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basesix wrote:
Beautiful sand and dirt passage AW, every surfer loves their sand, so much time spent in it frothing, contemplating, recovering and reflecting. I have ordered the book Costermans wrote with Vandenberg, I live further west than you, but all still relevant, and any such books are super absorbing. I sometimes use gmail and there is a group I am involved with that promote cold-climate northern hemisphere music in australia - there are people that focus on japan, karelia region, inuit, etc, my particular moniker is scotstralia in that group, and if you stick an at between my moniker and the above mode of transmitting the written word, I would like to take you up on your generous offer. I am also looking forward to reading Wallace's annotated Malay, I read it (unannotated) when I was younger, but so many things we do in our youth reflect the adage 'I had the experience but missed the meaning'. Looking forward to it from a halfway-wise person's perspective.
Basesix. I think I’ve correctly emailed you. Let me know if you didn’t get it. Thanks AW.
cheers AW, I'll send you a copy of Year of the Hare, I'm keen for you to enjoy some fiction, it is short but excellent, funny vignettes that give good insight into the seasons and humour of the scandanavian.
cheers AW, I'll send you a copy of Year of the Hare, I'm keen for you to enjoy some fiction, it is short but excellent, funny vignettes that give good insight into the seasons and humour of the scandanavian.
AlfredWallace wrote:
Bit of a walk to the beach for this one, which has some unique properties.
Coastal salt bush of some type?
What beautiful grey green foliageHi GuySmiley. Loving this bit of plant fun. Agree, it was the foliage that grabbed me as well. Coastal saltbush locally in Victoria is the genus Atriplex sp. On yours and my coast, Atriplex cinerea is most commonly found. Plants have a much different floral arrangement than the aforementioned posted photo.
Atriplex can be monoecious or dioecious. Historically placed in the Chenopodiaceae family but thats now defined as a sub-family, currently finds itself in Amaranthaceae.Hope you are keeping well.AW.
Gday AW, yes all good here hoping you’re likewise. During covid I took 2years of online zoom art classes with a great Australian realist landscape artist. One of the revelations of my time with him was that the Australian bush is grey before any other colour …. soooo, we were taught to mix a neutral grey as the “mother colour” and from that pool of paint all other colours were created to create the required harmony …… greens, yellows, reds, blues. Cheers
GuySmiley. How are you ? . Those art classes sound like they are very fulfilling, must be very enjoyable to produce work and see your finished products.
Remember Prue Acton ? Once labelled the golden girl of fashion design from the 60’s. She once remarked something like, ‘the colours of Australia are not confined to the traditional mindset of ’green & gold’ and the way we see our country’.
She remarked, the real true colours of Australia are ‘versions of grey, magentas, soft pinks, carmine ,burnt orange & ochre, all of the greens in various moods and the straw like colours of introduced grasses.’ Something like that.
Aboriginal people had limited pigments to use for their paintings, imagine if they had had the full set of ‘Faber Castells’. AW
Painting in oils was something I've wanted to do for a very long time so yes it was brilliant and the fact I lucked onto a great tutor was the best but he is now exclusively zoom based so I'm no longer with him, perhaps in 2024 if I can sort out a few things.
Yes I remember Prue Acton but for a different reason; she was rumoured to be under Billy Sneddon grinding away at the time of his death from a heart attack!
All the great Australian landscape (oil) artists saw the greys in the Australian eastcoast bush and seascapes my favourites currently are Streeton, WD Knox and TP Boyd.
Those colour sets and the like that Basesix posted are great for school students but no professional artist should go near them and using cheap canvas is also a big no no, but the do including the one doing portraits on TV. That sort of thing used to get my tutored well truly triggered.
basesix wrote:
Beautiful sand and dirt passage AW, every surfer loves their sand, so much time spent in it frothing, contemplating, recovering and reflecting. I have ordered the book Costermans wrote with Vandenberg, I live further west than you, but all still relevant, and any such books are super absorbing. I sometimes use gmail and there is a group I am involved with that promote cold-climate northern hemisphere music in australia - there are people that focus on japan, karelia region, inuit, etc, my particular moniker is scotstralia in that group, and if you stick an at between my moniker and the above mode of transmitting the written word, I would like to take you up on your generous offer. I am also looking forward to reading Wallace's annotated Malay, I read it (unannotated) when I was younger, but so many things we do in our youth reflect the adage 'I had the experience but missed the meaning'. Looking forward to it from a halfway-wise person's perspective.
