Masks!

Here are some masks I 've made for "Forest". As a base I used papier mache simple masks and than worked on them. I'm really happy with the one's with the branches. It gave me an idea it develop them into a sculpture!

Still alive!

I haven’t been updating the blog lately. Well, it has been a busy time, lots of things gooing on.Lets start with project Forest.

It went a bit pear shaped. Not our fault thou. Bloody rain. We had weeks and weeks of sun and great weather all round than the weekend the party was on all hell break loose: gale force winds and rain. Lots of it. And by the gods we tried . We decided that the show will go on,after all we still had light and sound ...until the power was cut off! We had to cancel it all.

On a positive note we are moving the event to a later day. The Forest will come alive on the 14th June at Mellieha.

So with all the stuff going on I didn’t have time to paint.But I have a few ideas to work on so keep visiting .

Project "Forest"

Work is moving is moving on swiftly.Been busy build mushrooms ,gateways and masks. My costume is coming along nicely. I'll post some pictures( after the event. I don't want to give it away too soon:))

Core Green Exhibitions

Well... exhibition went very well. Got some great feedback and I really looking forward to have my own solo exhibition. Didn't sell anything, but than again no one did.
So..after the event we have created a group called "CoreGreen"which will create organize events combining Art and green principles.The next event will be during "Earth Garden" in Ta Qali.

Storm is over!

Now that the political storm is over ( we just had our general elections for all reading this from abroad ) and after several other events I have some time to up date my Blog.
Well, It's been a very busy 3 weeks , first with the exhibition ( I'll be posting more on that later) , "Story of Stuff" ( the latest green drinks event) and the damn Election. Didn't do much painting (well did some work actually) . But now it should be all hands on deck for "Project Forest".More on this later!

Project Rose and lily

A while ago I was commissioned to paint a mural in a bar in St Julian's by my friend and interior designer Chantal. The theme was a bit awkward, not really my style.You see ,the Bar is called "Rose and Lily" so the mural had to some how tie in. Floral stuff is not really my forte but...
Well here is the work( I took photos of each step):

Started with a ploting the proportions on the bare wall. The area was approximatly 2m X 3m.The horizontal and vertical line ( basically 2 pieces of string) gave me a rough guide. I than proceeded in sketching the design.

Next I started filling in the first colour , the red of the rose. I use mainly acrylic. Its cheap, easy to handle and dries fast.

I than used black to give the red shap and shadows. I avoided using lighter reds on each petal and just used some cadmium yellow on small parts to give a bit of highlight. I believe i gave the rose a more velvety feel( on the side you can see the reference pix i used)Next came the lily.

Lilies are normally thought of as white, i know . But I couldn't really see a white iliy on a white wall!! So I went for a purple colour, high lighted with white.

Finished the lily ( still need to do the stamens but that will come later) I started the background.
I basically used watered done shades of Green , just to give the surface a colour wash , adding more colour using the airbrush.

More green.:)

And finished. After finishing the lily from the Stamens I added the curvy designs on the sides, just to balance out the composition.

Lady in red

I know .It's a crap title. It's not final so suggestions are welcome:)