Dirtfish and Matthew Dunn at Artboy gallery

Well I'm home from my trip to Melbourne and rural NSW. I had a great time visiting friends and family and checking out heaps of gallery's, doing some shopping for supplies, going to the beach and eating lots of delish veg food.

One of the many gallery's I visited in Melbourne was a" Artboy gallery". It is a relatively new gallery in Prahran.  Artboy gallery is big and bright and a little bit to commercial but it has some great art. I actually went there to see two artists in particular "Dirt fish" and "Matthew Dunn", and I like them even more now that I have seen there work in person. It is well worth visiting the gallery just to see these artist alone.

 Dirt Fish

Matthew Dunn

http://www.matthewdunnartist.com/

back in Melb.

Whooohoo am in Melbourne for 4days, pretty much my favorite city in the world.  Went out to some old hang outs tonight, E55 and the Pony pretty sure they wear playing the same vid on there telly as 6 years ago (Mad max) so good to be back in places were everyones hair is messy, girls were jeans not heels and it doesn't matter weather you smile at the cute boys or funky girls. Had  dinner at an all veg joint for $6.50 Saw 4 bands, had 3 crappy but nice conversations with strangers and finished the night with a slice of pizza from peperoni's just for the sake of tradition. What I love most about Melbourne is that there is room for everyone no matter who you are.
Tomorrow I am going to make myself sick with art gallery overload, cant wait. Good night all. Love.

Working so painterly lately. I feel the urge to get back to flat graphic colours and shapes. revisit old ideas. Restricted pallet, curved horizons, Rapunzel hair, Edward Gorey, Aubrey Beardsly, a clockwork orange.
Its funny how long certain imagery can stay with you and grow inside your mind, how ideas often flow in circles. 

Glow

I was playing with the colour and hue settings on photoshop and came up with these two versions of my original "Lush green". To be honest I just stumbled across these affects but I really like the results. I'm in love with how the colours glow and their otherworldliness.

To me the top one is very alien / other planet and the bottom one is very luminescent night time enchanted forest ish. This is definitely inspiration to be more experimental with colours.

kitty again.

Ok here is the finished kitty painting. I probably spent way to much time on this for  such a little painting, but I dont like to leave things if I am not happy with them. This went through a few different stages and colour adjustments. Bellow is the finished work followed by the original idea.

Yumiko Kayukawa

Todays artist is Yumiko Kayukawa. I have a thing for Asian pop art and Yumiko is one of my favs. Her characters are full of life, personality and heart. Another thing I like is that her lady's are not all sexual and pouting or innocent and vulnerable just strong characters going about there business. I chose the top picture because we have just seen Audrey Kawasakis take on the mythical Japanis spirit fox so I thought we have a look at Yumiko Kayukawas take as well. The spirit fox is a lovely creature, very Lucky.

New show by Audrey Kawasaki

The incredibly talented and very popular Audrey Kawasaki has just opened her new show "Restlessly still".

Like the name suggests the new works are quiet yet with an element of tension. I always enjoy the lightness of of Audrys works, shapes merge and fade and figures are clear yet transparent and ethereal.

I especially like the otherworldly ambiance of the pictures below, it is a feeling I have often sort to create in my own work.

To see all of Audreys new work go tho her art blog http://i-seldom-do.livejournal.com/