Final "Board" Artwork

I may have gotten distracted by redesigning my website rather than posting this final Board pic, but better late than never! (Please take a peek at my new design if you have a chance and let me know if anything looks whacky?!)

I REALLY enjoyed working on this one. I counted up out of curiousity, and this is about my twelfth painting, but, this is the first painting that's felt like it's gone smoothly from start to finish. Usually I'm constantly fixing things, but this one just worked. The short deadline probably helped too, because I didn't have the time to over-analyse every little step - I'm terrible at doing that usually! I should try to force myself to shorter deadlines from now on (HA!).

This guy is one of the kookaburras that's been hanging around outside my studio window lately. He's painted in acrylic. I left some of the blue stripes showing through his belly because I couldn't bare to cover them up completely. I've drawn two kookaburras before (my first 'real' artwork was one!), and since they're one of my favourite birds, they'll no doubt be making plenty of future appearances.

(I had a lot of trouble getting any good photos, but here's an attempt at a close up...)

The Board show is up at NGV Studio in Melbourne for 3 months! From the NVG website:

Board is all about the creativity behind skate culture. Presenting 1970s & 80s skateboards and ephemera from Tony Hallam’s collection alongside decks created for the exhibition by 50 Australian artists, it explores the evolution of board graphics and design. 

I'm hoping to make it down for a visit to check out all the boards while they're still up. You can see some photos of all of them at Just Another Agency's blog here and I spotted some more photos here :)