Saturday, November 14, 2009
Reading Robot Comics on the iPhone – a pleasure. Occasionally pages stand out as really exellent illustrations. I’ll send them along to the blog.
These are from Birth 1 by Michael S. Bracco, another follows.
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Thursday, November 5, 2009
This reminds me of a style that goes with the fifties. It is pre sixties… it may be forties? What is it about certain patterns that link them to eras?
Wednesday, November 4, 2009
The ever present battle with pixels. I battle with them, but also accept them, they are brush strokes of sorts. I have tried to enhance the image that came off the iPhone. How does it look? I think it will print up well after this fiddle, click to enlarge.
Later:
I printed both and the one straight off the iphone was better. Printing took care of the pixelation quite well. Mind you I am printing these images about 12cm wide on A4 paper.
Wednesday, November 4, 2009
For some biographical info about this effort look here.
Wednesday, November 4, 2009
Is it just me or is this lovely in it’s simplicity and ease of execution on the I Doodle app?
Signed one follows
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Tuesday, November 3, 2009
The “sig” series I am doing, and there are a lot of them, are with a consciousness of the importance of identity and how the relationship with an avatar is reciprocal. Signing images I make is a work in process. I have signed some on the computer, but mostly I print them and sign and date them on the day of printing. I think of it as marking the making of the physical object.
More and more I want to sign them as I make them. One way or the other? Right now it could be anything! These Sig images, made on the iphone are printing well. I sign them again. Just WL and the date, in pencil.
But the alchemy of the avatar is still at work, and the change is not done. I amight be a bit old for this sort of adolescent exploration… but that is the way it is! As an artist I am young.
Science of Sex | The Digital Lover | Proteus Effect:
“Who we choose to be in turn shapes how we behave,” Yee writes in the draft paper. “While avatars are usually construed as something of our own choosing – a one-way process – the fact is that our avatars come to change who we are.”
One reason I synced to that last one is that I wanted to put it through some tweaks on the phone. I can edit on the phone in a way that I can’t on the PC.
Another version follows, possibly the one I like best. Strangely the iPhone app did a good job of increasing the resolution beyond what I did on the PC!
The app also does the thumbnailing pretty well, but I have made them a bit bigger.
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This one, made on the PC but as it is synced with the phone, easier to post from the phone!
I think I can now post to this blog from the phone! Watch the increase in posts!
Here are a few recent ones in my Signature exploration.
Three more images follow.
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Reading Dick Frizzell and learning about “new Image”, 1978 Whitney moment. Easy to see the influence in various places, do I see it in Bill Hammond?
I can see some of that in my work occasionally, but mostly that I am NOT “New Image” even though I like comics and stories and “rough expressionism”. I am too interested in shape, colour and texture.
There is is something. A realisation about what I do, well, don’t do. Most of the time I just have no idea. Thinking again about the comments from Peter McLeavey on my work (see here) that I need to find who I am etc… I am many things! PolyPsycho digital printmaker.
Description & images by Frizzell’s hero HC Westerman appear below.
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I am into these people from the 50s. McCahon etc. I wish I had appreciated them more at the time!
William Scott Google Artist Images
Website & Bio
Here are a some I like from William Scott:
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Enjoying this book a lot! His art is fun and his storytelling is fun. I identify with him a lot. Drawing from comic books as a kid, being the best drawer in the class. Uni in the sixties at Canterbury.
I learn about art too. For example the British painter William Scott was briefly an influence on Frizzell. I’ll post up some of his. I like them. Simple, but really more difficult to pull off than they look!
Like an adolescent I have been playing with my signature. Unlike an adolescent I am conscious of identity, how being a therapist and an art blogger in the social media can be complex.
I like this one!
Monday, September 7, 2009
I listened to this interview on Kim Hill – Kate de Goldie on Charles Keeper, & became curious about the art she was talking about.
I’ve found some images & posted them below, more quirky than I thought. I like them.
Wikipedia
Interview
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I love Philip Trusttum paintings!
Heaps of them at Ng this week
Psyberspace