Grateful

I am always, always, very grateful when someone buys another work. And also a little sad, so much time and effort goes into them that they are like little kids – some of these a year +.

However! When that someone is one of your friends it is great, because you can always visit your baby

See me paint – timelapse

Here is a little video that shows a little art paint off that I was in recently down in Warrnambool, the artist I was painting against was the infamous Gareth Colliton, he was good, so good he won. Nathan Pye was the talented man who put it all together. It was the most fun I have had painting in a long time, and I really didn’t have anything to show for the first hour except a few washes of colour. As you can see, it’s not till the end that it shows what I was painting.

Double click on the video for full screen I start about 2:45 in.

Arts on the Grass 2011 time lapse from Nathan Pye on Vimeo.

Picasso did it, I’m doing it.

Strange thing this one. Started off looking like a sure fire thing. Easy enough – straight forward even. Which just really points to my naivety. Royally. Now the results look amazing, and I’m not talking about mine. And it’s a gurantee you have bare’d witness to them as well.

See all those things up there in the background of the photo, stacked like books in the shelves? Bavarian gold, people, worth it’s weight in gold for sure. They actually stumped houses with the stuff, when they realised the world was running shortsy of it – they turned around and tore all the houses down, TORE them down. Why? Well each of those stones are now worth $6,000 a piece. look at the photo and do the math…

Better than robbing a bank vault i reckon. See the Bavarians were not only good at making hot cakes, but all so sitting on top of large chunks of fine limestone. What a country.

Anyway, I did a lithography course over the weekend, and we each were assigned a stone, and went through a process which was the most complex printmaking I have ever encountered. Good stuff though. Even though my print didnt really work out the way i wanted (ok it still is good) - Needs more working up which will happen over the following weeks. This process I found more complex than oil painting.

Anyway some images from the course, good, bad and some ugly.

The interesting one in there is a lithograph print that Picasso did, as you can see he started with a quite realistic looking bull, and went through the process of redrawing it numerous times till he got what he wanted, all on the one stone. I never respected picasso till I got to visit his museum, and that’s another story.

V V Vienna

My little crush on this little one started with a random train trip to get the hell out of Rome, it was 13hours long it said, it said there was a sleeping carriage. A damn good place to avoid the carnage that became Roma. it went pear shaped when the carriage I was alotted was closed due to a sewerage malfucntion – some kransky filled the toilet. I got stuck in the back of a carriage with a myriad of african refugees and the crying babies. The little utopia of a cruisy 13hours slide into another country, a strange place called Wien, was not looking so smart anymore. Skip ahead a slip into a sleeper carriage and waking up to one of the most memorable views of the whole trip. I make it to Wien, Vienna, or whichever you choose to call it.

If you haven’t seen the Vienna exhibtion at the NGV you are about to miss out. Especially if you like good furniture (sitting on your ass) and beautiful artwork (voyeuristic types) Egon Schiele rocked my little world. Unfortunately I couldn’t sneak enough pictures of the works.. SO, below. Sometimes the wrong way home becomes the right way when you find a little gem. An Amusing character at lunch that took a liking to us. And a beautiful little Egon Schiele and a Gustav Klimt Equally beautiful, and rude.

Here is a link to more Egon, the funny thing is it looks like a lot of ‘contemporary’ painters works at the moment… funny that.http://www.google.com.au/search?q=Egon+Schiele&hl=en&biw=1600&bih=752&prmd=imvnso&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=Sz6OTuGbCtGZiQeSm6SdCA&ved=0CD4QsAQ

Wahini

My iPhone is trying to tell me a wahini is an Eskimo… Try typing it… New little etch/sketch

 

Two new little paintings

Little tacker

Nice little study of an old experience – which is what they are all about really…