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www.walterlogeman.com/art In this moment... my art blog 2008 4 2008 - 01 4 2008 - Happy New Year! - 2008-01-01 02:19 4 Caligra - 2008-01-01 23:44 5 Between Projects, and here is a Circle - 2008-01-02 00:08 5 Art Books 2007 - 2008-01-02 00:38 6 Earth Crosses Series Complete - 2008-01-02 00:55 7 Green Peace - 2008-01-02 19:06 8 Hand Made - 2008-01-03 18:10 10 Software for drawing on the Tablet PC - 2008-01-04 12:11 12 Pentimento, nice word - 2008-01-04 17:26 13 Metal II - 2008-01-04 17:52 14 Landscapes - 2008-01-15 00:11 16 Transition - 2008-01-15 00:21 18 Re-worked Landscapes - 2008-01-15 02:44 18 Workshop Retreat on my mind... - 2008-01-15 22:01 20 Paint, board and stuff... - 2008-01-16 21:30 21 In the thick of it - 2008-01-20 22:47 22 Brian Grimwood - illustrations - book & chat - 2008-01-22 00:14 24 Paint? More from the workshop... - 2008-01-22 01:07 26 More Paint - 2008-01-24 00:42 27 Digital Art - 2008-01-24 13:14 29 Dame Edna - Barry Humphries - Art Online - 2008-01-28 14:05 30 Shoalhaven Art - 2008-01-29 12:00 31 Gagosian Gallery - Lucio Fontana - 2008-01-29 23:00 31 2008 - 02 33 Jon Ippolito and Joline Blais, 'At the Edge of Art' - 2008-02-05 22:33 33 Subscribe to Comments - 2008-02-06 01:28 33 Book Review using hreview - 2008-02-06 03:12 34 hcard and linking stuff - 2008-02-09 21:35 36 Subscribe to this blog - 2008-02-10 20:03 37 Earth Cross - 2008-02-14 02:01 37 Land - 2008-02-14 03:03 38 Some of my prints are for sale on Felt - 2008-02-19 01:22 39 Bush - acrylic work in progress - 2008-02-19 02:35 40 Transition Contours - 2008-02-20 03:14 41 2008 - 03 42 Experiments in Presentation. - 2008-03-02 22:54 42 Earth Crosses - 2008-03-03 16:17 43 Black - 2008-03-05 09:11 43 Dreams - 2008-03-05 21:39 44 2008 Archibald Prize Won by Del Kathryn Barton | Art Knowledge News - 2008-03-11 17:23 44 Line & Wash - 2008-03-12 14:14 45 Colour Collage - 2008-03-21 00:38 46 Colour Collage 2 - 2008-03-21 02:25 46 Proposal for Rhizome - 2008-03-29 22:31 49 2008 - 04 49 Ink - 2008-04-06 09:31 49 Rita Angus: An artist's life - 2008-04-07 22:47 50 Strange Satisfaction - 2008-04-09 01:36 52 Acrylic - Forgotten - 2008-04-15 23:34 52 Pattern - 2008-04-29 02:14 54 2008 - 05 55 Rocks - 2008-05-08 01:34 55 2008 - 06 80 Limited-edition furniture - 2008-06-01 14:00 80 International Klein Blue - 2008-06-02 22:07 84 2008 - 07 98 Circles - 2008-07-01 22:52 98 2008 - 08 127 Doing a bit of social networking - 2008-08-12 01:34 127 INVITATION - to the opening - 2008-08-12 02:44 127 Jasper Johns - 2008-08-17 22:18 129 Images follow: from metmuseum 131 Happy Birthday! - 2008-08-26 12:00 131 2008 - 09 132 Thanks Lisa Rivas! - 2008-09-10 01:18 132 Not a storm - 2008-09-10 03:03 134 Photo via phone - 2008-09-11 01:54 135 iPhone sketches - 2008-09-17 02:33 136 I have just made this blog iPhone friendly - 2008-09-19 19:39 136 iSketches - 2008-09-22 00:47 139 2008 - 11 139 Net Works - 2008-11-02 15:48 140 Glass Houses - 2008-11-02 16:09 141 Diana Meredith - digital artist - 2008-11-09 16:38 142 Finger painting - 2008-11-22 01:08 144 More iSketches - 2008-11-22 12:02 145 2008 2008 - 01 2008 - Happy New Year! - 2008-01-01 02:19 New Year Larger Image. I wanted something green fresh & new for the New Year & here it is. Caligra - 2008-01-01 23:44 Caligra Larger Image. I was demoing my Toshiba M200 to a friend and this popped out. Call it Caligra he said, as I was about to delete it. I would have deleted it but for the fact I happen to be working on a few posts about calligraphy, coming up some time soon. I quite like it. So here it is. Between Projects, and here is a Circle - 2008-01-02 00:08 Circle Larger Image. I have completed an Earth Crosses series (more in the next post), it was something that grew out of the Thousand Sketches, so right at this moment there is no project. Plenty of work! Maintaining my blogs and setting up thumbnails and so on but I am in a creativity vacuum. This circle is a reflection on a moment. One reason for the space is that I am reflecting on where I go. Photos are on my mind. I'll