Gearing up now to begin the last lap in this undergrad painting enterprise so naturally I’m starting with my most compelling and esoteric subject matter – an overweight cat and a whole lot of leaves. It’s the colours though that … Continue reading Gardenscape with large cat
Own cat, master of the ear twitch, moves like a silk scarf. Acrylics on cartridge. Wave your #Artivive app at him and see what happens. (c) SCH 2025 Continue reading Charlie
Cataclysm is an animation of my own painting with video material and animation overlaid using PhotoDirector. The original reference photo (also mine) is of Lancing beach in one of its more apocalyptic moods. (c) SCH 2025 Continue reading Cataclysm
I posted the painting earlier. This is the video layer made for AR but because I suspect it works best on a larger screen than most phones can offer it’s here in its own right. (c) SCH 2025 Continue reading Bigger than us
The sky here is via MotionLeap and the animation applied in the same app. The central image is my own painting, also animated, and positioned using greenscreen in PowerDirector. This piece shows the extraction and disintegration of genetic material; “ACTG; … Continue reading House #2 in the locality
This is a return gig with a poetry anthology, and I was given three poems to choose from. The one I went for is about urban decay and the awfulness of what’s left of industry, but ends with wildlife, trees and flowers taking over the area. November 11th and we’re a few days on with a hiatus due to an RSI (repetitive strain injury) in my left arm. Totally desk layout related but of course it affects everything I would normally do with my dominant hand or even with both hands, including painting and posting updates. Today it feels a … Continue reading New commission
10th April 2023. Drawing on Cixin Liu’s reference to van Gogh, string theory, and the reduction of the solar system to two dimensions (Death’s End: Three Body Problem series audio book 2018), this is (hopefully) going to be an exploration of Van Gogh’s approach to a cosmology he could never have seen and, for the latter part, doesn’t actually exist. It’s also in oils which I found in the bottom drawer of a stack. Bit of a first for me. Liu devotes an entire chapter to the dispassionate description of the process of becoming two dimensional. With no drama at … Continue reading Temporary home for coursework
Acrylics. Unmounted A3 cartridge. AR enabled via the Artivive app. This is the video. Available in various formats from my Redbubble shop. SCH 2023. Continue reading Lancing sea front
I should probably keep these posts private till it’s all done and dusted in the remote chance that my neighbours are subscribed to this blog. Last year was a shot in the dark; I’d no idea what to expect, but I did what I thought would fit the bill. I’d just discovered Artivive too and I was keen on trying it out under sub-optimal conditions – in the dark, from my front garden, through glass. It did, but only after I’d realised, I needed to take the target image in situ, i.e in the dark, from the garden etc etc. … Continue reading Village Advent 2022
Well, to learn you have to challenge yourself and, after sitting in front of a screen for what feels like months (about four days!) getting to grips with Adobe Aero and After Effects, I absolutely had to paint something. Generally, … Continue reading Painting the unpaintable because it’s already exquisite
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