Untitled Photograph #1

I took this photograph at 1850hrs on 30th October 2021, whilst Jupiter and Saturn watched from afar, above the night skyline. A human-like shadow appears to cast a glow of itself, below the urban lights.

Here are photographs of the celestial sights to the South South East, South that evening:

1848hrs:

Photographed by me nearer to the urban lights whilst I stood upon the smooth concrete, at a junction. All light objects below the two central celestial bodies (shown in the image just above centre, centre-right) are manmade.

One celestial body is hardly discernible, without zooming for a close-up.

1851hrs:

This was photographed at 1851hrs, whilst I stood upon smooth concrete, further away from the urban lights pictured. Yet, standing near to where my original photograph was taken one minute earlier, entitled “Untitled Photograph #1”, urban lights without colour.

Here is a close-up of 1851hrs, shown immediately above:

To the imagination, this could resemble an alien face.

I hope you enjoy my photographic artworks.

“Buzzards Wood Hollow” – sketch

“Buzzards Wood Hollow” [9th June 2021] by Matt The Unfathomable Artist, sketch with 3H HB 3B pencils signed in black ink on A4 250gsm Artist’s paper.

I photographed a few compositions of the entrance to Buzzards Wood via the central hollow from Meadow Three. This opening is directly opposite to Ridge Willow and Wrens Wood. There are three additional entranceways into Buzzards Wood.

There are four pathways within and immediately surrounding Buzzards Wood. Whenever I’m writing regarding Buzzards Wood I’m usually referring to the Nature Reserve area. However, Buzzards Wood technically also encompasses the wood to the rear (bow, north) beyond the Nature Reserve itself, in my opinion.

Buzzards fly regularly over the meadows, woods, and towards the north, where there is a local fishing pond. The post at the lower right of my sketch actually used to be a wooden bench. I rather hope it is restored as a bench as this is a great sitting place, centrally in Meadow Three.

Further along to this bench is a ‘watervole ground stone’. Rabbits do seem to enjoy using the flat stone surface as a convenient toilet, haha. A ‘rabbit ground stone’ can be viewed inside Buzzards Wood at the pathway crossroads, nicely covered by the shade of trees to enjoy. Rabbits frequent all three meadows, the private land to the west and all around the 29 acre lake to the south.

Another ‘ground stone’ meets with you to the left as one enters Meadow Three from Meadow One, walking up a small number of steps.

My sketch style in this article strongly reminds me of the beautifully artistic childrens animations I used to watch as a boy.

In keeping with that theme I included fanciful eyes and faces, Picasso-esque, to add fun to some of these series of artworks.

Nine Six Nine Deciduous

‘Nine Six Nine Deciduous’ a poem by Matt The Unfathomable Artist, copyright January 2021, poetry image text in Sitka font.

‘One wisheth to be fastidious,

Exuberantly earthened unhideous,

Fettering the Demarcatious,

Being Nine Six Nine deciduous,

Half the Time Draconian contiguous,

Fervently filial-al,

Omnisciently quintessenti-al,

Redolently chromosomium,

Extricably balonium,

Hath thou eve’n heard thy Meconium?

Tellest thee of thine Meconium.’

– a poem by Matt The Unfathomable Artist, copyright January 2021.

‘Thy Glinting End’

“Rhythm taut flexed skin,

Phoenix constellated Xiaolin,

Grey troned electronic queue,

Washington imbued stately hue,

Accrued in silvric metalled smite,

Smelted gilded ladened kite,

Embark radared mineralled sight,

Warp’ed Traveller supered extra-Nigh,

Prospect ye illust-fabled crystalline bright,

Crush-cookied shaped girded lineal spars,

Soot tunnelled depth-charged night,

Terraquoised chasmed vultured sleep,

Shah-Khan, Bosi, Tanakh, Chi-Tewan,

Resonate volumed anti-quet Clan,

Green threaded strongheld quasi-Blue,

Mired Red wounded aged dread,

Of ye an’ ye thy Stratos fallened through,

Meat thou meeted glinting End.”

by Matt The Unfathomable Artist, copyright 9th December 2020.

“I Want To Change The World, Different Same” the higledi-pigledie version

“I Want To Change The World, Different Same” the ‘higledi-pigledie version’ [30th July 2020] – a saying by Matt The Unfathomable Artist, dip nib pen using original iron gall ink on A3 [180 gsm] Artist’s paper.

“I want to change the world by making it different and I want to change the world by keeping it the same.” derived from my original saying published on this blog 24th February 2015. Wrote in an electronic message to my dear Nan some time earlier.

The original blog articles containing my quote-saying in various constructive versions are available to read here:

Twombly and Distant Voices and A Dodecahedron.

Triple Seismic Waves with Oscillation #1

‘Triple Seismic Waves with Oscillation #1’ [July 2020] by Matt The Unfathomable Artist, dip nib ink pen on A3 180gsm paper.

