I see sound series on Transient labs
I See Sound goes deep into the cascading visual effects sound has on my vision. I have Synesthesia. This is about how I experience music and singing. I see the frequencies at the same time as hearing them.
Buy my jpegs here - I See Sound Series
“facehugger punk” @ Beeple’s CRyptopunks 2.0 meetup
I had Facehugger Punk selected for the Beeple Studios CryptoPunks 2.0 Meetup on saturday just gone. Got VIP pass but couldn’t attend unfortunately. Looked like a decent party.
Photography is dead
Had a group show in NYC over the weekend. LINK to “Bankers N Shit” photograph at Photography is Dead art show in New York City, USA at Time to be Happy Gallery
Hats off to those who put this show together @rebeccarosenft @TimeToBeHappyGY
and curators for selecting my work :) @vwestphoto_nb @VioletBondArt
XRAY BABY RAY SERIES Drops
XRAY BABY RAY is a CC0 collection of 69 vandalised polaroids.
Out of the Dankness X-Ray Baby was born. Delivered into the World by Si Simple. Nurtured by creative parents Robness and Empress Trash.
Discovered in a top secret report from Lab 303 where X-Ray Baby from all dimensions test out their supernormal powers.
Break Free. X-Ray Baby cannot be contained.
Haus of X-Ray Baby - Explore Here
The memetic origins of X-Ray Baby can be seen here in the Haus of X-Ray Baby
Doge in the Sky at Oshi Gallery Warped Exhibition
Party tonight in Melbourne and go see Doge in the Sky flying at warp speed in
Oshi Gallery Warped exhibition, Melbourne.
Location - 386 Smith Street, Melbourne Victoria 3066
RIP Kabosu
The Shiba Inu is a Japanese breed of dog that was popularized as an online meme and represents Dogecoin. Dogecoin was created December 2013 by Jackson Palmer & Shibetoshi Nakamoto.
Love, Death and Crypto collection: Love is musings on aspects of what I love and love to see. Death is being aware that death is certain and what lies beyond. Crypto is the mix of drama and hope that crypto delivers.
Buy on Rarible - Doge in the Sky
Name Switch
I’ll no longer be using Si Gross for my artist name and just going switch to Si Simple from now on. Just to keep things simple.
I’ll be concentrating on making digital art under 7 styles - JPEG. GIF. MP4. WAV. Ink. Paint. Clay. My style adjusts according to the medium I’m using. All work will be minted as NFT’s. The majority will be on my own smart contract:
View on OPENSEA - https://opensea.io/collection/si-simple-1
Contract Address on ETHERSCAN - https://etherscan.io/address/0x208243f84f8a4eee852863f112aeba5130223daf
Smart contract created with Manifold Studio - https://www.manifold.xyz/
Game of Hangman in 2009
A game of hangman being played on the side of the Bank of England in 2008.
Game of Hangman in 2009
A game of hangman being played on the side of the Bank of England in 2009. This was during the protests about the collapsed banks being bailed out by the government. Fill in the missing blank.
I have made a NFT original gif animation of this image for sale on Rarible marketplace.
LINKS:
1984: Thought Police Dog Squad Story
Recently I designed a 1984 book cover for SVSLearn monthly challenge. Having just re-read the book. I have developed a spin-off story idea based around that oppressive totalitarian world where The Party rules. Set in London. The story is based on the Thought Police and a member of their Dog Squad - Mangy Dog.
1984 Book cover designs
Recently I designed a 1984 book cover for SVSLearn monthly challenge. Having just re-read the book. I have developed a spin-off story idea based around that oppressive totalitarian world where The Party rules. Set in London. The story is based on the Thought Police and a member of their Dog Squad - Mangy Dog.
I made the drawings using Adobe Project Gemini (in BETA).
Hate Week - The Stick
Mangy Dog wakes up to and escapes their brain washing and goes on the run through the streets of London. The relentless oppression leads him to look for a way out of the city during Hate Week. Along the way he witnesses all the atrocities the Party commits in keeping their party members and proletariat inline.
The eyes are white to show nobody is home. Mangy has his sight restored.
