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Still working in acrylics, struggling with the drawing of the female figure on the right hand side- something about the shape not working.
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At this stage I’m still working on the underpainting, working in acrylic to try and speed up my production times, at the moment it’s taking about three months to finish a single image and this just isn’t viable. The aim is to use acrylics to sort out the composition and the drawing and not to…
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The Secret was originally supposed to be a night scene, I had this strong desire to paint a dark sky and thousands of twinkling stars. I’d partly been inspired by an Allen Jack + Cottier sports hall that had been built at Berry: the external concrete walls had a number of small holes so at night,…
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KS suggested that I blog photographs of work in progress. At first I was horrified by the suggestion: as most painters can tell you, works in progress are invariably embarassing, ugly affairs, the well known quote about not watching sausages being made springs to mind. But then the idea began to have a certain fascination,…
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After painting Road Kill from a Native Animal’s perspective, two people (KS and EB) suggested that I read Chloe Hooper’s book ‘A Child’s book of True Crime’ which is set in Tasmania and which KS described as having ‘Australian native animals investigating a grisly crime in Blinky-Bill style narrative. Very disconcerting and grotesquely funny.’ I’m half…
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This painting was based on a cartoon I drew some years ago after driving back to Hobart airport early one morning: the road was littered with the body of native animals hit by cars during the night, I don’t think I’ve ever seen so many dead wombats, and it got me daydreaming about the impact…
Helen Hopcroft: an artist's life 