Blank Canvas Self Portrait Idea
March 8th, 2012 § Leave a Comment
Hi everyone,
Been looking into doing the Art House Co-op Self Portrait project, but the part I don’t like is that I can’t go to the exhibit and sell my art, or even display it.
I know of a small studio in Leeston, just outside of Christchurch where I have some contacts and we may be able to use this as a space. I truly don’t care what your medium is, it can be sound, paint, sculpture or whatever, if I get enough people keen, we will rent the studio space and go for it. There will be a fee for the space so exhibiting will come at a cost, but I will investigate and work it out. It’s a small studio space, and it’s cosy. We might even make up some flyers for the exhibit and do some advertising so that will be included in the cost.
Contact me if you are keen. You can be from anywhere as long as the artworks can be posted at your own cost.
N x
Intention Illustration Friday
March 8th, 2012 § Leave a Comment
I had every intention of actually doing a new piece of artwork but this is one that no one has really seen. It’s ink on Canvas, I intended for the medium to be contradictory from what canvases are usually used for. This is good! It’s for sale too! If you are keen! Click on the pic if you can’t see it all! All rights reserved! Please contact me if you would like to use this image.
Self Portrait project
March 8th, 2012 § Leave a Comment
Considering doing a painting project? How about participating in the Art House Co-op Self Portrait project.
http://www.arthousecoop.com/projects
I am having a dilemma since I really want to do this but I also want the next book in my series I am reading and I haven’t bought it because I am paying for some other things!
Anyone want to sponsor my project?
Sponsorships are welcome. I will make a reference to you in the painting if you do!
Cheers
Niki
Self Portrait project
March 8th, 2012 § Leave a Comment
Considering doing a painting project? How about participating in the Art House Co-op Self Portrait project.
http://www.arthousecoop.com/projects
I am having a dilemma since I really want to do this but I also want the next book in my series I am reading and I haven’t bought it because I am paying for some other things!
Anyone want to sponsor my project?
Sponsorships are welcome. I will make a reference to you in the painting if you do!
Cheers
Niki
Mesh Editing continued…
January 3rd, 2012 § 1 Comment
This weeks word for Illustration Friday is highlight. This is an illustration I am working on which focuses on emphasising the highlights and colours found in an average capsicum. I am practicing a technique called Mesh Editing which is a tool that can be used to build 3 D appearance objects that have a lot of colour detail yet still remaining vectorised for small file size and versatility.
Here is the Work in Progress…
I hope to add to it but in the meantime I think I will just put what has been done here.
Mesh Editing in Illustrator
January 2nd, 2012 § Leave a Comment
Hi everyone! Hope you are having a swell New Years! Ours has started of with a few full on shakes!
Well, this week’s topic for Illustration Friday is in fact “Highlight”. I have set myself the task of creating a bell pepper/capsicum with the highlights and colour variations using Illustrator’s mesh edit tool. The mesh edit tool can create some amazing effects since there is a high degree of control on the grid and you can place colours just about where you want them. I have been working on this image this morning and it is challenging at the best of times. I have a good eye for colour, I am copying from a photograph I took at the Supermarket in Cambridge, New Zealand when I visited my folks. The thing that makes me excited about the mesh edit tool, is the effectiveness of the image, the 3D impression it makes, the colour distribution and the ability to control every element and have the file remain vector, so that it can be resized as much as you like and it will still appear to be the same in whatever size. The one thing that bothers me about the mesh edit is the point placement on the grid and how the placement is too planned and organised. I spend more time moving the points to the desired spot than colourising the image, because what results when you place a point is inorganic lines that do not naturally occur in nature.
Here is the outline preview so that you can see what I mean:
From this image below, you can see how untidy it can be, and how inorganic and overly structured it can become. Stay tuned for the next post with the final product.
& The font that wasn’t complete.
December 11th, 2011 § Leave a Comment
I have just spent a while developing an ampersand character for a font that I used in a logo. Fonts that are only roman numerals and numbers, with no lowercase or punctuation are what I consider incomplete (Albeit some are beautiful). I am working on a wool font which will have in excess of 62 characters and that isn’t even including punctuation, which I intend to do. So this morning I sat down, analyzed the basic characteristics of this font and began to design the ampersand that did not yet exist. This is one of those things that really gets you observing and practicing the balance and the symmetry of a font, the negative and positive spaces of each character and the set spaces between it. I am not going to say I am an expert in typographics however, I have a renewed interest in them and I am working towards building a relationship with type that will make even the simplest words elegant, balanced and beautiful. Kerning or letter spacing is of vital importance as on the weekend I read a sign very incorrectly and it sounded like a freudian slip. That to me is bad typography when part of the word stands out and isn’t part of a whole.
Brigade of Christmas Shoppers
December 5th, 2011 § 1 Comment
Hi, Yes I have been busy and now I have finally managed to pump out an illo for your enjoyment.
Thinking about Christmas shopping and the hoards of people, it sometimes feels like there is a drum beating and people are marching around looking for presents and Christmas supplies for the holidays.
This is my illustration.
New Logo
November 27th, 2011 § 2 Comments
I have spent quite a lot of time thinking about my logo. Since I am Ink Journey, I wanted to portray that. I have been thinking of a squid and the ink they produce when endangered. The new logo was designed using a drop of ink.
I hope you like it.
