As the title says in this blog post I simply share some images from the week gone by. Some where I have just played with settings on my phone as in the 'still life' above; and others where I have removed the background. Check out the large caterpillar near the gardenia in the last photo.
All good creative fun - which I enjoy and hope you do as well.
I love how the watercolour of the sheds turned out - the photo above is a photo of finished work with background removed. I think the finished work is very reflective of the texture and colour of the actual shed on a Scottish roadside.
A few process and other images of the shed and the Syre Church I also worked on. The two completed works including another of signed works and a photo of the Syre Church painting with background removed.
I bought a few frames to test how the watercolours might looked framed - see framed works below. I am going to test how they look with black mats.
I'm still learning a lot about watercolour painting; and am appreciation the input from Megan.
I got time to whittle away at some timber to carve a couple of timber vases as you can see from the photo above. The smaller tall one on the left is carved from a piece of the fallen liquid amber tree branch; and the one on the right from a scrap of rough cut camphor laurel.
Some process photos follow. In one you can see that I used the draw blade to shave the rough cut area off the camphor laurel. I was going to leave the bark on the liquid amber but found it had lifted in the drying process is ib the end it had to be removed.
I must say - carving these forms can be quite relaxing. The only drawback I have had to date has been that fine wood dust has the tendency to get in my eyes even when wearing protective glasses.
The photos from my walk this morning focussed on the simple but beautiful flowers etc that were on the roadside. I have removed the backgrounds to the photos to highlight the beauty.
There was also a beautiful wallaby with a joey in its pouch in a yard on my walk.
Such simple local beauty helps me to find a balance to the darkness and atrocities across the globe at the moment.
I achieved my goal of finishing the three post sculpture today. A photo of the finished trio outdoors above. The photo below is of the completed posts in the workshop before heading outdoors.
A few more photos of the trio from different angles and with a couple of different backgrounds follow.
The trio is now stored away in the workshop awaiting installation.
This has been a grand project. I have: used my last 3m long 200mm square log of cypress pine; created posts with heaps of niches - inspired by a work at the back of Qld gallery of modern art; used most of the rusted metal that was lying around; and given myself the opportunity to scale down stuff in the workshop. The bonus of course is that there are now three gorgeous posts to go out into the world and to weather further.
Over the last week I have been grabbing a bit of time here and there to add the rusty bits to the three posts that will make up my current post installation. The rusty bits are mainly going into the niches I cut and chiselled into the posts.
I have set the three post up on a bench and am doing work an all three - ensuring I'm spreading like pieces of metal across the three posts.
Following are some images of some of the niches. The idea of the rust in the niches is to invite viewers to get closer to the posts to check out the beauty of each little arrangement in each niche - small rust artworks!!!
I'm hoping that I might get to finish the work over the weekend - but we will see.