Basesix. Hi mate. As requested ‘The Annotated Malay Archipelago’ by the one and only, Sir Alfred Russel Wallace. AW
basesix wrote:
cheers AW, I'll send you a copy of Year of the Hare, I'm keen for you to enjoy some fiction, it is short but excellent, funny vignettes that give good insight into the seasons and humour of the scandanavian.
Basesix. Ooh, cant wait, particularly interested as I’m married to a Scandinavian. I start to itch and scratch when I hear the word fiction. All good. I know it appears creepy to exchange addresses in this fucked up world with scammers. Look what it’s done, common folk loose trust with each other, no good. BF & AW.
GuySmiley wrote:
Bit of a walk to the beach for this one, which has some unique properties.
Coastal salt bush of some type?
What beautiful grey green foliageHi GuySmiley. Loving this bit of plant fun. Agree, it was the foliage that grabbed me as well. Coastal saltbush locally in Victoria is the genus Atriplex sp. On yours and my coast, Atriplex cinerea is most commonly found. Plants have a much different floral arrangement than the aforementioned posted photo.
Atriplex can be monoecious or dioecious. Historically placed in the Chenopodiaceae family but thats now defined as a sub-family, currently finds itself in Amaranthaceae.Hope you are keeping well.AW.
Gday AW, yes all good here hoping you’re likewise. During covid I took 2years of online zoom art classes with a great Australian realist landscape artist. One of the revelations of my time with him was that the Australian bush is grey before any other colour …. soooo, we were taught to mix a neutral grey as the “mother colour” and from that pool of paint all other colours were created to create the required harmony …… greens, yellows, reds, blues. Cheers
GuySmiley. How are you ? . Those art classes sound like they are very fulfilling, must be very enjoyable to produce work and see your finished products.
Remember Prue Acton ? Once labelled the golden girl of fashion design from the 60’s. She once remarked something like, ‘the colours of Australia are not confined to the traditional mindset of ’green & gold’ and the way we see our country’.
She remarked, the real true colours of Australia are ‘versions of grey, magentas, soft pinks, carmine ,burnt orange & ochre, all of the greens in various moods and the straw like colours of introduced grasses.’ Something like that.
Aboriginal people had limited pigments to use for their paintings, imagine if they had had the full set of ‘Faber Castells’. AW
Painting in oils was something I've wanted to do for a very long time so yes it was brilliant and the fact I lucked onto a great tutor was the best but he is now exclusively zoom based so I'm no longer with him, perhaps in 2024 if I can sort out a few things.
Yes I remember Prue Acton but for a different reason; she was rumoured to be under Billy Sneddon grinding away at the time of his death from a heart attack!
All the great Australian landscape (oil) artists saw the greys in the Australian eastcoast bush and seascapes my favourites currently are Streeton, WD Knox and TP Boyd.
Those colour sets and the like that Basesix posted are great for school students but no professional artist should go near them and using cheap canvas is also a big no no, but the do including the one doing portraits on TV. That sort of thing used to get my tutored well truly triggered.
Hi Guy. How’s things ? I love the work by Streeton, Boyd, Knox,Lloyd Rees, Tucker, Nolan etc. Albert Namatjira’s work still gives me a tingle.
My favourite international artist is David Hockney, he saw landscapes, streetscapes and general run of the mill moments in peoples lives and got them on canvas. Simply brilliant. Went to see a lot of his art in LA in 2019 whilst on a surf trip.
My mother in law in Sweden gave me an old decrepit hard cover copy with a torn cover of ‘Australian Painters’, it was in an opp shop for $1. Geez, those painters really did have a ‘good time’, way out there, but skilled with foresight, vision, drugs, alcohol and anything else you bring to a life party. I’m a bit envious. I recall Lloyd Rees off his chops on something and gets on a raft in Darwin, made from a wooden pallet with a couple of 44 gallon drums and attempts to row to Indo. First Surf explorer? Didn’t get far for obvious reasons. AW.
