Monthly Archives: February 2011

Catch my work in Australian Artist Magazine

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The March 2011 edition of Australian Artist Magazine has published eight pages of my scratchboard work with various images and a step by step of the process of creating a piece of scratchboard art. Here’s a scan of the first page – for a better view check a magazine out at your local good newsagent. They are very reasonably priced at less then $10.

Australian Artist Magazine March 2011

The Poet – completed

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Here’s my ‘Poet’ with a ‘gif’ image which shows the whole process, from scratching to re-inking to scratching again and repeating until it was where I wanted it.

Here’s the whole process in one image. If it doesn’t work for you, click on it so it goes to a separate page and it should work.

The Poet, a work in progress

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I was at an art show two weeks ago which I had work in, and afterwards I was wandering down the main street on a Saturday afternoon. There was a part indigenous guy sitting on the pavement (sidewalk) with a slouch hat on and a tin in front of him. (A slouch hat is a wide-brimmed felt hat most commonly worn as part of a military uniform). I thought he was homeless, he certainly looked it, and I was about to dip into my wallet when he stood up and started reciting poetry. It was his own work and he was a real artist, so I sat down and listened to a very long, poignant and beautiful poem. No one else was on the street so I had my own private show. This poem was about a man’s life going through from being aged 12, 22, 32, every decade until 82 and all his hopes and dreams and becoming a shattered spent husk of a life as he passes on at 82 with none of those dreams realised and rejected by the world. It really moved me and not only did it make me triple my intended offering, I asked if I could take photographs and I now intend to immortalize the poet in scratchboard. It’s at the very early stages right now