The tranquil Tarsier monkey calmly reflects on the year 2018.
Hello everyone,
I created this post after first seeing the 20 end-of-year questionnaire up on the @dailypsych page on Instagram. I then decided to participate and write my own answers to the questions on the page, along with a recorded audio version and turn it into this blog post.
I think people usually associate somebody travelling or backpacking across a country, a continent or around the world, as someone who is on an extended vacation, or on a long holiday, which doesn’t involve much work if any at all. Of course that is the case for some travellers, especially if they have commitments to return to such as with work or study. But there are travellers out there, such as myself, who have committed themselves to study, work and development as they travel over much longer periods of time. .
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Less than one day ago I came back from the BTC Graffiti Festival in Candeais, Bahia, Brazil. I was lucky enough to be invited last minute, as an international artist and participate in painting at the event. I had never heard of the event before, and only discovered its existence and the fact that I was going to be attending, around 9pm the night before the first day. The whole 4 days went by really fast, and I had about 1 hour spare to try and prepare, sketch ideas and plan ahead. Actually it was more like 45 minutes.
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Master Studies As A Practice For Amateur And Professional Artists.
Master studies are recommended by many top, professional artists around the world, as being an excellent way to practice, develop and study the greats of the past who dedicated their lives towards excelling in their chosen craft.
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Above image; Video Intro Title Image
This is my first screen recording that I have made of me painting digitally in Adobe Photoshop. It is sped up 40X so you can quickly see how I go about my digital portraits, and the painting process. I used just one brush, and only colour picked from my own colour selection and combinations on the painting itself, similar to how I would pick up paint from a real colour palette.
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After living in Queenstown, New Zealand, The Gold Coast, Australia, and travelling around Asia and the Pacific Islands, finally it was time to return home to the place I was raised up, and see friends and family, old and new.
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A combination of fantasy Illustration, story, emotional, stirring and soulful pieces, along with plain and simple creative fun, drawing/illustrative practice.
Continuing on from my previous posts; My Best Artwork Of 2017, and; My Best Pencil & Ink Drawings. This is my final set of my best drawings from 2017, ending My Best Of for last year.
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I'm still very much in a reflective mood looking back on 2017, which I think will continue over the next couple of days as I prepare myself for 2018...
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Above image; My 'Essentials of Realism' Digital colour portrait.
This was one of my final online assessments where I had to paint a realistic portrait from the reference provided (the teacher's daughter). This took me 60+ hours, but I was very happy with the result at the end, and surprised myself.
Above image; My 'Essentials of Realism' Digital colour portrait.
This was one of my final online assessments where I had to paint a realistic portrait from the reference provided (the teacher's daughter). This took me 60+ hours, but I was very happy with the result at the end, and surprised myself.
This is a photo I took looking at the active volcano Sakurajima, in the Sengan-en gardens, Kagoshima, Kyushu, southern Japan.
Last year I visited Japan for the 3rd time. Once again I was amazed and impressed by the incredible level of hospitality, kindness and friendliness of the Japanese people, and I was left in even more in awe of the stunning countryside and landscape.
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- This is my finished 'Jaguar' Oil Painting which is my first animal portrait, and my best oil painting so far. Next I'll show you the steps I took to reach this point.
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This was a quick sketch of a man and woman I created on the Broadbeach South bus stop/tram station whilst I was waiting for the bus. They are thumbnail in size, as you can see the scale of them compared to my brush pen, and both sketches were of the real people I was looking at, at the time.
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