I did a few illustrations for an online magazine, and in one of them I drew a little fox. I got so excited over the little fox, I drew these two you see above. I think I may draw a series of animals.
This one is done in pen and coloured digitally. I usually would use water colour, but I started drawing it on cartridge paper before realizing I wanted to colour it. Unusual for me to use that paper, but, hey, I’ve just moved country again!

Everything has been packed, posted, broken, thrown out and stored.. Except for a few random clothes and such, we are pretty much all set.
We had a beautiful Friday night, we went to the Clarchens Ballhaus. If you visit Berlin I highly recommend it. The website shows you what bands and nights are coming up.. Things from live Gypsy bands to tango nights! You can go there for a coffee during the day.. When we were there it wasn’t so crowded, as we went a bit earlier on in the evening to enjoy their (amazing) pizza and gin. But I have seen pictures and it can get pretty busy there.
It has two ballrooms, the main one is on the ground floor.. Where as the other one is located a few floors up. It still has damage from the war.. However, we couldn’t see it all that well when we were there as it was not in use that evening and we didn’t have torches!
Amazing.

Other then that, we have just been wandering about, enjoying the sun and our last few days here. This is the first time I have really felt like I am on a holiday in years!! I guess when we got here there was a lot of stuff to sort out. (Practical stuff that is kind of boring and for that reason I won’t go into here.) Then I had my show to work on, then after that I had a commission to finish.. So I think it has only been this past month I have actually just been going out and exploring. I have been photographing a lot of things I will use in future, but that is really about it. It’s nice, to realize that I am quite relaxed. However, i really want to get to the UK and get set up! I have so many new ideas and most of my stuff is packed, I can’t do anything about them.. Except hand them a number and get them to wait in line.

I am stopping off in London next week. There is a Waterhouse exhibition on at The Royal Academy. I’m really looking forward to it.

That’s all for now.

Bye Berlin. Love you!

THE FORTY THIEVES 2
THE CUBAN CONNECTION
13 AUGUST – 23 AUGUST

Gorker Gallery is proud to present the second installment of their extremely successful 2008 group show ‘The Forty Thieves’ with their 1st birthday show ‘The Forty Thieves 2: The Cuban Connection’ bringing together another 40 (both) established and emerging artists to build upon the extremely popular first show and the Gorker artists community. The line up this year is set to be huge with some new faces mixed amongst the usual suspects. And with the exhibition themed ‘the cuban connection’, you should expect to see some amazing works on wooden cigar box’s. So bring your fake mustaches and dancing shoes and help us celebrate a year of art and good times by smoking cigars as well as dancing ‘salsa’ style at a post-opening secret location!

ANDY SARGENT – ANDREW GORDON – BEASTMAN – BECK WHEELER – BEC WINNEL – BEN FROST
BENJAMIN JOHNSON – CAT RABBIT – CHARLES (CHUCKYSUN) – CHRISTOPHER NIELSEN – CREEPY
DARREN HENDERSON – DREWFUNK – EARS – ELEANOR VOTERAKIS – GHOSTPATROL – ITCH
JAE COPP – JAKE SMALLMAN – JOHN FELLOWS (USA) – KID ZOOM – LILY MAE MARTIN (GER) – MARCUS COBBLEDICK – MICHAEL STEELE – MISO – MONKEY – MR.SHELDON – NATE HOLMES TRAPNELL- NICOLA LYON – NIOR – OTIS CHAMBERLAIN (NZ) – PAUL WHITE – RONE – SAM WOLFE CONNELLY -SEAN MORRIS – SEAN WHELAN – TIMBA – TOBIAS J – TRISTAN JALLEH – TWOONE

Opening night thursday 13 august, 6:30pm – 9:30pm
Show runs until wednesday 23 august
Gorker Gallery opening hours:
3pm – 7:00pm Wednesday – Friday
11am – 7:00pm Saturday & Sunday
Wine tasting Wednesday 19 August 6:00pm – 7:00pm
(Brought to you by Austins Wine)

We do a lot of creative things together. Animations, photo sessions, writing.. this is from a photo session and I was originally planning to paint image but it just looked nice like this.

The Louvre.
Amazing in every way it could possible be. The building, it’s history, the crowd, the collection…

We got there very early. We walked around in awe of the detail of the building.. We saw the triangle thing and worked our way to the quickly growing forming queue at the entrance. We had to throw out our bottled water, walked on through as our bags were scanned and found the self serving ticket machines. All relatively easy for such a huge space.
I skipped the first floor as I has little time and wanted to see paintings. I had a little list, which included Durer and the such. I only found one of his works, but there were a few Holbein’s that were amazing. I also got to see the “Winged Victory of Samothrace” which was brilliant to see her for real. I had a photograph of her in my folio for years as a teenager. A very loved art teacher of mine gave it to me when I was about fifteen/sixteen years old. Gene was quite impressed with her too, which always makes me feel good. (Sometimes I feel like I bore him with art museums)
We then made our way to the Mona lisa. I don’t believe I have ever been pushed and shoved so much except for at a rock concert… (Or more like the bad Coco Rosie gig I went to in Melbourne, those indie art students can be feisty!)
Anyway…when we turned the corner and saw the crowd, I couldn’t believe it. Nothing like I expected. There was a crowd all around it all holding their cameras high above their heads and trying to aim and click. It was impossible to get to the front of them, not that I tried too hard as there was a barrier that held everyone back by at least five meters, and not too mention it is behind a thick piece of bullet proof glass. Gene and I looked at the crowd and walked around it some.. Then we both looked at each other and laughed..”It’s got to be a fake!” “How can you tell it’s the real thing if you can’t get anywhere near it?!” I believe were some of the things we said.. So we then took photos of this, of which are displayed above.
It really makes me question the way in which we display art and the importance that is placed on certain pieces but not others. If a work is considered that important and under some kind of threat, why bother displaying it at all? It is proven that flash photography damages work. So they go through all this ‘security’ precautions to protect it, yet they let people take thousands and thousands of photos of it with flash everyday.. It makes no sense to me….Maybe the glass is also UV resistant. God, that’s fancy.
Anyway, those are my thoughts on the Mona Lisa and her demise.