The task One of our tasks towards the end of this nine year (yes, NINE year) course is to hold an exhibition of our work and in the process, to develop plans and strategies towards locating and negotiating space and … Continue reading Hanging work in a virtual gallery
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
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
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
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
For this project, I intend to 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 … 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
Two days after the previous post, I was flattened by a virus that took me out for more than four weeks. I said to someone that I knew how a computer must feel when its operating system crashes and it has to rebuild it without a manual. I’ve rarely felt so insightful. When mine came back up it was Windows 95 in safe mode and with no keyboard. I was on automatic, doing only what I’d done before; routine tasks which, fortunately, included feeding my cats and eventually myself. Meanwhile, my ‘screen’ blinked its cursor and did basic Windows housekeeping. … Continue reading Picking up where I left off
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