Spaces Between The Gaps: 2008

Fishing the Sea of the Unconscious

Thursday, December 18, 2008

And just when I was wondering how to explain to people how becoming a painter and letting my unconscious direct my paintings relates to, and is important, in the real world, an answer arrives in my inbox. Thankyou."We each must become like fishermen, and go out onto the dark ocean of mind, and let your nets down into that sea.""And what you're after...

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Now's Your Chance To Get One Of My Paintings Before I Get Famous

Tuesday, December 16, 2008

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From the online world into the real world. I am now an exhibited artist. Ah, so much excitement. WhereFishSing paintings are on show here:The Bean Barn in Ballarat. It's one of my favorite coffee shops. From top L to R we have Confidence, Adaptability (not for sale), Stability,Ship of Renewal, Strength, Rest,Simplicity, Receptivity, and Purpose.For those of you who don't know, each of...

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Learning From Painting Challenge Mistakes

Tuesday, October 14, 2008

In the spirit of the glass being half full rather than half empty, after a few days of reflection, here's what I've learned from my semi-aborted daily painting challenge.1. Getting in front of a video camera is not so bad after all.2. My preferred painting style is for layers rather than wet on wet.3. PC's truly are horrible for editing video and I...

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Preparing For The Next "Daily" Original Art Painting

Tuesday, October 14, 2008

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The Challenge of Daily Painting

Monday, October 13, 2008

Well it's a sad-face day.Sad Face photo - Jola Dziubinska photos at pbase.comThe challenge of painting, shooting a video, editing said video, uploading and blogging ON TOP of my regular day is proving to be too ambitious. Especially given that I am now 3 weeks behind on my day job due to all the hard drive issues that cropped up.So this challenge needs...

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Purpose - Daily Original Art Painting Challenge

Wednesday, October 08, 2008

Purpose. Not porpoise (oh the groans - but you know I just had to). Are your days spent drifting or swimming?So do you have one (a purpose!)? I'm talking big picture here. Do you know what you want, where you want to go? If you don't know where you want to go, how will you get there? Fairy wand anyone?This piece was actually...

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Rest - Daily Original Art Painting Challenge

Tuesday, October 07, 2008

Why is rest important and what does it have to do with Picasso?"The second day, a different dealer came by. Picasso hardly looked up. "Fake!" he bellowed. After the dealer left, I couldn't help myself. "Picasso, why did you say that painting was a fake? I was here, in this studio, last year when I saw you paint it." Picasso didn't hesitate. He...

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Receptivity - Daily Original Art Painting Challange

Monday, October 06, 2008

So today's topic is "receptivity". And I, in my short and to the point way, would like to ask, 'how receptive are you to the possibilities all around?' Magic happens, if you'll let it. It's all in the way you DECIDE to view the world.Another explanation I found while wandering the blogosphere is excerpted below. It's very wordy, but I think, well worthwhile....

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What Is Strength?

Tuesday, September 30, 2008

Brute strength. Quiet strength. The strength of steel. Flexible sapling strength...I chose an imperfect variety: The final image: ...

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Simplicity Painting Is Done

Monday, September 29, 2008

There are a number of points I find really interesting about the number of images for simplicity that I could generate and that exist already in the wider world. For me personally, it shouldn't have come as a surprise that I would generate so many ideas around this concept, after all, it's something I've been aiming at and getting closer to for quite...

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Day 4 - Stability

Friday, September 26, 2008

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My first thoughts around stability led straight to stone. Specifically, ancient carved stone such as the statues on Easter Island.But stone is not permanent. It's not fully stable.In fact, when you really think about it, there is nothing that is permanently stable. So one of these seemed quite apt:So that's the brief summary. And the movie that goes into a bit more depth:...

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Day 3 - Adaptability

Thursday, September 25, 2008

This is what happens when humans, their technology, nature, and fractals collide...All of these have adaptability as a core strength. ...

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Day Two - Confidence

Wednesday, September 24, 2008

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Well today has been hell, so if(!) I look a bit worn out, it's because the computer issues are landing like dominoes. First the virus, then the back up disk dies. Virus writers should be lined up and shot. And for the record, Microsoft - you suck. Maxtor - you suck too. But I am CONFIDENT I will get all these issues resolved....

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Day One - Ship Of Renewal

Wednesday, September 24, 2008

Here's the pic:And the inspiration behind it (posted late because Microsoft sucks big time... that'll do or I will rant for the next 14 hours). ...

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An Art A Day

Monday, February 04, 2008

Hello world indeed. This is the year of finishing things that have been started and it is also the year of the artist. I know I know, it’s February now and these new year declarations should already be firmly in place, or more likely, firmly shoved off the wagon. However, here goes regardless. Inspired by the plethora of ‘an artpiece a day’ sites...