Some past work...

Studio Assemblage (Black Sheep in Wolf's Clothing) 2009

So one of the draw backs of having a website devoted to your artwork is updating it. Due to circumstances outside of my control, I have been unable to update my site since 2006.

A lot has happened since then.

It is my mission this year to redesign and relaunch my website as both an active archive of past work and a place to find out about future events, and in turn link it to this blog, etc.

Until then I will be revisiting past work regularly under the label 'Some past work'.*

*Please note that like most endeavours in my life, this category will be organised intuitively - based upon whim, aesthetics and willful dilettantism (translation - adherence to any specific method of organisation, for example, chronological order will be completely coincidental). 

The finished product

Thanks to fine weather and lovely company, I was able to complete my anamorphic drawing yesterday. Here are the results...step by step of course!

The location

The grid drawn up

The birds drawn in (in anamorphic proportion)

First bird is complete

Now the second one

Trying not to smudge things too much

Building up layers

Background birdies done

Finished!

The view from the other direction - you can see the distortion

HELLO BIRDIES

I received a call this week to participate in the Hello Parks Festival happening here in Toowoomba this Sunday (as in tomorrow). Short turn around I know! As part of the brief, I was asked to create a bespoke 3D chalk drawing, with the expectation of this...

 Image -  -->Edward Müller from here...

AMAZING, but anamorphic drawing is not something
a. I have had much practice in or
b. I have previously had much interest in making myself...even though I have always loved this work

The Ambassadors by Hans Holbein the Younger (check out the elongated skull in the foreground)

However, I am interested in trying/ learning something new - as you never know when it might completely change your perspective on everything, like these Felice Varini works

While all of these works were constructed with plenty of time and technical accuracy/expertise, I (to be perfectly honest) have neither. To top it all off, it has also been raining since the Brown Cow's Bike Ride...

I have been given a lovely (and undercover!) spot in Newtown Park's rose garden and want the proposed artwork to reflect the environment. So I raided my image archives and am revisiting a 2005/6 moment - birds. And these Red-browed Firetails will potentially look great scattered on the ground.

So I will get to see tomorrow how successful this experiment is...