hooray for google

Whilst it is not my art... i must applaud google for their scheme to allow you to put artist based themes on your homepage ... i want to see more real art on technology ... it will humanize us all and sooth our spirit


bravo google

torso as text

sorry about the long absense from things net... i'm just bouncing around in wonderful places but they are outside the webs influence. I happened upon this method of photomanipulation playing around with the alchemy add-ons for corel paint and making a brush that was infact text, the word torso actually... it has given the subject a charm of its own... I hope you agree?

monica's torso

I decided its time to rekindle the two minute torso sketches... and monica had been given an anniversary surprise by hubby chris .. a nude spread on flickr .. how could I resist

I have found my old webcam and decided to film myself sketching (ok ok the quality ordinary! but such is life!) ....ok it also took more like 4 minutes not 2 ...anyway happy anniversary chris and monica

tawnee sketch

tawnee sketch, originally uploaded by sigh clone.

my charcoal "rubbings" are coming along just fine ... good therapy and quick ... however i seem to have to find the image rather than be able to construct it ... my depeast thanks go out to however figured out about kneadable soft putty rubbers.

the dilema

I get asked to do a lot of sketching on flickr... and don't do it most of the time ... all too often their subject are clearly stolen images... taken from others on flickr or web sites .... its actually very hard for me to figure out what is and what isn't but a grey bot buddy icon and different models, glamor style lighting and certain poses are usually enough ... also i'm well behind the eight-ball when it comes to recognizing "adult movie" starlettes ... but the widespread practice of posting stolen photos is really ruining flickr and I'm not going to play

txssizetits sketch, originally uploaded by sigh clone.

Having said all that this wasn't a request anyway. I had seen a few of Txssizetits's post (she's apparently very web famous as samantha, and that probably isn't her real name either) on my boob oriented group for grown ups, the funbag fascination. I did suspected they may not be her own images but they were consistent and her smile was very infectious ... anyway she (ok its mainly about her cleavage) made a wonderful subject for a charcoal sketch.

... so I apologise txs size ... sorry i thought you where a bot or a fakr

Seeing double

One hassle with my eyes is i see a lot of things as a kind of double vision... particularly when my eyes are tired or there is a glare ... or just about any time i actually want to see... but now I am starting to see the same two ghostly apparitions in the left hand field of my view... when i turn to study them they vanish.... they ae just there to distract me when I tried to sketch...

... but why are they so thin? ....such is life!

Simply seeing

B E
I N G
B L I N D
I S A P A I N

But it does not need to be!

thanks to jan for indirectly drawing this to my attention

Not so foolish

Each year on this day you can get a special gift from fd of Fd's flickr toys if you use Scout .... it will generate posters of all of your images on flickr ... have fun it only last today!

Homage to one's self

Once was a self (portrait)
Originally uploaded by sighclone

Self portrait in marker pens and shredded paper for illustration friday's topic homage

PS: some of the strips are deliberately inverted and reversed... its a dyslexic thing!

My (Sometimes Nude) Back Catalogue

If every famous "artist" has one ... why shouldn't I?

Watch it grow as I sort out works i'm proud of and rescan some of my older works, ... but please look away if nudes offend you.

women in art

this is very clever ... and also beautiful at the same time

Happy Easter

Seeing by drawing

Do I need to be able to see, to draw?



Willow charcoal on "butchers" paper

I guess not!

that wasn't well planned

...back from a little sojourn up north and ready to do some serious relaxing.. but damn that small annoying red eye (a common problem i get in the tropics isn't a conjunctivitis at all ... its damn eye patch material again ... a detached retina , having the op tomorrow ... not happy jan!

there might be a hioatus in here

le dudas's missus snowbaking

le dudas's missus snowbaking, originally uploaded by sigh clone.

watercolour on paper

The problems of our digital common

I found this article on the future of the digital common in a tweet from chrisbrogan

I have been worried for a while that all the popular Web 2.0 sites get quickly overwhelmed with the ME-TOO celebrity WANNA-BEES that just copy ... so little originality and creavitity anymore ... the masses have taken over, filled up the space and wasted it and the bandwidth to look around ...then behind that there is the wild west style mentality of self importance and greed... the digital prairies are free and now they are mine ... so i'm a little worried about how innovation and culture are going to survive or is the net going to become the ultimate in New Reality TV (reality TV is of course not reality but is contrived to look like what the produces want o show as reality)... do we want this?


But i am not in favour of locking away content and establishing restrictive copyrighist mechanism that transfers the profit from the artist, innovators and creators into the hand of the few "media" owners ... look at the music industry and the syndication of cartoons.. only the most famous artists have benefited ... so i like the copyleft idea and I would rather have my work displayed in on-line galleries on the digital common ... i hope that isn't destined to soon be a thing of the past

cassio in watercolour

cassio watercolour, originally uploaded by sigh clone.

this was a "gift" (a freeby request) for the winner of the flickr expose your wife group comp ... at first i was very disappointed at the paintings flatness .... BUT it has grown on me ...mainly the pose and composition and the fact that the colours work well

a hot night and a new haircut

It has been hot down under... especially last night... too hot to sleep soundly, so i found myself sketching in the wee hours of the morning... and it was good

I used a stronger sketching paper with a finer tooth and it took the harder punishment I seem to produce when I have a conte crayon in my hand... but the natural sanguine colours where perfect to do a portait of rebecca a new twitter friend... and a fellow Victorian to boot ... I loved her furtive look

I know a new haircut can mean a lot, just click on the link and listen to the great waif song.

more charcoal sketches

Nude Drawing a Nude

Just a bit of cubist inspired fun, and I especially thank Annie for the photos