Lets Get It Strait Costume Ideas

This week I put together a document noting down my ideas for costume designs for the community performances to take place on King and Flinders Islands. I had to think of things that would be cheap, quick to manufacture, allowed for fast costume changes in some cases, and with the older kids didn't make them look too dorky.

The design above is a little silly, it is a lighthouse, and it will be worn by the King Island kindergarten students and, importantly, was inspired by a costume designed by one of the older students during my workshops at the school.

Part 1.

Images by Mardi Nowak of before and after installation of my work titled "Part 1"

Team Up, Thoughts from Sarah Howell

An interview with me about the Team Up experience is now on the Hawthorn Town Hall Gallery blog, followed by one with my partnered artist Alix Halpern.
http://www.townhallgallery.blogspot.com/

Photos by Mardi Nowak.

Team Up Exhibition

An exhibition resulting from a mentoring project involving 10 artists (5 pairs).

Opening 6-8pm, Thursday 8th August Open Wed - Sat, 12-5pm until 30th August Town Hall Gallery, rear, Hawthorn Town Hall, 358 Burwood Road, Hawthorn VIC http://www.townhallgallery.blogspot.com/

The above picture is one of my preparatory sketches, photos of the show will be will be posted here shortly.

The Smile

Here is an animation I created as part of the Australian Network for Art and Technology's (ANAT) mobile phone workshops held at the Academy for the Arts in Launceston 3 - 4 May.

The animation was drawn on a whiteboard, captured as still images with my LG TU550 mobile phone, edited with an old version of imovie where I added the mirror filters to create the kaleidoscope look, and exported for mobile phone format using quicktime pro.

My video and the work of the other workshop participants is now on display as part of the Portable Worlds exhibition (but will only be on display in Launceston, not the rest of the exhibition tour) at the Academy Gallery, Launceston until June 4.

The workshop was presented as part of my Gravity Project for Tasmanian Regional Arts.

From the Vaults # 4

This is the only page I have on file that has the dialogue laid over the top. Click on the image to see a slightly bigger version if you can't read the text.

This is the last finished page, after this point the collaboration process between Greg and I started to fall over.

I particularly enjoyed drawing the backgrounds on this page, I also felt it was the most successful in terms of overall page layout.

From the Vaults # 3

So yes, these scripted pages had dialogue once upon a time layered on top with photoshop, but now I only have the original artwork. Basically the nasty guy that attacked the main character is actually her friend and was teaching her a lesson to be on her guard more, strangely enough she is annoyed by this.

The monster in the background that eats the seagull is to casually reinforce the threatening environment.

From the Vaults # 2

So here is the second page. I dreamt up the first page as a cover for a zine/anthology I was putting together with my friends at the time. Greg Gerrand liked the first image so much he wrote a script for a story, this second page is the first scripted page.

From the Vaults # 1

Today I was scanning in old artwork, so I thought I would post some here. This is the first page of four I did way back in my early years of reading comics,1999. It was a good distraction from the jewellery design studies I was doing at the time.

Shadow Tall images - ink on tracing film