Man and landscape

Watercolor Pencil, Acrylic on board. 1200 X 600mm. Work in progress.

fisimono

mixed media on board. 120x60cm. Work in progress.

Nukututaha

   A few hours each morning on this painting.

Graphic design brief.

Goals- learn front end web technologies.

Quick drawing day with pencil

From life on the street.

Graduation time

My fellow students setting up their digital work.

It has been great collaborating with these cool people. 

moonlight

...so many changes. I want to finish this before showtime.

more blue

high lighting with titanium white...transparent layers.

Show Time

Work in progress

Blue room

Needs more work...bluer background

At my easel.

Digital manipulation.

Show and tell this afternoon for Applied Media.

As usual... What am I going to talk about?

Sanding and gluing a piece of plastic shopping bag to board. 

Sanding acrylic painting on canvas.

Saturday at school

Wednesday Moon painting

     
                               There was a crescent moon over Mount Cook the other night.
                               I made a note of it in my notebook and looked forward to attacking
                               my picture plain at school.

                             
                               Saturday morning painting session produced a waka whare out of
                               a picture plain of confusion.

                                Looks like a fish?

VI Graduating Students Weltec 2014

                             
                                Left:  Jordan Winnie, Concept/ Character Design.
                                         Alex Moses, Animation.

                                Back left:  Salina Van Doorn, Photograher.
                                                 Laura O'Shea, Photographer.
                                                 Zoe Robinson, Film and video.

Large work

                                        
                                         Another large work I am developing.  Perspective elements
                                         accidentally appear through the haze.I like where this is going.
                                         An painter that has caught my attention is  Peter Doig.

Friday session

                                     
                                          Continuing from Friday's session, I was thinking
                                          of Polynesian canoe voyaging. The horizon and
                                          mountains. There are no mountains on Niue Island.

My school space. I seem to work better at school than at home.

I think it's because I am continually inspired by the other students.

Presentation.

Two small acrylic paintings above my studio desk.

Wellington Institute of Technology.

I spend six days a week here creating art.

   Some work underway.

                               Acrylic on board.

                             

Presentation BCT3

Picture framing in the morning with Darren Ward. Great to get my hands dirty in the workshop.

          Presentation in the afternoon. Great feedback from Senior Tutors. Good constructive comments about pushing ahead in the same direction. 

Mid-year Student Presentation tomorrow.

                               Acrylic study.

                               Presentation tomorrow in front of Senior Tutor panel.
                               I hope I have done enough work to satisfy the brief?
                           

My studio floor. 3 acrylic paintings on the go- on 1 sheet of mdf board.

FONUA CHEST

    Photoshop composition study for painting.

    Acrylic, oil paint, colored pencil.

    Pixels with charcoal.

Working on student graduation exhibition on 28 June.

Work Book

Painting Today.

Working with acrylics on board.

Long Time Not Been Here.

Today... a report dead line.
Tomorrow...an art presentation.
Next week...HOLIDAY!


    Fractur typeface.
   
    Study for 'FONUA' series.

Website

Student vacation was spent reading HTML5 books and tutorials. The markup language has lead to CSS and Javascript. My website is almost complete. The final workout is testing on various computers.  Hopefully I will have the webste operating before school commences.

               FONUA IKI

               Digital collage study.

Typography

I finally get the whole thing about Typography. The history, the critical thinking and analysis, the

polarization of typographers and designers. I spent the summer reading material on Typography and
design, which has altered my creative art thinking in a way that I am becoming increasingly aware of
my city environment.

As I walk the streets of the one of the smallest capitals in the world, I peer at street advertising. No one can avoid it. It's in your face. The world is advertising itself,  in a multitude of typefaces, colors, on paper, in moving images, fashion, on bus tops, advertising is ubiquitous and so therefore Typography is ubiquitous.

                                                               Typography is history.

FONUA 

HTML5

    During the summer, I have been learning HTML5. Drawing  has been neglected for 3 WEEKS!
    Got to get my drawing  back in focus.

    Photoshop image study for 'FONUA' series.

Graphite study of walking man for Flash animation I will be undertaking for this year,