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Alpacaoids in Coton

2021-01-17T20:45:13Z

Alpacaoids at Coton!

Went for a muddy walk :) Think I went that way decades ago when it was a footpath behind the CMS, before a lot of the nice path was put in.

I cycled to West Cambridge site and walked along the cycle path bridge to Coton, dodging road works.

Near Coton church, looking very lively

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Cherry Blossom and Leather Chair Art

2020-11-01T11:11:16Z

Cherry Blossom portrait!

I really love how this one turned out, I'm proud of it. The layered leaf effects on the tree look amazing. I like the background too, although I wish I could get it as realistic as the tree with a similar amount of stylisation.

Leather chair

I like the style, I aimed for something I could use for a lightly-stylised style for board game design for "assassins guild annual dinner" game or games with a similar tone, and I think that worked well

Next time I could do shadows better, but this has a good feel

Other art

The other drawings I've been posting this month are on twitter: https://twitter.com/CartesianDaemon/media (scroll back to see pictures this month, most are uploaded drawings) and facebook: https://twitter.com/CartesianDaemon/media I love the dinosaur sunset one, but the sketch garden, the basking coo, and the swirly blue ghost are worth looking at too.

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Antony Gormley exhibition

2018-06-23T17:31:47Z

We went to see the Antony Gormley exhibit at Kettle's Yard.

If you like surprisingly evocative iron statues of Antony Gormley, you will enjoy a lot of his works, and there were a few more along those lines, including "man lying down with his feet touching the wall a foot above the ground" and "diving man depicted in bands of latitude and longitudes" and "man made out of spaced out jenga rods" (not the real titles).

There was also... three wires perpendicular to each other stretching through several rooms of the exhibition, which are surprisingly disconcerting when the rooms are mostly pure white.

But most notably, there was an infinite cube (I think that IS its real title). It's a glass box about a meter wide on a table, filled with a rectilinear lattice of wires and white LEDs. But the sides are slightly mirrored, so when you see in, you see these tunnels of glowing white lines OF INFINITE REACH. And if you peer down, you see the same thing as a chasm. And if you go too close, you see your eye with sparkly white dots floating in it (or green if you wear glasses for long-sightedness).

However you move your head, there's always these infinite tunnnels twisting to show you their depths. And you can walk all round it and see if looks the same from every dimension.

Like, you would swear it's the tesserect, or some other glowy advanced alien tech power device. I mean, usually the inside of art pieces is not infinite, but here it -- apparently -- is.

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