Project 9 (subject to change) 22nd August. The up-garden angled landscape. My aim here is to paint the ‘back’ of the painting, this time going from dark to light as if the image were in such full, bright sunlight that … Continue reading Bottom to top/Exposure
Primary reference photo Adjusted reference photo (PhotoDirector) This is A1 black card prepped with black acrylic gesso. This will give me the dead-black background I need for the lit foliage, and the white areas are the base for colour underlays … Continue reading Gardenscape #1
First sketch – watercolour pencil on damp acrylic gesso. 7th August. I’m one Bambi short of a Disney at this stage! This is the bright underpainting, the network of subtext colours that will support the heavier ones to follow. All … Continue reading Gardenscape2 (project 8)
Sunglasses required for this first paint sketch! I’m laying down the light first here using pouring paint and inks for their transparency and luminosity so it’s massively vibrant! The aim is to build up the layers of foliage on this … Continue reading Landscape ‘Time tunnel’ Project 7
I think I’ve said elsewhere that, for all my years spent inhabiting and actually conducting psychological research in Second Life (SL), I had never built anything there. Astonishing then, that the need to do this came not from science but … Continue reading Building a gallery in Second Life
Rough sketch and a substrate of (quite appalling) acrylic gesso (cheap but should have been cheaper). A1 card with acrylics, some of it an undercoat of luminous pouring paint which will be mostly covered by darker acrylics and hopefully wink … Continue reading Gardenscape
I’ve arrived at the smallest doll in this collection that I can reasonably paint. I don’t do small these days because I can’t really see it and this is the largest of the remaining dolls, excluding the one in the … Continue reading Slipstream #3
Another interim ticking-over piece on the principle that the best thing to do when you think you can’t keep going is to keep going. Usually getting stuck happens when I’m ‘between themes’; one has just come to an end and … Continue reading Slipstream #4 – Silent predator
Following one of those tutorials where the atmosphere was electric and excitement leaked out of every pixel, I’m beginning the process of learning how to construct from scratch buildings in Second Life. The start point for this is YouTube and … Continue reading Physical Digital Hybrid Art
Following an invitation to exhibit at Xaraz gallery in Second Life (SL), I was invited to speak at another, the Grove Country Club, about my work, with an emphasis on the application of augmented reality (AR). Artivive relies on static … Continue reading AR in VR – a talk about using Artivive’s Augmented Reality app in Second Life
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