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drawing and fotoshop combined!

uggsie portrait

i'm going to do a painting of uggsie, my beeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaauuuuuuuuuutiful baby cat!!!! it is going to be incredibly heartfelt and soooo in lovely! i'm going to use oil paints because we are learning with oil paints at uni and this is the first time i've used them! they're much different to acrylic paints which is what i have always used. but the thing is, i HATE what we're painting!!!! so i figure if i could enjoy painting... with a GOOD (if not wonderfully brilliant and beautiful) subject matter, then what could go wrong! i have the buy the paints first tho, but i bought a little canvas for $2.50 (bargain!!) and ive taken the foto and ive drawn on it, this is it so far.

BEAUTIFUL!!! then the painting shall begin! and i'll keep u posted on that too. i know i have way too many projects going on at the same time, but its good this way, cos when i get sick of one i can go onto another and then go back to the orginial if i get sick of the 2nd!!!! brilliant!

kinda like georgie o'keeffe....!

oh my gosh, i might have even learnt something!

i had to do my assignments on artist Georgia O'Keeffe and i hated it. i think she's a shit-head, but i say that rather ignorantly. when i looked into her artwork and read more about it, i kind of found something of my own in there to like. we had to draw a bone set in class, just a rough sketch, but when i was doing it, i was thinking of georgia o'keeffe's sensitively drawn animal skulls.

so keeping her artwork in mind, this was the "rough sketch", (that wasn't so rough in my opinion) that i came out with.

i know its cut off- but at that point the teacher told me it was lovely and that i really "saw" the bone.... BUT, i had to focus on an area for my shitty painting.... hehehe

this one's for vezza

its her birthday. this is my drawing for her. happy 12th birthday verity!

BORED IN THE LECTURE

as much as i enjoy them, i do get bored.... everyone does at some point and if they tell you otherwise, they are LYING!!!

this is the result of boredom- a drawing of the view infront of me!!! passed the time nicely i feel :)

stenciling!

more uni work here---

for the last 2 weeks in our contemporary imaging class we've been learning about STENCILS and at first i was like, oh great.... but then the teacher showed us books and he meant like grafitti stencils you often see on walls and stuff in the city! especially in melbourne down that street... that really arty one, whats it called sherry? brunswick street?

so anyways, here's a foto of some that i took when i was down that street a year or so back.

so thats the sort of idea of stencilling i guess.
so we need a quick design in class... a one layer stencil and this is what i had to show.

i'll just explain quickly how you do them. it seems pretty obvious... but to me it was kinda hard!!! you basically have ur design, then u grab a peice of that acetate clear plastic paper stuff and your stencil cutter thing (like a stanly knife) and cut the parts out where you want the spray paint to go. then you put the plastic peice of paper down and spray on top of that, lift it up, and there's your results!!!

after this class, we had another, but we had to do a multi-layer design. i did alex playing a guitar. this is what it looked like in the end.


i obviously didn't let the spray paint dry for long enough!!! but im going to buy some spray paint and do some more at home and then hopefully, im gonna do one in town somewhere!! like on a bus shelter or something, hehehe. so im buying spray paint today, BUT EVERYONE MUST NOTE, it has to be matte spray paint, cos gloss paint drips :)

anyway, liked this class!! woo!

money man

everyone is a bit like money man at some point. most people are like money man as soon as they start earning money and they become too tight to spend it, or too dodgy to be reasonable with it, ripping everyone else off. i hate money men!!!!! MECHANICS ARE THE BIGGEST MONEY MEN AROUND, AS WELL AS INSURANCE AGENCIES!!!