blackfisharts ABOUT my art

  Dedicated to #13 ..so, New Year reflections - 13 days of looking back on 13 projects over the last year Day 10 - IPAD i love using the ipad to create images - inspired by Hockney and Warhol and abstraction.

Dedicated to #13 ..so, New Year reflections - 13 days of looking back on 13 projects over the last year Day 5 - drawing

 AI (artificial intelligence) is everywhere at the moment even in Tasmania. I am hearing and reading about it in art, science, literature, medicine. Wonderful playlist here on TED talks regarding AI and how it can be used in art including statistics and numbers as sculptures, patterns and moving visual feasts. A few of my own favourites from TED talks are listed at the bottom of this post. I enjoyed this article recently on AI stating the 17 best AI artworks created. I have been playing with AI on a website called Dalle2 that creates artworks out of the text you put into it. Initially I found it fun but quite quickly it then became un-rewarding for me and i wondered if it could work using my own art. So i took an image I had created on my Ipad from a photograph taken at Boat Harbour on a 4 day #getaway. Do let me know what you think and what your experience has been with AI. This is the original photograph taken at Boat Harbour , some year in May. This is what it looks l...

I am inspired by so many artists .... this i think reflects the diversity that permeates through much of what i do.  So how does this come about ? A large part of my arts practice includes reading, research and seeking out artists of interest. First ... current artists of interest include : Matisse - love the flat shapes and colour Rothko - love the colour, transparency and abstraction Jasper Johns - love his encaustics, ways of working and Cy Twombly - love his mark making and sculptures Andy Warhol - love his use of bright, flat colour his subject matter David Hockney - love his paintings and use of technology in creating art Brett Whiteley - sensuous drawing in exploring space from the model into the landscape Jeff Koons - love his mind - I watch many a talk with him ... here is one. and a documentary here . Tacita Dean - love her work & ideas, writings and her mind. Lovely works here. an interview here William Kentridge - what is not to love about his work and...

  Inspired by these artists, Hockney and Warhol I have been playing with images i have taken on my #getaways. These are on the road, in Hobart and Coles Beach Devonport. Photographs are pulled into pixelmator pro and the hues of the actual image taken is 'muted' somewhat and then sent to my ipad where highly saturated colours are layered over aspects of the image. David Hockney , well into his 80s, plays with an ipad doing daily drawings. I like the saturated flat colours that he and Andy Warhol use which sparked my 'what if' regarding my photographic images. I have been painting over black and white photography for a few years now so it didn't seem a biggie to do so with the ipad. I will post these painted photo prints and ipad drawings of pears, life drawing, landscapes etc in future posts.

started these a while ago - using photos as the basis and exploring the tools, brushes and colours available on my ipad - along with the pencil. i love the potential. they become prints as ink media on watercolour paper

  My studio practice involves the five key stages :  explore, develop, refine, resolve and present. You will 'hear' me speak often about the need for 'play' in the studio. The value of 'play'. PLAY is a state of mind and an important part of the explore stage.. It frees you up and things do not seem so precious. You have no fear or worry about being right or wrong, making a mistake or creating a mess. It is a time for exploration, asking 'what if' and a time to listen to your intuition. What if I splash paint on instead of using a brush, what if I use a sponge to paint with. The piece above is a play piece. Using sumi ink and a ruling pen, the marks were created an A1 size sheet of cartridge paper and was 'a start' for an acrylic painting. As the sun moved across the skylights in my studio and cast these lines of shadow I took a photograph of the drawing with shadow lines. The snail: while playing on my Ipad I took a photo of a snail and a photo ...