Bigger than us
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
Tag: painting
House #2 in the locality
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
Temporary home for coursework
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
Lancing sea front
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
Village Advent 2022
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
Painting the unpaintable because it’s already exquisite
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
Welcome to London; twinned with Arrakis since 2042
When you wake up to find you’ve told Alexa to remind you about ‘painting spreadsheets’, normally, you’d ask yourself what cheese you’d been eating last night. This time it was nothing so alimentary; it had dawned on me, connecting with something a tutor had said a while back about everything being ‘rather flat’, that I’ve been making very complex and detailed but essentially one dimensional paintings lately. No perspective, nothing round or shaped, just linear tracts of paint that wouldn’t be 3D unless you cut them out and danced them in front of the canvas like they did with the … Continue reading Welcome to London; twinned with Arrakis since 2042
Personal painting – Rift #2
This is a little way off the ‘rift’ topic although it might be preparatory. I made a painting from one of my own photos of sheep sheltering from the sun in a thicket and deliberately included a strip of the … Continue reading Personal painting – Rift #2
Steyning Arts Trail 2022
We’re on the starting blocks and I’ve heard that I’ll be showing at The Hub in Church Lane, Upper Beeding this year. It’s a new venue for us but I know it quite well, having lurked there with a sketchbook … Continue reading Steyning Arts Trail 2022
Noses begone!
I’ve been obsessing somewhat with facial features on the grounds that I absolutely can’t graduate this course without being able to render a decent eye or ear, or particularly a nose which never seems to fit the face properly when … Continue reading Noses begone!
Strayfish Arts 