CHARACTER SKETCHES
Thought Police Dog Squad
Mangy Dog
Mangy Dog Sketch
Thought Police Dog Squad - Dog Sketches
The Party - Female members
The Party - Male members
Having started to develop the characters I can now put together a story script.
LINKS:
Si Gross Art Bazaar Launch - GrossieBazaar.com
Shop now open grossiebazaar.com see a range of limited edition prints to buy.
Check out my new GrossieBazaar.com Limited Edition Print and Original Art Shop. Selection of new and old prints available to buy.
Around The World in 80 Days: Antarctica
Around The World in Eighty Frames: Antarctica - The first part of a modular panoramic landscape and cityscape series. Viewed from a helicopter overground and a submarine under the sea. Each illustration has to work as a singular piece with built in story cliff hangers. When complete the illustration can be slotted together into one sweeping cross section of the world
The Lost Minotaur
The Lost Minotaur - Words written into the shape of The Minotaur lost in the Labyrinth. The Minotaur was a brass coloured fearsome creature with a muscular human body and the head and neck of a bull. Theseus the great Greek hero eventually defeated the Minotaur by seizing it by the horns, twisting and breaking It's neck.
The Machine
The Machine is ready to spin. A kaleidascopic convergence of light reflecting off a centrifugal glass column. It generates thoughts and ideas and stores them in the microcosm.
See More at GrossieBazaar.com
Portfolio Time
So this week I’m working on putting together a new coherent portfolio based on my project See Creatures. That’s the plan.
What goes in a portfolio and what you take out is the magic sauce.
So this week I’m working on putting together a new coherent portfolio based on my project See Creatures. That’s the plan.
My drawing has improved by drawing everyday since Inktober. I didn’t manage to get every prompt during October. But the momentum has gathered since then. Time to work out what to put in and what to take out. And another ting is to make enough stuff to have choices.
Samurai Having a Bad Day
Samurai having a bad day.
Sometimes you make mistakes in life. But never be too proud to come clean and admit it. Otherwise there is a chance of falling into despair. Then you lose everything.
Astro Snail Blasts Off
Astro Snail is finally Livin’ Astro as he blasts off into space. He plans to explore numerous galaxies, riding the waves of time and space.
The journey of Astro Snail has started as he blasts off into space
Astro Snail is finally Livin’ Astro as he blasts off into space. He plans to explore numerous galaxies, riding the waves of time and space.
Astro has equipped his heat resistant shell with a telepathic resonator for communications. He also custom made an inbuilt sound system. So he can listen to his favorite tunes and sing.
To begin his journey, first stop is planet Saturn, for the epic inter-dimensional Comet race.
A typical Comet that likes to race
Inktober Day 26 - Elastic Orbs Stretch
Elastic Orbs - STretch Inktober 2018 Day 26 Prompt
Elastic Orbs - Stretch theme for Inktober 2018
I’ve been drawing things for Inktober on and off this month. I also started with the Society of Visual Storytelling online course. Which I found via the Inktober website. It’s an excellent way to learn about the illustration industry and improve skills. The tutors are top notch!
So practising drawing straight lines I made a piece to use for Day 26 prompt - Stretch. Basically a brush that technically is a sponge on a stick. Simples. A high tech fountain pen that guzzles a lot of ink!
Elastic Orbs using sponge based fountain pen
Testing a few of the diffferent brushes I’ve filled with Molotow Ink
Inktober 2018 - Inking from the last few days
Art from the Inktober 2018 sketchbook
DRAIN
Drain theme. "No You're Wrong" A Samurai Domestic.
SCORCHED
Scorched theme. Amy scorched by society. Her life over too soon.
People's Vote March about Brexit - Timelapse Animation
People's Vote March in London Brexit Wrecked It Timelapse Animation.
People's Vote March in London Brexit Wrecked It Animation. Made from the sounds and actions of the protestors marching for a vote on the upcoming Brexit deal. Special thanks to the drummers providing that brilliant energy and music on the day. Over half a million turned out. Good show.
Unicorns are Real. “For Realsies?”
This guy glows in the dark and accepts his existence. Day 15 of Inktober 2018. A real Unicorn inking, on a wooden panel with pink UV-fluorescent Molotow ink. That comes out orange in the dark when you shine a black lamp across the surface.
