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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

“Pleased to meet you”, Swamp Wallaby – small scratchboard

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When we stayed in a kind of tent like thing at Warrawong Sanctuary in the Adelaide Hills I took lots of photos of the marsupials that they have there. One such photo was, and don’t hate me, of my wife being attacked by a big kangaroo. It came at her from behind and really hurt her, scratches all over her face. I had to get a photo before I went to help – really bad habit of mine!! I’d be terrible in an emergency. My apologies Gaynor 😀

Anyway, fortunately I took many more appropriate photos and I’ve created a small scratchboard of a swamp wallaby. Here’s a little “work in progress”, from start to finish.

and finally the finished art, toned with India Ink and highlights rescratched

Himba maiden finished

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Well, it took a while but I’m finally done with my latest scratchboard. You sure do see a lot when you draw someone or something. When you are forced to slow down and draw you pick up so much more than in normal life. Who was it who said they hadn’t truly seen something until they had drawn it? Someone will answer that one I’m sure.

Apart from the usual amazing look of the Himba tribe, the bits that drew me to this portrait were;

– her shoulderblade and the way it works with that look over her shoulder

– the diagonal of the rope/string across her back and the way it’s pulling into her skin

– the look in her eye

– the straw in her mouth.