Sometimes you just have to make do with what you have at hand.
Author Archives: Julian
My canvas is a big iPad
I am using my canvas as giant iPad screen. This is no surprise, after spending a decade of cutting and pasting images under the glass screen of my iPad.
Solomon’s choice
Other drawings, languishing in the orphan stack, may find their way into the work because they add to the visual story, offering clues of the drawing’s underlying intent of capturing memory and meaning.
IT’S THAT TIME AGAIN.
A scattered post about right now, complaining of sore arms, describing a little of my current art practice all on the cusp of our nation’s important federal election. A chance to discard the political sludge accumulated over the past decade and reshape our country for the better. Roll on Saturday night.
Looking for a likeness
Winter approaches outside my study window and into my mind. Across the sea, Gaza is exploding and Australia continues to be governed by aliens. For relief I look to the art works hanging in a corner of our writing room: Jim Wigley’s ink drawing of 3 women and child returning to camp with fish, Noel Counihan’s linocut, ‘Laughing Christ’ and Brandy Tjungurrayi’s painting of the “football game”. All three works are part of my story.
Out of seclusion and into the garden
I write this ‘fragment’ to keep this blog alive, saying, “I will be back to finish my thoughts.”
Covid 19, isolation, rules and life
Covid 19 has well and truly sorted people into believers, non believers and some two-bob each way people. The latter,…
Red Heart No 3 Update
No drawing started as yet for Catch Him by His Name. This graphic novel has been in the works since…
Art studio database -Julian Wigley
Completed recording around 500 drawings and paintings.Now is the “In the bin” or “on the wall” time.
Sorting folios
Red Heart Comic progress update.