Diptic

I’ve started using an app ‘diptic’, after seeing images from haikugirloz and asking her how she got the effects.  I have a couple of favourite formats, and am only beginning to explore what can be done. 

acqua 2011.  Images from iphone, put together using diptic

In a way it reminds me of some gouaches from Fred Williams, where he taped off the page and painted a series of related landscapes. 

Fred Williams 1971 'Springbrook, Queensland'
Gouache, watercolour and synthetic polymer paint on paper.

I seem to have two main ideas thus far.  One is to take cropped images of different photos that have strong colour relationships, and the other is to put images together that really relate in terms of their content.  At the moment this is mostly images from urban street artists I’ve seen in different locations.

untitled, 2011. images from iphone, put together using diptic

Not sure who the pieces are by, 2011.
Stencils in Nth Fitzroy, in laneway behind Nicholson Street..

untitled, 2011. images from iphone, put together using diptic

Pheonix the street artist, 2011 'Tipping Point' ArtBoy gallery door
VOice of the blue earth series.

5 recent drawings

I bought a small sketchbook while on holiday in Byron Bay.  From early September, I have been trying to do a drawing a day, as a way of getting back into art.  I've now done over seventy.  
I'm still feeling distinctly rusty, but I think I am improving.  
Here are some of the more successful early drawings.  (All drawings are in pencil on A5 size paper.)

Pear. 2011. Graphite on paper

Moira's Buddha. 2011 graphite on paper

Scissors I. 2011 graphite on paper

Maggie. 2011. graphite on paper

Keep Cup, 2011. Graphite on Paper

reboot

I really need to do something with this blog...

and it needs to be more than "hey, look what i did four years ago! wasn't it great!"

While in future I might show some images of things from the past, I'd like to try and concentrate on developing the now and showing some of the things I've been drawing, writing about some of the art and design books I've been reading, displaying some of the photos i've been taking and also, maybe, trying to write a little about work.  

so, we'll see how it all goes...