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TomScullyArt

will draw for food

About Me

“Vision / It reaches beyond the thing that is, into the conception of what can be. Imagination gives you the picture. Vision gives you the impulse to make the picture your own.”
Hello and welcome,
I'm an Artist and musician working from Newcastle producing Graphics, animations, illustrations, and digital Installations comprised of sensors and generative elements etc (info will be updated within the next month or so). I love the natural and beautiful, which is pretty much anything if you look hard enough.
I tend to draw with instruments that i find lying about, on any scraps of paper etc, i like the immediacy of this kind of random inspiration and being able to capture a moment in time, it instigates mad 'stream of conciousness' approach to making stuff. I'm a big dreamer, more often than not i'm off in another world & one day i'd love to design and build my own house, something radically different, a mix of classical and modern styles, probably close to the sea as thats how i've always lived.
I'm currently working on both the first steps of new digital installations, and a series of biro studies depicting fashion & fashion models as preparation for up-coming composite works, T's, and stand-alone prints and will soon be starting on murals and fresco style work. Almost all of my image based work will contain analogue or hand-drawn elements, using a graphics tablet for digital work and finishing touches, It will also never contain any traced images. For various reasons that's just the way I work. I will be uploading bits and pieces of other work to the pics section as, and when, i find them while my main site is being prepared. There'll be music , audio-visual, composites, analogue and a lot else coming soon. In the meantime feel free to comment, ask any questions (i'l try to answer most of them, within reason), or talk artwork, music work, creative philosophies etc. Im planning to post the ideas behind the pieces at some point, but for now i'l leave them as pure images for you to contemplate. If you've got time nip over to the Artomatron music page. Lastly don't forget to check out the saucy happenings over at Supanaught.com!
I'm sorry, but i can't IM because it doesn't seem to work on Macs. I have Skype though.
All images on this web site are the sole property of the artist. No reproduction of these images is allowed in any way without the written permission of the artist.
If you're lookin for the 8-bit music page click here!
The more 'serious' music page is on its way, 'semi-acoustic dark-ambient world-lounge' for all!
Je suis un Artiste et un musicien travaillant de Newcastle produisant la Visualisation graphique, les animations et les illustrations. J'aime le naturel et beau, qui est presque n'importe quoi si vous semblez assez durs.
Ich bin ein Künstler und Musiker, das der von Newcastle arbeitet Graphik, Zeichentrickfilme und Illustrationen erzeugt. Ich liebe das natürliche und schön, der ziemlich viel irgendetwas ist, wenn Sie hart genug aussehen.

My Interests

i like the smell after it has rained, the woods, dreaming, cups of tea, wandering aimlessly, the beach, more tea, maybe with some sandwiches, and some pastries, and biscuits, and...all food really. Art and Music of all kinds bar obvious tat. These two subjects are what i believe i was born to be involved in. They encourage me to practice hard and persue relevant Philosophies, info on both Cognitive science and psychology and the cultural development of Civilisation and the human condition, in the hope of better informing whatever i am compelled to create.

I'd like to meet:

Open-minded individuals who have the same instinctive drive to be creative. People who are willing to share their own opinions and theories as well as listen to those of others..."Why not let people differ about their answers to the great mysteries of the Universe? Let each seek one's own way to the highest, to one's own sense of supreme loyalty in life, one's ideal of life. Let each philosophy, each world-view bring forth its truth and beauty to a larger perspective, that people may grow in vision, stature and dedication."...

Music:

8-Bit music of any kind. My own is on the Artomatron page! Venetian Snares. I listen to, play, and write mainly guitar based stuff - Juan Martin, Segovia, and assorted other flamenco and classical players. Django of course. Brandt Bjork-esque things, the Doors, Various blues artists...then theres the good old hair metal and neo-classical noodlings of Extreme, Satriani & Malmsteen(don't laugh). Electronica is pure goodness also. Proper mad experi-mentalism too. Stockhausen beast. Apart from that, most D'n'B, some breaks, bit'o techno etc.

Movies:

TRON, Baraka, the 'qatsi' films, Fritz Lang's Metropolis, the stop-motion epics, Amelie, Le planet sauvage, Belleville Rendez-vouz, and other animated works - anime like Spirited Away, Howl's, Ghost In The Shell 1&2. Crocodile Dundee in LA and Jackie Chan's 'Gorgeous' for comedy value.

Television:

Things that are interesting for my eyes. Mostly Documentaries etc though occasionally get drawn into a trash opus.

Books:

The odyssey, Relational Aesthetics, Electronic Plastic, Anatomy for the artist, Acorn user 1985, Greek art and archaeology

Heroes:

My ancestors, Spacebotcher II, Jeff Bridges,

My Blog

'My pics' section changes colour tones...

The colours and size as in 'real life'...
Posted by TomScullyArt on Sat, 07 Apr 2007 07:26:00 PST

Boredom??

Boredom? There is no such thing! How would one define such an affliction - Cast down upon them by their own inactivity, like the rot from a winters snow when left to drift? The mind, injured and seepi...
Posted by TomScullyArt on Fri, 23 Mar 2007 03:17:00 PST

The demise of Spacebotcher II

We were wandering through the park, it was a certain day of the week when birds only choose to observe. A great leaf from ancient times fell from one of the new-born saplings, floating on the breeze d...
Posted by TomScullyArt on Fri, 23 Feb 2007 07:00:00 PST