Thursday, 6 September 2007
Queen's Some Moving"
Just found this on Flickr. A peculiar title...........but I like the composition and the way the face is spliced horizontally. He currently has about five pages of images on his Flickr album. I probably like about 4 of these in particular.
Collage is a great creative process, though at times it can kind of drive you a bit crazy as you move 'cut out' images around and then try them on this and that background with this and that combination. I remember doing some in my attic studio in Hanwell west London , quite a few years back and ending up with stuff all over the surfaces and floor and actually losing my trail.
Of course with Photoshop you can keep your various 'try outs; and then choose which one works best also you can use the same motif twice if you want (thank goodness for PS !!).
Gone are the days when you had to nip up to the chemist to use their photocopy machine!! Having said that - I do love the uniqueness though of that medium too.
Speaking of art processes and equipment - I am just getting prepared to restart my printmaking activities. I think I have hopefully just about recovered from my Falun experience. The physical exertions (additional to usual) has almost made me go downhill health-wise although I have been trying, to take it easy and gradually get re connected with where I was with my own art practice.
Collage is a great creative process, though at times it can kind of drive you a bit crazy as you move 'cut out' images around and then try them on this and that background with this and that combination. I remember doing some in my attic studio in Hanwell west London , quite a few years back and ending up with stuff all over the surfaces and floor and actually losing my trail.
Of course with Photoshop you can keep your various 'try outs; and then choose which one works best also you can use the same motif twice if you want (thank goodness for PS !!).
Gone are the days when you had to nip up to the chemist to use their photocopy machine!! Having said that - I do love the uniqueness though of that medium too.
Speaking of art processes and equipment - I am just getting prepared to restart my printmaking activities. I think I have hopefully just about recovered from my Falun experience. The physical exertions (additional to usual) has almost made me go downhill health-wise although I have been trying, to take it easy and gradually get re connected with where I was with my own art practice.
Monday, 3 September 2007
Tagged Part 6 of 8 ; facts(snippets) about me
I am an adopted person I was brought to my parents when I was about 9 months old. I was brought over on a boat from England to Ireland. Apparently this priest in Cork (where I was grew up) called Father Good had an idea about all of the poor Catholic babies (innocents) that were being born in England of their unmarried mothers (sinners) should be brought back to Ireland instead of being farmed out to Protestant couples in England ( Heathens!!!)...I have always had this story inside of me asn so I
I made an artwork about this called Habeas Corpus 2001
click on here on Axisweb and select "HABAEUS CORPUS" if you want to find out more about that installation .
The photo is from an archive on the Cork city council website. The images there are provided by the Cork Camera Club.
Saturday, 1 September 2007
The Art of Anatomy
I have been meaning to post this for awhile amongst my many other goodies that I collect into my blog upload folder on my laptop. This grid artwork was created by Feltbug aka Mandy Prowse.
Here is a link to the actual picture she created for the group which we both set up on Flickr. It has links to the artists who's images make up the visuals in this 30 sectioned grid. There are some lovely and even surprising takes on this theme to be found there. I would like eventually for us to develop this group further .......maybe a book.....or an exhibition.........who knows. please feel free to post any ideas you may have?
If you are interested in being part of this then why not sign up to flickr for a free account - though you have to have a Yahoo I.D., to do that. Click on the 'blued up" link to sign up.
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