Making videos and using effects
I have a number of apps with which to make the moving images that I use to overlay or incorporate in my art work, and the ones I use most are PowerDirector for making videos, MotionLeap for its effects library … Continue reading Making videos and using effects
Supra-graffiti
At least that’s what I’m calling it. Two new pieces of graffiti appeared in the underpass recently. Beautifully designed and executed in clearly defined, solid colours with terrific outlines. See how they’ve used the white to enable the black to … Continue reading Supra-graffiti
22 carat shadows
Well, doesn’t this have potential! The gold vinyl foil is quite substantial and has will power to match so it’s quite a handful to manipulate. But, the drawing done on an A1 sheet of cartridge, I painted the outline then … Continue reading 22 carat shadows
Rural means there are ungulates
I came across a group hugging the fence by the path. Sometimes they’re steers – neutered males being raised for the meat market, other times they’re cows turned out onto grass after a winter indoors on hay, a move that … Continue reading Rural means there are ungulates
Zimoun
I just stumbled over this chap on Instagram and found he’d demonstrated in a short series of slides the fundamental power, for me, of sound and movement. While I love his installations for their simplicity and elegance, and I’m drawn to the movement he sets up in them which is similarly uncomplicated – there’s no clever-clever shenanigans here even though the substructure is undoubtedly a technical challenge – it was the addition of sound that fully engaged me and so much so, I could almost feel my pupils dilating like a child opening a present. Here he is: https://www.instagram.com/studiozimoun/ And … Continue reading Zimoun
Shadow Army – new recruits
Serendipity can be the mother of persistence. I’d left the shadows behind until I came across a roll of self adhesive silver foil in a drawer and immediately thought of making a very different kind of void from my parade … Continue reading Shadow Army – new recruits
Art isn’t always about meaning …
Sometimes it’s about screening. I’ve never had to hold in place a 2x4M wooden octopus but it would have been good practice for keeping upright what is now quite obviously an installation while it was pinned in place with posts … Continue reading Art isn’t always about meaning …
And now it’s fences
I have an area at the bottom of my garden that I want to screen and also brighten up so I bought two panels of 2M x 4M bamboo along with some metal posts to keep them in place. So … Continue reading And now it’s fences
VE Day 1945-2025
These videos, visible using the Artivive app when there is a signal, went up today in celebration of VE Day, the day that marked the end of the Second World War. You’ll see that the in-app recordings – that is, … Continue reading VE Day 1945-2025
