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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 the Neolithic site like Newgran

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 computers or a life study. Rem

Another lock down painting. This is titled capitalism, the photograph doesn't show the surface quality of the paint properly, paintings have an aesthetic that is unique to the medium. These are acrylics pretty fun and rewarding to paint with, oils  I found rather slow and sleeping in the same room as I paint the fumes became unbearable I gave up painting in them years ago soon after I stopped working as a professional screenprinter.  I am a collector and a procrastinator, having art supplies for years and not using them always an excuse not to use them; this lockdown has made me enter back into the conversation, that is art. I guess I have always been a part of it but with out contributing paintings I feel irrelevant. So skulls and darkness were my last paintings 6 years ago, they had a horrific realism, these new paintings are almost pop art, but I have been trying to imbue meaning to covey and communicate something above the mere beauty of the subject and paint.The aesthetic