New works
A little while ago I decided to try and complete a piece of work everyday (I gave myself the weekends off I'm rethinking that) . It's been about 5 days and I have 3 decent images to show for it. I need to get better images of them. I keep missing the decent light.
Dice Drawing No2.
14cm x 9 cm
Mine Ruin (working title)
Ink and Oil on watercolour paper. 36cm x 25cm.
Primary Ruins
Oil on watercolour paper. 36cm x 25cm..
Smashing Times.
Yesterday was a bit adrenalin fueled. My trusty little car was given a hug by a HGV. By hug I mean it shunted me at the traffic lights, I'm grand, but I was so buzzing off adrenaline sleep was difficult to come by.
Consequently I was bleary eyed and knackered today. I shuffled through the housework and flaked out. However being the heroic figure of a man I am I went into my clean Cave of Paint and bashed out a tasty slice of art. It's an abstract based on procedural process.
Here it is in stages.
Boom. That is me for tonight. Stay roughly where you are.
Dicing with sharpies
Pesky housework. Despite not getting started until 11, I got a brush load of painting done, on the commission. I'll post some detail shots tomorrow.
However on to my daily drawing daring do. I meant to sling more paint in an evening session, but due to evil space pixies I could not find any of my essential tools. (tape measure, ruler and set square)To be honest at this point I wanted to just facebook the night away. Dear reader you would be proud of me, I resisted the timesuck and tidied my cave. Thor's beard I tidied the feck out of that cave.
2 hard fought hours later I sat down and almost crumbled. My resilience won through though, and instead of just going to bed, I sat down and did 15 minutes of drawing with dice and sharpies.
I've included my runic instructional scrawlings for informative reasons. Feast your eyes on the glory of Dice drawing No.2. Thor's beard you have been treated.
The work is 14cm x 9cm. Tiny I know. The work was completed in 15 minutes. The last 5 minutes were spent putting in the fills. Read on for the nitty gritty exciting algorithmic rules, or don't.
The Rules - Dice Drawing No.2
Conditions:
- All work to be completed in 15 minutes.
- Directions, distance and thickness of line all randomly calculated.
I used a d4 to calculate the direction of the lines, a d20 gave the distance and a d6 decided the sharpie thickness to use. 1 unit equals a square. When I had 5 minutes left I began adding the fills in each section. Each section had a 50% chance to have a fill.
That's your lot, so have an ace one.
Cave Drippings
I've been a little unfocused recently, mostly a readjustment to my new working hours and head full of cold. My eldest has started school and so I have gained a day, to flounce around in my painting smock. However my hours of work are shorter, which means I have a lot less faf time in the morning. Ooh how love a good faf in the morning. To cut a unnecessarily long and irrelevant story short, I've made myself a time table!! Organised Irish is my new name.
As for todays work, I've been badgering away at the commission portrait. More on that later. My procedural painting has had a lick of paint too. Have a look see.
The first image is of Procedural Painting V3.1.2 at Layer 4. The second is Layer 5 with the emergent properties added. I find it interesting how the 'action' seems to get concentrated in one or two areas. In Layer 5 most of the action happened around 31 cm from the right and 15cms from the top. There is another area developing in the bottom right.
Painting each new layer is becoming daunting. Every time a line crosses a line it sparks off a new interaction. At the moment the interactions are really dice roll heavy, by that I mean, I roll a lot of dice to generate very simple artifacts. The next works will work on a different level. I'm thinking of making the source data invisible and only painting the interactions and emergent artifacts. That would probably be easier to understand with an image. Shame theres no one about to draw one.
I was thinking when I painted todays layer about how everything seems to reach an equilibrium. I started thinking about it with reference to the tone of the line. It has a option to change everytime it crosses itself. Today it tended to become a dark grey. I wonder how many layers would need to be painted for the work to reach equilibrium and what on earth that would look like.
Commissions
I have been asked by a lady I'll call D to paint a portrait of her daughter. I won't be posting any images of the work apart from the odd detail. It's odd painting a work for someone you don't know. I know that D likes the style I paint in, but my style tends to the semi abstract and it is getting the balance right for D that is the challenge. Trying to Judge how much I can indulge myself and my ideas and still keep the likeness of her daughter. It's a fun dilema, one I never had to deal with before. Time will tell if I have made a good job of it or not. Here's the painting that got me the commission.
O, Binaries and Artifacts, Oil on canvas, 60cm x 80cm. 2013.
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