A Hard Day's Work Redux

 I don't generally revisit old works. Once i'm done i move onto the next thing, and even if i'm just practising in certain areas (colouring, for example) i'll try and whip up some new drawings to work on.

Always felt like i should give this one a colour though. I think it's because i didn't shade it as much as i normally do. Pretty happy with how it came out.

Life & Death

This is a work i did a few months ago when i was putting stuff together for my show. Never made it in though, as it kinda clashed too much with the style of the other works. I remember when i finished i felt like i'd rushed it too much. That it was too unrefined or somethng. I dunno. Looking at it now though i'm much more fond of it. The colours are niiice.

Not sure if the original concept comes through too well. Haven't had any feedback on this one.

Aaand... i'm finished!

So, yesterday i finished the Mural off. I started with the red guy and went from there...

Did some more work on the blue guy. He was looking dull compared to the others

Then this guy popped up out of nowhere...

The chalk piles at the bottom of the wall grew nicely and were oh so pretty to look at. I can only imagine how cool it must have looked inside my lungs!

My lovely girlfriend Shikha came down to take photos of me drawing. And i took pictures of her sitting!

Then i tidied it up a bit...

Aaand...

Then i swung off the stairs...

So there you have it! Thanks heaps to West & Phil from Monstrosity Gallery for letting me draw all over their wall (and y'know, all the other help with my exhibition). I had a great time doing it. My exhibition finishes on Friday so get in quick if you haven't been, or if you want to see the Mural in person and swing off the stairs like i did. Well, better not do that last part. Gallery is at 93 Bourke St, Wooloomooloo. Open 11am-6pm.

See the chalk piles grow!

I was at the gallery today, chalking away. Made a lot of progress on the mural, and thanks to the awesome chalk pastels that West got for me this thing is starting to look niiice. Seriously, how good are these colours? Spent most of the day adding colour and finishing off character number 2, otherwise know as "the green wrinkly guy/thingy". Plus a bunch of peeps came to visit me which was nice. Anyway, here are some progress shots:

 

Then i rubbed out the shoe and pants i'd done on opening night and started with another character on top. At this point i have a pretty solid idea of what i'm drawing, whereas until now i've just kind of been ad-libbing.

 

And that's where i left off for today. I'm really happy with the green guy, especially the colours of the new chalks (i think i'll end up adding some more detail to the blue guy). The wrinkles on the head look cool:

I'll be down at the gallery again tomorrow from 11 till 6 so please come by if you are in the area. If only to check out the cool chalk piles.

Adding some colour...

On Thursday i went down to the gallery and worked on the mural for a couple of hours. Mainly spent the time adding in colour to the dude. I'm still getting the hang of drawing with chalk (don't think i've done it since school) and wanted to see how the colour would look if i did it similarly to how i would with pencils. Cause i'm using a lot of smudging i wanted to make sure i could come back an define everything well once the colour's added. Also changed some things here and there.

Still feeling out what the whole picture is going to be. It's pretty common that i'm not really sure what i'm drawing till i'm almost finished. If this whole thing were on paper i'd probably have erased a good deal more between this and my last entry. But as it's a big ass fucking wall it's forcing me to adapt a bit, which is good.

Check out the chalk pile on the ground. This'll look pretty cool by the time i'm done i'd wager.

Going up to Newy for a few days starting with the TINA Zine fair tomorrow. I'll post some pics of that when i'm back and more to come on the mural next week!

'Inking' opening night pics and the (so far) untitled mural!

Friday night was the opening of my solo exhibition and it was a fun fun time. Lots of friends, family and colourful characters. Thanks to everyone who came! I had a great time and it was cause you were all there. Here's some pics courtesy of Phil from the gallery (i'll post some more when i've collected them all, and you can also see some here)

On the night i started a live art mural on a spare wall in the gallery. I had no idea what i was going to draw beforehand and was kinda just trusting in the few glasses of wine i'd had to guide me.

This is how it's turned out when the night ended (with a little help from one of those colourful characters i mentioned earlier):

I still don't really know where i'm going with it, but over the next 3 weeks i will be in the gallery at various times working on it and by the 15th October i plan to have a finished mural. I'll be blogging the progress here as it happens so keep your eyes peeled.

I think this guy is gonna be cool.

"Do Not Touch"


We'll see...