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
I’ve been writing about this for a while (essay: Doors to Inception 2023*; dissertation How old does technology have to be before we stop noticing it? 2024*), concluding that, like every implement adopted or created by artists since the first … Continue reading AI and Art
I am drawing quite a lot here on written responses I made using the 3.2 materials I’d been sent before I became ill. These have since changed in structure and require a different approach, but as the core elements are … Continue reading Project Plan
The image here is a screenshot from the wildlife camera on a table at the end of the patio. The overlay is one of my photos of girders under Brighton pier. The composite is made in PhotoDirector with the low-opacity … Continue reading Lights on a wet patio
I chose a photo of a dark landscape with a narrow strip of land at the bottom, pinched a heavy, roiling sky from another, ran it through MotionLeap and added some effects (probably birds, maybe bats), turned that into an … Continue reading Painting the photos – landscapes #3
The theme is crystalising into a commentary on the invasion of the natural world by the built environment. The concrete monstrosity which is the flyover exemplifies the dilemma we have – connection and commerce or nature and stagnation. Of course, those aren’t the options, just the polemic. The options are to build better, to accommodate rather than subjugate the natural world, live with it not just on it, come alongside instead of flattening everything with our ambitions. This is the combination for now, but I’m not happy with the overlay so that is likely to change. In the meantime, another … Continue reading Painting the photos – Landscapes #2
I just heard put into words the thought that always comes to mind when I’m painting which is that the aim is not to copy the photo but to interpret it. This is my first series of interpretations of the … Continue reading Painting the photos
For this project, I would approach a service for adults with intellectual disabilities that I know from my previous job and from which I recruited participants to an NIHR Invention for Innovation funded research project involving the virtual world platform, … Continue reading Legacy 3.2 Part Three: collaboration, audience, and social media
The first paragraph of this section warns against the ‘narrow focus’ and ‘head down’ approach to the final units of the degree and challenges us to be more daring, to make leaps and fresh decisions about what our painting could … Continue reading Legacy 3.2 – Part One Consolidate and Experiment
November 11th 2023. I applied for this unit last week and expect to receive the materials in early January. In the meantime, I want to dissect the title because one word is bothering me – Audience. To me, an audience … Continue reading Stage3, Unit 2: Site, Audience, Context
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