dirtfish

At the last show we did people asked me alot about the kind of canvas i use so i thought i would tell you a bit more about it. the canvas is Caravaggio an italian pre primed cotton canvas. This mean when it come to us it alrady has 4 layers of primer paint on it and is ready to paint on except it need to be stretched. For stetching we use fitzroy stretched hard wood frames the are specialy designed so that all you need to do is put the frame together and use the fs revolution wedges to stretch them tight. all the canvas and stretcher bars come from fitzroy stretches

the reason i go to all that effort with the canvas is that it is the base to the painting and i want it to last a long long time so i have gone to alot of effort to make that hapern. The technique I use to create the painting is some times quite rough so it's good to have a solid base to work from.

If you an artist and you want to know more about my technique or canvas i use send me an email. you can also go to the fitzroy stretches website to find out more.

at this is not a design market we met Casper a graphic designer over here on a working visa looking for a job check out his site, give him a job if you can his work is really cool and the photos he took of us are fantastic check them out...

thank you thank you to all those who came to see us at this is not a design market.

For the this is not a design market I have put together 20 new PAINTINGS. the new canvas size is 260 x 410mm and is an attempt to create a more affordable sized painting that maintains the quality and originality of the larger works. the paintings will be selling for $150 ea and are all on italian canvas and hard wood stretcher bars.

come along and check them out.

Come down and see us at this is not adesign market, we just got back form setting up and this thing is huge it a massive whearhouse space at 500 Latrobe Street Melbourne on July 09... their website http://thisisnotadesignmarket.inthefactory.com

New painting size for this weekends 'this is not a design market' talk about gettign it done just in time. This is all a part of my plan to make a massive artwork made up of a series of smaller ones like this.

I have been playing around with toys again check this little due out...

I have made a special section in the online store so you can have a look at all the other variations.

be on the lookaout for a blue one i got some high saturation blue inspired by the yves klein works we saw while we were in france.

texture is one of the most imortant aspects to my artworks and it is also the hardest part to get accross through a picture but per haps if a explain the process a little you'll better understand what is going on. each painting is but up as a series of layers the 1st is normaly something dark this is usualy to get the ball rolling so it is very rough the and endes up setting the tone for how much texture is going to run accross the whole painting. the next layers are to build up the character and colours these can be as few is 3 or 4 but as many as 10 and sometimes more. At this stage the painting is a mess of usually bright colours and abstract characters. the final stage is to work my way back through the layers to reveal the final product. sometimes in a painting i might repeat the building up and scraping back many times before i get the tone right.

furry dudes on the way they don't have 3 legs yet but i'm thinking about it. I have a show coming up in july and am going to have the completed version of there little guys there. 

this painting gives joy to people. it's inspired by a dog who live in an apartment next to us when we live in Richmond, we called him mr whippy some times affectionately and some times in vain. this painting goes some of the way to explain the smile on the dogs face when his carefully laid trap was sprung. As a side note when we exhibited this work earlier this year it provoked some really cool reactions from people 2 little kids in particular saw it ran away laughing and kept coming back to check to see it it was real.

if you would like to buy this painting click here