June - Musician - Nathan Pye

Here's my entry for this month.

I really struggled with this topic. I had a bunch of photo's of my musical friends, but I didn't really want to use them. So I started thinking about which musicians have influenced me, which led me to my amazing friend Lee Ronald.

Lee was an incredible guitarist, but sadly passed away last year after a long battle with cancer. My design is for a tattoo memorialising him I plan on getting.

The skull references the Day of the Dead, a Mexican holiday in which those who have died are celebrated rather than mourned. The sevens significance are the date and time when Lee passed: 7:07 - 7/7/07.

The turquoise used in the swirls refer to Lee's favourite hockey jersey.

The design is still in draft form...I'm sure the tattooist will have a bit to say about it. This final will include a banner at the bottom that reads "For those lost".



Artist: Nathan Pye
Title: For those lost
Material: Digital Image
Size: Variable
Date: 30thth June 2008
Multimedia Teacher

June - Musician - Simon Greening

Right in the last week, better late than never I guess. A bit of a last minute bulb above the head, I must like the pressure. Well the musician doesn't need much explaining, Beethoven one of the greatest musicians ever. He continued composing even when he was completely deaf, doesn't get much more legendary than that. Just put together a modern portrait with a bit of my own flavor in it.


Artist: Simon Greening
Title: Beethoven the Modern Portrait
Material: Digital Image, Illustrator, Photoshop
Size: 700px x 900px
Date: 26th June 2008
Course: Cert 3 Design/Cert 4 Multimedia
Campus: Portland

June - Musician - Roy Rogers

Title: Music
Artist: Roy Rogers
Date: 25th June 2008
Materials: Digital images
Course: Cert IV Multimedia/Cert III Design Fundamentals

June - Musician - Axel Goddyn

Corpus Resonances
The inside of the body, stimulated and brought to a high by the artists fingers

Title: Corpus Resonances
Artist: Axel Goddyn
Date: 14th June 2008
Materials: Digital Photograph
Teacher in Department of Arts and in the Centre for Business, Hospitality and Service Skills

June - Musician - Andrea Radley

This month I decided to do a bit of character development using Illustrator CS3. These were characters I drew after attending many a Port Fairy Folk Festival.
Title: Warming up
Artist: Andrea Radley
Size: A4
Materials: Adobe Illustrator CS3
Date: 18th June 2008
Teacher in the Department of Arts

June - Musician - Phoebe Adams

Marina Pier started life as a pencil drawing. At that time she didn’t know her name. She had however, cruelly enslaved a fish to act as a microphone stand. She also had her own amp. Her dream was to grow up to become a digital image. Vector or bitmap she didn’t care. Her ambition was to be stored on a hard drive or even better, a server. Internet fame was calling.

Marina was looking promising. So she underwent a scan in order to become digitized. Once digitized it was up to lengthly Illustrator sessions to change her from bitmap replica of her paper self to the most prized vectorgraphic form. Painstakingly traced, Marina Pier started to come together. After the tracing process she was issued with a colour scheme. It was at this time she formed her band “The Sirens”.

So it is with great pleasure that I introduce to you, Marina Pier and The Sirens. The latest rock sensation to wash up on our shores. Performing for you live and in RGB colour, right here on The Cuttlefish. Take it away MP.

Artist: Phoebe Adams (Multimedia Teacher)
Title: Marina Pier and The Sirens Material: digital image Photoshop Size: 843x595pixels Date: 15/6/08

June - Musician

This month's theme is....Musician.
Is it going to be a portrait of a musician? Something that relates to being a musician? A caricature? Photo? Drawing? Video? Performance art? Projection into space??
With this one you can be as specific as you want (ie make it a chance to show off your character development skills) or as broad as your imagination can stretch it.
Have fun.


A couple of side notes...
Please label your posts as follows:
MONTH - THEME - NAME
eg. June - Musician - Nathan Pye.

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