Crudely chiseled features

13.5.10

4.5.10

This is a crop of a hi-res image of the sun taken by NASA's new Solar Dynamics Observatory. They're taking videos of the sun at some ridiculous resolution, showing insane detail. You can watch snippets. Maybe one day we can watch the sun live on big screen. Like fake fireplaces, and fish-tanks, only the sun in realtime. Awesome.

Way more awesome than Jesus...

Saturday at Belavista Lounge

30.4.10

Go figure.

A few crops from this weeks class, nearly finished this A4 Moleskine, then I'll hit the pastels again. Pretty soon I may even blog something other than mediocre figure drawing ;)

22.4.10

Figure drawing & exhibition

The weekly class I attend is having an exhibition at Parkhurst Recreation Centre, one weekend only, opening on Friday 7 May. I'll have a few pastel and charcoal pieces up for sale (cheap!), and a couple of sketch books for the perusal of clean-fingered observers. Hope to see you there...

We had two slender models today - two one-hour drawings. I'm back in the sketchbook until I sort my shit out.

PS. Am very aware of the current blog neglect. I have stuff in the pipelines though. Get ready for an unleashing... Some day.

16.4.10

Yesterday's figures

I have not been drawing enough lately. Broke out the pastels yesterday and disappointed myself a bit. Grrr. It's been a slog of a week.

Better jack my shit up for the exhibition...

6.4.10

Ignoring Easter

Meant to post these up last week... 30 min each in A4 'skine. Levelled, hue and saturated.

Blog is feeling my neglect :( It'll pick up... just another wave.

23.3.10

Going green

A little while back my friend Wadge tipped over a pot of soil that had once been a plant, but was now an ashtray. He was fumbling around trying to get out of the hammock, in a somewhat wasted state, and pulled it down all over the floor. Give him a break, it was a friday night after a long week. and he was good enough to clean it up the next day...

The act was largely forgotten, until a couple of weeks later a small sprout merged from the soil. We figured there was a good chance it would be mary of sorts, so warmed to it and took delight in watching it develop into a small plant. Then one day my flatmate Tim and I were chatting and we decided it was time to re-pot the pot. Give it a more formal space. No, it wouldn't have flowered, being a bit late in the season, but it was cute.

Anyway, long story short, my cat Miu chewed it down to virtually nothing in the time it took us to try find a spade. I was mad. She got a hiding. Days later the bugger was back in the game, but Miu has been pruning her every time a new leaf forms. I had to let go. It's now back to ashtrayville. The weed keeps going...

Moral of the story? Life can actually be created by some stoned and drunken bastard fumbling his way out of a hammock. Yes, and then pretty much destroyed by a hungry pussy.

17.3.10

You should keep that in mind

Great track, cool vid...

15.3.10

Still life with comfort zone

A few reasons why I haven't been drawing (or socialising, or blogging, or speaking) enough lately.

What peace can be found
between each click
of a metronome.

6.3.10

Figures

Great waves

Dirty Three is a great Oz band. They're mostly instrumental, but this song with Chan Marshall (mmmmm) is on a whole other level.

Pure wizardry.

27.2.10

Figures

Thursday morning's figure drawing session... H and 4B in A4 Moleskine... Not the best session. Omitted a few. I get a bit thrown off by two people. Especially when they're so enthusiastic as this pair. I think they practice at home.
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25min:

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Can you believe I have to work now?

22.2.10

Headphones...

Mogwai started a monthly podcast last week. Some wicked tracks on there from Four Tet, Fuck Buttons and Errors. Check it out.

And here's a track from Laura I found that there's not much chance you'll have heard before:

13.2.10

Mandalas don't have to be round.

Picked up a calculation pad, a set of Artline 200's and a book on Jung last night...

Happy valentine's day :P

11.2.10

Figure drawing

Back to figure drawing this morning. Been lazy with the media. Still just the H and 4B in an A4 moleskine...

3 min:

25 min:

30 min:

20 min:

Back to work. It never stops.

10.2.10

R.I.P. Uncle Phil

I thought we'd go all the way to sign-off together, but all you ever met was your maker. So enthused to gather the innocent, meandering minds of new Big Brand employees and focus their glassy eyes on the world of cellular salesmanship, you never saw coming the focus-group smiles and head-shine double-glances that would forebear your now-overplayed demise. It could have been the comb over. It could have been the tache. It could've been the underlying creepiness sadly precedes an old man that is just too damn happy. What could he hiding?