Portrait animations

Theses are interesting things, really. As a Fine Arts student doing honours this year mine only had to be around 5000 words long, and I have thoroughly enjoyed researching and writing it. I have pretty much finished it too, which is probably just as well since it is due this coming Thursday. As it both explains and contextualises my work as well as following the development of my art practice I found it appropriate to write it in the form of a blog. This is especially convenient for the purpose of allowing the reader to view and experience for themselves some of the animations and video portraits I write about. I warn you, however, that I have changed the dates on the posts in order that the whole blog may be read in the correct order from top to bottom. This has already confused some friends of mine as the conclusion is dated a couple of months earlier than the introduction, so beware! Anyway, you can find it here.

Also, I have finally developed some animated portraits of which their state of completion I feel is high enough to upload and post.

(Three faces of Mariah, 2011)


(Kaye: typing for a living, 2011)

Burger

Today I sketched Burger (above). He works for the Salvos in Surry Hills.

Tim Olsen Drawing Prize from this Tuesday

So, I happen to be very good at forgetting to tell people when I'm in exhibitions! It just so happens that I'm in the Tim Olsen Drawing Prize, which opens this Tuesday evening, 5-7.30pm at Kudos Gallery, Napier st, Paddington. It's on for two weeks and the gallery is open Wed-Fri 11am-6pm, Sat 11am-4pm. I am planning to put in two animated portraits.

Steve Weymouth - The Illusion of Life

I just listened to an interesting short clip of Steve Weymouth (who teaches at COFA), on the subject of defining what is animation. Here it is:

Link to Kinds of Blue review

I just read a nice review of the Kinds of Blue anthology, which may be found here.

Portraits of me!

Over the last few weeks I have enjoyed the inter-semester break. For an honours student this roughly translates as a class-free time to further progress our art practice and research for our thesis. It has been lovely for me to meet, sketch and get to know more people over this time as well. Today in particular was a real treat - so special that I just had to write a blog post about it. I sketched Cam and his brother Lockie, and then, they wanted to sketch me! I was very flattered. As far as I can remember, the only other time someone has drawn me was my friend Melanie Borham, and that was only because we decided one day to sit down and sketch each other... Here are Cam and Lockie's sketches.

Kinds of Blue

It is a curious fact that during my time in France last year I illustrated my first five-page comic. It was written by Karen Bielharz and was called A Friend In Need. It was one of a thirteen-comic anthology on the theme of depression, titled Kinds of Blue. Almost a year after I emailed the final art back to Australia I am excited to say we're on the verge of publishing it. Karen and others have been working very hard sending the anthology to publishers but without success (although there were many affirmations of the high quality of the work). Now, we have turned to self-publishing and today Karen launched a crowd-funding campaign on Pozible. The book is excellent and I encourage you to both read it, support the campaign that will give us the money to print it and buy it! (You can read it for free on the Kinds of Blue website.)