Yathadon Art Studio

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2011-02-17T17:12:00.000-08:00

perspective

2010-03-03T15:29:00.000-08:00

come to my web said the spider to the flly, but i think he's bitten off more that he can chew...!! this weeks IF word was prespective

CARICATURE

2010-02-26T12:46:00.000-08:00

this is my first go at doing a cariacture, so i gave cheryl cole a go for Art mondays

propagate

2010-02-24T15:49:00.000-08:00

this weeks IF propgate.. an old friend from grimlins

The interview... dark clouds , walls closing in , sound of distant foot steps, rain drops falling from a windows ledge

2010-02-18T15:34:00.000-08:00

This week i went for my interview at university.... after dropping my portfolio off along with the other dozen or so applicants, we where all ushered around the building to look at the studios etc, something i had only done two weeks before when there for the open day. While the tutors look over everyone's portfolios... 20 mins later we where all sitting outside ready to be called in..... I was second up, thinking i was going to be interview by several tutors, only to be meet by one and a 3rd year student, explaining to me that with so many people applying this year they decided to do things differently, so i struggled through the some what quick interview , feeling as if i hadn't answered the question to the best of my ability. Feeling i didn't say enough to tell them why and how much this meant to me. I did manage to say that it was something i had always wanted to do since school and after being a chef for 20 years i wanted to do something that was really my first passion, something I was able to do from home and wouldn't be as stressful as working in a kitchen until I'm 65 ..... but i didn't push home that i enjoyed writing and drawing and designing websites, music etc, just everything went out of my head, May be only drawing again for the last 5 months I'm just not good enough, Even tho tutor said my art work was more fine art then illustration, didn't think my art was that good to be considered fine art, what ever the definition of that means , but there was light at the end of the tunnel he did like the concertina book i had been working on. But one book won't get me in and the fact i didn't feel as if I push all the right buttons to the questions. So any way I felt as if i failed the interview. So now i have to wait 2 to 3 weeks or so to see if i have made it in ... my hopes are not high but I'm trying to keep positive. There was a number of fresh face school leavers and couple of other mature students, but as i said with some 300+ applying for 45 places my chances are slim. I wish i had picked been a illustrator 20 years ago instead of going into the catering industry, although cookery is creative in its own right now that I'm 40 something i really wish i was doing something else and that something else is ART!

Adrift

2010-02-18T11:50:00.000-08:00

Adrift is this weeks If, but today i have tried something new! I used Artrage, so my first attemp at digital work

Muddy Frog

2010-02-11T23:27:00.000-08:00

This weeks IF Muddy...

2010-02-04T17:37:00.000-08:00

this weeks IF is focused... and as you can see this cobalt blue tarantula is ready for its unsuspecting pray , its completely focused on its intended target... so watch-out , i know i am !

2010-01-28T13:29:00.000-08:00

This week Illustration friday .. clumsy.. very clumsy puppy laping water every where, only didnt have alot of time on this one but its a start of something that i can finish up later

wilderness

2010-01-21T12:58:00.000-08:00

This weeks IF picture in watercolour pencel, all tho this is not completely finished I thought I would post it before the deadline. Sticking with the children illustration format I thought this little elf / fairy would catch the imagination of a small child while reading about her look out fromher own wildreness, peeking to the big world that surrounds her.... so here you have my wildreness..

little ppl of the forest

2010-01-13T15:22:00.000-08:00

this water colour i did a month or so ago.... enjoy

zombie the beging

2010-01-13T11:14:00.000-08:00

a skull im working for undead zombie, still got a way to go.. but im sure be okay once I have worked on the rest of it. Hope everyone is okay.. keep smiling :)

handsome young fellow

2010-01-08T19:49:00.000-08:00

Idid this one of my nephew tonight still need some work ill finish it in the morning oh it is the morning lol 348, better get some sleep, nite all chatch you of the flip side

I.F. confined

2010-01-08T10:31:00.000-08:00

ok I.F. confined i quickly did this in 20 mins in oil pastels, motherearth inside the world in side the Universe, think ill play around with this image over the weekend.

2010-01-08T08:36:00.000-08:00

ok so here is my first go at drawing a face i did this in September i had only started drawng again a few days before, I have not put pen to paper as they say since i was in high school over 20 years ago, not too bad for the first go.. but i can see so meny things wrong with it , i guess without having any formal teaching and only doing this for fun its a start..

A taste of NZ

2010-01-07T15:03:00.000-08:00

I went to the local butcher here in london and decided to get some beef bone, after a few hours of hard work, cleaning off the bones and bleaching themi left the bone for few days too dry, i then carved it by hand , i managed to get this little guy finished.. my first go at caving bone since i was 15 .. now thats a long time ago ...lol

asian man

2010-01-07T13:58:00.000-08:00

here a asian man i did last week , my first go at drawing an asian man. I had a picture on my iphone which i scaled up.

A little bit of home

2010-01-07T13:52:00.000-08:00

Been working on a concertina book, here a few pics of what I'v done so far, done with indian inks with a break between inking with colour plastic sheet

renew

2010-01-07T13:28:00.001-08:00

Heres my first go at illustration friday hope you all like it,