by Alan Todd | Feb 6, 2020 | Art, Artist, Artwork, Painting
I’ve been experimenting with the idea of the film strip and working in both positive and negative. A film strip in negative allows for text to sit over the top of a dense tonal base. In some ways this is preferable to large areas of white. This is part of a...
by Alan Todd | Dec 6, 2019 | Art, Artist, Artwork, Opinion, Painting
I went back to my time making films as a way of understanding what I was trying to achieve. Image and spoken text in film need not relate at all. In Pulp Fiction, the two erstwhile hit men discuss hamburgers on their way to a job. While we may pay attention to what...
by Alan Todd | Dec 6, 2019 | Art, Artist, Artwork, Opinion, Painting, Sculpture
Over fifty years I have worked in sculpture, drawing, photography and theatre but always saw myself as a painter. In my teenage years it was all I wanted to do but firstly my school art teacher saw little in what I was doing and decried my use of colour and then in my...
