Artis ex machina

Lots and lots of work done in the cave since last time. Not all of it fanatastic work, but the paintings I have been working on are getting me excited.

I love posting my work in progress stages. The series of images below are from a new potrait work, I think it fits into the 'Pattern Recognition' Series.

Spiritum intra machina es

The placing of the masking tape has been done by using dice rolls to randomly generate the variables.

Spiritum intra machina es (stage2)

I have chosen to draw a self portrait over the masking tape.

Spiritum intra machina es (Stage 3)

The raw data was drawn over the top of both the portrait and masking tape.

Spiritum intra machina es (Stage 4)

A second layer of making tape has been randomly generated, and applied.

Spiritum intra machina es (stage 5)

The basics of the portrait and raw data have been painted in.

The next stage is to apply the second layer of raw data, another final layer of generated tape and then colour.  It will be interesting when I finally get to remove the masking tape. 

In other news I have all but completed my 'Data Set Toilet' a few generative tweaks and bish bash bosh. Generative art based on a tiny bathroom.

Data Set Toilet (Generative art.) , 20" x 20", Oil on Primed Board

Been away for a while.

I have been away from here for a while and generally struggling with all my social media. The problem lies with how things are panning out in my life right now.
Those who know me know of my wife's brain tumor. This is a constant horrible weight on both of us. Recently we have been going in to see her oncologist very 3 months. Thankfully the news has always been positive, but the 3 monthly reminder of the timebomb in her head. 
Things have gotten more intense; my wife has now be dianosed with  depression. Where she would normally have the energy to help with the kids and housework. She finds she can't.  I feel so useless I can't do anything to help her. I can't sort the brain tumor and I can't lift the depression from her.

The only thing I can do is work on my art, look after the kids, keep the house in a reasonable state and stay positive for her. It's hard. I have no solutions, no answers.

I hate the whole situation. The images below have been painted in anger at it all.

In your face Monday

My coding frustrations are just Mondays badly dressed cobwebs. With the suave flick of a paint brush I slew the digital misery that hovered above me.  Today has been a good day to paint. Not such a good day for photographs, but that's just because I sent(left) my camera on holiday in Poole.  The net result being that I now use the trusty smartphone to take pictures. ( I distinctly remember in the late 90's poo pooing the idea of taking a photo on a  phone.)

So todays servings mined from the depths of the cave.

Nugget one is finished - (apologies for the naff photo but as I said I left my camera in Poole and this is the best I could get today.)
 

Broken Code? 9" x6" oil on triple primed board  

And another abstract in progress, I'm just playing wit ideas on this one, at the moment I'm thinking of bubble or throw up graffiti shapes in some kind of alien writing, but we'll see where it goes.

Typo 9" x 6" oil on primed board.

and finally two works in progress. 

Data Set Toilet, 20"x20", oil on primed board. 2015

This is based on set of measurements I have taken of the interior of our toilet (room) each of the squares gets their position and size based  on the dimensions of the objects in the room. The use of the masking tape has introduced a glitchy emergent property to the work. I hope this feel the work has stays. This is a work in progress and has some way to go yet. 

Dice painting 28042015, oil on board, 9"x9" 2015

This is the beginning of a series that are painted according to dice rolls. The dice are rolled in groups of 4, and then painted. this is done for an hour then the painting is finished off with extra line work and colour.

Later is now

It's laterz now and I have been beating my head against code for FOREVER!!! 
GAH!!!!

This is why I must do coding Mondays, I don't practice enough and spend hours relearning what I already know. Well I'm in the digital saddle again and I have finally worked out the basics of OOP( Object Oriented Programing). I hope.

Anyways my words can be wordy so heres some images to look at.
Cheers for reading. I'm off to superhero it on some game for a 1/2 hour before bed, so if anyone wants me I'll be saving Gaslight Gotham or some such.
Bloop!