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

Moleskine Project and Life Drawing

Hey guys,

After ripping out the pages, sending them across the other side of the planet, having a gallery drop out and being forced to lease a new space, the Moleskine Project show finally hit San Francisco on May 5th thanks to the new Spoke Art Gallery at 816 Sutter Street.

It was a great night and only four works are remaining, so we've nearly sold out the show with a week left to go. We'll be exhibiting at Art Pad in San Francisco over this coming weekend, if you are free please stop by the Spoke Art room!

Below is a video tour of the show and some photos from the opening

Video and Photo courtesy of Josh from the great art blog Creep Machine. He was also kind enough to review the show, thanks Josh!



I made an installation in the two front windows of hanging pages.

Photos below courtesy of Shaun Roberts

Today we had a model life drawing session in the Spoke Art Gallery with Magdaleen Veen who brought a great costume to wear and made it to the session despite having her car towed. Go hire her!

Thanks to Shaun Roberts once more for documenting the session for a future short video which will focus on my art and creative process.

Moleskine Project Exhibition

Hey guys,

So what started last year as a pet side project to improve my sketchbook studies has now found itself into a gallery space as a full solo exhibition in San Francisco! It will be the inaugural exhibition for Spoke Art in the new gallery space too.

The opening night is May 5th, 6-10 pm.
 It's located on 816 Sutter Street, near corner is Jones Street. It's nicely located right near Union Square, close to a block of Academy of Arts buildings...plus it's Cinco de Mayo!

The gallery space itself is new and gorgeous- nice high ceilings, generous floor size with great windows at the front entrance.

Big thanks to Ken Harman for finding such a great place to start a new chapter for Spoke art and my career too, he is also responsible for choosing and organising the beautiful frames you see below.
 
It was a difficult journey to be here- I had to slug through two solo shows, a group show and other things, and Ken had to deal with a gallery that went bankrupt, find a new place and sort out the frames and promotion.

I hope you can turn up to the show if you're in SF, I'd be happy to meet you all.

Framed Pieces

 Recto

 Verso

Anima

Hey guys,

Just wanted to post up some new art! The opening night was great, it was really good to meet everyone who came. I had 25 works hanging in the Phone Booth Gallery, we've sold 7 so far. Much thanks and love to those who made it out, and the buyers in particular for their support. All pieces come framed.

Click the title link above the image to be taken to the price, size and media info. There's also detail and framing shots.

I've posted a selection of the works- a mix of generally unseen work. For the rest, please follow the link below.

http://phoneboothgallery.com/pbg/exhibitions

Feeding Birds: Midday

Feeding Birds: Morning

Flux

Inspired Flight

Photo of me with Kevin Tong (left) the buyer of this piece, who also happens to be a great artist, and a top bloke!

Bloom II

Dream Wheel

Dream Wheel II

In Concert

In Concert II

In Concert III

Inspired Flight II

Imaginade

Anemone

New moleskine pages

Hey guys,


Just started a new moleskine now that Anima is finished with, thought I'd share where I'm up to. Looking forward to this one!


There's also a preview for my solo show up with some new unseen images at the Hi Fructose blog, big thanks to Ken Harman for the generous write up.


Please check it out here if you have the time.


"Opening tomorrow night (Saturday, April 16th) at Phone Booth Gallery in Long Beach is the debut US showing of young Australian artist Rod Luff. The discerning eye of gallery director Garry Booth has introduced us to the works of Handiedan, Lara Zombie and Kevin Tong, and we are once again impressed by the progressive curatorship from the Long Beach based gallery.
 Entitled 'Anima', Luff's first stateside showing comprises of a variety of oil paintings and drawings on paper, an impressive body of work, made equally more intriguing by the artist's young age, attractive price points and emerging status. Get a look at some of the pieces from the show below, and if you're in LA tomorrow night, please be sure to swing by. Highly recommended."