Nort On UR fone

mophone3
Originally uploaded by sigh clone.

For those who must have the lastest... i've found a way to put my art onto your mobile phone... I've become a "beta tester" (not bad for an old bloke)for a new service called MoPhone... it's kind of flickr meets blogs & ringtones... and unlike those ads on late night TV you won't have to pay exhorbitant monthly fees... its essentially frees... providing to have a phone that can acess the interent (so you have to pay them the normal fees with your provider to do that)...

it is a community where you can share photos, screen wallpaper, ringtones ... even games and MP3 music

Just look for a group called NortOnURfone... or send me an email and i'll organize an invite

a great trip...

I'm just back from a great trip... sailing from melbourne to sydney... to deliver a new yatch... the stormy weather at the start was a challenge.. especially as i didn't want to break anything... AND (pause for fanfare)... i did manage to work out how to blog from my mobile photo (sorry the photos are a bit small)... I also managed a couple of quick sketches along the way with my trusty chinesse ink sticks(I love its delicacy of shade, but strength in the shadows)

fair weather & onward

fair weather & onward,
originally uploaded by sigh clone.

The sun is out .. the swell has turned timid & the wind behind us ... should be a fast run to eden

sheltering from the storm

sheltering from the storm,
originally uploaded by sigh clone.

it has been more than exciting over the past few days , rather than risk any damage out at sea . we just have hope the new owner can wait for his yatch.

off for a while

damn... it looks like my blog template is playing up again... are there any young nerdy types... preferrable female & tolerant of older blokes... that can help me diagnose what is wrong...

a change of venue

Kimmie showing her charm

The pace of all the groups (& egos) in flickr is gettuing tome a little and as usual i've done a bit of a wander and settle down in another place... Yahoo 360... lets see if it is a good place to do sketching

red & yellow.. & (purple?)

cleo03
Originally uploaded by sigh clone.

Cleo, or Cleopatra to her flickr friends, was keen for me to sketch her... i loved this pose... and now I hope I have gotten the delicate angelic quality... i must admit i copied the colour scheme for my favourite cincy watercolour and i do think it suits... for those that are interested the yellow in an underpainting gives any light scarlet wash over it a very rich glowing skin tone... the red does the same for shadows and especially the darks in hair... i just think this sketch doesn't need any of that extra overpainting ...

but cleo has reminded me the angelic quality... might not be her preferred status... and her nose is smaller ('blush' yes she is right, betteer do better next time)

Musing (2),
originally uploaded by miss cleopatra.

fun with a few colours

Silky angela having a bit of dress up fun... does anyone else fondling remember daisy duke?



Watercolour can be a get fun media when you keep it light and simple... (reminding myself to keep away from the heavy dark muddy colours)

least interesting

wcl02
Originally uploaded by sigh clone.

flickr have a great new feature called interesting'ness. Being a lover of the contrarian, this is my 200th least interesting photo... flickr stops count at the 200th... from what i can judge it is a magic measure something like the "favourite to view ratios" but with a sprinkle of comment thrown in...

AND buggar that reminds me... where the heck did i leave that webcam anyway?

ok... no-online play till the scannings finished

damn... how boring... maybe i should play with an idea for the cleavage group...




sorry... i'll do the scanning

a bit of fun with mosaics and flickr tools

more cinderellas

Does anyone recognize n&k (thats what i wrote on the back) or maybe her name was suzi?



i guess i can't put off catching up on my backlog of scanning any longer...

unfortunately i'm so far behind i've forgotten more than one of two faces... who thwy were and how to contact them... so i'll just run a couple of "missing person" / Cinderella posts... if you recognize them, please send them this blog address or my email addy... i do prefer to ask before i post peoples sketches in here...

how ideas happen

original idea
Originally uploaded by sigh clone.

