public art

on one of my recent journeys around the city of brisbane had a walk over the new kurilpa bridge and around Donovan Hills Santos Place. Having always been a fan of public art I was happy to see the new piece in the public access.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

ONCE, AGAIN, Lincoln Austin, Northbridge Building, North Quarter Lane, Santos Place, 2009

Stencils on Paper

These are a collection of the lastest stencil artworks I have produced over the past week or so. A collection of pop culture icons painted with different techniques. Have discovered some interesting images can be produced with spray paint allowing for different textures by allowing more or less paint from the can. Have attempted to combine stencils with interesting backgrounds and textures. These were all done by cutting my stencil images from paper and spraying with aerosol paint. I have started to experiment with 2 layers with varing degrees of success, over spray is a problem. This is where paint creeps under the stencil not leaving a defined edge, and because i am somewhat of a perfectionist about these things it tends to bother me a little. The johnny cash ones I like and the SS Chavelle, however I am hoping to include some australian cars in the future. These originals and some prints will be available for purchase for a modest price at the Darra Fair coming up this sunday from 2pm onwards. Come down and check it out, even if its only to watch Bolt on the bigscreen, I haven't seen it yet so i might be in the crowd pushing small children out of the way. As always comments and suggestions welcome.

sushi

I Enjoy Painting and I enjoy eating, so theres the ultimate combination. pop art for arts sake.

Fast Food

This is the first in a series of artworks based around ordinary objects in particular fast food. The new family meal is now made up of deals of fast food. The artwork is a combination of pop-art and illustration

Latest Paintings

A selection of my latest paintings trying to get ready for a few shows which are coming up.

Traffic Signal Box

Ok, so sometimes you have to stand back at what you have created and just say 'wow, that is really ordinary'. As is the case in question. Brisbane City Council allows for the traffic light boxes alongside intersections, to be painted with whatever creative idea a local artist come up with. Designs do have to be approved however local members of the community are encouraged to participate. The box I designed centred around the local East's rugby league football club and thecommunity links of sport. However this idea was just prior to all the problems with high ranking professional football players and I subsequesntly lost my passion for the design. However here it is in all its glory...the submitted design is included for reference...

And this is what they should probably look like: http://svc189.bne146v.server-web.com/artforce/search.asp?submitted=yes&title=painted

tattoo sketches

beginning draft sketches of tattoo...

Brisbane at night

Courtesy of my new tripod I am finally able to take all those night time photos without all the jittering. Opening the lense at night I felt always allowed for capturing movement within a static form like a photo such as the blur of car lights and people moving through the picture frame. However I am currently struck by the sombre stillness of man made objects standing in the built environment. These human made objects built to add convience to humans appear so void of life but still possess a strong beauty.

Latest Project: using the disused

The latest piece of furniture in my lounge room now holds up the television and DVD boxes. In a past life this cabinet held kitchen cups and crockery above the kitchen bench. After salvaging it from a renovation job, I added a top, and painted it a bright sun yellow. With the addition of some castors it now has a differnt purpose in life and we now stare at it all day and night whilst pretending to watch the black box. still have to add the glass doors back on and would like to put a frosted grahpic on these. So I suppose you could consider this a work in progress. The photos show the before and after, see if you can tell the difference.

The night of the mis-understood vegetation

This is one angry carrot, drawn during my angry jerk period. However owing to the fact that I am getting older the angry jerk period might rear its ugly head again and hang around for a bit longer.

But who can tell...

Its raining outside, and it has taken me quite by surprise. I can only hope that no more water comes in through the roof. Kind of ironic I suppose with the fact that I am supposed to be an architect. However I do live in an apartment block, so can hopefully be excused.

I hope everyone has an enjoyable evening and does not have to resort to the use of overly aggresive vegetables to sort out thier issues.

warning: do not try to feed this carrot to you guinea pig.

scribbles

sketch from the sketch book, very rough and more of a doodle, was fun to just let the pen run for a while and see what appears...

new stencil of oceans 11 - spray paint on canvas

latest stencils

doing some work for an upcoming fair and thought i should post the first few pieces to roll of the assembly line...

Reggie da guinea pig comic

prototype for reggie the guina pig comic

Stencil art

some older stencil paintings i have done, some personal some commissions...

this is something i really enjoy doing, and it all started with wonder woman, I love doing pop icons and cartoon. These were all done on canvas with spray paint.

traffic signal boxes

Have been doing some sketches for submission to paint a traffic signal box, which is located next to the traffic lights. This has been submitted to the council authority and i am currently waiting approval or otherwise. I tried to incoporate some local activities in coorparoo including the local football gound and the swimming pool.

black and white scan - in pen and ink

scan coloured in photoshop

As a bit of a side note I love playing computer games, and the latest addiction is Gordon Ramsays hell's kitchen. Now this is a horrible game that is stressfull and so very addictive, i have been playing it on Wii. Just so that someone else doesn't 'accidentially' erase all the high scores, the screen shot shows them all in arcade mode...yes thats right, 137 for executive che...thats more than double hot bastard...

drawing on shoes

so in the spirit of me drawing on anything i find, i had a go at decorating some shoes which were originally destined to be my brothers, however they are to small...I have always wanted to do something like this, and as a first attempt i think they came out pretty good. They were done with paint pens and permanent markers with 3 colours. Now all i need to do is find more shoes to draw on...

long time no see

wow it really has been a long time between posts. Have started organising myself and have uplodaed some of my work on flickr...check it out http://www.flickr.com/photos/30796797@N03/ right here...above is an oldie but shows the eternal battle of cat vs dog...will be posting much more soon...

in other news if you haven't already, get onto facebook and become a fan of Reiggie da guinea Pig, he is one popular little rodent...

what a cute little fella