Ramblings

Graphite & charcoal on paper

I really wanted to encapsulate the breadth and depth of emotion many in our (western) society are feeling today with what seems to be an unending string of disheartening events globally.

Over the years, I've had a lot of ideas around different holes that I perceived in various systems/processes/services and so on. Most of them have been just that: ideas. Some have made it beyond that, and then stopped.

Runaround Music Studio is one I am quite fond of, that I will (probably) never go anywhere further with than where I left it. A documented idea with a half-built business plan. In a nutshell, Runaround was a mobile recording studio in the back of a truck (similar to the one in the image to the right), that could/would visit schools and other organisations to provide an introduction to recording studios - but could also be used by unsigned bands to record demos and perhaps even EPs.

I had the vehicle designed, costings done and having run the basic figures, the business looked to be viable. But the initial start-up cost was beyond my means and I didn't feel confident enough in the plan to seek funding.

So I let it go. Let it go. I turned away and slammed the door. Heh. See what I did there? Sorry, not sorry.

Anyway. I thought this would make a good start to my "Ideas" blog. Subsequent posts will be similar - ideas I've had that I never did anything with, and ideas that I have now and into the future that I likely won't do anything with. Maybe someone else will? Who knows....

A running list of places across Victoria still on the list — 186 of them, straight from the notebook. As each one gets visited, it graduates to its own entry above.

Graphite & charcoal on paper

I wasn't trying to draw a woman. I was trying to draw stillness. The challenge became letting the shadows carry as much emotion as the features themselves.

Graphite

Every portrait asks the same question: what makes this face different from every other face? For this one, I found myself coming back to the eyes. Everything else was built around trying not to lose their intensity.

Graphite on paper

Not so much about being a warrior, but about the effects it has on the person who has become the warrior. Again the eyes, the intent, the emotion, the coldness masking the humanity, a comparison to the cat's eyes. The same but different.