A drawing done at Espressoholic over the course of a few days.
Needless to say, coffees...
Too many thoughts without a post
Too many nights past 3am
Too many days like a ghost...
Recently my company (xequals.co) was commissioned to create 4 animated stories to be used as...
Self portrait sketched from a photo taken in Nelson. Coloring done in Photoshop.
So I've totally re-done the look and feel of my website. The functionality is pretty much the...
This piece was created while I was in Nelson recently for a wedding. The two pictured in the top...
Papercut & Asylum are currently accepting submissions on a word of mouth basis.
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Theres just something so satisfying about writing lists of work to do, with a pen thats doing...
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That's fantastic :) the more people doing their own art the better!
As for the pieces inspired by music, the particular type of music that is used for inspiration is less important than the way you interpret the music. The exercise is about learning ways of interpreting things visually that don't usually have a visual aspect, like music, emotion, or taste. Through doing this enough, one can better impart feelings in their other, less abstracted art, it will affect use of colour, mark making decisions and the general flow the work while doing it.
This also allows you to do art in a way that feels less mechanical, and keeps the magic of creating alive.
As a musician I play guitar and piano, mainly jazzy or bluesy stuff. I also do recording onto computer and do various sound experiments. I've been looking to create software that interprets sound as imagery and imagery as sound, with video capture and microphones as the main input. I have a tenancy to explore projects that might allow for natural feedback loops that create things you wouldn't have otherwise discovered.
Hi rox, brilliant paintings , give love to Shan and mum and Murray and tay a and u xx aveena
Hi Rox
Thank you for your reply. I haven't finished the paper yet and your art has motivated my group to do our own pieces, which we will use for the paper. You said that you where inspired by music, what type of music has inspired you? You also say that are a musician what sort of music do you play and what instruments.
Regards Sandy
Hi Sandy
Thank you for your kind message. In a lot of my work I like to explore contrasts, whether that's the contrast between vibrant colours, contrasts in media used to create the piece, contrasts in mark making methods or simply contrast in dark and light. Each piece of course has its own intentions behind it and it doesn't all follow this path, but it is a common theme running through my work. Many of my black and white pieces we're done during my time at The Learning Connexion, a great art school in Wellington and some we're simply explorations of shape using found objects or music as inspiration.
Hopefully you receive my message before your paper is due :)
All the best
Rox Flame
Hi Rox
Just love your paintings. I am a student of AUT and am in my last year of early childhood education. At the moment we are doing a paper on music and the visual arts and had to find a New Zealand artist that inspires us. A group of us are doing the concept of black, white, and shapes of grey. We would like to know what gave you the inspiration to do the black and white paintings. We would love to hear from you.
Regards
Sandy
Thanks for the feedback!
I think it's pretty damn close to be being finished (at least visually).
Next phase is the adding of my music & video, plus the ability to sell my art on here.
New page looks awesome Rox!!
I love the little doodles at the bottom of the page :D
Nice blog you have too :)
Looks like I'll be in Asylum Journal for a few more issues, yay!
Hi,
I just wanted to let you know that I saw your art in the second edition of the Asylum journal, and that it is absolutely gorgeous. Really really lovely.
Wooo, I now have like buttons on all my content :)
Goodtimes, thanks Mr Andy for the idea, was pretty easy to implement
Yeah it might indeed be possible to do that.. could be kinda nifty, and good marketing too.
Chur, thanks for the idea :)
I like this. Is it possible to integrate a facebook like button for each thing you post? hmmm...
Wow i am impressed with all your art!! :) deff come along way since school days. Hope all is well :)
Painterly rethemeing and current happenings!
So I've totally re-done the look and feel of my website. The functionality is pretty much the same, although I feel it is now far more true to its purpose. The site had gone in a quite 'design' oriented direction for a while and lost a lot of its charm. Now that I have a separate company for all that (www.xequals.co.nz) I thought it appropriate to push this site in a more artistic direction. The goal was to make every part of the site look like something created by hand, whether it be typewritten text, handwritten text (the handwriting font is actually my own handwriting!) or painted backgrounds, sketches in place of photos for many of the news posts etc. The main thing that sticks out as not natural is the facebook like buttons, but not too much can be done with that without heavy code hacking.
Also worthy of note is fast approaching travel opportunities. Alex and I are 90% likely to be going overseas quite soon on a business trip for 3-4 months in the middle east, teaching students how to develop websites in Drupal. It will be a fantastic first trip out of NZ for me, and a great opportunity to grow our business. YAY!
Look out for the leaving party coming soon ;)
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New page looks awesome
New page looks awesome Rox!!
I love the little doodles at the bottom of the page :D
Cheers
Thanks for the feedback!
I think it's pretty damn close to be being finished (at least visually).
Next phase is the adding of my music & video, plus the ability to sell my art on here.
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