post a couple. Art Books 2007 - 2008-01-02 00:38 Here are the books I blogged in 2007 on Thousand Sketches. I am reading a few at the moment so watch the Book Category In this moment... Earth Crosses Series Complete - 2008-01-02 00:55 I am really satisfied with my Earth Crosses series. It includes some from the Thousand Sketches and some I did since. If you have been reading my blog you will have seen most of them, but they look best together. It is this series I am working on exhibiting. I am creating a beautiful a3+ Hahnemühle Paper series of these prints. At this time the prints are for sale directly from me. --> See the slide show. Please wait for it to buffer and watch slowly & quietly. They are a meditation. Here is the last one in the series. Golden Cross Larger Image. Thousand Sketches » Blog Archive » Earth Crosses Series Complete (2008-01-02 01:44:49) [...] is the post, and more links about them on In this moment… this is my new post-Thousand Sketches [...] Jan (2008-01-04 19:13:20) These have reminded me of one of the most memorable art experiences of my life. I think it is their strong vertical nature in a horizontal world. Anyway, the story - National Art Gallery Canberra Chihouly exhibition, outside in the sculpture garden where they have the pond surrounded by cassurinas and the mist machine is installed to waft a wonderfully atmospheric vapor across the surface of the pond, installed in the pond vivid scarlet glass shards that reached up into the mist. Combined with the vertical dangle of the cassurina leaves, the mist, the water, it was inexpressibly beautiful. admin (2008-01-04 22:28:25) Jan, wonderful. I am honoured that they have that impact. Mike Harvey (2008-01-10 20:37:33) Really liked them. Very granular, earthy. Great feeling of space behind the vertical splash of energy. Compelling colours. Green Peace - 2008-01-02 19:06 Green Peace Larger Image. This is one of the Earth Crosses, for some reason I had not posted it up. So here it is. Later: Saturday, 5 July, 2008 This image is now featured in the Gallery It was also the basis for an acrylic: Acrylic Green Peace Larger Image. Hand Made - 2008-01-03 18:10 I listen occasionally to Brooks Jensen's short podcasts on photography, they often apply to all art and creativity, he is a thoughtful man. The Lenswork publication is beautiful. The website is beautiful. He has a great piece about printing images, all of which I fully concur with. Here is the full archive: LensWork Recent Podcasts I just listened to this one: LW0405: Considering Content, Considering Medium It talks about the presence of the hand of the artist. So that is right on topic with the stuff I was looking at re Walter Benjamin recently. The useful point he makes is that some art is more hand-dependent than others, I am not sure if that is his word or not. Painting is at one extreme, and photography on the other. Which makes images that are made by hand, but digital an interesting case in point. The hand is more there in the file, but when it comes to reproduction it is much like a photo. My sketches work quite well if they are just printed on some machine in a store, but they loose a lot. The prints I make are another whole story, it has taken me a long time to perfect my technique, and there are rejects as I learn. I have found better paper, and I now have better mastery over the software, ie the colour. So when I sign a print it means I am satisfied it is as good as I can do it. The great masters of the darkroom probably have a strong hand in the work as well. Look at this by Sally Mann for instance. There are a few twists to this reflection... One is that my printing of the images influences what I make when I make digital images. In some deep way where medium is the muse, but I will tweak an image to make it work well as a print, and then the final version is posted on the net. This means it works well on my combination of screen, software, hardware paper & ink. That will be hard to replicate ever again! (I can't always do it!) When I do sign something that is 100% hand-dependent.