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Still Life and Sketch

It has been a while, but here are a couple of new ones, first a drawing of my model and then a still life, not something I usually attempt but it is a present for an elderly friend of my mother’s who has always been very supportive of my painting and recently was sexually assaulted in her own home. I hope it cheers her up

Another Drawing

I don’t write much but at least I put my work with my models out with this thing

Tonight’s Drawing

20 Century Art

I have been reading a number of survey of art style books lately and find myself getting to the 20 century and I stop reading, start leafing particularly post 1950 odd. Finally I just close the book with a cringe. Does any one feel the same? Definite exceptions to this of course, Lucien Freud jumps immediately to mind, but there feels to be very little authentic art (whatever the effing hell that is) being done. Don’t think I have any answer to the problem, (I would love to think I was the genius to set things right, but know better). 

Model

Me and the model have not been coinciding lately but we had a night tonight. Been a ripping day work wise. I am laid up with, we think, plantar fasciitis (x-rays to eliminate the possibility of stress fractures on Monday morning, not likely but has to been done) so i worked in the studio all day. Every time I thought of doing something else the thought of walking made me stay  where I was. Got motza work done.

Didn’t realise I was rostered at the pool today; when they rang to find out where I was I apologised and then said I couldn’t come in anyway, and got on with my day. Previously I would have a) gone in lame or b) agonised all day about not going in. Maybe I am getting better.

The problem with the injury is that it has a bit of the feeling of the “one too many” syndrome. Maybe it was my last ironman this year. We’ll see.

Finally got some business cards done. And next week will start putting together a proposal for an exhibition in 2009. For the first time ever at this time of the year I am on top of my tax. Wonders will never cease!

My landscape

The only landscape I would be interested in painting, Photomontage, gridded and then the perspective normalised; except the poor bloody shelves to the right of the models robe, not much chance of anything staying on those (but that is why I take photos at this stage, for some reason when I defamiliarise the image like that I see things I hadn’t before), will impose the Cartesian grid back onto the drawing in preparation to transfer to painting

Thurs 26/6/8

Visitor

This may happen to you if you come and visit: I make you lie naked on the couch while I draw you.

Finally got spam.

Got some spam at last. Not that I am really really keen on spam but at least if the blog is visible to the spammers it may be visible to others. I will be adding to the tags I put onto Thursday night’s drawing. I will even use the tag “gay” but although I not entirely comfortable about the compartmentalization of being known as a “gay” artist. My art is very much my world and welcome to it, and I try to be busy being me not busy being gay. Further to the Thursday night posting I think that will be one of the major thrusts of this blog; showing off my life (and other) study drawings. I can add things that are not necessarily good enough for the web site and show off things as they develop etc. This is good as I am now beginning to get some direction for where this blog will be going.

Tonight’s Drawing

Tonight is my night for model to turn up