Dale Keogh: 2017

Monday, 11 December 2017

Deer in Headlights

prismacolor pencil on black A3 paper,
297 x 420 mm, (11.7 x 16.5 in)

I thought I was really cleaver joining a rib cage with the antlers. All the roses were a pain in the arse, it takes just as long for me to do a tiny rose or a large rose. Before drawing it up, I think I'll bang out a few roses, you know in the rib cage, and have the girl on a bed of roses, and then not before long I'm drawing roses for days thinking when is this going to fucking end?

Monday, 27 November 2017

Fish Head Deep Sea Diver

"Fish Head Deep Sea Diver"
prismacolor pencil on black A3 paper,
297 x 420 mm, (11.7 x 16.5 in)

Tuesday, 31 October 2017

Sex with ducks

"Duck Fuck"
prismacolor pencil on black A3 paper,
297 x 420 mm, (11.7 x 16.5 in)

Sunday, 1 October 2017

Another Donut

"Donut"
prismacolor pencil on black A3 paper,
297 x 420 mm, (11.7 x 16.5 in)

Sunday, 17 September 2017

This is a drawing but I'm still painting...

I'm still painting, but it is really slowing me down, I am a very slow painter it would seem. I was doing a painting then a drawing then a painting, but while the painting was drying, I had an excuse to do a lot of nothing. So now during the drying process I'll draw.

Thursday, 27 July 2017

"Portal, Muff Cup"

“Portal, Muff Cup”
prismacolor pencil on black A3 paper,
297 x 420 mm, (11.7 x 16.5 in)

“Portals, Muff Cup”
prismacolor pencil on black A3 paper,
297 x 420 mm, (11.7 x 16.5 in)

“Portals”
prismacolor pencil on black A3 paper,
297 x 420 mm, (11.7 x 16.5 in)

Monday, 24 July 2017

Patient Zero

"Patient Zero" oil on board 33cm x 44cm

Friday, 14 July 2017

What I'm not painting

"Rose in bloom"
prismacolor pencil on black A3 paper,
297 x 420 mm, (11.7 x 16.5 in)

"The Seal"
prismacolor pencil on black A3 paper,
297 x 420 mm, (11.7 x 16.5 in)

Tuesday, 20 June 2017

Painting!... In oils!

Painting! In oils!
I haven't painted since 1998 in oils, for a while now after seeing Beau White's works, I've been thinking I should get back in to oils. With excuses to not do it, like when I get a studio I'll get started, but that may not happen, and with both kids at school, now's the time.
My kids distract me every 30 seconds, with "what are you doing ?" "whats that?" "can i have this?" "help!" "can you open this?" " DAD!" and they touch everything too.
But now with a kick in the arse from Jon Beinart, I have moved the easel into the house, bought paint, thinners, brushes, and I intend to paint in between drawings, for at least a year.
So I have no new painting skills and it's just like where I left it 20 years ago, every painting so far has felt like a painting I did in high school.
It is off putting, having been drawing non-stop for 10 years, knowing how it will turn out, to struggling with paint, having nothing work out how I want. But maybe in ten years I'll get comfortable.

Monday, 24 April 2017

Splosh

“Splosh”
prismacolor pencil on black A3 paper,
297 x 420 mm, (11.7 x 16.5 in)

Thursday, 23 March 2017

Alter2

"Alter2"
prismacolor pencil on black A3 paper,
297 x 420 mm, (11.7 x 16.5 in)

Thursday, 16 March 2017

Book thing

http://www.blurb.com/b/7793244-needs-salt-nau-sea
292 pages of drawings from 2010 to 2016,
a nice, fat, over-priced book,
that you can finger.

It is also in two parts:
"NEEDS SALT"
and
"NAU SEA"
both around $60 each.

I must say I find books to be my favorite format for art, in the mid 1990's I had a HR GIGER ARh+ book published by TASCHEN, a Horripilations the art of J. K. Potter published by Paper Tiger, and a few Dali books, one at least was published by TASCHEN, which were a huge influence on me. I hope one day I become an influence on others.