crumple paged update

sketchbook photographs.
he got wet, so now it's going to be a long-term photos-only situation.

which is kind of nice. less like artificial-cheese yellow.
more like the colour that it actually is.

artbeat

tamuz's performance/show, thinking about screenprinting, thinking about storing scissors

trimapee launch, 1 and 2, unedited to cleanliness.

some close bits:

this is what i want my room to be. in a forest.

bottle-vase ladies. keeping your flower supported. or being your flower.
with waterdrop eyes.

x

i have no pupils

above: some legs
above:
top rectangle: photography studio: people (and one umbrella) (and one stool)
bottom rectangle: inanimate objects
looking at the same space in photography studio
above left: chair
above right top: some legs taking photographs
above right bottom: some hands.. or more specifically, 'photography hands'
the two on the left are holding cameras. the one on the right is hand(s) on hip(s).
above: i'm sitting on the floor
with jason's lunch :P
Dear Jason,
thanks fer lettin' me hang around and stuff.
:)
(i got to watch studio photographying. it was good. and amusing.)
above: some naked photography feet walking around
above: the view out of the fitzroy window
above: photo in magazine as reference.
getting a little bit distorted and waify and multiple limbs and topless. and blank stare. can it be a 'stare' without pupils?
above:
out the window on the third floor of GOMA
gallery of modern art in Brisbane.
so many lines!
everywhere!
draw properly v. miss the plane home. hmm.
(p.s. this was also outside the Simryn Gill exhibition and i now like her a lot. and they had all her gallery booklets and i looked at every single page and it was obsessive and compulsive and enjoyable.)
(*collects things*)

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.

drawing in fives

how handy.
blogspot uploads in fives.

moleskine:
coloured photocopies:
i am still the same as when i was five.
i never wanted to colour-in colouring books. because i could only do it once. and i wanted to do it repeatedly.
above: Berol Eaglecolour markers. which smell amazing.above: Winsor & Newton ink - 969 - ultramarine (mum's, which for some reason she has scrawled a date on the back of: '29/3/77')above: ink&marker happy times.

recenter things.

above: one of my favourite recent things.
drawing from the opening of the Stolen Moments pgotography exhibition in the city.
i was going to draw the little plants sitting on the bar, but then a lady came and stood infront of it.
so i drew her instead. and then her friend came and stood partly infront of her. so i drew him too. (he is the green trenchcoat)
bread wrapper.
from making jaffles.
black and white edge of a disintegrating paste-up,
yellow tape that was adhered to my face.
constructions near James Makin Gallery.
as stated, bottom rightleft: andrew, on the phone, a little cramped at his little chair and little desk.
get less sick (and higher desk) soon.
right: life drawingabove: life drawing.
sitting on the floor,
everything scattered around feet,
everything tipped out of my bags in search of interesting small things.one of my favourite places at uni
with the trees and the ivy.
and the uh. shopping trolley.above: from photos by Jana (click)
above: most recent 'thing'.

skinny pages.

new moleskine.
couldn't get the one i wanted.
now have very thin pages.
which are crinkling with the acrylic paint.

so expect some very ugly scans :D

but that's okay.

am doing a bit of copying at the moment. uni drawing classes want us to imitate. so the following are imitations:
(i haven't bothered to shrink them down. they might be nicer big. feel free to get click-happy)
(titles also present on enlargements)

left: by John Olsen
right: by Mondrian

above: by Mondrian
hee. paper wrinkles.

above: by John Olsen

no more imitations for now.

new things in new book:
uhm. drawing people's photos from facebook is going to ocur also. so uhm. keep an eye out for people you know?

left: (sideways) (tilt head to the right) hot chocolate at 3am
right: naked lady. with hands. and her hair is also hands. i'm not sure.
i wish sometimes my hair would do that.
above: unfinished. i got distracted by finding other things to draw.
like Will.
foldy pages. oops.
above: Will cutting his hair on skype.
above: lady from Vogue Australia. most recent copy. September?
edit: coloured her:


O
kay.
most exciting thing all week:
you know how sometimes you can feel improvement?
like. it doesn't matter whether other people can or cannot see it. but you look at something you do and just think "yes."
I AM SO HAPPY WITH THIS DRAWING/PAINTING/THING.
above: Isabella Blow and Daniel Lismore
acrylic and grey lead smooshed around on the page.

<3
thanks for yer time :D