exactly is a Qee? click here

The Approaching Horizon

A small piece I did a couple of weeks ago.

The Contents Of The Package

If you've read any of my previous post regarding The Package, you will know that it's a children's book I've been working on over the last year.


The story is about Barry who discovers a package that has fallen off the back of a truck and the adventure he has during his attempts to deliver the package to it's destination.


The mystery of the story is what's actually in the package? Here is a clue.....

If you really want to know what's in the package, you will have to wait for the book to come out.

The Package Has Been Delivered

T-Shirt Design

A friend of mine asked if I wanted to design a t-shirt for this project. I'm not exactly sure what the project involves, but www.tuhi.com.au should have some details up eventually.

The Machine

What is this Machine? What does it do?
If you want to know, you have to wait for me to finish the children's book I'm currently working on, titled The Package.
Yes, I have been working on this for a while now and yes, I've almost finished. I'm very happy at the way it is all piecing together. Not long now!

Juxtapoz Reader's Art

One of my paintings made it into the Reader's Art section on the Juxtapoz website. This is my second piece to be displayed there.

So It Goes, Kurt Vonnegut

Kurt Vonnegut passed away at the age of Eight-Four.

Vonnegut's amusing cynicism of human behaviour and imagination inspires me greatly, not only with my drawings and writing but when just generally thinking about life.

As a self described Humanist, therefore Atheist, Vonnegut once gave a eulogy for a fellow Humanist joking, "He's in heaven now". I'm sure Kurt would've made this comment with his own mortality in mind and appreciated the joke a second time round.

This obituary pretty much sums up Vonnegut's writing career and life.

I Am Dragon

Floating On The Red Sea

Greenback

Luft Garten

Segment of a pic I'm currently working on.

Floating Monkey

Here is a floating monkey piece I painted recently.

Labyrinth Exhibition

Labyrinth Exhibition

Here are a couple of pieces I will be showing in the Labyrinth exhibition at CBD Gallery.

The show runs for two weeks beginning the 23rd of March. CBD Gallery is located at 3/99 Elizabeth St, Brisbane (above Govinda's restaurant).

I was going to show some other pieces as well but time kind of got away with me over the last few weeks and I ran out of time (as you probably guessed by my lack of posts).

Anyway, the CBD guys run a show a month so if this one goes well I might do some more. We'll see.

Flies TSB, Part Two

Finished.

Flies TSB, Part One

My latest TSB is located on the corner of Edward & Mary St in Brisbane.

I chose my Flies pic for this one for it's obvious city theme only I modified the sad green fly-like guys to busy eyed business men rushing along with their ties waving behind them.

I work on the same street and pass this box every day in the mad rush of the peak hour pedestrian traffic so I though this design was appropriate.

During the painting of this box I decided that setting up and painting in the middle of the city on a Friday gets you a lot of attention, mostly from crazies but the odd sane, nice person would comment or smile or whatever. And I now realize that pedestrians have no regard for witch's hats! C'mon people they're there for a reason!

With so many people rushing by I got a little distracted, but by the time I reached this stage it seemed to come together.

Anything To Say?

Today's quote on my desk calendar reads:

There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say - unless you insist on saying it.

- Anonymous

I thought this was somehow appropriate to my blog and probably just blogs in general. I mean, c'mon, when you think about it, in the history of all civilization ideas, theories, philosophies, stories have been fairly successfully communicated without the aide of blogs. Don't get me wrong, there are some really entertaining, interesting and informative blogs out there and then there is a whole load of crap (I'll let you decide which category this blog falls into).

There, I had nothing to say and insisted on saying it.

Which leads me to today's post .

I finally got around to finishing this one off.

I've Been Juxtapoz-ed

I managed to get the Alice In Wonderland piece displayed in the reader art section on the Juxtapoz website.

Grasshopper And Girl Pic Completed

The finished product. The colouring turned out a little different than how I expected, but it nice and dark so I'm happy.

