Psychic Origami » Open House

Playing with paint: girl with a 286

john — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 20:03:30 +0000

Following (chronologically in chip fabrication order) on from Girl and an Altair 8800 and Girl and an Apple II is “Girl with a 286″:

The 286 in question being Intel’s 80286 chip – the motherboard of which can be seen in the background of this painting.

This particular painting is much larger than the previous two. Rather than the A4 size of the previous, it’s 40″ tall. This is because it will be featured in Congregation 2009 along with many other “life-size” portraits.

So if you want to see this painting in the flesh please go visit St Paul’s Church from the 4th-25th of May between 1.30pm and 4pm.

MASS

john — Wed, 14 May 2008 10:10:54 +0000

Just a reminder that MASS is on for another two weekends (17th and 24th of May). The preview video above should give you an idea of what to expect and even briefly features my piece in situ.

Mass portrait: girl with book

john — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 13:49:30 +0000

Well it’s finally finished. I’d best get on with delivery to the venue…

You’ll be able to see this painting as part of MASS which will be running on the 3rd, 10th, 17th and 24th of May.

Blank Canvas

john — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 13:54:59 +0000

Finally started my piece for MASS today:

Picked up the canvas yesterday and realised quite how much work there is to do. Glad I’ve only agreed to paint one portrait, though if things go well I might just have time to do another. Think this is basically the largest piece of artwork I’ve ever attempted to do, so I think I’ll just have to chip away at it. First job will be applying primer to build up a nice even surface for me to work with.

A little review courtesy of Sarah

john — Wed, 16 May 2007 16:43:55 +0000

Sarah’s review of the open house is online on the BBC site now. Thanks for a great review Sarah!

Sarah was also attempting to get some video interviews, but I chickened out.

Private View

john — Fri, 04 May 2007 07:03:04 +0000

We had the open house’s private view on Wednesday. I’ve got a few pictures online here. They are a bit haphazard. Think I need to get a better camera…

Open House at Kingscliffe Court

john — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 12:23:52 +0000

Finally finished framing my drawings for the open house:

Also the Artists Open Houses website has now been updated, so details for our open house can be seen here. “Made in littlespikeyland” being my part. It’s open every Saturday in May for those who are interested.

girl in a green dress

john — Sun, 22 Apr 2007 17:37:45 +0000

Another one for the open house.

More Open House Monsters

john — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 21:53:07 +0000

Two more… Hopefully there’ll be a few more after these too.

Me and an open house

john — Sat, 31 Mar 2007 21:30:43 +0000

Well last night and today saw me performing a similar feat as last saturday, except I was wielding pencils, inks, gouache and brushes this time around. I’m part of an open house for the fringe festival in May and given it’s April tomorrow I thought I’d best get working. There are a few previous pieces I’ll use, but I felt I needed to get some more up-to-date work out there.

I have still been managing to do some drawing over the past two years, but it’s mainly been limited to birthday cards and presents. Whereas during my MSc I managed to get quite a bit done. So being involved in an open house is a good motivation to get drawing.

Firstly, I finished off one illustration I’d been working on. I mainly tweaked the line work last night. (Some of the leaves are painted in gold, which doesn’t show up too well on a scan…)

Yesterday I started on my first proper gouache painting and finished it off today. It’s of Richard Feynman whom I’ve always had an admiration for (mainly from reading about his antics during the Manhatten Project). Quite happy with how it turned out – it is really only a copy of a photo, but it’s nice to just concentrate on the paint for a bit. (credit to Shardcore for some of the inspiration behind painting Feynman)

Next we have a collection of monster illustrations. Been doing similar ones for birthday cards and they always turned out pretty well.

I’d like to get quite a good collection of pictures finished, so I have plenty to choose from for the final showing. Given there’s only a few weeks to go I’ve not got too much time, but at least now I’ve made a proper start.