yellow drummer (andy rantzen)

since this is a new blog and i have old work as well, i thought i might start slowly uploading some of it, even though it's not brand new. so to start, the archibald prize. i've entered three times now, though i've never been chosen to be hung. i have neither the name myself, nor the access to high profile sitters that guarantee you a place, but i do like entering anyway as it's a good discipline with deadlines etc etc. so...



my first entry was andy rantzen (he of itch-e & scratch-e fame, most famously, though he's done lots of other brilliant stuff, but it is itch-e and scratch-e that qualifies him as a person of note in his field). this work now sits on my studio wall, and i still quite like it. i was going through a thing with blurred computer graphics at the time, and was wishing to paint that. so the background of this is blurred computer graphics. the actual face is also supposed to be blurred, but that's quite hard to do - i think i nearly succeeded, but not quite.

the image is 130x130cm (i was inspired by the secessionists' use of square canvases at the time, which also reflected one of my favourite design spaces - the album cover).