Aluminium designs and resin rings

Mondrian Resin Rings

Tranquil Coral

Rock Rings, 2007

Anodising

I'm looking at getting back into silver smithing and fooling around with metals. I used to love anodising aluminum, but the problem I have now is access to tools etc. I know this is going to be a big financial project but well worth it.
I found some sites that sell anodising kits but they are US sites...I wonder if there are others out there???
Also I have noticed that there no a lot of jeweller sites or silver smithing ones.....I would why that is? :)
Great sites for anodising.....
Focuser - a man who anodises anything and seems to know his shit.....very blokey with lots of cars.
Anodising101 - Google group for anodising enthusiasts......it only has 3 members and no chit chat happening...
Dalic Australasia Pty - YAH!!!!! Kits sold in OZ and this site stocks nearly everything I need....I'm going to anodise the world.

Watt Party

Watt Party

The View Factory
Scott Street, Newcastle
7:30pm, $5 entry, cheap drinks
Thursday, 28th August

The art of chocolate

This is an interesting read.
An artist, Sonja Alhäuser, has created these massive sculptures out of chocolate and the concept is to eat away at them creating a new sculpture or moment each time someone has a nibble....

Sonja Alhäuser's 'Exhibition Basics' 2005.

A response!!!!!

Great news! I have a response from Elli. Its really great. However it is in a word doc...as the image is pasted in a word doc, so as soon as she sends it thru as a jpeg I will post it up! YAH!!!

Also look at doing an exhibition with the quality thats coming out.

Will do an exhibition proposal as part of the text part for this class.

No such thing as original thought...?

I am working on a piece as part of my tennis series... I am looking at how can I interpret an image in multiple ways....anyway I noticed the comparison with my red tennis image and Warhol's 'Red Lenin' so another piece looks at Aboriginal artwork. I am using an image with bright colours and then the dot technique with some sticks and stuff....then I noticed one of my peers at uni.... I have been to exhibitions an now I noticed how this relates...It's the "unaustralian" works and the like by Lucas Grogan. I have included one of his images here too.... and the "mud map" or should I say process sketch? of my work... I felt compelled to create this when I the Laverty Collection of Indigenius Australian works at the Newcastle Regional Gallery. And this is what makes me question is their any original thought left in the world? Not only in art but even with literature etc...? Or am I just noticing it now? My work is simialar to Grogans work in the theory of Black mans art in a white mans world....I constantly think when I am painting away how sad it is for Aboriginals to try and find a place in this western world white men have created. I even think about history at school how I was taught that the Brits coming here was great as otherwise it was a savage land and they civilised it etc.....

I have even heard some english punk say we should be lucky it was them as otherwise it would of been some other culture who would of tried to fuck out the aborigines and they civilised them...anyway I was fairly annoyed and shocked about this....was he just repeating what he was taught? Giving it no thought......no original thought? What is an original thought? We create art so others can connect and question...but we try to connect to an audience. I was told to not make art too personal so others can interpret it their way so they can connect? Fuck that do what you enjoy! Sure we create art because we get something from it...i get a sense of relief....and i proudly admit I want to create fame and fortune from it..... i am still very shy with exhibiting as I feel I don't have the ability etc blah blah blah .....sorry drifting here....

original thought....... what was original thought and what could be original thought? I am sure any original thought could be tracked back through history so it no longer is an original thought.

So up the top is Grogans work and below is mine.... i look forward to having an original thought one day.....

Screenprinting

So I was looking on YouTube for silk screen printing 'how to ' videos. I came across a dandy by 'MAKE' ...however when they start soldering up a few LEDS to make glowing eyes I thought that was a bit too far! This movie is great for the basics.....I just want to screen my tennis image onto a board!!!!!!!


COMMENTS>>>>

Anonymous said...

