This is a digital update of my oil painting titled ‘I Told You This Day Would Come’, on a wooden window shutter, shown in this previous post. I am slowly opening my mind up to the concept that artwork doesn’t have to be purist in order to have integrity: it isn’t ‘selling out’ to let a piece live a new life using Photoshop. For me it is enough that a work is created using traditional techniques, and if the digital medium can add depth or atmosphere when traditional skills couldn’t (for what ever reason), then why not utilize it?
I Told You This Day Would Come (revisited)
03 May 2013 Leave a Comment
in Completed work, Paintings on wood, Vector artwork and/or digital manipulation Tags: atmosphere, australian art, castle, clouds, clown, digital art, doll, Flight, french clown doll, hot air balloon, illustration, Jodi Magi, marionette, oil painting, photoshop, pop art, pop surrealism, sky, street art, surreal, surreal art, traditional painting, wood
The process of creation
26 Apr 2013 1 Comment
in Progress shots, Uncategorized Tags: air, art, Australia, balloon, castle, child, clown, detail, doll, escape, France, French, hot, illustration, Jodi Magi, marionette, oil, paint, painting on wood, road, toy, work in progress
A friend suggested I might like to share the process of creating a piece of art in gallery format, so everyone can appreciate all the work that goes into the research and composition stages, as well as the final stage of painting. This gallery shows the work-in-progress shots of ‘I Told You This Day Would Come’, oil on wood panel, 2012.
Cleaning and preparing the wood.
Concept drawings and brainstorming
Composition of concept based on the dimensions of the panel
Visual research into the costume of my French marionette doll
Character drawing for style and positioning of the limbs
More practice on the ruff collar was needed before I started painting
Painting has started. Here I am tracing the pencil outline I made with fine white lines in oil paint.
Oil painting underway.
The doll character as it is positioned on the panel. At this point I realised there was way too much unused real-estate above her so decided the composition required more thought… Enter the hot air balloon.
Research and drawing into the make-up of a hot air balloon from the early 19th century
Detail from the top section.
Detail from the bottom section.
‘I Told You This Day Would Come’, oil on an antique Dutch colonial window shutter. 2012. 72cm x 28cm
Window shutter painting
20 Oct 2012 Leave a Comment
in Paintings on wood Tags: 19th century, antique, balloon, castle, chateau, clouds, clown, colonial, Dutch, France, French, French clown, hot air balloon, in progress, Jodi Magi, painting on wood, ruff collar
Title: ‘I Told You This Day Would Come’, oil painting on an antique Dutch colonial window shutter, 28cm x 72cm.(bottom section in detail)
Window shutter painting
20 Oct 2012 Leave a Comment
in Paintings on wood Tags: antique, balloon, castle, chateau, clouds, clown, colonial, Dutch, French clown, hot air balloon, in progress, Jodi Magi, painting on wood, ruff collar
Title: ‘I Told You This Day Would Come’, oil painting on an antique Dutch colonial window shutter, 28cm x 72cm.
(top section in detail)
Pencil drawing for a painting
29 Aug 2012 Leave a Comment
in Preliminary sketch, Progress shots Tags: acrylic, art, artist, Australia, automat, automaton, clown, dancing clown, drawing, in progress, Jodi Magi, mechanical toy, pop art, toy
This is a pencil drawing of a photo I took at Museum of Mechanical Toys in Soulliac, France. I love the sweet, sad and exploitative feel of these beautifully designed and constructed antique mechanical toys. After a full life as a child’s play thing, now they appear behind glass in a museum for adults to stare at.
I didn’t get the title of this clown, nor did I see him actually move but I am really looking forward to bringing him to life as a painting.
Here is a link to my photos from the museum of mechanical toys by Roullet and Decamps.
Window shutter painting
30 Jul 2012 Leave a Comment
in Progress shots Tags: clown, doll, French clown, in progress, Jodi Magi, marionette, painting on wood, ruff collar, toy
So the marionette doll is finished.In the background, beyond the hill I will paint another hill with a decaying castle on it which is meant to be the former home of this poor discarded toy.
Window shutter painting
06 May 2012 Leave a Comment
in Progress shots Tags: clown, French clown, in progress, Jodi Magi, painting on wood, ruff collar
This is the bottom section of the wood, partially finished. Above her, in the background will be the ruins of her castle from where her owner fled before discarding her in the rush to escape.
The Escape
27 Aug 2011 Leave a Comment
in Completed work, Pencil drawings Tags: art print, circus, clown, drawing, elephant, Fitzroy, illustration, Jodi Magi, Melbourne, pencil, st kilda
This blind clown lass is escaping the circus on her trusty steed, her noble, wise and loyal elephant friend.
2010, pencil. 30cm x 42cm
