Photo plus paint

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I cropped some of the photos from yesterday, printed them lightly onto photocopy paper, then on each one added paint and black biro (ignoring the original photo by then) to get a kind of photo-realist effect that was different from the original photos. I am getting lazier by the day!

I discovered an interesting print artist from the TV today as there's an exhibition of her work in Brisbane. Cressida Campbell. She uses woodcut method, takes three months per picture and prints only once, then sells for thousands of dollars. I hadn't heard of her before. She is influenced by Japanese woodcuts and her work is absolutely detailed. a website with examples of her woodcut prints is on-line.

Seloum - dabbling with paint

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Spicks and specs of paint added to the pencil drawing but I really need to just look at shapes, flatten them out and create a pattern. Anyway I did get out the paints - watercolours with a lot of white added.

We've done two hours work along the fencline cleaning up ready for the fence-maker to arrive. The bulldozer is still clearing up hundreds of branches cut from our trees along the 'line'.


Accidentally cut some leaves from a plant which is a relative to the seloum! Now I have to get back to chopping out some of the ivy that has rooted everywhere. As I chop I'll think of some of the stupidity that is going on in Fiji at present!