There are only a couple of minor things I would change in this pic, but I've spent so much time on it already and its looking pretty good so I might leave it, at least for now.

Click on the below pics for detail.

Grasshopper Guy Meets Girl

We're slowly getting there now. I think I have a tendency to overwork some of my pictures so instead of lingering too long on this one segment of the pic I'd better give the other aspects a bit of a catch up otherwise it might not all fit together.

Anyway this part is turning out pretty well.

Click on this pic for detail.

Freaky Grasshopper Guy ( I need to think of a better title)

Last night I concentrated on the Grasshopper guy and the machinery behind him. There is no new work on the background though.

I have yet to add shadows, tones etc. That can wait until all the elements are in place then I can work out specific light paths and how then how the objects perform in that light.

Coming along nicely, yes? I think it will be worth my lack of sleep.

Freaky Grasshopper Guy, Work In Progress

So anyway, here is the beginnings of this so far untitled pic. I've still yet to add the girl in the foreground, some statues and pretty much the whole background, but you can get a fair idea of how it could turn out.

Freaky Grasshopper Guy

This guy here is part of a new piece I'm currently working on.

He's giving directions. Can't you tell?

This one might take me a while. My idea for this one keeps getting more detailed as I sketch it out.

I know, I should be working on The Package. This is just a slight detour.

The Package Parade

Getting close to the end of The Package now.

Jimmy & Emaciated Chicken

Jimmy & Emaciated Chicken. A story about a demonically possessed boy and an underfed chicken.

TSB, Day Four

Monday morning and I'm finished.

I'm usually on a bus at this time, heading to work, but today I added the final touches to the TSB.

I think it turned out pretty good. I posted the original a couple of weeks ago for comparison.

TSB, Day Three

Sunday morning was very overcast. I decided to do as much as I could before it started to rain.

I had a couple of hours before I felt rain drops, so I packed up my gear and took this photo.

Realising there was absolutely no chance of rain, I unpacked the gear again and managed a couple more hours work.

TSB Day Two

By the end of Saturday afternoon the background was looking pretty good. You could get more of an idea of what the picture actually was.

TSB, Day One

Not too impressive yet, I know. I did the undercoat in the early hours of Sunday morning.

Getting up at 5:30, which for me is very rare, I drove to the box, set up and proceeded to paint the white undercoat. It was then that I realised that I had forgotten to bring along the sketch to work from.

I drew what I could remember and went back home to pick up the sketch thinking I needed to wait for the undercoat to dry properly anyway.

I got home, grabbed the sketch and thought I'll have a quick coffee to get my head in working order. Drove back to the box, set up again........ I left the sketch on the coffee table.

Repeat previous two paragraphs minus the coffee and the forgetting the sketch part and I was ready to get into action.

I managed to get the total undercoat and preliminary colours for the painting finished and get home as the kids were getting up.

I'm not sure when I will get a chance to back to do some more work on it, but it will hopefully be sometime during the week.

TSB Or Not TSB.... What Was The Question?

Soon I will begin painting another TSB (Traffic Signal Box) and thought it would be worthy enough to do a preliminary post to show my thoughts about the design stage of the project.



I was a little unsure what I should paint at first but then came across this old pic I did years ago which I still find amusing. You can't go wrong with tiny aliens! Artforce gave me approval for the design but asked if I could make him look happier. The irony is that the guy's expression whilst being fondled by the alien was pretty much the whole point of the picture.

But then I sketched this.....






It is sort of a reinvisioning of the first pic and hopefully is a little more easy on the general public's eye. Also the nose picking alien in the background is gone (I guess I don't find nose picking as funny as I used too. I'm must be getting old.).




This is kind of how I see the colours to look, but I expect this finished box to look somewhere in between the original pic and the new design. They never really turn out how I expect when I begin.

I'll post some photos as I go.

Rob is engulfed with Xmas spirit

I'm taking a break over Xmas and New Years, not that I've been posting much anyway.

I hope you all have a happy and safe holiday!! Back in 2007.

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