Fonua series

Plaster, cardboard, plastic flowers, skateboard.
Title: Everlast

BCT 1

On Art

Pulled out a canvas that was sitting behind the TV. Wiped away a year's dust and brushed 2 coats of burnt umber upon its primed surface. Kennth Tasi  looked on with a blank stare, asking dipstick questions. As I ponder over the wash like effect, I ask myself why on earth did I spend a year going ballistic over digital?
THIS IS ART! A bristle brush in my hand and a colored stained palette at my feet. What a joy it is to paint again. Or is art not supposed to be joyous but a determined struggle, where I would focus my creative anger upon Kennth Tasi and call him a charlatan?  

On Art

My flat is my studio. Total dedication to my art process is paramount over everything else. Art theory is difficult but I find it stimulating and relevant
for my own practice.

Think of 2 points Artificial or Natural

When light hits an object it reflects the object and so you see it because the light reveals the surface of that object. Light is a natural phenomenon.
An object is artificial (a glass) because it had to be placed in a position in order to disrupt the light in for you to see it.

Back in Wellington

Went for a swim yesterday at Oriental.
Another warm day in the capital.
Typography 2 and Drawing for my electives.
Full steam ahead for 2013.

ART 2

During my teens, comic books were our main reading diet, which annoyed every educator that walked the planet. Man...how things have changed. Look what they've done to Batman. At High School art was joined with French so I chose one of the trade subjects.

On being an Artist 1

I can recall in my childhood, where I would sit in front of the television and draw cartoons. I loved Bugs Bunny and The Pink Panther.

Wooloomooloo Dream Time

USE IT OR LOOSE IT!
The crew at Forbes Street are quite engaging, intelligent and are fine artists.
Nicolette has stoked the art studio with more art materials and Im enjoying
the oppotunity to fill my daily wookbook with my cloudy ideas.
Another fabulous colour is raw umber. It feels as if Ive captured the earth
in colour. Anselm Kiefer, the German Expressionist and Peter Booth an Australian
artist are in my thinking as I delve into acrylics. I am a little disappointed that
I even stopped painting for the sake of digital art. But it is wonderful to be back
painting with brush and pigments.