Make your virtual Marilyn Screen Print with this little diddy of a gizmo thingy ma bob! http://www.webexhibits.org/colorart/marilyns.html

Warhol Films

Many people wouldn't of realised Warhol made films and classed himself as a director and producer above a 'painter'......this basically came to light in the film Factory Girl (movie on Eddie Sedgwick and Warhol etc)....ANYWAY he made a lot of films....and multimedia stuf...here is a link to a show...i'll try and get something off YouTube....
Blow Job - Warhol
4 Silent Movies - Andy Warhol

My Red Lenin

I have been working on a series of images and Helen (lecturer) mentioned one image looked a lot like Warhol's 'Red Lenin' work...well I acted like I knew exactly what she was on about and I didn't! So I just looked this work up and I say HELL YEAH it looks like it....but mine is a tennis umpire chair....
Anyway here is mine and here is Andy's.
I really enjoy Andy's work and I kind of realised my work is similar as I tend to be very repetitive in my painting... I can't just do a one off I have to push the images further this is exactly what I will be doing with my tennis images....using different styles and pushing them with different application techniques and distort/repetition of the image.

Jolyon Briggs Band

I saw this band out at the Uni Band Comp (Uni of Newcastle) they were fantastic....named the "Jolyon Briggs Band" I could only manage his My Space a a source of info.....he's a local boy and playing at the Brewery tmw night (thurs 14 aug) and The View Factory on Friday night....worth a look. Jazzy funky style...however his my space pic (the one here) is really foul and needs an update. If anyone has a concept send it through r to him I am sure anyone loves free solutions to the criticism.

2 modern design talk

This blog is great for random info and anything pointing to design.
have a look at this terracotta house that has popped out of the liberty movement

Snorg Tees

Ok this site I just stumbled over is great! It has funny designs for t'shirts....its called Snorg Tees.
here are some of the designs......(I am doing this quick as I am at work...opps)

I have hyper linked the picks so you can see them as shirts and on people and stuff...but here is my favorite......
ok back to work now.........

(5 days smoke free..working on the 6th)

2008 Biennale of Sydney

The 2008 Biennale of Sydney is presented at some of Sydney's finest harbourside sites and visitors can take the Biennale ArtWalk from venue to venue along the water's edge. For the first time the exhibition will utilise the astonishing former prison and shipyard, Cockatoo Island. For the fifth time Sydney's only remaining undeveloped historical wharf - Pier 2/3 in Walsh Bay - will feature as a venue.


hopefully I make it there and I can let you know about it....

Questions from ellie

"just quickly- when u say 'visual response"- am i responding through language/written to the visual components/ techniques/aspects of the work or am i communicating these reaction to you visually?" - from ellie, who is a 'response' artist to my work 'radio gagga'

"if the former, am i giving my overall opinion on how effective etc your work is visually or is there a particular question you want answered-am i viewing it from a particular angle?" - another question from ellie.


So i said.......

"hey
it is a visual response.....or an extension of the original work/concept/idea......you

don't write me a letter and tell me about the composition you create an image with the emotions or feelings this work makes you feel....say if u made me a sandwich i would make a romantic image for a response....i love sandwiches..."

and

"does that make sense?"

these questions took place on facebook......

My other, other blog

Yes, I have started another blog to run parallel to this one....WHY? Well this one started as a uni assignment and I enjoy it so much I feel I need to dump a load of stuff in here....so I started another for all the stuff I don't really want to be assessed etc, like my out bursts on skinny mannequin short wearer person.....so you can jump between the two for now until end of year and I will merge them together and take over the world!
my other, other blog is neatjane.blogspot.com (watch black books and you'll get the 'other, other' joke I am having with myself.

Random iGoogle bad gadgets

So I just added Google Gadgets, its giving me random art of the day...next to a Salvador Dali it pops up with a Google ad on how to lose weight and flatten your stomach....are Dali and weight loss normal in the same search field? Anyway I think i hate these and will die once I get more posts up.....lets just call them "page fluffers"....

Drawing - Ruth Asawa

I just finished my drawing class and I found some more artists I love.......Ruth Asawa, she creates sculptures through weaving metal into these massive organic sculptures. Its really wonderful.... I am finding so many more things and artists I enjoy....(I think it has something to do with my brain on overdrive since I FINALLY quit smoking.....5days and no turning back...its hard but so is art)But Asawa rocks and I am going to attempt to weave something that creates some kind of '3d' line/mark making for my drawing assignment.
I will also add some links and names of artists that were mentioned in drawing today too.

Work Number ONE in visual conversation series

So here it is...work number one in my visual and digital conversation series. I call it "Radio Gagga" anyway, we both know your the only one reading this so hope you have fun with it....will be interesting to see what you come back with, but if you are too busy let me know.

