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Happy New Year!
I've been lurking, slinking around the place pretending Wellington has a summer and that I'm still on holiday to enjoy it. But alas, neither of those things are true. Had a great break up north though, and did a couple of wee watercolours while I was away, which I will post soon.
For now, here's a wee update on the Lovecraft piece from a while ago. It managed to take top honours in the prestigious Gnomon Workshop Forums monthly image challenge. I was super stoked as those guys put out some amazing product. I didn't quite get the piece as finished as I wanted to for the contest, but here it is with very little updated. Is it done? You be the judge. If you look back to the previous version I posted, you can see the changes I was contemplating back then :)
I've been lurking, slinking around the place pretending Wellington has a summer and that I'm still on holiday to enjoy it. But alas, neither of those things are true. Had a great break up north though, and did a couple of wee watercolours while I was away, which I will post soon.
For now, here's a wee update on the Lovecraft piece from a while ago. It managed to take top honours in the prestigious Gnomon Workshop Forums monthly image challenge. I was super stoked as those guys put out some amazing product. I didn't quite get the piece as finished as I wanted to for the contest, but here it is with very little updated. Is it done? You be the judge. If you look back to the previous version I posted, you can see the changes I was contemplating back then :)
More Watercolours
These watercolours are a bit older. They are from the trip Jo and I took through Asia late last year.
I did a lot of drawings in the journal I was writing in, but I only managed to get a few watercolours done. We were usually too busy going to this temple, or that shrine or some exhibition or other.
Top left image is a beach on Ko Phi Phi (the neighbouring island to the one featured in 'the Beach'). It was a beautiful beach but always had trash laying about, which was very sad for us to see. We are really spoiled here.
Top right is a manicured garden in Japan, though I really didn't do it justice. Their gardens were immaculate and very inspiring.
The bottom double-page piece was painted in Pai, in northern Thailand. We sat on the balcony of a cafe called 'Coffee in Love' and I got a caramel mocha (a very cultural drink). The view was amazing - over the whole valley full of natural forest interspersed with rice paddies. If you've ever been to Asia, you'll know the supernatural green glow that a rice paddy gives off. That was what I was hoping to capture with this piece. It was so incredibly hot that day however that my brushstrokes would dry almost immediately. It put me off a bit, and you can see the texture from where I really had to scrub pigment out of the paper to make adjustments.
I did a lot of drawings in the journal I was writing in, but I only managed to get a few watercolours done. We were usually too busy going to this temple, or that shrine or some exhibition or other.
Top left image is a beach on Ko Phi Phi (the neighbouring island to the one featured in 'the Beach'). It was a beautiful beach but always had trash laying about, which was very sad for us to see. We are really spoiled here.
Top right is a manicured garden in Japan, though I really didn't do it justice. Their gardens were immaculate and very inspiring.
The bottom double-page piece was painted in Pai, in northern Thailand. We sat on the balcony of a cafe called 'Coffee in Love' and I got a caramel mocha (a very cultural drink). The view was amazing - over the whole valley full of natural forest interspersed with rice paddies. If you've ever been to Asia, you'll know the supernatural green glow that a rice paddy gives off. That was what I was hoping to capture with this piece. It was so incredibly hot that day however that my brushstrokes would dry almost immediately. It put me off a bit, and you can see the texture from where I really had to scrub pigment out of the paper to make adjustments.
White Cloud Worlds - Signing at the Weta Cave
What's that? You missed the massive turnout of artists at Unity Books and still havn't forgiven yourself?
Holding a grudge against the girlfriend for that polite afternoon tea with her old scool chums that kept you from joining the geek fest?
Fear not, we emerge from our creative caves a second time!
This time the lineup is almost as large, and we're on home soil at the Weta Cave.
From 1 - 4pm this Sunday the 14th. There will be a Q&A in the middle, and even the elusive 'Gus' is rumoured to be appearing this time :)
Come on down and say hi!
Holding a grudge against the girlfriend for that polite afternoon tea with her old scool chums that kept you from joining the geek fest?
Fear not, we emerge from our creative caves a second time!
This time the lineup is almost as large, and we're on home soil at the Weta Cave.
From 1 - 4pm this Sunday the 14th. There will be a Q&A in the middle, and even the elusive 'Gus' is rumoured to be appearing this time :)
Come on down and say hi!
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