living in SIN (again)

Sorry about the lack of blog posts and art... probably it is the art i need to be more worried about... i'm not sure i have any regular readers any more

Anyway I am back in singapore (SIN is the three letter code for changi airport,,, looking after a collegues post, so they can have a break.... living down by te beach and having house guests most of the summer i had eased into a genter life style... so hitting the single block expat life sytle back here has hit me for a bit of a six... must be getting old... its not that i'm not enjoying it... its the struggling to keep up.... also singapore has had web access everywhere for ages and it is mostly free if you know the right coffee shops and cyber cafes.... but it is so slow.... I mean s l o w

anyway thats it for now the coffee has arrived

testing last.fm links

I decided I must try testing the new last.fm embed links.... they seem only to play 30 secondish previews.. but that's fine... If you like the track I'm confdent you will go buy it or even download it via itunes to your ipod.... Not that there was anything wrong with blog radio... I just like last.fm better and have started a music inspired sketcbook style journal in there...

A lighter portrait

Pastel on paper

I am still using orange and ocher to get the skin tone to glow but I have
lowered the key and lightened the tone... perfect to create the gorgeous richness and underlying cheeky sensuality of a new friend from flickr

another sketchbook blog

Form time to time I do find that I am not the only creative person
using a blog as a sketch book... but here is one great lady doing it in
style, in her BrokenEyeball blog so much art is souless these days... so do yourself a favour and have a look at how expressive the carol's figurative works are... some of the doodles are a little macabre and sometimes the expression is loneliness and/or pain.. but these are definitely work with a spirit that I sure will enchant you as they have done for me

too darn hot

The weather down along south-eastern australia is hot... too darn hot

My beach house is having a constant flow of guests and other interlopers... but because of the hot nights and no air conditioning, (heck I'm used to tropical heat and just prefer over head fans) so most are guests are not sleeping and so i have a house full of crabby pants...

So I'm hanging out for that cool change

The other plan is to introduce a compulsary siesta!



Could not find cool change, on blog radio, which was a big hit here for the little river band... so you'll just image it while listening to another of their songs...

beautiful red butterfly

Pastel on paper

Portrait of a friend from flickr

nude reclining (in 3 media)

I think it is good to vary the media I am using... well at least occasionally... I think there is les need to vary the subject

candi by request

Watercolour on paper

Belated (new) Barmaids Covergirl

each few months I make a new cover for the faux barmaids magazine... just a way to promote the barmaids group... but fun to make)

paper in two media (on paper)

strong arm paper
Originally uploaded by sigh clone.

Here are a couple of entirely different approaches to portraits of my glamorous flickr friend paper ballet. To the right is a small watercolour , and below is on of the illustration for the funbag art calendar.

shikyo on my phone

shikyo on my phone,
originally uploaded by sigh clone.

Shikyo is my "pin up" girl this week... she is the wllpaper on my phone

... I am still offering 10 ladies free portraits... if they are interested in using them as their phone wallpaper.... so if you are interested drop me a line of leave a comment and don't forget the few moments (or should that be views) of nearly becoming "net famous" such a portrait will bring.

A Funbag Art Calendar

I know it has taken a while, but here is my second calendar for the funbag fascinatio group on flickr...

This one is an all art affair.. whilst a lot of the work is mine and mainly pastel (again) there is original art by Jo Co and Anthony Billings... I like this calendar it has sass... again it is a do it yourself calanedar (see instructions at the bottom of this post) You will see these calendar pages (and others) on the right hand sidebar throughout this year... These two calendars took a while to create and organize approval... but I hope they are both very origional and worthwhile















INSTRUCTIONS :: HOW TO MAKE a PERSONAL COPY OF THIS CALENDAR.

This is DIY (do it yourself) calendar, and only for personal use (see the copyright and wrong discussion at the bottom of the right-hand side column.

First click through on each image (you will get through to flickr were they are stored) and the select all sizes, and get the largest size images (they are all 710 by 710 pixels, this is 12cm at 150dpi and matched a CD jewel case size), download to your computer and print them out. The instructions to assemble your calendar can be found here

fd's flickr toys where used to make this calendar.

haveagoodweekend

Well its that great day... opps i mean long weekend... when all aussie celebrate something (oh yes its Australia Day and what are you doing)... most of us go to the beach, have lots of beer and some fine BBQ (barbie) and watch as much sport as we can... whilst not playing beach cricket, we watch as much sport as we can

so haveagoodweekend
(thats all one word in good aussie slang)

getting art on moblie phones

Gucci rush, pastel on paper

gucci rush on my phone,
originally uploaded by sigh clone.

My idea is to get my art onto mobile phones... so I am offering to sketch 10 ladies, over on uberme, who want an original portrait on their phone...

Do you think this is a GOOD or BAD idea?

the chariot

the chariot
Originally uploaded by sigh clone.

Illustration after the great cat empire song the chariot... george bush should be made to listen to this


For those that didn't realize I have been adding music to this blog for a while now... Well I have...

See the little rectangle below, press on the little orange triangle, like the play symbol on your CD or VCR or DVD... listen sound! Hope you enjoy the music...



This sketch is also for my illustated journal at last.fm

another pastel portrait

pastel on paper

This is of a long time net friend, Gianita, Chao Babe... I like the speed of pastels for getting the tone and colour laydown... I realise I probably not using them in the prescribed method but so far I have been having fun, and pleased with the results

pastel portrait

Soft pastel on coloured pastel paper

IF I were a super-hero

I am not really the super hero type, perhaps as a peter pan is more my style... anyway I though about it and I kind of have become a super hero to the real size and just shy ladies, that want to be thought of as more glamorous... many love my illustration... I never really had that planned as a priority, it is just that I do see that they ARE glamous, it's just they don't realize it (or fear it)... so threes cheers for the "real" glamorous ladies!



For illustration friday, topic super hero

liberation of pure colour

Pastel of sally on Tinted paper

I will have to admit I love the pure colour pigments you get with soft pastels...the let me "paint" in the colour much faster than trying to build up washes... I can build up these pure pigments on the papers tooth... ok the casuality is transparency and tenderess (compared with watercolour)... but pure colour lets the skin come alive and radiant with sensuality... feel the warmth, feel the gravity

I wonder why there are not more great nudes painted in pastel?

doodling again

Watercolour doodle on paper

Is this a painting of a tree, or just coloured lines? I'd be interested to know what you see.



... don't panic it's not deep question, more a reflection