Sketchy XXXVIII

…have to admit to being more than a little manic with the fly/skull/eye thing….

…had to get the templates just so…

…trust me, the painted results show the time spent in the development stages!….

Big Secret Project VI

….the last of the series that I last posted about 5 and 1/2 months ago….

…only remembered after a big long art chat with friend Adrian….

…fly/skull/eye….10th in a series of 10 finished during the first NZ lock down in 2020….

….and some less wobbly stills….

…I think all the flies are different on this…have tried to figure that out by standing in front of it and reciting the colour combinations…but got confused very quickly (and summoned a paint demon)…

Sketchy Wednesday VI

….every once in awhile I think to myself “that page would benefit by being covered in eyeballs and flutterdies”….

…and as I work at night, by myself….

….there’s no one there to contradict me….

Sketchy Wednesday IV

…planning and plotting…

….plotting and planning….

…parts of the big secret project are still alive and kicking about the sketchbook…

…plus bonus side idea for a toneware piece…

…yay…sidetracked again!…

😜

Sketchy Wednesday III

….alternatively titled “Sketchy Tuesday III” for those of us exisiting in another hemisphere and/or in a slower timeline…

…flyskulleye…

….skullflyeye…

…eyeskullfly….

The Beginnings Of The Big Secret Project

…or “How To Stall For Time When You Haven’t Finished (…finished?…ha!!…barely even started!…) The Fucking Frames Like You Said You Were Going To”…..

…(hem hem)….

…let us reach back, way back, thru the mists of time….

…almost exactly four years ago I had been reading a nice new hard bound copy of the complete works of H.P. Lovecraft (no Frag, no relation to the sauce) and came up with idea that the summoning of elder gods like Cthulhu’s Dad, Yog-Sothoth, was the sort of thing that went on at C.W.I meetings….

….(…lord help me if the my Mother or her cronies at the Country Womens Institute read this….I’ll be straight in the cauldron with the eye of newt….)….

…another (almost exactly again) year goes by and this gets added to the sketch book….

…what can I say…September/October are dark times indeed (with lots of eyeballs) in the southern hemisphere….

…for the next two years I became “distracted” by skulls and crossed bones and flys….

…however…

…on the 27/10/2019 this happened….

…was looking for something a little “calmer” than the Extinction Level Advent Calendar with rotating bugs, as committed to paper at the top at the page (still hoping to get back to that at some point), and had had a retrospective dig thru the sketchbook and thought the eyeballs from the first two images would work nicely as a repetitive motif….

…should of seen it coming really….

…and that was the ten days of brain storming that heralded the coming of the “Big Secret Project” and gave rise to “paintbook”…..

…now it’s another year down the track…. the world is a vastly different place and I still haven’t finished those fucking frames…..

…”paintbook” ??….

…the first rule about “paintbook” is….

… “we don’t talk about paintbook”…

…(maybe next week we could talk about paintbook)….

…(now ….about those frames)….

Too Spiiiideeeersssss

Scan 625

….ooo…straight from the Mothers mouth….

…(she didn’t do the thing with her eyes though)…

…(although nothing would surprise me where that “delightful” old lady was concerned).