So Then This Happened....AWESOME

I'm an avid user of social media, I had a Facebook account before it was cool, when everyone else was using MySpace I linked my two accounts lol, wonder whatever happened to MySpace lol. I also love Delicious and am keen to try Pininterest and of course I love to blog :D

So when I saw that Computer Arts Magazine (UK) had a Twitter feed (@ComputerArts) I had to follow along. The magazine has been a favourite of mine for years so when I tweeted a link to my current Hons work I had no idea that they would actually think it was good enough to include on a daily gallery of inspiration. But then this happened:

I know in the grand scheme of things its only little, but it means a lot to me because as an artist you tend to spend a lot of your time creating images uncertain as to whether they have any affect on the viewer or whether they are any good- but there is it, my Nan's Chinese dog statue, over a hundred years old, painted digitally by me and now on the interwebs lol. To see it in context click here 

Honors Study Update

Still life studies of objects of significance, getting a sense of the colours and shapes associated with a by-gone era.

Back at Uni

Another year of uni and another blog, find my Honours blog listed at the top of this page, on the Hons I will be discussing not only my animation project but also my research thesis and exegesis progress. Check it out here.

In other news, I've taken up a painting elective this semester to give me a 'release' from the stresses of computer and digital based art creation. Last weekend was our first painting weekend, did I mention the class was on Saturday? Yep it is, I suppose there could be worse ways to spend your Saturday morning. The disappointing aspect for me at the moment was learning that we will only be using acrylics, was hoping to learn watercolour or oils, oh well it will be good to have some formal training in that medium as well. Here was our lesson on tone: