sarah archer at 'the loft'

too knew peaces

Good Weekend to you,

I've been super busy lately, it's crazy at work this time of year.

At home I had been chipping away at these two pieces for a while, the aim was to get them out in time for the Retrospect Galleries end of year/christmas show which opens tonight.

I hope you like them.

'Garden Skull' - Crayola pencil on watercolour paper

560 x 760mm

'Stairway to Hairven' - Biro on watercolour paper

750 x 1100mm

Take care.

Troy

One Offs - Sneaker Art Show

A while back I posted a progress photo of a shoe I was working on for a show hosted by Sneak n Destroy.

Well last night the show was on, so now it's cool for me to post a couple of photo's of my finished shoe.

The shoe I covered in biro is an ELEMENT all white Omahigh, nice shoe and quite a nice canvas to work on.

Big thanks to Mark Duckworth of Sneak N Destroy, I very much appreciated being a part of that show.

Hope the weekend was nice.

Troy

keeping things to your yourself

My new piece continues to haunt me. It's going to end up being one big mass of little circles filled with mouths, noses, eyes, hair, part's of this and that and so forth. I've learnt one thing very quickly; the larger the paper the bigger the headache.

For the sake of feeling like i'm getting somewhere, i thought i'd post a few photo's of its progress.







P.S. It's midnight.

Hope your weekend was good, it's now Monday and it's officially over!

Troy

at it again...

I started a new piece last night, it's got something to do with keeping things to yourself, only letting the world see a little bit of you instead of the whole lot.

This is a big one, I ordered new paper that is massive, loving it.

Petits Travaux ingredients

Since the Petits Travaux show is all online now I thought i'd post up all my fruit and vegetables that will be on the wall. Let me introduce the family:

Amanda Apple:

Anita Avocado:

Belinda Banana:

Chloe Cabbage:

Christina Corncob:

Georgina Grapes:

Mary Mushroom:

Olivia Orange:

And last of all, Regina Raspberry:

That's the gang all together, odd bunch aren't they.

Hope your weekend is epic.

Troy

flyer higher

Friday afternoons are the best, really they are. Unless you gotta do something crappy like move house on the Saturday (like my friend Sharna, haha). For me it's sweet, i don't gotta do nuttin' (ghetto voice) so i'm blazin' all my yodles. I have no idea what any of that means.

Here is the flyer for the Petits Travaux show in Byron Bay's Retrospect Gallery.



And here is a link so you can go forth and conquer by looking at everything that will be available.

Sorry, i'm in a good mood which makes me do silly things, like write silly words like poo poo and banana hammock.

Have a nice weekend.

Troy

James Mylne

I got talking to a guy in the UK after I stumbled across his website, nice guy actually and fully fledged biro skills, he's like a biro ninja or something I think.

He has his own site here and he runs another site all about the wonderful art of biro ninjas from all over the joint. Check that one out here.

How's this biro horse! I feel bad posting it, the more I look at it the worse I feel about my second rate rubbish. Damn look at that horse damn it! Shit damn.



Have a good night.

Troy

Sneakers Show

Sneaker Culture is stronger than ever!

Sure I read Sneaker Freaker and step into the occasional sneaker boutique, but there is so much more to it. Sneaker heads live this shit, big time! I met a sneaker head not too long ago, his name is Mark Duckworth and he runs a relatively new sneaker boutique on the Gold Coast called Sneak n Destroy. The store is small, fresh and has amazing product in it. Like all sneaker heads Mark is passionate about his hobby come profession and he's having a sneaker art show to celebrate it!

And guess what? I'm lucky enough to be in the show. Yay.



I'll post a photo of the shoe after the show.

Cheerio, Troy

a little bit bored hey?

I was having a chat to my dog this morning and he told me that he gets really bored at home when he's by himself. So i decided to bring him to work with me today, safe to say that he'll prevent most of the people here from getting anything done!


Speaking of getting things done, I started playing around with some new pieces last night, just some ideas really. I want to do a big ditsy floral piece in coloured pencil, i'll see if that eventuates, i made a little test piece and it works well so we'll see...






And I finally got onto some biros that seem to shade really well, in case i've never mentioned it before, biros are so temperamental, hopefully these ones behave!







Take it easy.

Troy