GuySmiley. How things ? Streeton. He loved landscapes but he really loved seascapes, captured beautifully in all his work by the sea. AW.
have you guys come across cornish artist kurt jackson? His style will defy AI, as he gets down and gritty, often there is sand and bits in his work. They feel vast, lonely and temporal, and you can feel the weather.
https://www.kurtjackson.com/
basesix wrote:
have you guys come across cornish artist kurt jackson? His style will defy AI, as he gets down and gritty, often there is sand and bits in his work. They feel vast, lonely and temporal, and you can feel the weather.
Basesix. Just had a look. Beautiful work, highly skilled, I’m sure AI will never be able to replicate what Kurt produces. . AW.
Thanks for that basesix ….. sadly Fred passed away last year but his work will live on through the ages, true master https://ryesocietyofartists.co.uk/artist/fred-cuming/
Wilhelm Scream wrote:
# Great Conversation Here, Fellas. Cheers.
Wilhelm Scream. Hi. All a bit of fun, goes to show the diverse interests of subscribers, the different nature of thoughts and thinking by all of us, brains ticking overboard ten the dozen, very good for our mental health. Us surfers are more than just a torn Rip Curl tee-shirt ,jeans and a number in ya hand. May robust discussion never die. You are a pretty good scribe yourself . All the best WS.
Now, where are my Rollie papers. !!!. AW
Nice caption today @stu referencing what the artist would be seeing …
Hi.Guy. How’s the marbled nature of that sandstone up against the water colours . Has Streeton all over it, AW
AlfredWallace wrote:
Hi.Guy. How’s the marbled nature of that sandstone up against the water colours . Has Streeton all over it, AW
Indeed AW, Streeton painted such scenes around Sydney and in the Otways but reckon he would have waited until the light was much softer and painted the scene from way way back ….
@wilhelm thanks for that list, Turner a giant.
Check out wolfgang bloch guys and then mark Rothko a genius of edges
love the caption in today's dolphin WOTD - yep, that's why you don't see them winning any WSL comps
Great caption. Had a chuckle.
Never gets old. They always put a smile on my face.
Today’s artists palette of another classic Judy photo - ultramarine blue + lamp black (technically also a blue) + titanium white + just the smallest touch of a cadmium lemon
thanks too WS, some great image-engaging resulted in your recommendations. Wolfgang Bloch is epic @Guy. All his work looks like the front cover of today's trendy moorland-noir fiction.
@Guy, your colour-talk got me thinking, I've posted about her before, but I adore Clarice Beckett's tonalism. Swellnet surfcams at dawn and dusk only exacerbate this adoration. She was a Max Meldrum follower, using light to dissolve form. In musical terms, if Bloch is Mahler, Rothko Satie, Beckett is Debussy. In more modern musical-terms if Enya and Hope Sandoval gave birth to a highly-engaged, unassuming piece of cotton-wool that loved observing people in distant misty scapes armed only with a piece of cardboard and some oils... well, she is the Emily Dickinson of Melbourne art in more ways than one.
Better than worrying about the voice. We are nice we say yes. They are self-righteous they say no. And we all sing along like before.
Thank you for sharing those names @basesix, will check out and get back to you also need to check out all those @wilhelm mentioned
Ouch. Off topic, just read that EE broke his back at chores.
https://www.theage.com.au/sport/ewing-suffers-broken-back-in-teahupo-o-…
Wishing EE all the best in his recovery, just hope he’s able to surf again, world titles aren’t everything .
Wonder how trip back up and over and down with the falls worked out. Never fun.
To be fair, if I'm wrong, I doubt the actual surfer would be unhappy being confused with Robbo.
Lovely style for both of 'em.
thermalben wrote:
To be fair, if I'm wrong, I doubt the actual surfer would be unhappy being confused with Robbo.
Lovely style for both of 'em.
Did you write the insta caption?
Looks like Robbo has identified the unidentified.
Wade's is more vertical, but I dig the similarities between today's WOTD and this cover shot of Matt Branson. Hair flying, arms counter-weighting, both even riding yellow Rustys.
Branson was inspirational growing up, he was going off in the R rated vid by Rusty, a decent amount of down south footage too from memory, so you could try to emulate...
The wave of the day does it for me big time. Nice work Steen Barnes , Shaun Anderson and Swellnet.
In one photo you've encompassed everything nice about surfing. If I was a wanker I'd say that it was perfect except for the fact he is in a wetsuit. Which it is , it's perfect .....except for the fact he's in a wetsuit.