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
This is another reclaimed canvas, a little smaller than the previous one. Again, I’ve used the buff primer as the ground because there was something about that which really popped the white headgear, and goodness me, isn’t this a piece … Continue reading Slipstream #2
I’ve always cropped and tidied up my AR targets but this time I’d given away as a gift the actual painting and only had a photo with some paper surround to work with. So I cropped it and uploaded it to iCloud but, mysteriously, MotionLeap couldn’t access it. The upshot is that the AR includes the surround and guess what – the AR moves into that area giving an impression of 3D! SCH 2024 Continue reading Another of those ‘happy accidents’!
At but not necessarily of 3.2. In a khaki trunk under my bed is a collection of dolls my grandparents brought back from holidays in various parts of Europe. They’re all in national dress and a little faded from being on a shelf somewhere in the house as I was growing up. Yesterday, I took one out and made a pencil drawing on a re-primed canvas. At this point, I have the shape and some patterns but I’m so inexperienced with human-like figures that I also need a story before I can ‘bring her to life’ without invoking Chucky. I … Continue reading Slipstream work
Based on my own photo, the first of these are an attempt to paint thin and light. It didn’t last long. Where some people have this along with ‘smooth and barely present’, I’m happiest with trowelling it on and working … Continue reading 3.2 Project 7: Frog Fall
Prior to my artist’s talk* yesterday, I’d spent more time talking with people about cats than most of the rest of the work; proof if proof were necessary, that cats override the highest of high ideals. I began this series … Continue reading Un-CAT-egorised
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