I spent the weekend in Hawke’s Bay – the water and hills were ridiculously scenic, especially in the still warm evening. … More
Author: alittleart
A while back I ran away from a twentymumble-year corporate career to be a feckless art student. Since then I've dirtied my hands with, metaphorically and/or literally, bronze and ceramic sculpture, photography, and digital and traditional illustration. Mask making was one discovery, dovetailing with my interests in teaching and performing improvised theatre.
Looking both ways
Next in the “All My Friends Are Robots” series, an accident of posing meant I could make one eye look through the mask, to … More
Geoff, Robot
Such helpful friends I have, willing to pose, be cut up and rebuilt, slightly changed.
Photoshop, my old friend
It’s good to play with you again . . . via a series of robots. First up, electrician Matt.
Probably not Beelzebub
There are at least 240,000 species of flies, the internets tell me, albeit less than half have been properly described. Some varieties are … More
Getting in close
Ordinary things are amazing when you look closely – like this everyday Daddy Longlegs spider, crawling across a red-painted wall … More
De-stressing with charcoal
People have been drawing with charcoal as long as people have been people. It is strangely soothing to look and … More
Owl taking off
Birds are all amazing, the sparrows as well as the eagles. However owls, with their hushed wings and incredible power-to-weight athleticism … More
Not conventionally beautiful?
This pale peacock is stomping about and strutting his stuff for the benefit of another more gorgeously hued bloke. There was not a jot of interest in the … More
This Old Chimp
The small zoo near my house is a pleasant place to walk. I’ve been intrigued by the chimpanzees since I was a … More
A Little Art 