Acrylic

Painting: Abstract (Tetris)

May 20, 2010
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I joke that this is my ‘tetris’ painting, but really I was just playing with shapes, grids, colours and washes.

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Painting: Self-Portrait (Eyes Closed)

May 10, 2010
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Feeling rather disillusioned today. This painting caper isn’t working out as I might’ve imagined – even with all the advice that it’s okay to suck and that realisation I’ll be stuck in ‘the gap’ for a really really long time. Wondering increasingly if my time might not be better spent in some other way.

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Painting: Blake

April 26, 2010
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This is a painting of Blake. Although this isn’t a great likeness and a number of liabilities were taken, I like the bright colours and the combination of colours. I like the different colours in the skin tones.

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Painting: Single Tulip

April 19, 2010
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This was probably much more an exercise in creating interesting backgrounds than painting a flower. Indeed the flower was an afterthought.

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Painting: Self-Portrait (Cartoon Happiness)

April 12, 2010
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I’m painting myself here again in part because I like the idea of using myself as a symbol within my own work. But there’s also a much more practical motivation here – and it isn’t that I’m completely self-obsessed. If you haven’t figured it out by the images posted here I am a complete amateur. I’ve wanted to create images of people who I care about and in some instances I have done that but mostly they haven’t come out very well, and painting myself carries a whole less guilt if executed badly.

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Painting: Self-Portrait (Romance)

March 29, 2010
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This is based actually on a frame of a JohnOfJordan video for Valentine’s Day. Hair slicked back, with a rose in my mouth. I just found it a compelling image and wanted to represent it in another fashion.

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