Artifice

Set 'em Up, Knock 'em Down
(mixed media using tin cans, found paper, Indian ink and watercolour pencils)

Owlish
(mixed media using Indian ink, watercolour pencils and found paper)

Fish Face
(mixed media on canvas using acrylic pain, Indian ink, and dressmaking pattern tissue)

SOLD A Stitch in Time
(mixed media on canvas using acrylic paint, marker, Indian ink, stitching)

SOLD It's the End of the World
(mixed media on canvas using acrylic paint, marker, Indian ink, stitching)

Above are the works I included in a recent group exhibition called Artifice, with some ex-classmates from my Visual Arts course and two other artists (through a mutual friend). Opening night was SO hot, a 39 degree Celsius day, but we still got a good turnout. It was great to catch up with people I've not seen much of over the past year, and meet some new art lovers, too. I sold the two bottom works at opening night, and I was thrilled. They're a bit of a departure for me, but I enjoyed making them and may make more in a similar vein.

Colour seems to be creeping into my work. I tend to work in a limited palette, odd since I'm attracted to colour - the brighter the better - in other things (such as clothes). Perhaps that box of paint will come in handy after all...

Excursion

Drawing day thirty-seven

Kind of a found poem piece. If you can't read the print, it says:

The thought
of
his scheme
was gathering
the flames

Drawing day thirty-eight

Instead of two lecture classes today, we went on an excursion to the bayside suburb of St Kilda to the Linden Gallery to see their Postcard Show. The title of the exhibition is a bit misleading: the works are not postcard size, but six are selected to be made into postcards to sell to raise funds for the gallery. There is a limit on size (30cm x 30cm x 30cm) but it's not juried, everyone who enters has their work hung (there is an entry fee - it's the gallery's main annual fundraiser).
Perhaps I'll enter next time...

The sheer volume of works was mind boggling, with pieces hung almost from floor to ceiling in four rooms, plus sculpture on every surface. Some wonderful, some inspiring, some not so great. Every time I re-entered a space, I'd see something new, something I'd missed the first time (or the second, or third!). Gave me LOTS of ideas :)