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
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
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
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
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
Sites I have been thinking about the degree show increasingly as, despite advice that an exhibition isn’t obligatory, this seems to be the route most people take and, from particular experience, to make gains towards their eventual grade. The possibility … Continue reading Legacy 3.2 – Part Two: how your work meets the world
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
This is a village and when the village says it’s doing Halloween, it’s doing Halloween no matter the rain hammering down over it! My contribution, meant to be a remote affair, was an A1 painting of a pumpkin with orange … Continue reading Halloween
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