I've been a bit remiss in keeping this blog and site up to date, so I intend to visit here every Wednesday. I here by rename Wednesday 'Updateday'. My workflow has had to adapt. I am looking after my son 4 days a week and Thursday is my new work day.
As I'm rusty at this old blogging malarky ( I was never very great in the first place), below is some of my 'works in progress' from last Thursday.
I've been off and about the country, not really got any painting done over the summer for a variety of reasons. But the big news headlines are.....
1) I had to drop out of the Bank Street Arts members exhibition 'Work in Progress'. Mainly because I forgot O was not at school during the summer. By all accounts it was a success.
2) I have some space in a cafe booked for 4 weeks for some work to go on the walls.
3) Managed to get work into 'Nude Tin Can art Gallery' for their exhibition, 'Geometric' and 'Horizion'
4) Had more work accepted for the Menier Gallery in London via Exhibit Here.
and finally
5) I had a really good stall at Art in the Gardens. Met some lovely creators and customers. I'll definitely try to get back next year.
Here are some images of my stall and a few of the marquee.
After a brief hiatus from coding Monday last week...um.. coding Monday is back. It sounded much more grand and dramatic in my head. Coding is alot of 'WTF... What 'Null Point Exception' error? ... oh just fuck off computer.' and ' No you weren't expecting a 'r parentheses '...oh right a semi colon. ' 'WTF....NOW WHAT??' and eventually a 'YAY I made the ellipse move up and down!! WOO! Someone call NASA I rock!!'
So today I got to work on my course again, I'm on week 3. ( I started 8 months ago. I'm a bit behind on this 6 week course.) Successes were I made an ellipse stop when you click on it. And I rewrote the same programme with less functionality, but using a 'Circle' class for my array. This has taken 5 hours.
I'm going to try to embed the files in the page. If you just get a link to Open processing, it didn't work.
YES!!!!! embed level unlocked!!!(bet it fails on tumblr) I've also placed the link here > STAR MATRIX/ HELIX
You can follow the link to my Open Processing page and follow my sluggish progression through this digital swamp. You can see my other coding projects I'm proud of there. I'm off to see if I can build an embedded gallery of these.
So I've been tormenting the internet with my painting skillz and an image of my naked body. I've worked on the upper half of the body today so no embarrassment needed. PHEW!
Detail, WIP.
I've also being working on just general observational painting skills. I was going to over paint it, but it is slowly growing on me.
Skull, 28cm x 28cm oil on board
