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25.01.2022 A reflective selfie at Fowlers Gap April 2014
25.01.2022 Okay seriously stoked, now looking good for three High Distinctions in a row for drawing. I just received a HD progress grade for mid semester evaluation. I'm studying "anatomy for artists" at COFA with the inimitable Kurt Schranzer. Singularly the toughest and most rewarding course I've ever done at uni, or otherwise.
20.01.2022 Red Dragon in Repose An homage to Blake and Goya
19.01.2022 SART9701 Painting 1 Assignment 1. Skill test Tone. We were asked to pick a work by contemporary Australian Artist, Louise Hearman, and reproduce two variations of her work but limited to one colour. One variation was to depend on the white of the canvas the other on the addition of opaque white. I chose Burnt Umber as my base colour, and this is what I ended up with. The translucent version brings up the rich red pigment of the Burnt umber, but the detail in the image is very much limited by how much white canvas I could protect. The opaque version is less richness in the colour saturation but I was unlimited by how much I could paint back into the image to bring up the highlights. This was intense and fun. Louise Hearman's work is very moody, and beautiful.
14.01.2022 "Temple" = A "Spire" Aspire. Digital Painting 1000010000px
14.01.2022 Drawing class SART9729 Week 1, Exploring tone and contrast with compressed charcoal and plastic eraser. A challenging subject with the light sitting behind the objects and casting them in shadow... I'm not used to using charcoal. I've always gone for graphite, but the challenge was on, and I'm pretty happy with this result (considering its the first easel drawing I've done in over two decades).
14.01.2022 Life is what you make it, as much as what it makes you...
13.01.2022 "Eyegasm" - An abstract expression of the "Song" of Consciousness....
10.01.2022 First day as volunteer for the 18th Biennale of Sydney. Out at Cockatoo Island. An amazing space with some beautiful experiential art.
10.01.2022 Nude (for Jane)... Drawn from a life-model more than half my life ago in a 6 hour session (two classes back to back). It feels great (and liberating) to be back at it. Something of a psychological "homecoming"...
07.01.2022 The Paradox of Creation. Total control is death, while absolute freedom is chaos and equally unattractive. The hallmark of creative 'progress' is a flexibility that oscillates between control AND freedom, working in tandem. Just like walking, which can be seen as 'controlled falling', we must learn the rules of gravity to break them in a confident, creative and pointed manner. In anything worthwhile, we must strike a balance between extremes. If we were all so absolutely fre...e as to speak an idiosyncratic dialect, there could be no communication, and no cultural evolution. If our art is so idiosyncratic as to be lost on our audience, then we have failed as artists. It is our job to draw the unknown INTO the known, on bridges of thought that entice, educate and inflame our audience with a sense of wonder and appreciation of things unknown. It is the job of the artist to make the unknown, attractive and a source of wonder. When overly locked down, we cannot advance. With untethered concepts we only contrive an oddity, alien in sensibility and function. Worthwhile freedom in a social setting recognises the need for getting along to go along. Otherwise we are just wild animals, or sheep, lacking sentient ability to harness our energies, and self govern in the first place.
05.01.2022 Adam Cvijanovic, "The River". A massive installation that curves like a wave depicting a river winding through the landscape from desert to delta. It's beautiful in the flesh.
04.01.2022 http://annual.artdesign.unsw.edu.au//2240/charles-m/18744
03.01.2022 I would venture to say that competent people are predisposed to generosity, given their natural ability to create. Competent people do not fear chaos, they embrace it as an opportunity to shine. The opposite is true of bureaucrats. Creative people know they can overcome, and so just get on with things and pave the way for others in an incidental way... Power mongers need the system to stay the way it is because it suits them. They educate drones, not free thinkers... FEAR rules. Creativity has no fear and does not rule.
01.01.2022 After 25 years of taking MUCH too much for granted, I've decided to explore my muse in the Visual Arts. I'm back at school studying Master of Art at COFA (UNSW). This first week has been a thrill. The smell, the challenge, the joy. It's like I never left!... The homework (and the challenge of being challenged) is like a serve of Ambrosia. It's an understatement to say that I'm excited about this fresh turn.
