Trippy art

Hey guys,

I'm back home after three months away on my trip, and the plunge to do all these shows and take the time and money to be there seems to have been a success, I sold half the Nucleus pieces, about 3/4 of the Anima pieces, and the Spoke Art show sold out completely!

I'm excited to be making art again and also happy to be here with you guys again in the blogosphere posting art from my trip.

 I also had a lot of fun times in SF and LA, meeting a lot of inspiring artists many of whom I was familiar with, being an old regular at Concept Art.org since around 2003.

I stayed in SF for about a month, and stayed in several different places the whole time, and as a result I had a lot of art I needed to send people as gifts! I'm still working my way through it all, but here are some:

Random pages

I also made it up North of SF to do some sketching and Landscape painting with the awesome artist Sergio Lopez!

He made a blog post about it too so go check it out, has some studies of other places we went to and the blog is worth a look regardless.


Top two photos by Sergio

Landscape galactic super action paint fun time!

I had a few troubles....wind being my enemy this day,  all part of the experience!

I also did some sketching at the Safehouse Atelier run by Carl Dobsky, go check them out as they are brilliant, brilliant I say!!!!!

A portrait sketch from one night session:

Here is a painting by Jeremy Mann of my mug, I sat for one of the portrait sessions at the atelier while they played Australian folk music about tying a Kangaroo down and R Kelly, hahaha!

I also did some model drawing in SF in the Spoke Art gallery (previous post). Using the study I made in the life session, I finished a couple more drawings. I might do a few more if I get the time.

Thanks again to Magdaleen Veen for modelling that day.

Click this one for a better, larger version.

As part of the video that Shaun Roberts is making, we went up to Golden Gate Park to get some shots during the late afternoon. He did a fantastic job of capturing the beautiful light that streamed in through the trees. I'm really excited to see how the video of our collaboration comes out, there are other finished ones on his website under 'studio visits'.

Here's the sketch I made:

Sorry to dump so many images on you all! 

Cheers

Upcoming Shows

Thought I'd just do a blog post with some preview images for the shows I'm involved with.
It's been a really, really busy month since I last updated.
 Finished/ touched up more pieces for the Nucleus show, a few pieces for my solo, around 10 new sketchbook pages, a t-shirt design and my first book cover job (in oils). Very excited and honoured to be exhibiting with some truly amazing artists who have been a huge inspirational force in my development. 


Thanks!


LINED IN LEAD: GALLERY NUCLEUS

March 19, 2011 - April 11, 2011
Opening Reception / Mar 19, 7:00PM - 10:00PM



"Too often graphite is reserved for process work or composition studies, but the medium possesses every facet necessary to fully realize an inspiring finished work of art.  Its simplicity is sublime and its versatility exciting.

We have invited some true talents of the medium to contribute finished work promising to captivate."

Exhibiting Artists Include:

Wesley Burt
Alexandre Day
Andrew Hem
David Jien
Rodrigo Luff
Joao Ruas
Barron Storey
Rob Sato
Shelly Wan
Allen Williams
Michael Zulli


Detail below (original 35 by 55 cm)

Original size (26 by 34 cm)

Detail below (original size 42 by 70 cm)

























ANIMA: PHONE BOOTH GALLERY, Long Beach CA

Opening Night: April 16 2010

“Anima” is a series of works from Australian artist Rod Luff that collects together a variety of drawings and paintings inspired by the harmonious relationships between people, nature and their imagination. Artist in Attendance.


Oils (original size 60 by 40cm)

SKETCHBOOK SHOW: MEDECINE AGENCY, San Francisco CA

April 30 2010

Collection of Selected Artwork from my sketchbook.

And here's the book cover I did, Oils (with small digital touch ups). It was for a lovecraftian themed horror novel set in the 1950's. Despite the workload I just couldn't say no to painting a Hastur possessed blues guitarist channelling filthy black insanity!

dream vortex

Hello!

Sorry I've been slack with keeping this thing updated. been drawing, painting and studying!

First up is a little drawing i just finished.

This A2 size drawing was a failure. However, I managed to learn so much from it that I'm happy I pushed through it, although it's unfinished still. *burns drawing*

 I was kinda happy with this part though.

Couple a sb pagez

Sneak peek at a painting WIP...early days...

scraps

just a coupla things i found on my hard drive and realised i forgot to post heh!
havent been drawing or painting the past few days, just reading and doing other things...
i will be posting up some cool stuff in the next coming days though! Not art of my own...but some photos of paintings from sorolla museum, waterhouse, and hopefully if i get the time some menzel scans...you will see!!

oil studies

just some monochromatic quick oil thingies done on scraps of canvas to get back into painting, just trying to improve and learn but also have fun.

this was one was done in a sitting - as i was fleshing out his character, kinda reminded me of bukowski, i had loads of fun doing his expression.

this was 2 sittings/
experimenting with using just a brown and white, but how u can get really warm thin shadows and then let that dry, then paint over the lights with cooler opaque and keep the shadows thin and warm.

one sitting from a photo...but i had to change lots from the photo...too much detail... had loads of fun.

Picture Kitchen Exhibition + Moleskinez

Hey would like to thank everyone who took the effort to visit our art show in the past week, I love you all!
I would encourage anyone in the sydney area to check it out- it's only up until saturday and will be at the Tap gallery from 12-6 daily. Just turn left off Oxford st (going away from CBD) and go down Palmer St a block.

I sold a couple of works so I broke even, which is great, because I got a whole bunch of art framed and had the opportunity to share it with you all for free :)

Some photos from the show

Top photo invludes some teachers from Ashtons! 2nd photo is of Concept Artist Evan Shiphard chillin' and the last is of Prudence the Mannequin Harlet saluting us from her chair of glory.

Some moleskine stuff- more coming soon.

Moleskine Journey featured on Hi Fructose Magazine Blog

Hey all,

I was lucky enough to get a spot on the Hi Fructose Magazine where they are featuring some pages from my moleskine mission as well as some words from myself about the ideas behind it.
Thanks to Garry from Phone Booth gallery for posting it up a couple months back, and to Ken from Hi Fructose for writing up the article!

Cheers

Click image to see the post

Picture Kitchen

Hey guys, our group show entitled "Picture Kitchen" will be starting on the night of Wednesday 9th June 2010, and will run until the 23rd of June at the Tap gallery in Darlinghurst, Sydney. I will put up more details about the show via facebook events, etc in case anyone would like to attend!

A couple of experiments, not really sure what the hell I am doing, sort of trapped in the vortex between fine art and illustration, not really good enough for either, so hopefully I will break out soon enough.

Also updating website with better scans of all my recent work.

Cheers!

click thumb for larger image in new window

Cosmic Guitar

Third Eye

Overdue

I've been far too slack in posting here- but will get into the groove from now on.
If I keep up my end of the deal, I would be super eternally grateful if you forwarded and shared each new post with just one person who might like it. It's all I ask! Thankyou!!!


Each image now opens to a new window, so please click any you like.

Also going to add up links to artists/people that inspire me. Please give at least one of these a a shot, I promise you will not be disappointed :)

So works here:

Some sneak peek at this painting, I really need to find a place that does good quality A2 scanning
somewhere.

Just had to give this one more love:

messing around with some different illustration styles:

little more on the moleskines...

Lastly, got a much better scan of this one.