Amateur

Permission To Want

November 19, 2010

Sometimes it can be hard giving yourself permission to want things, giving yourself permission to pursue those things for no better reason than you ‘want’ to.

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Frustrations Boil Over

July 15, 2010

Right now I’m just feeling frustrated and incompetent. I found myself referring to myself as an ‘amateur visual artist’ and then realised I was an amateur at pretty much everything I do. I’m not sure my skills have value. I’m not sure how much I can really develop them. I suspect the desire to express myself creatively might be another in a long series of pipedreams.

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Mixed Media: Head Turned

June 3, 2010
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Following my recent experiments with pen sketches, comes this image. It is a combination of pen and paper and digital tweaking with a graphics tablet. A very simple image but one I enjoyed creating.

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Pen Sketches

May 31, 2010
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It was something I had all but forgotten until quite recently, but back in high school art classes I was introduced to an artist (whose name sadly now escapes me) who worked exclusively in pen.

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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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A Creative Catalyst

May 20, 2010

Strangely it wasn’t this scenic imagining that got me started so much as when it became apparent that fantastical bubble had burst around me.

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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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