Small Texture plexiplate

This is a detail of a small of a plexi plate with texture made with acrylic mediums oil base ink on 220g paper

Creaping Ink

Had a play with dry point printmaking

Dry point oil base ink

220g printmaker paper

New Year 2010

Happy New Year all. Had a late night with wife, family and friends. Had a slow start this morning went into my studio did not now what to do there was not a clear work space as the unwanted bits and bobs from before Christmas found there way into my studio. It took me around 6 hour to find it and boy it look good I can get to all my work areas and have plenty of room to spread out.

Went back out and played in my nice clean and tidy studio after tea and made this monoprint “2010”

MonoPrint

"2010"

W/B Printer ink

Print Size: 8 1/2" x 6 1/2"

Jan 2010

Santapaw's Helper

Well that’s Christmas over with for another year it has been a good one, what with having to cook a full Christmas dinner for 15 people and 3 dogs. All sitting in the back garden in the sun eating to much and drinking to much a good time was had by all Ho Ho Ho.

I did Santapaw’s helper on Christmas eve.

"Santapaw's Helper"

Acrylics on canvas (20"x 24")
December 2009

Now its time to look to 2010

Fear get to us all at some time

Fear get to us all at some time I was reading Tony Moffitt's art world Blog yesterday and his post Better To Die On Your Feet Than Live On Your Knees, Sparked an feeling that we do let other people steal our dreams away.

Better To Die On Your Feet Than Live On Your Knees
Posted: 03 Jul 2009 08:18 PM PDT by Tony Moffit

What are you waiting for?For a lot of artists our chosen path means an endless set of challenges that test our confidence and resilience. But until you face each challenge and overcome the obstacles, you're going nowhere.The first person who manages to bottle 'confidence' is going to be an overnight squillionaire.But generally, it's just fear that holds us back. Fear of rejection, fear of criticism and fear of failure.They're not unique to artists... but maybe artists have to deal with these fears in greater amounts than butchers, bakers and candlestick makers.Being rejected by a gallery hurts. It's a setback. Being criticised for the quality of your art hurts a lot. Feeling like we've failed can be a pain that takes a long time to go away.But the truth is each challenge we face as artists tends to be overblown. In reality, a rejection from a gallery means what? It means that exactly one person didn't like our art enough to exhibit it.That's not the end of the world. There are thousands of galleries.It's fear that holds us back. It's fear that stops us from taking the next step, reaching the next level, becoming better at our art and our business.Break it down. Learn to see fear for what it really is. No matter what artistic setback you suffer it really doesn't mean that much. We all face the similar setbacks. You can let them cripple you... or learn to confront and overcome them.You can paralyse yourself with just two words. They can destroy your dreams. The words are, "what if...?"What if people don't like my art?What if people don't buy my paintings?What if a gallery rejects my submission?Well here's two replacement words.."So what?".It's better to die on your feet than live on your knees.

Tony Moffit’s Art World
http://tonymoffitt.blogspot.com/
Thanks for Helping to show us the way

Heads up

This is my latest finished head sculpture strait out of the glaze kiln this morning he is about

(10” x 8” x 8”) made of hi fire sculpture caly.

"Johnny"

(10" x 8" x8")

June 2009

Happy face

I have just finished this painting in time to get it ship down to Wellington for the end of term exhibition.

"Kenny"
Acrylics on canvas (20"x 24")

June 2009

Yellow Lillie

Well it’s Thursday again and I’m playing with my soft pastels again. This is a close crop of a yellow Lillie it is done in soft pastels on a terra cotta Mi-Teintes wrong side

"Yellow Lillie"

soft pastels on a terra cotta Mi-Teintes wrong side ( 8”x10”)

It's good

It’s just good to get up early jump in the van and go for a long drive to meet up with a group of like minded people with the same interest. Spending 4 or 5 hours with them shearing time, ideas and lunch, in the end your drive away with a buzz and your batteries recharged and a new lease of life to get on with your own projects.

A new still life pastel

It was great to find the time to get out and play with my pastels again. This still life of fruit was done on a dark green colorfix board. I was going to blend but I like the thing that was happening with the dark background showing through the broken colour so I use no blending at all.

"Two red apples and pears"

Soft pastels on A4 Green colorfix board