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
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
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
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
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