tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-323820862009-10-18T16:23:20.554+11:00'Paint as close to the nervous system as possible'. Francis BaconZijihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09439045640848813311noreply@blogger.comBlogger19125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32382086.post-65599816740371992032008-09-22T21:02:00.010+10:002008-09-22T22:04:32.644+10:00

I have been working away at these images since returning from a holiday in July - ink and crayon, each A3 size. Some I will work up into a larger painting. You may notice the shadowing on the right hand side - it is of me holding my mobile phone taking these photos.Some of these are images hanging with friends at the back of Mullumbimby and some on Heron Island. The second one below is the boy

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Over the two month break I began working on my own experience, rather than painting family members in the landscape.I started with my birth and this one is the second version, with references to both Bacon and Picasso but finally in a language of my own. It's about 6'x4' and took me an afternoon to do, it is both beautiful and horrifying and I can now hardly bare to look at it.This was the first

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Some work to do on the distant edge of the sea, feathering the edge will do it. Otherwise good work.

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Final version of Archie with a better photo of the canvas.Influence of Picasso's Beach figures on Francis Bacon's work. That's Bacon with the beach figure both in the background and curling around his right hand. Both figures are reaching for a ball, in the background the ball is in the corner of the door, and on his hand between index and middle finger. I've made a number of other quotations of

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I have begun to add the highlights and shadow inlcuding that of his legs. Rain clouds are now over the coastline of France and rain squals beneath and up near his right shoulder. He now looks back lit and appears bolder within the scene, better contrasts. Many thanks to Orlando for his vision.

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These images are in post-production, not yet (if ever) fine enough for the archibald.The middle one (1500X1000 mm) is the subjects' early life story on the Island of Jersey. On his left is the west coast of France. The little beach and village that appears there is in fact St Helliers, which lies on the green island behind his pelvis - located between his legs. He holds a beer glass toward the

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I like this one a lot. My dilemma is whether to take a photo of this version, make a slide and project it onto the canvas, draw the outline and then begin painting. Or as I usually do just go straight to the canvas and build another image.

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I'm reading 'The Tears Of Things' by Peter Schwenger. Here is a selection from Chapter 2.'It is objects that look at us. Things look at me yet I see them. The picture is certainly in my eye. But I am not in the picture. Where am I then? If I am anywhere it is in the form of the screen. Not a cinema screen but one more like a Victorian fire screen positioned in such a way as to block out light and

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At the same time as I am doing the thailand portrait below I am also working on an entry to the Archibald with this distingished Australian physicist. I have tried to capture the very different qualities of the man in each of the drawings. he is an excellent sitter so no need for photographs, except perhaps for the final stages of the painting.The plan is to put him up on a 1 metre by one and a

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A few readers have commented on their interest in watchng earlier paintings develop, so I thought I would blog this project somewhat in real time, and add the painting as it develops. I started with a photo (cropped her so you get an ieea of the colors). I know the person quite well so am in part working from memory of her vibrant personality and inner calm.Preparatory stages;I did a very quick

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This is a variation on the larger triptych discussed in October.Each panel 12" x 16" and originally it was to be a triptych in those smaller panels, but I knicked one of the panels for the portrait of the 4 year old. As it turned out the two panels were exactly right for what I had in mind and quick to do. They took about three hours, and without preparatory drawings, only a rough charcoal

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Another family christmas present. This one began as a photo, then to ink drawings, then ink and colored pencils and finally into acrylics. Titled 'The Entrance' but really it should be 'red shoes', since that was her comment abut the painting when she openned it befpore christmas - I like the shoes'. The photo was taken at the front entrance to their house and this girl is making a large entrance

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The final product is 18" x 18".I found this one difficult to finish knowing that it was to go to a member of the family for Xmas present. The aunt is also not well at the moment, her rich olive skin looks a bit pale. I intially put too much white on her skin, and recoloured after her sister noticed she looked sickly in the portrait. I figure I could go on forever trying to make it look right, so

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Each panel 2 foot wide by 3 foot high.Can you see the shadow of a bicyclist in the middle panel on the bottom left of the bike path, behind the prominent cyclist. This symbolic element can be read as the shadow of our journeyman-skywalker. The shadow appears black and I wanted that to reflect the haunting of our solo Canberran braving the elements, having stolen this land from the traditional

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A couple of days work and it is looking ready to start the sky. Given the range of elements to unite, the best look will unite the top of the 3.

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My idea of canberra's edges as a disconnect in this triptych. First begun with a set of photographs taken around the Curtin storm water drain and the southern end of the lake.Then worked up in color pencil.And then a first paint up in gouache.Finally a decision of the triptych divisions.

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This picture is not a Canberra landscape but perhaps how I imagine it. Canberra was conceived by decree. As a town it lacks the activity of a spontaneous history in its colonial origins. It lacks chaos. The traditional owners who celebrate the wild, were moved aside, their lands stolen to make way for white settlement. Canberrans live on stolen property. I wonder how that seeps into our

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"Lieber and colleagues built a chip with 20-nanometer-thick silicon wires running across its surface (Science, vol 313, p 1100). On top of the chip the researchers grew rat neurons, which stretched out their axons (the long projections that transmit signals to other cells) and the shorter extensions called dendrites, which receive signals. The axons and dendrites formed more than 50 connections

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Can there be intimacy without healing?I have tendered this theme before in the title link above, and having just re-read that article I find that all the nuances of that question are not yet tapped. The whole of my peter fox website is in fact an exploration of that singular question.Simultaneously, I am reading 'Michelangelo and The Reinvention of the Human body' by James Hall. He explores the

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