Paintbook 54

…flies/eyes…

…..or, if you will, eyes/flies….

Sketchy LXXIII

….up to date update from the sketch book…

…film at…erm…

…haven’t made a film for awhile….

…maybe I should look into that…

Sketchy LXVI

…more patterny thing….

….aaannnd…now we’re all caught up with the sketch book….

… I’ll post more as I finish a double spread page….

…tomorrow I’ll start the paintbook catch up….

Sketchy LXV

….went back thru the sketch book and dug out some patterns I was playing with a few years back….

…the tentacle “motif” is a more contemporary addition….

Sketchy LII

…dunno if you noticed this “easter egg” from yesterday”….

…you don’t know if you don’t try…

…and sometimes it’s a “miss”….

Big Secret Project IV

….more of those big secret project pieces that should have been posted ages ago….

…only 2 to go….

….saving the best for last!

BSP II

….here’s some more of these…

….nothing more to say really…

…got a new job….

…taking a week off to transition from night shift to day shift….

…which way is up?….

Snowflakes

….not that kind….

…this kind…

….the kind with skulls and crossbones in the middle….

Level 3.1

….to celebrate moving from level 4 to level 3 (or level 4 with takeaways as I’ve heard it referred to) I have decided to share the end pages of the new sketchbook that are “obscured” by “template B” in the last post….

…( I also realised that the image doesn’t reveal the true nature of any of the pieces that I’m currently wondering why I started in the first place and that there was absolutely no reason to keep this experiment in alternative uses for “template B” under my hat)….

…(oh yes…there’s more than one of the damn “template B” things)…

…(a lot more)….

Pre-loading Projects Pre-Holiday

…it all starts in that damn sketch book…

…just one obsessive scrawl in the corner of a page….casually re-imagining that skull and crossbones design thing you’ve been chasing around…(and around….and around)….

…and then….you add another idea involving bits of scrap ply you still haven’t re-cycled since closing the record shop…..(just below ANOTHER octopus)….

….head back to the flies to flesh them out and make them more patterny….

….realise that they could be a good “venue” for those marvellous acrylic metallic, paints they sell in handy test pots at a local paint shop (…er…national chain of paint shops…big ups the Resenes folk)…

…get said acrylic metallic paints…

…get serious with the acrylic metallic paints….and the afore mentioned skull and crossbones design thing….

…suddenly wish you hadn’t done that in your sketch book instead of maybe committing it to some form of less pagey media….

….console self by going out and collecting a-lot of metallic test pots to further experiment with colour combo’s…..

…film the whole damn matter so as to get the glitter affect through to the slightly confused….(“what is he going on about these acrylic metallic paints for, looks like flat colours to me”)….

….prepare for “relaxing” holiday in Kokonga….painting metallic flys on all manner of things, 24hrs a day or until made to stop….

…see you all in a week or so with (hopefully) some results….

…(some areas of sketchbook pages blurred to protect other ideas and aid concentration on the idea at hand)….

…(thank you…you’re welcome)….

: P