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Oil on canvas. Finalist Portia Geach Memorial Portrait Prize 2006
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Portrait of Georgia O’Keeffe. Oil on Canvas / American Artist. Georgia O’Keeffe was raised in Wisconsin, educated in Chicago and Virginia, taught, painted, and lived on the east coast until her early sixties when she moved to Abiquiu, & Santa Fe, New Mexico. Close to one hundred when she died in 1986, living alone and painting in scenery that inspired her famous flowers in closeup with strong sexuality, voluptuous lilies and poppies, stark desert landscapes and animal skeletons. She worked in charcoal, water color, and finally oils, and worked large. I’m not sure her story is known well outside the states. She was photographed, courted, and married (1924) by famed 1920’s photographer Alfred Stieglitz who adored her, left his wife and family for her, and made her more famous than he was. She too, was madly in love with him. His black and white photographs of O’Keeffe filled Stieglitz’s famed “291” gallery in New York and caused a sensation with portraits focused on her beautiful bone structure and striking looks, and spectacular nudity. He took over 300 portraits of her from 1918 to 1937. Stieglitz may have been in love, but smart enough of a businessman to cause O’Keeffe’s work to skyrocket in price, averaging $100,000 a painting, monumental for a living artist and a woman in that time. What he did for her career lasted, interest waned some but revived and her work is priceless now. Every girl painter can use a Stieglitz, few get one. Stieglitz died in 1946 and she moved permanently to New Mexico three years later after cataloguing his work and papers. She was 59, began a new life in a landscape she claimed as her own. “God said I may have that mountain,” she’d written, “if I paint it enough.” So she did. / I painted this from one of Alfred Stieglitz’s famous photographs of Georgia O’Keeffe. / When you do portraits, you start to hear conversations from that time, get a sense of the thinking of the subject, smells and impressions wander through you or assault you inescapably. It’s a fascinating and somewhat dangerous occupation because when you put down the brush and turn away you wonder where the hell you’ve been and question your sanity. I’ve come to accept it as just what happens and there it is. One cannot help but see Stieglitz’s fascination with O’Keeffe’s profound physical symmetry. It bothered me. I thought it annoyed Georgia, too, that he was making more of it than in truth was there. Certainly a thoughtfully bright, introspective & solid woman. But he did not capture the O’Keeffe who stood in the desert in thunderstorms alone in the middle of the night to draw the electricity in the air into her being, which she was notorious for doing. Or the O’Keeffe who lived alone on her Ghost Ranch, and drove in her Model A Ford recklessly to plateaus and mountains of New Mexico to soak in the wilderness. DH Lawrence, Ansel Adams, the Lindberghs were visitors. / It’s not the last portrait I’ll do of her, but I wanted to see more in her than Stieglitz’s precision, no matter how beautiful that is to see. / I think he was incredibly kind and thoughtful about this woman’s life, and helped her reach a financial independence undreamt of for an artist of her time and sex. Stieglitz said of the first drawings of Georgia O’Keeffe that he saw: “Finally, a woman on paper!” He admired her, and he loved her. I can’t blame him for thinking her perfect. I’m just not so sure he saw the savage in Georgia. Other US photographers who did some earlier radical work in b/w, nature, and nudes you might want to visit: Ansel Adams. Brett, Edward, and Cole Weston. Edna St Vincent Millay wrote: “My candle burns at both ends; / It will not last the night; / But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends— / It gives a lovely light!” / Which, published in 1918 became an anthem to end constraints on overwatched Victorian girls. A wild, free life… edged with death. / The Hawks Perch
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I love the piano. It is the one instrument that when i sit down to play, it seems that whatever else is going on in my world just falls away and the music and it’s beauty take over. I love it!!!
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This is the view walking up the main driveway of this abandoned boarding school, i wonder how many kids were unhappy to be taken along this route and left by their parents at the start of the term.
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Most of the windows in this place were either cracked, broken or completely removed. It made for some eerie nosies when walking about in the place with the wind rattling through and the curtains flapping about etc.
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Striking artistic representation of how the flow of technology advances is viewed by the artistic mind. The view is horrible and huge.
