back to blogging

§It has been a year now i think, that i have been writing this blog and prompted by a number of things that have been going on, i think i am ready to pick it up again and get going. My exams are over with and all i have to do now is wait for the results, which is giving me some restless sleep, but there is nothing much to be done now. I have started working through the artist's way again, and i see this as part of the course.

Last week i was in Italy again, which was a welcome break from London, and a beautiful and inspiring time for me. I feel like i have a fresh view on things. We went to Ville d'Este on Saturday and i took many short clips of the fountains and moving water to add to my image base. I am keen to get working on them. I still have the work that i started previously that i want to finish. I will view all these things as seeds, that i need to plant and water, nurture so that they can grow. For now though, a sneak preview... I edited the clips in iMovie but did not apply the transitions properly, now i've figured it out... so its a bit jumpy but its a start and i already feel as though i have learned something.

layers

The process of lining up and layering images...

indian ocean

Things seem to be getting back to some kind of normality, that is, I seem to have both the time and the focus to post something. I'm adding to the previous water footage with this video of the Indian ocean taken at the heads at Knysna in April this year. As i mentioned before about wanting to catalogue my images and video, well, its a kind of start. I have heaps of water, so i thought it was an easy enough one to start with, until i figure out exactly what i want to do with it all. I waas browsing around on Youtube and came across some really inspiring animations, some of them really short... I'll add the links at the below.

what a great day
sand on glass animation

Photos

Well, they are dated now - seems like ages since I was home. Anyway, I will continue to add them. I had to remove the links before and now I'm just putting them in again.

Sycamore Trails

Oudshoorn and Knysna

Owl House

I hope to add more soon! Cheers

I am working on preparing images of the sand sculpture I made in near Plettenburg bay, its slow progress because my computer is playing up, but I keep plodding on. Hopefully i will be able to buy a new machine next month, so it should go better then. Here is a sneak preview of what I'm working on....
Yesterday we went to some artists studios as part of a Open house studio event in the Richmond area. It was a lovely day and has given me the necessary inspiration i was hoping for. I want to mount some of my work, print some of my photographs and try and show my work somehow. Also, as we were taking a break, sitting on the bank of the river, I noticed some interesting, beautiful junk floating down the river. I have take quite a number of short videos in a similar way, keeping the camera as still as possible and focusing on something particular (in this case as in many - moving water) I am working on ideas for putting it all together, but for now, just this...

patterns in reflections

Okay so I've skipped a day, still better than nothing. I am really enjoying my drawing and i keep on seeing new forms emerging from the reflections. I was looking through some of my old photos the other day and i noticed that i have quite a number of reflections and water. the drawing is big (height 1.5m). It is so wonderful to be working on this scale again, it as been such a long time, i did not realise how cramped i was really feeling. I am working in acrylic washes and charcoal as a start... we'll see how it goes.