In the early part of the summer I stumbled across a Japanese artist, Riusuke Fukahori, who paints three dimensional fish built up by layers of resin.
This stood out for me as I had experimented a couple of times during my course with sculpture,
(well shaping things from florist foam anyway) but after seeing this, the intricacy of the process and the skill of the actual painting I think I will leave it to the experts from now on!
http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2012/01/riusuke-fukahori-paints-three-dimensional-goldfish-embedded-in-layers-of-resin/
Between working and chasing kids around this Summer I did manage to find some time to do some painting.
After years of working in black and white with the occasional cameo by one of the primary colours, I decided now was the time to blow the dust of my colour wheel and see what i could do.
I also let go of my anally retentive attitude towards painting and let myself be a little fluid and rough with my work.
The results were quite a pleasant surprise and received some very nice feedback amongst the general public... these are the best of what I did over the time.
I also bought and began practising with an airbrush, Its a bit more difficult than I first thought but once I have figured out the process and played with it a little more the outcomes will be more exciting!
I have also set up a page on facebook for my own artwork, which was something I have meant to do for a long time, I finally got around to it and I have to admit it feels good to have another platform for my art work to be seen on. There is a link below.
Apologies for the poor camera work!
Things in the third year of my course, have started at full pelt, there is no time to waste, so my time management has had to be addressed, I even bought a diary!
so after having a little word with myself, it is the time to completely knuckle down and immerse myself in my work completely and with minimal distractions, to the extreme I gave my Playstation away.
Unfortunately though, nobody was as eager to take my children, so Im stuck with them. >ahem<
Finally, since being back at Uni in Sept, the College put me in touch with a graduate of the course from the year I started, this 'guru' or mentor, Chris Howker is a professional Illustrator and has offered some great advice and has made me question the relevance of my work and the direction in which it is going since I contacted him, emphasising the importance of evolving and trying new things.
Below is a link to Chris' site, It is definantly worth a look!...so look!.
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