Kicking a can down the street....

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I'll be moving my art blog to zanurism.blogspot.com and this blog will be a veritable treasure trove of crafty goodness, but not crappy cottage crafts so if you like doilies and lavender pot-pourri draw-string bags you can leave in a huff right now. I'll leave the art stuff on here for a little while then it will be replaced with other stuff, apologies for any virtual inconveniences...

stuff with instructions and junk coming soon ...

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Flora

graphite and pencils on board

nesting

acrylics and oils on canvas

Does My Head Look Big in This?

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Zanurismo

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for sale

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original drawing on wood 21 x 16 cm's. (27 x 22 including frame)

28cm x 23 (including frame) original drawing on wood

original mixed media drawing on mdf board total size 22.5 x 17.3 cm

Eau de Toilet

I don't have a square to spare... I can't spare a
square...

persuade me

pencil and acrylic paint on paper

Go North

pencil on paper

Oh Hai!

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pencil and acrylic paint on paper

Equinenox

pencil and paint on paper

art: I haz them

acrylic and pencil on paper

with frame

(this frame came black, I just rubbed it with some gold paint)

acrylic paint and pencil on paper

with frame

(this was a pine frame, painted gold)

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oils on canvas

at the time of photographing, this one was unfinished, it now has numbers on the clock-face and there are details in the hair etc...

oils and pencil on wood

newish

oils on canvas...

long time no blog

Finally I have gotten around to posting something, Im so lazy, I can be bothered typing in a password to log into blogger...facebook is a different story tho. So here's some stuff I've made while I was away in the wonderful world of facebook.

and a detail

its about hair and women...

this one is mainly digital, which I dont like so much, I prefer manual painting and drawing, it doesn't feel like work, staring at a computer does. there's some woodgrain layers overlaid instead of the usual textures most people use ....anyhoodles...its called "bad day at the office" that title is temporary.

detail

boxy-but-good version 2.0

here's another pimped up storage box from ikea, this one was a request.

The requestee wanted a light-coloured stain to match the existing house furniture.

space-lash mascara - now with 30% more UFO technology

oil on board, 20cm x 20cm
an homage (of sorts) to all the ridiculous mascara advertising I've seen.
In a previous post I said I'd post the whole thing, so here it is.

boxy but good

here is a little project I made for my sister-in-law, for her birthday. I took a storage box from Ikea and stained and painted it with her initial and some embellishments on it. this is the "Before" picture.

(albeit I did have to build it, with a little hair-pulling and some hammer-throwing)

this is the "After"

I was thinking about painting the whole thing a solid colour or cover it in some nice patterned paper, but in the end I wanted to keep the nice wood-grain, because otherwise I could have just bought a plastic or MDF box.

The whole thing was stained with water-based floor stain, "W" painted with acrylic gold paint, the leafy scrolls with oil paints, then the whole thing varnished with water based glue/varnishy stuff.

underwater love

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oils on wood

a lady or fish-lady (however you interpret it) swimming in some brown looking water, I was going to stain the wood blue but that would ruin the lovely brown piece of wood, so I stained it a darker brown, this could be the bog lady part 2.

Pond-scum

this is meant to be a girl going for a dip in one of those gross ponds that's teeming with that stuff that grows in ponds, water lilies or algae, or something, OK so its not a specific plant but you get the picture. You can see around her chestal area there is some water making an appearance. People have commented that it looks like a field of leafy vegetation. OK so its whatever you want it to be.

spare time posting

oil on board
here's another recent addition to my big-head-sci-fi-phase. this is a cropped section of the work, the rest is a little unfinished so perhaps a later post will reveal the remains.

new new stuff

a diptych, untitled as yet, oils on board, 28 cm's x 18 cm's

They've been composed in such a way that they can also be "stand alone", one doesn't depend on the other, one can still tell a story on its own but together the story is magnified.

Cradle Mountain

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Here are some pictures from Cradle Mountain and surrounding areas.

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Most of the forests surrounding the area of Cradle Mountain are covered in this mossy stuff

waterfalls are abundant in the many forests surrounding the gigantic national park and there are many lakes on top of mountains. Which probably explains the many waterfalls...

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Dove Lake

fun with computers

I had this idea late at night once (when all the good ideas happen)... a forest scene, plus....

a black horsey....and...

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an old red couch...plus...

a model in a bridal gown...(does her head seem too big for her body or am I dreaming?)

and another model in another gown...(her head looks ok)

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victorian fantasy forest lady

it's a little bit 'Shania'without the mens shirt and short skirt.

Work on the side

I do a bit of graphic work on the side for whoever wants it, in this case it was Millani Bridal Boutique in the city, this is the second ad I've done for them. The owner loves my work ;-)

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This is the latest magazine layout for Millani Bridal to be featured in a few different wedding magazines throughout Sydney. Above is the completed single page ad (there is also a double page, which I haven't included here) click to enlarge

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the image on the left is what I started with, a great photo already, I tweaked the colours a bit, gave her some extra flowy hair, extra butterflies, some text, and some smaller models (to show other dress styles) got rid of that stripe on the wall, added some sparkles to the dress (which may not be visible at that size) I think my idea was that the big model is like a giant bride or Bridezilla, with things flying around her and the others are looking at her...kinda like when birds fly around tall buildings at night. click image to enlarge.

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close up (click to enlarge)

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This dismal effort believe it or not, was made by the magazine itself for Millani (they charge a fortune to do a layout for you, and you get this disaster, needless to say the staff at Millani was gravely disappointed with this anti-effort)

Radio-Active Moon Bride...She's as surprised as we are...

Pants, Magic Pants!

I watched a classic movie the other day, a movie I had not seen since I was a child, a movie I had seen at least 20 times thanks to my friend Selma who had it playing on her VCR non-stop, The movie is Labyrinth, about a goblin king and a girl and a labyrinth etc etc, the story is not very important and upon seeing it recently, I began to notice something I had not noticed previously as an innocent, my-little-pony-loving, innocent, pre-pubescent, innocent girl-child... David Bowie's pants. That's right, It would seem his magic goblin tights have a lead role in this film, not only that, the camera seems inexplicably drawn to focus the entire scene shot around his crotch. If you notice in the above picture even the lifeless puppets seem to be staring at it.

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No, this isn't a zombie ghost mullet movie, even though this picture would lead you to believe otherwise

There's a song in this movie (why Yes! you'll be glad to hear it is a musical, hoorah!) the song is 'Dance, Magic Dance' (obviously magic, being an illusion in itself, can't really dance) but if you substitute the words 'dance' for 'pants' the song makes a lot more sense.

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Sarah: "I'll thank you not to steal my brother next time... me and my caterpillars are leaving!"

Jareth: "sarah wait...aren't you forgetting something? You haven't gazed upon my magic pants...I know you wanna......."

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But anyway the movie has some OTHER good scenes which don't involve the magic goblin tights, like the bog of eternal stench (...smell baaad...) and some that do, like the creepy staircase scene, but the Henson puppets are pretty cool.