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 Title " The futility of knowing the spinning earth is hurtling  through space in a galaxy that is spinning and also moving and we are made up of mainly water - this makes me scream a primal scream. " Lino cuts are well associated with secondary school in my mind , something childish and not for adults. I have had some lino the soft type for cutting and linoleum cutter set and inks stored away  guess I was going to use it sometime or that was what I was thinking  when I purchased.  So the first one I made was awful this is my second attempt , now must I list the interesting things about lino cuts , I guess they are a lot more tactile and slow the lino is physical and demands a certain type of line.  One must plan a cut or design and really stick to it .   Ok so this image is pretty primitive I felt primitive making it believe me. There is an obvious influence and I have given it a kind of a long title, the mark making reminded me of rock art at th...

Photographic prints by Paul Woods   Ok, I had better say something about these images. Quickly they were taken a long time ago but what ever exposure these were taken at these prints are quite graphic and  well unbelievably edited with a very  high contrast.  Think black and white can be low fi and contrasty - high contrast.  There is a connection to painting in the composition and editing and bright midday light .  CC  Creative Commons   I may print these myself ,   Cyanotype Print Maybe available at some point in time.  .

  3dsculpt in 3dcoat for an experimental piece with music collaboration with a musician friend . Currently learning new 3d software - I have been at it for years really but with covid 19 and plenty free time I have modernised and will be using 3d coat Akeystu and Blender - All new to me but they are all powerful and professional tools and a pleasure to work with  in 2021    The above is a work in progress and the texture is only for viewing the render I will retopo it and paint it up before I rig it and animate , more sea creatures to sculpt first. 

 

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Here is another painting done on a little 10x8 canvas covered cardboard panel.  Acrylics are difficult to work with at the best of times compared to oils , which I do not use and have not for a long time , story to this to be told at a later date. This canvas panels are shiner than a stretched canvas less  texture or grip for paint.  This image was first designed in a 3d application , modelled in polygons then subdivided , outputted to a raytracing program and rendered , I did not texture it as such kept he plastic shiny look , reminiscent of the early CG on the likes of Prodigy video Fire.  I have been using computers for graphics that long ever since I was a kid and rendering a term officially taken from painting has come full circle. Truly I see the benefits of pre visualisation  and lighting of my paintings in 3d software. This image looks mathematical and the light accurately depicts its volume. Something I personally could not do with out the use of comput...