Tutorials

From time-to-time I will attempt a tutorial. Here is the list thus far:

• Step-by-step guide to building a new painting support part 1 and part 2

That's it so far.

Magnet

Magnet is "my" "collaboration" with artist / filmmaker / musician Kim Pieters. It's currently showing at Blue Oyster Gallery in Dunedin.

What actually happened is that Kim has set one of her stunning films to my 2006 album for Digitalis, The Green Morning.

Read more at The Big Idea...

I ALWAYS WANTED MY NAME ON A PLANE, 2002

Part of the Spaceships of the Mind series, from 2002:

-- you want for this and you want for that...
well, what did ya think? --

I always wanted my name on a plane, 2002
oil on canvas
54 x 82 cm.
private collection

Lizzie's Progress in the newtown

Experiments with a black ground.. hoping to produce effects similar to block-print slash mezzotint. Probably unfinished (i.e. expect another version). One further question at this point.. who's Lizzie?

Rocket cat

Source: the internet

Wire-frame

From Adyar Claire..

bananas 3 plays 2

Looking for the meaning in configuration.. 3 plays 2, bunches.

bananas 2skinszz

Ithoughtbuys like you were into death and vermin a

Mon May O3

elektronische schlagzeug

The return of the PDA:

SELF-PORTRAIT, 2000

Self-portrait, 2000
acrylic on board
74 x 104 cm.

It's not really working out very well, is it

In fact, its coming out like the OPPOSITE of what it was meant to come out like.

Imagery

Galapagos Turtles at Auckland Zoo by @Karen Price:

Watchmen, by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons, chapter III page 28:

Modern cat revisited

I didn't realise that when I used the LOLbuilder on ICANHAZCHEESEBURGER that the image would become available to other users to caption. Sure enough, someone did...

Who's BOB? Not this one, surely...

These are our stories; they must constantly be retold

Look, I don't know what to say, ok? I've been really busy. Not only that, but I've hardly been DOING anything; I've rather been LOOKING at a lot of things. And getting really drunk, a lot.

(this is a picture of the nuclear power plant at Three Mile Island, from the internet)

I did have time to enter a couple of pieces (Blurt, 2009; Bait and Switch, 2009) in the Thistle Hall $100 Art Sale. The opening thingummy is tomorrow night, Friday Dec 4th at 6pm.