Clothes site

I think I am addicted to this site Polyvore....people just grouping together clothes etc...how great and for fun accessories try Good Goth

Skinny model

So I was just quickly browsing for some shorts and I can across some nice ones by Ben Sherman and then when I saw a different image of them I was really put off. Look at how skinny the mannequin legs are! I am not a big woman but I am sure my chickens will look huge in these shorts completely ruining the design.
Isn't that a sign of a bad designer? If you have to be a certain shape to wear their design? To make the design take form? Why don't some designer start creating for a different terrain?

its nearly here.....

So I have been working away tonight and I have started a piece of art work to see what visual response I may get.
I felt inspired by Stezaker and Kentridge so I have spray painted a piece of board black and paper' mache some newspaper and white tissue paper over it. I will be sketching an image on this once it dries which is from a favourite photo of mine..thinking hot pink ink....i just bought some today, along with a load of other supplies....nothing like fresh supplies and toys to motivate one!!!!!
So I feel tomorrow night I will have my first piece photographed and sent off to Ellie to create a response to and it would be great if anyone else want to create one aswell and email t to me.....

Image Transfer Techniques

With the current work I am attempting to create I feel I need to bring in some photographic elements and I am looking at image transfer techniques.
I haven't really done any printmaking before so I am a BIG FAT NEWBIE!!!!
There are some really great things on the net but also some really awful ones like "use photoshop, buy some t'shirt transfer paper, place in printer, press print when you complete the image (which most of these images have been scanned in and one lazy PSD filter applied to look like it had some creative thought), take sheet and iron onto fabric....!!!
I am hoping to find some more in depth tips on transferring to a wood surface......as afterwards i am thinking of a wax glaze...something sexy...mmmmmm!

I have come across a handy site...it called 'Esbqart'- and is an online art magazine.....there is a great little article to get me started its about Image Transferring..it tells you about different types of transferring and what they are suited for. So I think I am going to start with a technique called Caulking.....So far I am not too sure whats exactly involved but isn't that what being an artist is? Finding out, researching, discovery....ohhhh how glamourous

William Kentridge

"Born and resident in Johannesburg, Kentridge produced work that engaged in the struggle against Apartheid. Today, his work continues to infuse political sensitivity into the making of his graphic representations and in his filmic and theatrical productions in a manner that discovers politics in the daily traumas and dramas of human experience." - University of Brighton Gallery website

I have been looking at some of his works and find them amzing and moving. The exhibition that was at the Brighton University Gallery "Fragile Identities", looks like it would of been something of an experience. I came across Kentridge in a magazine and started to look for more information on him. Apparently he produced a show at the Annandale Galleries, 'Telegrams from the nose, 2008' in July. I hate that I missed this or should I say that I didn't discover him earlier!!!

John Stezaker

John Stezaker, "Mask xxxv", 2007

Art World magazine

I have recently been buying Art World magazine. It is an art magazine dedicated to Australian and New Zealand artists. I find it and really informative. it reviews different artists and exhibitions. With all the Bill Henson drama it had to can an issue just before its release, however I just read in this issue that you can order it.....it s amazing what the government can do and has power over. Since when is art and creative expression controlled by a government? What is censorship? I understand that child porn is wrong as does 99% of the population does. But why were photographs that were displaying the innocent and beautiful confusion children have when they are bridging towards adulthood have to be condemned in such a way. Why does society have to sexualized everything? Is it because we are all under the influence of advertising psychology when sex sells so every breast or piece of naked skin is some kind of sexual message? Anyway thats my little rant.

Seriously view the Art World magazine it is great to see what local artists are doing and to find out more behind the works.....

Painting a day movement

I am looking up stuff about the "painting a day" movement. Why? Because they don't over analysis the initial concept!!!!!
http://sixtyminuteartist.blogspot.com/2007/11/painting-day-should-you-do-it.html
http://www.squidoo.com/artbyus/APaintingaday
http://www.wetcanvas.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=462714

Creating something....I think

I am in the stages of not knowing which direction to take on my work. This is my most idiotic stage of my art making. I get a great concept, I over-think it, I scrap it. I feel I will just let my mind go blank set myself with some supplies and see what happens, no though,t just feeling my environment and feeding the surface......