loquat.

BSG prints all lined up on a bench waiting for a train.

(presently on a wall)

feet at No Vacancy opening of Fit To Print
No Vacancy: screen printing demonstration
little taped drawing

loquats on the tram.

this week !

things that have been fussed over for the last few weeks and are now calm and viewable this thursday and friday. respectively:

link
at no vacancy
34–40 Jane Bell Lane
QV
6pm, Thursday 9th December 2010
(also viewable up until late December. but not christmas)

above: dry-point etched copper plate

above: proofs of prints. colour trials. with watercolour and inks. also available in b+w.
in editions of five.

also Ruby's things!
(Miss Ruby Aitken of splendidness and photoskills.)
(click link.)

BSG

322 Brunswick St,
Fitzroy
(very near Johnston St)

6pm, Friday 10th December 2010
also viewable a bit afterabove: proof. dry-point copper etched print. etched directly from life. free steak knives. (no)
also two other prints on a wall.
(in the black room. on the... i'm not sure which level.)
(but it's a nice room with other illustrative things)

nervouscitement.

new fringe and new drawings.

i cut my hair.
and did some drawings.
0.05 fineliner
from my little brother.
and some dry-point copper etchings. or, rather, i did prints from them. the etchings are from late october. 28th, perhaps.
they were etched directly from life. (lifedrawing)
that is not to say that people actually had hands instead of faces though. that bit isn't accurate.
above: regular print in black
above: print came out not-as-desired. lines were subsequently outlined in black fineliner and then flesh hand-coloured with watercolours.
above: outlines left as printed, flesh hand-coloured with watercolours.
they have pink fingers.

all the etching/drawing things are probably worth clicking on to enlarge.

i was thinking about hairlines.

drawing on some cds.
tom waits - alice
(from david tenniel's drawing of alice. and the fish that is on the actual cd cover. *pulls back curtain. greets fish*)
camille - le fil

train station update. mostly blind contour on found myki receipts.photocopied and inked.
buckled the paper. as it should.finn in the car.
a fence and a fence shadow.
in a tower.
i didn't feel like mentally flipping the image as i etched it, so it is in reverse.
drypoint copper etching of 'in a tower'.
part of daylesford adventures with finn.
perhaps a kitchen etching to follow.
i was trying to get tone in the first one
and not in the second one.
the second one is all about melted cheese arms
and there are also two hidden faces in shadows and knuckles.
trying to draw a building while walking. needed a few pauses.
note perspective change across the page. ha.
uhhhhm. drawing on the train home.
i was thinking about hairlines.

too much scanning.

above: printmaking pholio done.
pre-mounting a few things.
i love eyebrows. whoever expected that might eventuate.
you can't use pen in here.man yawning so.very.loudly.
had essay on Picasso's Weeping Woman. went a bit Picasso mad. tried to draw EVERYTHING EVER.
girl with bird. favourite? one of.
Picasso and boy from train.
blending fashion designers. mushing together a bit of John Galliano+Jean Paul Gaultier.
with a bit of Jess over the top. :{
fingers.
my fish-hair lady. without reference and with (i like to think intentionally) distorted limbs.
and ribcage.
from catwalk photograph. designer forgotten.
white curled wig, diagonal sheer-opaque dress.
left: del kathryn barton
right: jess-interpretation
scrolling through Lambros' photos.
drawing miss ainslee meredith. quite a bit repeatedly..
fantastical hair.
drawing class started.
didn't know what to do.
opened little book.
had massive piece of paper.
started painting on it.
then went back to book and did some 'where to go next?' trials (below) (four)
below: photographed large-paint progress
with scale. note: moleskine on floor.
and anchored masking tape at the top.
further indication of scale: when i stand on the ground (on the bottom of the paper. in my socks.) and put my arm up (either arm, they're about the same length) i have to stand on my toes to reach the masking tape.
big. portrait.
(resemblance isn't quite right yet. i hadn't printed a picture. i was trying to do it from my initial biro sketch)two sets of eyes. one open, one closed. intending to add in blue to open eyes.
and more charcoal sketchy lines.
but next week. on tuesday. because it's too big and raining to take home and forth.above: discussed with Finn a preference for wearing socks without shoes.
established that each of us had dusty socks for this reason.
curioused selves with what might happen were inanimate objects less inanimate and more disagreeable.
and more likely to paint back.

p.s.
while i'm name dropping,
perhaps a re-cap and visit-encourage:

Lambros
Ainslee
Aaron
Fez

in name size order.