A big welcome to Second Life exhibition viewers; thank you for visiting! Here are the landscape paintings you’ll have seen at the Xaraz gallery. The AR (augmented reality) is a little frisky in SL and so I have posted them … Continue reading Landscape paintings with links to the AR video
Facebook friend, poet, writer and film-maker. If anyone can be said to have inspired the animations and slow-moving darker pieces of my work, it’s Janet. This piece exemplifies the grace and depth that first caught my attention and keeps it … Continue reading Janet Lees
Note 1: some of the elements referred to are only visible via the Artivive app. Note 2: Re the text boxes, see https://conboyhillarts.com/2023/12/17/stage3-unit-2-site-audience-context/ earlier in this blog where I talk about the way in which labels for art work changed … Continue reading Project 2, 3.2, body of work summary
I started this painting on April 21st and somehow failed to generate my usual running commentary. And nor can I find the reference photograph! I do have an image record though. Thereafter, the painting slipped its mornings and took its … Continue reading Painting the photos #4
When access to physical gallery space is limited, you have to look for other options and there are several, some more based in the real world than others. The first is to use photographs of, for instance, a scene across … Continue reading Exhibition venues
A note on the apps I use and the realisation that fewer, but at depth, is better than more. I could probably collect apps for my phone and my PC indiscriminately and there have been times I’ve downloaded the same … Continue reading Post tutorial expansion
Download the Artivive app from your device’s app store; point it at each of these images to see the AR layer. You need internet access (wifi or mobile signal) and mobile data enabled. SCH 2024 Continue reading Demo AR targets
Live as-it-happened video made by stitching together 30 second bursts of film taken by a Blink motion-activated security/wildlife camera. Absolutely not a how-to-paint video! The painting is currently untitled. Adur riverTidal river becomes a long neck goose when I look … Continue reading Painting in progress – video clips
When you start to like the first thing you did (Church path) It’s happened again.That rough paint sketchBright orange where no orange should be on a vicar’s pathAnd pinkShocking luminous pink (Ooh Missis)In the brickworkOf its walls.It’s roughIt’s unschooledIt’s brashIt’s … Continue reading Pathway
This has a Chinese feel to it and I’m loath to leave that far behind by adding colour to the foliage, but do the leaves now need to be better defined? For the moment – cats’ eyes. Pretend PantherPretend panther … Continue reading Crouching panther
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