A few more examples

I've been meaning to add a few more here for a while. They are part of the series I've done and are, hopefully, in order. The previous examples included number 5 of these. So what we have here are Nos. 1,2,3,4,& 6. It seems that 5 is the most I can upload at one time. It also appears that images are in reverse order of how I chose them. Therefore it goes 6,4,3,2,1 from the top!

A sale...

I am pleased. Really quite pleased with myself and the world in general. On Sunday I sold my first ever work of Art. That's a big step for anyone, the first sale. I'll end up with a couple of hundred dollars because I got an additional prize of "The People's Choice" award as voted by viewers of the exhibition (turns quietly to left and gives a clenched-fist YEH!). So not so much the money as the acknowledgement I guess. Also, I get to put a few of my works in an exhibition next year during the Adelaide Fringe Festival. So more exposure. I really am quite pleased. For a view of the winning picture go to www.artsaccess-sa.org.au and look in the A-frame auction section. I'm No.32. Oh yeah, we later put this number on the roulette table and it came in! Result.

Eg....

These are just a few of my recent pieces. From the top: Part of the convict series I've mentioned previously. The "smearing" is a deliberate device. Then an abstract piece. These two are both in oils on canvas and are 100cm X 70cm. Third is a charcoal of Ian Curtis on paper. A4 sized. Then a pastel work on canvas board. About 90cmX 70cm, I think. Lastly, a piece that was a present for a friends wedding. Again it's done in Oil but on Masonite. About 70cmX60cm.

A new week and more of the same to come. Last week was a good one for me as far as art is concerned. I was a bit slack on the exercise front but that'll become a familiar refrain I'm sure. I worked on a couple of charcoal drawings and produced a nice one of Ian Curtis (Joy Division singer) from a photo by Kevin Cummings. Not sure of the legalities should I want to sell it. A fellow artist who shares my studio space thinks that at least 20% of a picture should be altered to avoid copyright issues. I also added figures to three paintings of a series I've been working on. I'm relating it back to my family's convict history and have ghostly images from that time painted over a plain(ish) landscape background. One of a convicts head, one of a pair of chained convicts and one of an aboriginal man running towards the viewer. Met with a gallery owner yesterday who was a good source of info and a new lead. It's a major gallery as far as Adelaide goes. His advice, get some workonto a disc and submit it. He has regular viewings of new art and meets artists on a Wednesday. Worth a go.

New Month

I've started the month of November with a bit of physical exercise. Recently had relatives from the UK with us and we drank..a lot. Mainly wine, of which South Australia is a major producer, but also a few nights on the beer and whiskey [it was Jameson Irish hence the correct spelling-pedantic Mark]. Drank with every meal almost. So, yesterday we went to the gym in the a.m. and in the arvo we went to a nearby artificial lake (West Lakes) and walked a good ways around that. There was a rowing tournie on so we kept coming across blokes with loudhailers, clipboards and flags. We reckoned that they were all ex-teachers having a last shout at some kids. Today we went and scaled Black Hill summit. It was a tough, steep, rocky climb and a sharp descent over loose rocks. At one point on the way up I was getting tunnel vision and thinking that at least it was a nice place to die. It was that rare thing-a muggy humid day in Adelaide. Usually we have a dry heat. Only about 22 degrees or so but we got a sweat up! The flies loved us as we forget the repellant. We had planned a picnic there but came home for it instead. Sat in the garden and looked at our jasmine plants in bloom. Beaut.