My artworks will be exhibited at Zen Oasis for the whole of June and July. Here are some quick set up shots.
More photos to follow in the future.
Zen Oasis Set up
03 Sunday Jun 2012
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Colour Tree
27 Sunday May 2012
Launch 24 April 2012
15 Tuesday May 2012
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With much camaraderie and caffeine-fuelled verve, we worked up to our official launch – yes, we’ve had the opening, but this was the official exclamation of “We’re here!”
Spontaneous creativity and live music flowed as freely as the array of beverages and catering – we were pleased to watch visitors feel comfortable enough to start drawing, and enjoy soaking up the mellow, heavenly music by…
Blessing Tree
24 Tuesday Apr 2012
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Blessings – they’re meant to be shared, not hoarded!
As we launch our space and celebrate the many ways we are blessed and eager to share our blessings with others, we figure it’s also the best time to commence our first of many installations, in the form of a Blessing Tree. Originally, we were going to progressively build the form of a tree onto our front window, but then we decided it would be so much better to include others in the process, because ultimately, collective positive intentions are so much more powerful.
IA
09 Monday Apr 2012
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I moved most of my drawing materials into the shop were I plan to do the bulk of my work. I still have my pencils a few brushes and a couple of dip pens. I only have the asuka ink and Winsdor & Newton black indian ink. The asuka ink is interesting because it doesn’t absorb into the paper as quickly as the indian so I get to play with it a bit more.
The Infinite Everything Spiral Staircase Project
18 Sunday Mar 2012
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I was meant to have an exhibition at Zen Oasis during the month of March but they have arranged me to take June-July which I am very happy about. It means I have more time to work on things and I have more time to show!
One of the things is helping run a shop/gallery which I have poured most of my efforts into for the last month and a half. I am learning so much and as I go along the way, the thing I seem to understand is that there is much, much more to learn. Sometimes it’s overwhelming but…I’m trying to see things moment by moment when I can.
One of the things I have never done is build a spiral staircase. We wanted to re use as many old materials as we could. We have off cuts of plywood from a friend to serve as the steps, a whole heap of old library books for 0.20 cents each to serve as the main structure, an old table top for the base.
Books being glued and weighed down.
A mock up of how it will look.
And yes we drilled a hole straight through the middle of the books and slotted them down the metal pole. Sorry to all the book lovers out there.
The final staircase will be around three metres high. We also have not worked on the railing just yet. The purpose of the staircase is for a different way to present our products at the shop/gallery not for people to walk on. It has been so much fun so far, so much trial and error, we’re only about half way too.
Shellys
13 Monday Feb 2012
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Last October, I posted Shelly.
I’ve been working really hard on my colour. Still getting a grasp of the whole thing. Just grinding and grinding. Here are some more Shellys.
The third one is left over ink, with no pencil work underneath. It’s actually my favourite one out of the four.
This sketch is the very first time I ever drew Shelly.
Does anyone else think its the best one, the most honest, the most happy? To me it feels so, so much better than the others. I enjoy the colour studies but I really can’t want until I feel comfortable with it all and have my drawings become loose again.
Projection
05 Sunday Feb 2012
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I talked to a Tao master about my father and how he has a bad temper. The Tao master told me that my father may not have a short temper, just that I think he does. I didn’t understand at the time I get it now.
This is an excerpt from the Seth Books by Jane Roberts
“Telepathy operates constantly. If you continually expect an individual to behave in a particular manner, then you are constantly sending him telepathic suggestions that he will do so. Each individual reacts to suggestion. According to the specific conditions existing at the time, such an individual will to some extent or another act according to the mass suggestions he receives.
These mass suggestions include not only those given to him by others, both verbally and telepathically, but also those he has given to himself, both in the waking and dream states. If an individual is in a state of despondency, this is because he has already become prey to negative suggestions of his own and others…
There are obviously ways in which you mold your own conditions, protect yourself from your own negative suggestions and those of others. You must learn to erase a negative thought or picture by replacing it with its opposite.
What you see in others is the materialization-the projection of what you think you are-not necessarily, however, of what you are. For example, if others seem deceitful to you, it is because you deceive yourself, and then project this outward upon others.
…If an individual sees only evil and desolation in the physical world, it is because he is obsessed with evil and desolation and projects them outward, and closes his eyes to all else. If you want to know what you think of yourself, then ask yourself what you think of others, and you will find your answer.”
Krystal
31 Tuesday Jan 2012
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A few images back I have been trying to work with 4 colours. Scarlet and Turquoise being the prominent two then indigo and magenta to back them up (that’s just how I think about colour right now). This is a colour sketch I did of Ely.
I have been having so much trouble! As I refer back to images I consider to have worked I actually think they are too simple. For instance.
The shadows on her face are very simple. Just three tones without any variation really. I want to build on top of this rather than just repeat myself but I know I need to practice things until I reach a level I’m comfortable with.
As you can see with Ely’s sketch I was confused. I over shot it there, so I needed to simply a little bit and took out a colour. I couldn’t have two colours and have them each represented in warm and cool so I decided for Yellow Ochre, Scarlet and Indigo. I realise now I choose the primary colours. Here’s what happened.
I feel this has worked so much better. If any one has any advice for me please go for it, be as harsh as you want, I can take it!
Uchisune
29 Sunday Jan 2012
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