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Reflections

Art Blog on an art website? Surely not!!

7/7/2014

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Oil Painting seems to carry with it a preconceived notion that it is "stuffy" - like a court room full of men wearing robes (aka dresses) and wigs and handing down serious decisions.  One simply cannot paint in oils unless one has years of serious art-making experience under their 2XL belt, you know.

Which is part of the reason that I have decided to do "An Oil a Day". Tentatively for a year, although really just for as long as I need to. Maybe a fortnight. Maybe a decade. Possibly for a life time. Everything has it's own time.

Because I love oils, but I lack the 2XL belt.

They've been masquerading as up themselves all these years, but lets be serious: Anything that messy has to have at least a grain of fun in them. 

Plus I want to get better at it, and there doesn't seem to be a better way to do that. I'm going with the mantra of the 5-Ps (practise prevents piss poor performance).

But why oils, besides the fact that I love them?

When I googled "An Oil a Day" an awful lot of multi-national corporations came up - powering the world (pah!). 

I quite like the symmetry of painting vs petrol. Something we should do more of compared with something we should use a lot less. 

And motivation. A challenge to motivate me to paintpaintpaint on a regular basis. Starting today. 

And here it is - my first "Oil a Day", done on the 6th July 2014. The only way is up.
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And since it's now the 7th July, (and the next theme for the 52-Week Illustration Challenge is "feather") here is today's Oil A Day; a female Red-Tailed Black Cockatoo feather.
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Now, since I'm semi-allergic to blogging, I've decided to post my Oil A Day on Figments & Glimpses Facebook page every day, and once a week upload the images to the blog. If you'd like to see them as they happen, click here. Who couldn't use a bit more art in their day?

I'm pretty excited about this, and I can't wait to see what unfolds.

Thanks for joining the adventure . . . 


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I acknowledge the Traditional Owners and First People of the land on which I stand, who are collectively known as the Southern Yamatji People. I pay my respects to the Elders past, present and future, for they hold the memories, the traditions, the culture and the hopes of the Southern Yamatji People.
I would also like to specifically acknowledge the Naaguja and Wilunya people from amongst the collective group of Southern Yamatji People and pay my respects to their Elders past, present and emerging. The Naaguja and Wilunya Peoples are the Traditional Owners and First People of the place I have made my home and where I make my art. 




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