hello and welcome to my blog or whatever!
Just freshly revived and revitalized after many years of inactivity, I will be talking about my work in this blob blog. Actually, it just so happens that much of my work comes in blob form. Take for example the work that I have been posting recently on social media, EHB2, which stands for Extreme Hyperblobs 2.
It has always been my ambition to make artwork that is 3D computer animation. During high school I saved up my money and bought a Commodore 64. I tried to do bitmap graphics programming but I needed to know assembly which was well beyond my grasp at the time, plus there were zero resources around and/or those that knew hoarded their knowledge. So I ended up making graphics using the alternative character symbols on the keyboard which in retrospect is actually a great way to make graphics on the C64 (see two examples below). Anyways, what I am saying is that I am finally there and you can see the results here on my website. This is just the beginning. This software that I have developed serves as the structure within which I will be creating future interactive web artwork.
some old school C64 graphics:
There is a lot of theory behind this project and I am not going to explain all of that in this first post. I will however explain one aspect of the process. All of this work, this elaborate system running on my website (or that I present at events) is designed to produce visual results that I can take screenshots of and then make paintings from. The images you see below in this post are exactly that. This was a screenshot taken earlier this year while I was using the software and now I am making a large scale (approx. 5′ x 4′) rendition of it on canvas using acrylic paint.
screenshot of running software
just starting the acrylic painting
There are other screenshots I am planning to turn into paintings and there are options for paintings on request as well which I will elaborate on further down the line.
That’s it for now. I will close by saying that I am going to use this blog to curate my own work with examples drawn mostly from my website. I have massive amounts of material that I have spent years (actually over two decades) accumulating on this site and I want you to see and hear all of it. Yes, all of it.
Below is the first painting of the EHB2. There are four left. Each has been hand painted separately with India ink on watercolour paper (not reproductions). They are priced very low for now as a way of celebrating this breakthrough project. I have been trying to realize what you see here for many years now and it is a major part of my oeuvre. Plenty of new work to come.
Click the painting to go to my blob shop.