Unicorns are Real. “For Realsies?” An old cheeky Unicorn accepts his existence
I saw a competition on the Inktober website to win loads of stuff. The Adobe MAX + Inktober Contest. The OCT 15 prompt was LIGHT.
So I though an old cheeky glowing Unicorn would be fitting for this subject.
This creation is for my niece Freya, so I hope she likes it.
Inktober Day 1 theme is Poisonous
Poisonous “That’s Out of Order”
Inktober Day One Poisonous digital ink drawing
So Inktober has started and I’m going to crack on and draw everyday, may post every two days. But wanted to get this one out. My mate Jay sent me a pic of him flipping the bird and said sketch this. So I did a Poisonous version of his pic. I used Kyle Webster’s Marker set of pens on adobe Sketch to create this monster.
Jay’s suggestion for what I should draw for Inktober on day one.
Official Inktober 2018 prompt list
Every October, artists all over the world take on the Inktober drawing challenge by doing one ink drawing a day the entire month. 31 days, 31 drawings.
For more info Inktober.com
OpenWalls Arles photo competition entry
I just entered OpenWalls Arles photography competition Home and Away with a photograph - In Wales two Canadians and an American fight to end transplant abuse in China.
(L-R) David Kilgour, David Matas and Ethan Gutmann at the National Assembly for Wales
I just entered OpenWalls Arles photography competition Home and Away with a photograph - In Wales two Canadians and an American fight to end transplant abuse in China.
I chose this photo as it’s always stuck in my mind as a pivotal moment of unity between these three men. Relentlessly, they travel the world to help stop organ harvesting in China who have their organs removed by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Sold for vast amounts of money on a massive scale. Currently, the most harvested organs come from Falun Gong in China.
“One thing that Wales can do is say to its own transplant professionals: No contact with Chinese transplant professionals. Say to Chinese transplant professionals: No access to Welsh transplant professionals until there is acknowledgement, not just accountability in the future, but accountability of the past.” – David Matas
https://enter.openwalls.co/share/54454d572fc1eb147fc21fe1e966d76a/
End Transplant Abuse in China (ETAC) Article on Hearing at National Welsh Assembly
https://endtransplantabuse.org/hearing-at-national-assembly-for-wales/
The photo went out originally in colour. I’ve been going through my photo archives and picking my favorite portraits and making black and white versions using the DxO filters i’ve recently purchased. Within the filter set the Silver EFX Pro 2 filter is great as they can be used to mimic old film stocks. I particularly like the grain on the AGFA APX 400.
London Falun Gong April 25 peaceful appeal against persecution in China
London Falun Gong practitioners Commemorate April 25th 1999 by St Martin in the Fields Church, Trafalgar Square. The first peaceful appeal against the persecution of Falun Gong in China.
Falun Dafa aka Falun Gong tranquil sitting meditation
London Falun Gong practitioners Commemorate April 25th 1999 by St Martin in the Fields Church, Trafalgar Square. The first peaceful appeal against the persecution of Falun Gong in China. They do this by showing the beauty of meditation exercises, talk to people, collect petition signatures and hand out information and paper Lotus flowers.
Falun Dafa practitioners from all around the world have participated in rallies or marches over the weekend to commemorate the peaceful protest that took place on April 25, 1999, when 10,000 practitioners gathered in Beijing and held a peaceful appeal to seek the release of practitioners illegally arrested in Tianjin. Three months later, Chinese Communist Party leader Jiang Zemin launched the nationwide persecution of Falun Dafa that continues today.
http://en.minghui.org/html/articles/2017/4/25/162967.html
See Creatures
Detail of the giant wave
A departure from my last project on Queen Liz has led me towards photographing nature. The magic lights, life and movement of the ocean. I spent a late summer in Ibiza filming and photographing the ocean. Now after two years working on illustrating and animating the ocean I have my first complete illustration. Working title is 'Big Blue' or 'See Creatures'. I'm leaning towards 'See Creatures' suggested by my friend Joel - he's quite good at naming stuff.
Here is a snippet of it - the final is a sweeping panoramic giant wave with a plethora of creatures in it. I'm keeping it under wraps for now. Watch out for more updates on awesome ocean animations, illustrations and wallpaper videos.