Thursday, August 15, 2013

Unrelated news

Hey! I feel like I haven't written here in a while. Hi, how've you been? 

In theory class today we watched a scary movie and now I'm anxious. 

I feel like that should lead up to a joke or something, ha, but no, I just thought I'd let you know that while I'm writing this I'm a bit shaken up. It's kind of embarrassing how much scary movies effect me.

Do scary movies scare you? Is that something you can relate to? I doubt it, you're probably much tougher than me, but anyway scary movies aren't related to this at all, what I really wanted to start this off by mentioning is that I just added an "UPCOMING" section onto my website. 
So yeah, I'll keep updating that and so feel free to check in on it from time to time, if you're not yet sick of the site of me.

The first thing I've put into UPCOMING, which is pretty rad, is this group show at The Projects Gallery that opens on Saturday, 4-7pm. If you're free it'd be awesome if you can make it to the opening.
I installed my work there the other day and yeah, the show's looking great, really hope you get a chance to come down to Belgrave and see it.

In other unrelated news, on Monday I decided to draw a picture of AFL footballer Adam Goodes over the length of time I spent watching Eddie McGuire on TV.

Adam Goodes is pretty amazing.
So here's the result of that.
(Paint marker on an A3 piece of 225gsm paper).

In other unrelated news, I spent last Sunday with just about everyone I'm related to.

It was my Pop's 90th birthday. 

Here's a blurry photo I took of his hand cutting the birthday cake.
In other unrelated news, here's a photo of my third drawer down.
In other unrelated news, a couple of weeks ago I was lucky enough to do a job for the shop Third Drawer Down, where I made 8 drawings that very excitingly are being used as icons on Third Drawer Down's relaunched website. 

Pretty awesome, here's a screenshot I took of my drawings in their new home.
I really love doing this kind of work. The slinky was probably my favourite to draw.

And finally, in other unrelated news, I'm still feeling a bit funny after watching that scary movie and so I think I'd better wrap this up and go watch a cartoon or something. 

Thanks heaps for reading, hope you're doing good and hope to see you relatively soon.

Tuesday, August 06, 2013

Yawn to be wild

Hey pal, this'll be a pretty quick blog post but basically I'm just very excited to let you know about an article in the current JULY/AUGUST issue of Art Guide Australia.

The article, titled An Artist Walks into a Bar and written by Sydney writer Andrew Frost, talks about the use of humour in art, and amongst some of the really great contemporary Australian artists that are mentioned, there's a paragraph or two that talks about my work. How cool is that?!

(If you happen to have read the article and you're interested in reading my Adam Cullen tribute thing that it mentions, click here).

But so yeah, if you're out and about pick up a copy of Art Guide Australia. 

To help you find it in the newsagent, here's the cover.
Actually no, that's not the cover, that's just a photo of me that I painted some text onto.

Here's what the cover actually looks like.
Here's my one and the real one, next to each other in the newsagent.
And here they are again in a big stack on the counter at the Degrave Street art store.
The image on the cover is a 2007 work by Sydney born London based photographer Julien Wolkenstein. It's from his series Yawning is Contagious, and is titled Sebastien.

To specifically try to get myself looking like Sebastien I stopped shaving for a week, (very itchy).
Then I got my hair on the straight and narrow.
And look at me now; a natural yawn killer.
Ha, but so yeah, that's all I wanted to write, thanks heaps for reading. Anyway I'm gonna go shave, and I think maybe after all this yawning I'll take a nap.
Sure it'd be nice if the world was Cadbury, but wouldn't it be ever nicer to just stay in bed all day reading Art Guide?

Thursday, August 01, 2013

Tweet dreams are made of these

You need to be different if you wanna stand out in this world, that's why I did a painting for my twitter profile pic.
(Acrylic on 225gsm paper. 28 x 29cm).

Ha, hey pal, this one's a twitter reference, hopefully you're down with twitter but it's no problem if you're not, I reckon maybe you can enjoy it just as a painting of an egg.

If not, I guess the yolk's on me.