The developement of an idea into an artwork...

this post is meant to show you graphically how an idea happens for me on paper... I wasn't asked but after sketching a coule of the lovely girls from there I got the idea of developing a buddy icon for the FlickrWhores group (they don't have one at the moment)... my original idea was just a few strokes of my brush with my favourite purple for shadow wash... it gives a nice shodow to skin tones... i then quickly sketched in some outlines with a fibre pen... and stood back... yes it has promise



next I redrew it in pencil... tidying & simplifying a few lines... then "ïnked" it with a fibre pen... I then scan this into coreltrace and do a trace outlines... which is loaded into coreldraw... a few more tidy ups on line work.... and coloured

hmmm pity this lacks something....




yes a little better... more vampy... more fun... maybe a fraction to complex



ok i like this one... simple yet a litle flirty & a hint of wicked

anyone for that on a t-shirt

missing friends

watercolour of a pensive carrie (Carebear)



the closure of yahoo's private chat rooms... it happend a while ago... was supposedly designed to stop pedophiles contacting childern (certainly an admirable objective... but the reality was it was due pressure on the advertisers



the unfortunate consequence is that a lot of perfectly normal friendships has been disrupted... i miss regular chats with my friends from the Big Bellies^& Admirers room... i miss my favourite models

krissie's pout

krissie01
Originally uploaded by sigh clone.

I loved krissie's expression... especially the intensity of her lipstick & painted eyes... very inspiring

I think this watercolour turned out well and it is a definite for my modern girl's series... in fact she is a very special modern girl... what Flicktionary (a glossary of Flickr terminology, on Flickr central) calls a FlickrWhore... a term for a person posting links, tags and "tease" photos that most certainly brings other members to their photostream... krissie is both glamurous and has a fine photostream

to be honest i'm an old bloke and i have no idea what makes a modern girl... I just think krissie is a perfect example of one :)

original photo
uploaded by krissie p.

Raven in red (again)

Raven05_prelim
Originally uploaded by sigh clone.

my way got lost in the creation of this... as many dark watercolours tend to do... they quickly become muddy in colour... i abandoned it... impatient, i added some red...(am i getting a bit obsessive with colour?)... abandoned it again... but now it is dry I think it has a certain charm (& strength)... raven is convinced I just like her in red... it sadness be to see she has also had a visit from the NIPSa police and her lovely photo is nolonger public, so I can't post you a thumbnail here...

Is it just me that thinks "nudity doesn't equal pornography" or am I being reckless?

I've added some links to Simple Nude & DoMai over to the righ hand side... i think they show nudes but they are far from tastless... but I'd rathre you made up your own mind... on the otherhand I think porno sites are so predictable & UNORIGINAL (seen two or three and you have seen them all) and becarefull they can be so expensive... (so i'm told) still i'm sure if that's what you prefer, you'll know to find them... and while you are about it you may as well take me off your favurite bookmarks

I've now made a "no tasteless posts in here" resolution... ok, ok maybe one or two wickedly artistic ones to test the wosers are awake ;) rant over

getting free'r...(another secret learnt)

aq01
Originally uploaded by sigh clone.

this ia a friend qUiMeRa... who posts a fair bit on the webcam self-portrait group... I loved her posts and this was one that had both a lovely feel and great composition... (not a boring straight facing the camera shot) and great... colours... well I might have gotten carried away with the colours... (as usual)... what i discovered here is... i worked very quickly and just focused on the right tne depth in the colours and where to put them... the beautiful quimera just appeared when she was ready...

procura solitaria,
originally uploaded by qUiMeRa.

compare it with the original image... i'm certain gaugain would have approved

Art & Peace .vs. War

the importance of art...



I've beenfancinated with BlogPulse... and did this search today... that compares Art, Peace & War as topics in blogs... I was shocked at the dramatic peak in the topic war (even if it is "war on terror" it still means killing people)... do 3% of blog post contain the word war..? (seems thay have been... the good news is the rise of art



if you clik on the graph it will take you through to my blogPulse research results and you can "drill down" to see the actual blogs

returning to the pencils

work in progress, originally uploaded by _rebekka.

This photo & illustration are not by me they are by Rebekka... (see also post below)... i think it is a very powerful image... and it has inspired me to returned to graphite pencils... and go learn a bit more... well there is a surprising lot of good advice and shared learning on the web... surprise surprise... in blogs!

Jennis rule "NEVER outline anything" at Drawing Portraits is a gem


Wilkinson's Celebrity Portraits has great art and also good advice and demos