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Did this pencil drawing about 8yrs ago too.. about the same time as i did Alone.. Drawn with photo reference and guidance from my art teacher, Mrs Ng.. Am forever thankful to her for the encouragements and for being such a wonderful art teacher! =D
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Done in chalks and edited in Photoshop This was sent to me by richardredhawk whom I have done art work with / I think this says it all. richardredhawk / Old Teachers Return – The Message From times present / I have brought to you before / Messages / I have brought to you in the past / Messages / I have brought to you in the present / Messages / I have appeared as a familiar, as a ghostly image from the corner of your eye, / as a friend or as a stranger. / From your past or present or your future / I have brought to you / Messages / of past deeds / of present wisdom / of future trials / I have been with you always before you were of this life. / I share with you / your future / your past / your present / I will always be your Teacher, Guide, Friend / so always look, listen and you will understand / The Message
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I was watching the movie “The Ultimate Gift” listening to the character played by James Garner talking to his grandson when he said… ‘Learning is a gift… even if pain is your teacher”. As soon as the words had finished coming out of his mouth I honestly said out loud – YES!! Immediately I was blown away by the quote and I wrote it down and thought about its meaning for weeks. I’ve never felt so affected by a sentence before. Upon reflecting this quote I found quite confronting to realise that I spent my twenties doing everything to avoid and “run away” from my emotional pain.. Now in my 30s I’ve realised that pain was essential for me to be a more caring, less-judgemental and forgiving person. Pain seems to show us the truth in others… the truth that all people, no matter what’s on the outside… have a heart capable of breaking on the inside. It gives me great comfort that I can now view the grief of my brothers death as somewhat of a gift to me – rather than nothing but a loss FEATURED IN Prize Challenges GROUP / FEATURED IN Creative Inspirations / FEATURED IN YOU’RE ACCEPTED GROUP / FEATURED IN FIRST THINGS GROUP / FEATURED IN TYPOGRAPHY GROUP / FEATURED IN THE ART OF PAIN GROUP t-shirt available .
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Painting the tattoo was a challenge! / This painting has been featured in the Red Bubble groups Hombres Fatal and Japanfluence /
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Granted, our schoolteachers are not who I am talking about exclusively, ‘teachers’ are anyone who qualifies themselves to indoctrinate our minds with information: rules, laws, morals, beliefs, and values. Through guides, directives, orders, instruction or prescriptions. This includes our religious and tribal leaders, world leaders and governments, economists, sociologists, politicians, judicial systems, etc…this list could go on forever… / They are the contributors to our current social status, in regards to our moral standing and value system. I am certain that it was of no concern to our ancestors, to pursue happiness via our current means to the almighty dollar. This motivation is behind most of the aforementioned ‘teaching’ principles, most of which are in awe of the material capacities of technological, corporate and economic power. / Becoming a society ruled by money, status and revenge is not my idea of ‘Heaven on Earth’ and I certainly haven’t bought into the notion that I am powerless or that I have a hardened heart produced by fear and greed. Nor, will I justify these materialistic views and actions, encapsulating the truth in science, politics and economics. With all ‘teachings’, we should follow the motivation of the message – asking questions to the ‘messengers’ of our current ‘wisdom’.... Sister Act – The Teacher Song
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Taken at Wat Rakhang in Bangkok, Thailand. This temple is a little more obscure in terms of tourist attractions but what attracted me to it was the fact that it apparently had a nice collection of bells. I was pleasantly surprised to find that the temple itself was surrounded by these small chimes that rang with the waving of the wind. Even more pleasantly surprised was I when I realized that there was a class being held in the temple. What caught my eye was the traditional tattoo on the younger monks shoulder. Also available – Students and Teacher
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This was started in Apophysis, then to GIMP, finished in photoshop with wacom pen and pad. For some reason this reminded me of Arsnic and Old Lace. / Abit off the path from my other work but the crow is a friend. / Featured in HALLOWEEN
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For all those of you who are troubled by occasional mislocation of the milk ducts, this helpful kitty will live on your t-shirt as a helpful reminder. He is saving up for a laser pointer. Individual nipple positions may vary… but he’s basically in the right area. Bless him.
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Wolf is a great teacher and is here to help you adapt to change as she adapts to her environment, embracing the coming seasons and the availability of food / /
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Thought I’d try this quote as a polaroid so it would look ok on a tee. .
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A little fun and color! Canon PowerShot SX10 IS
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I think this may be the beginning of a new series of the Creepy Lil Kidz …lol a lil more creepy and a lil less toonish ( I hope ) at least thats my intention
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another collab wiht my painter teacher
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Canon Rebel Xt Canon L 70-200 Squirrel Southern Ontario Canada Composite /
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This was done in Apophysis and finished in Photoshop. I used brushes 7 thru 65 in natural brush and smudge brushes 65. Book Cover style From story to story he spins a web / Entrapping all who listen. / Wonderful stories form all around / making the world alive. / Stories of truths beyond the told / making them real and very bold. / Telling the stories of old and new / the happenings of a world true. Featured in Core [C.O.R.E]
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Was debating as whether or not to put this up as it felt a bit cheeky but it is an important image within my school series. This one was conceived as an idea about bullying. Thankfully I wasn’t bullied physically but I know people who were and it is terrible – it is one of my worse fears for my children too. I wanted to portray the isolation, betrayal and loneliness a child feels when they are bullied.
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