Greetings Artlings

GodBox · Joined: 28 Aug 2010 Posts: 8 Location: Melbourne

Hi Everyone,

I'm a lapsed Melbourne artist looking to "pull my finger out" and I hope there's a brush attached to it. Be gentle with me I'm new to forums!

GB

gggraph · Posted: Sun Aug 29, 2010 11:34 am Post subject: Re - Greetings Artlings

Hi GB - I think we're all trying to pull our collective fingers out, every day.

What sort of stuff do you do?

Cheers

Grant

GodBox · Joined: 28 Aug 2010 Posts: 8 Location: Melbourne

Hi Grant,

Thanks for the reply.

I'm a bit of an allrounder. I am a painter, drawer, I make sculptures, installations, films, animations, and have been dabbling in digital art recently.

I haven't made anything to show for a while now after having to discard a lot of my works due to space issues and falling into the dreaded artist's trap of "trying to make some money out of your talents" and doing design / storyboards for $.

A recent trip to the sydney biennale was enough to make me regret the last 10 years and try and reconnect with the art world again - where I truly belong. I like quirky art, humorous art, art with a message but am also rightfully blown away by every caravaggio I see.

My inspriations range from the old masters, the dada/surrealists, American Modern artists of the 60's and the original Saatchi artists.
I love the range of art I've seen on this forum so far.

Cheers

GB

Chrissy D · Joined: 12 Jan 2006 Posts: 1053 Location: Queensland

Hi Godbox,

Well the forum is the wrong place to "pull your finger out" as you will find such a wealth of information and want to contribute and seek advice, show your work etc, that you will spend more time on here then creating...which is not a bad thing if your having a block, are stuck or just want to chill out, but sometimes its hard to not visit the forum on reply to things.