Alias Arts

"Lima, Peru is a beast of a city. A seemingly endless grey expanse teeming with life. Anywhere you go in Lima you will come across phone numbers scrawled on the walls, sidewalks, bridges and highways. These numbers are painted throughout the city by escarchadores (pebble dashers) and serve as a crude and subversive form of advertising. Intrigued by these mysterious characters, who get up so much they would put any tagger to shame, I decided to do a street art project about them. So with the help of my partner in crime Chanchito I tracked down the people behind the numbers and we managed to convince some of them to be photographed next to their numbers. We then created life size wheat-pastes of them which we posted up in the original locations where they were photographed."... Makisapa

I have been spending quite a bit of time in the studio lately, which is one reason why I haven't been updating the blog as much (the other reason is laziness). I'm painting a bit of everything with no real focus, but I'm having fun which is the most important thing. I counted the paintings I'm working on at the moment and found that I have 21 pictures in various stages of completion, so I'm definitely not starting any new ones until I start finishing a few!

What does your studio look like? If you send me a few (smallish) photos of your art studio I might post them. I love seeing other artist studios, it's like reading the artist's diary.

Here's a few pics from this afternoon..


T-bone steaks, mince meat and potatoes.


Paintings and easel.


Paints, brushes, and phone.


Tiger comes down to check on me and remind me that I have to feed her while her owner is away.


Landscape, Melbourne scene and meat.


Self portrait (in need of a shave).


Portrait and box of canvases.


Sydney cityscape.

Here's some of my older paintings online.