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Tools, iPad anticipation

Walter — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 08:12:12 +0000

I wrote a bit on my Psyberspace blog after I did the last three sketches. Here is a quote:

Tools evolve, and the best use of any given tool is of value. I have done a lot of sketching on my Palm PDAs – tool I’ll never use again – but therein lies something of value. The lead pencil has no colour. But look what has been done over the centuries with the humble pencil, and it lives. The current – no pressure iPad will die and be gone, but I look forward to making use of it, while it is in its first iteration. What can the finger do on that thing?

Here are some examples, some good stuff there.

Out Walking (then) Tweeting (now)

Walter — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 13:23:40 +0000

I am tweeting pictures. I am waltzzz on twitter

But really, my main photo page is in Flickr

I must say I am enjoying my Yoono sidebar in Firefox – I am suddenly integrating twits with fotos & facebook. It makes such a difference to me that I can see the pix in the sidebar.

Newsletter June 2009

Walter — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 10:43:53 +0000

Walter’s Art News

June 2009

Hello Everyone

Welcome to the my Art News, first one for the year! Note that I have changed the way I send these. Please let me know how it looks on your computer or phone.

The story so far

Thousand Sketches in one year 2006-7. Then a new Art Blog, about four exhibitions and two painting weeks in 2008. I wrote an article about creativity, “Engaging the Muse”, for the Psychodrama Journal 2008. This year a dramatic shift, I hate to say it, but not a lot of art. But not a death! The artist in me is restless, alive.

I went from digital to physical. Hard. It takes more time and space. I need a studio. I need a year off work. I did a few that I quite like. I also made some hybrids, that I like even better. I have a hunch when I get going again it will be digital as a basis for printmaking, collage and a variety of digital to physical productions. Some day soon!

Leaves – A favourite hybrid

Art 2009

One thing I did was to put up a new set of images on the Gallery: Outliers I call them. They were all from the Thousand Sketches but had not been printed, exhibited or noticed by me, but on review I thought they were OK!

I dug out this jug.

Challenge & Change the image for the 2009 New Zealand Association of Psychotherapists conference was also an image that is used on a book by Cambridge Univeristy Press, they are using another image of mine for a book in the series.

iSketches continue to grab my interest, and have suddenly hit the news with Jorge Colombo on the cover of the New Yorker, and David Hockney getting into it.

Flickr – iPhone Sketches

Printing. I am about to get some biggish prints made of old images. The Challenge & Change image and also of this one:

And of course I love art & post about other people’s. People like this.

When I’m not sketching

I am busy with Psychodrama and training to be a Trainer, Educator & Practitioner in the method. Writing, supervision, workshops. I am revising the curriculum, and also developing a Training in Supervision programme, with a workshop coming up soon. The pressure will come off early next year I imagine. I work on the Kate’s Horse Trekking business. Especially the blog, & websites. And I walk the dog!

Flickr – Walk with Winnie

Thats all, thanks for your interest.

Walter

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Painting day – a question about acrylic technique.

Walter — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 11:04:14 +0000

I worked hard today painting in acrylics. Not much to show for it, nothing to post here in real media, (still waiting for my camera, it arrived from Hong Kong but its at the airport till Monday, but there is nothing to photograph anyway.) I was trying to translate a #0736 Trees from the Thousand Sketches and it was hard. This sort of digital to physical is a challenge.

One thing I did, in a moment of frustration with real paint, was a new digital. It just flew out. It is like the one I was using for a reference, with a subtly different feel.

Bush
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It is now obvious why I found it hard. The mottled effect is done digitally by setting the paper to very rough on those layers. The light spots are pits in the “paper”. Maybe I need to forget about being too true to my digital version & go with the medium? Or maybe persist?

How would you do this in acrylic?

International Klein Blue

Walter — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 10:07:30 +0000

I thought that Yves Klein’s Blue must have been the purest blue #0000ff, all the blues and nothing else.

But not so. I discovered that IKB is in fact #002FA7

I have just made all the un-clicked links on this blog IKB. The visited ones are light blue.

	#0000ff – Mathematially pure blue?
	#002FA7 – International Klein Blue
	#8B8BFF – mid-point light blue

No Tablet! No Pen.

Walter — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 08:43:03 +0000

My Toshiba M200, which has been the took for most of my work in the last few yours suddenly won’t work as a Tablet. No pen. Hope it is a quick fix but I can’t see how to do it. … Continue reading →

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Digital Art Studio – adventures in Ink

Walter — Tue, 20 May 2008 07:06:19 +0000

I am reading a book, Digital art Studio, about print making using digital images and ink jet printers. Lots of info & ideas for using more traditional media in combination.

To get an idea check out the websites of the three authors:

Bonny Lhotka

Dorothy Simpson Krause

Karin Schminke

I am busy gathering material, bought some “Rabbit Skin Glue” today, and InkAID.

Some images follow:

From Dorothy Krause:

Landscape

Walter — Mon, 19 May 2008 05:29:37 +0000

I have these in mind to experiment with in the printing. These are about how I want them to look, but I will try different plain paper, wartercolour etc, and use “vivid” versions to compensate for the absobtion. I might also try over printing.

And these might end up in my landscape presentation of prints in the usual way.

Landscape Pond
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Leaves

Walter — Mon, 12 May 2008 13:42:14 +0000

Leaves
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Now this one grew out of the last one. One thing leads to another. But the process is not done. I can see this leading to more “design” style images, I am getting the hang of it and using a few new functions I am learning in the software (like copying a layer and then moving it slightly etc)

But what do I do, work on the bush or play more with designs? So this is what happens… a myriad of scrappy projects that I love doing… To be honest I think I will get there. Sooner or later I’ll get a series done and they will a unified life.
Earth Crosses got there, though there is a printing job to finalise there.

Next post, more moves into different directions.