One more..

Posting one more update on a recent lino i'm working on. This is the first print...Not completely happy with it, i think it needs some more cutting done to the plate/image before i will view it as complete.

Image (plate) size 60 x 45 cm, as before.

More Linocuts

Variation on a theme here. Simple op art or pattern type structure as below.

Same structure with alternating patterns:

Both images 60 x 45 cm plate size, 76 x 56 cm paper.

Pattern Based Linocuts

Doing some more pattern based linocuts, one colour at the moment but i am planning on doing 2 or three colour in future. Also possibly combining with screenprinting on some images. Having said that i think some images are best served by a single colour..it all depends..

Images are 60 x 45cm (plate size) on A1 paper (76 x 56 cm).

This one combines some Japanese patterns with some i made myself.

Op art and Pattern Linocuts

I'm beginning a new series of linocuts...some of my influences include japanese art, islamic art, op art and various pattern-based art. Now i've always quite liked op art....but the other influences are more recent developments. 

Some of the stuff is incredibly simple or minimal..ie. a simple weave pattern.. But, i think it works. Well, you be the judge.

Optical weave pattern

45 x 30 cm

30 x 30 cm

Triangle Pattern

45 x 30 cm

This one is a modified version of a japanese pattern i found. I sketched it from memory, couldn't remember the details, and so made it up as i went along.

Brisbane River Linocut

Size 30 x 30 cm. I'm planning to do more of this type of imagery via screenprints in the next few months. Will see if time allows..
 

Hanuman & Thotsakan

Some more thai themed linocuts done recently:

Hanuman: 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanuman  

(Image size approx 45 x 60 cm)

 

Based on a painting from Wat Phra Kaew.

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Totsakan:  

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ravana

(image size approx 45 x 60 cm)

Based on a painting from Wat Phra Kaew.

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Thai themed Linocuts

Some linocuts done based on sculptures in and around Wat Phra Kaew, BKK, Thailand:

(All are 30 x 30 cm except the second one which is 22.5 cm x 30cm). These are all available as Limited Edition Prints (a Variable Edition of 30, albeit the only thing that varies is the ink and/or paper colour).

Thailand Paintings

Aah..Thailand. An amazing country, despite the many problems.
Putting up some paintings i did earlier this year. Done from my photos of Thailand...mostly around Bangkok although you may also recognise Railay beach (Krabi).
(These are all works on watercolour paper)

 

Railay Beach, (Krabi), Gouache, 56 x 76 cm 

Wat Po, Pen and Watercolour, 42 x 29 cm

Wat Phra Kaew, Gouache, 56 x 76 cm

Ancient City View, Gouache, 56 x 76 cm

Temple Guard, Watercolour & Gouache, 76 x 56 cm

Temple Crowds (work in progress), Gouache, 76 x 56 cm

Monks (Wat Po), Pen and Marker, 84 x 58 cm

MonoPrints

In July i started a printmaking course at Brisbane Institute of Art. I had done printmaking before at art school (mainly lino and screen prints) and always enjoyed it but it has been a while since i have done any, mainly because i just didn't have the equipment or easy access to a press.

The tutor we have is David Nixon, a very laid back guy and an excellent artist (some of his prints can be seen in the auction section of Impress Printmaker's Studio). 

The course has been great and introduced me to mono printing which i hadn't done before. The method we used (there are many others i guess) was rolling/painting/scraping an image with a variety of tools onto a sheet of acetate and rolling it through the press. You get only the one unique print (discounting ghost prints, that is, a re-print of the image a second time with reduced ink) hence the term: mono-print.

It is a very spontaneous way of making art and i found it very refreshing. And if an image doesn't work you just go to the next one. No need to agonize over failures. 

 

With that said though i found the failure rate to be pretty steep - probably 50-60% or so of the images i put out didn't work or simply weren't that interesting...Maybe this is something which practice will overcome..it's hard to say though, but i suppose it is all relative.

 These images I've posted are (to my mind) six of my more successful mono prints. The size of all of these is 21cm x 15 cm (printed on Stonehenge paper). I was starting small to become comfortable with the process and in some ways i felt more loose and free working smaller.

As we progressed i did go on to some larger monoprints which i will post later.

Brisbane area paintings

Will start off with some work from earlier this year and slightly previous...all of these are watercolour or gouache or a combination of both.

Brisbane River, watercolour and gouache, 37 x 46 cm

 

New Farm Park, watercolour and gouache, 38 x 56 cm

 

Brisbane River, gouache, 76 x 56 cm

 

Brisbane River Triptych, watercolour and gouache, 56 x 28 cm

New Farm Park, gouache, 56 x 76 cm

 

Blog Launch!

Greetings! Greetings and salutations!

Welcome to this blog...this is my first ever blog (blog virgin) so bear with me..

Basically the purpose of this blog will be twofold: i) a visual diary and documentation of my artwork and ii) a promotional and advertising tool for said artwork. I'm aiming to become a wee bit more commercially minded than i have been in the past. But I'll also be posting some sketches, life drawings (well the good ones anyway)..and other doodles which may (or may not) be of any interest.