Spontaneously sharing my latest dip nib ink pen artwork using iron gall ink entitled ‘Triple Seismic Waves with Oscillation #1’.

Electronic oscillation produces pleasing visual effects. This artwork seeks to replicate the idea in drawing form using my free hand technique for the curved lines. I love scientific art. Curves, electronics, seismographs, oscillators, earthquakes, sound waves, along with the beauty of artistic courses.

For this artwork I use a nib that creates a double ink line due to the noticeably distant ‘tines’ of the metallic nib. The flow of ink is important with dip nibs where one is wishing to produce a continuous line across a ‘decent measure of time’ once upon the paper.

The effect of oscillation can been seen vertically in this artwork.

Oak Branch Astronomy

‘Kinin Valley’ [copyright 7th May 2020] by Matt The Unfathomable Artist, digital photography.

Imagine NASA has just this second received new images from their distantly galactic travelling satellite probe. Kinin Valley, shown above, could have been photographed 100,000 miles from space. Detailing its epic landscape of cavernous valleys and Mars like red rock formations.

‘Nebulaic Cyclones with Wormhole Striations’ [copyright 7th May 2020] by Matt The Unfathomable Artist, digital photography.

As the deep space probe passes over this alien lunar surface we see a huge meteor has struck an immensely dry area to our left in the above image, Nebulaic Cyclones with Wormhole Striations. Upper right we can make out what appears to be storm scars of ancient water erosion.

At the lower mid section of the image we observe heavy sloping, a natural quarry descending downwards towards us. An alien species has perhaps eaten into the landscape in worm-like striations, burrowing strange etches into this now lifeless moon.

‘The Helix Whorls’ [copyright 7th May 2020] by Matt The Unfathomable Artist, digital photography.

NASA gathers together a team of specialist scientists to categorically figure out ‘The Helix Whorls’ phenomenon.

A time traveller probably visited last Wednesday, one million three hundred thousand years ago, at a time when sturdy shell covered creatures roamed this moon’s macro-phasic atmosphere.

‘Robur Canyon’ [copyright 7th May 2020] by Matt The Unfathomable Artist, digital photography.

Mythical legends have spoken of monsters lurking in structures exactly as described in Robur Canyon. Dark matter without discernible mass, form or measurable depth causes disenchanted quietness upon anyone approaching its entrance ways – shown above, to the right and lower right, at two distinctive places.

‘Inescapable Monster Moon’ [copyright 7th May 2020] by Matt The Unfathomable Artist, digital photography.

Similar in idea to our own Man in the Moon, this image conjures a vivid resemblance with the terrestrial deep sea Fangtooth, Anoplogaster cornuta. Actually the pit to the lower left could be 20,000 feet deep!

Imagination is Art.

‘My Springboks, My Springboks’

‘My Springboks, My Springboks’ [Digital Artwork, 21st August 2019] by Matt The Unfathomable Artist, 4096 x 2160 pixels.

‘My Springboks, My Springboks’ [Digital Artwork, 21st August 2019] by Matt The Unfathomable Artist, 4096 x 2160 pixels.

I am for nurturing planet Earth like I am for ‘My Springboks, My Springboks’.

‘If Entirely Fathomable, Wouldn’t Be Unfathomable’

I have produced a series of Pop Art oil pieces on A3 light textured paper entitled ‘If Entirely Fathomable, Wouldn’t Be Unfathomable’.

Here is the Aquamarine version:

Pop Art ‘If Entirely Fathomable, Wouldn’t Be Unfathomable’ [Aquamarine, 25th April 2019] by Matt The Unfathomable Artist, Aquamarine oil paint writing on A3 light textured paper, signed ‘Matt’ on reverse. Digitally edited photograph. Original Saying created December 2018.

This is the Red Ochre #1 version:

Pop Art ‘If Entirely Fathomable, Wouldn’t Be Unfathomable’ [Red Ochre, 26th April 2019] by Matt The Unfathomable Artist, Red Ochre oil paint writing on A3 light textured paper, signed ‘Matt’ on reverse. Digitally edited photograph. Original Saying created December 2018.

.. and here is the Sap Green version:

Pop Art ‘If Entirely Fathomable, Wouldn’t Be Unfathomable’ [Sap Green, 26th April 2019] by Matt The Unfathomable Artist, Sap Green oil paint writing on A3 light textured paper, signed ‘Matt’ on reverse. Digitally edited photograph. Original Saying created December 2018.

The phantasmagorical concept emanating from this Pop Art ensemble is to mix artistic persona with fluent ecological conservation. To help inspire the need for cultural, societal, economical and environmental change linked to our beautiful Earth planet.

I like the idea ‘If Entirely Fathomable, Wouldn’t Be Unfathomable’ carries within various layers of meaning. For instance if someone says, we can’t solve this, it’s too difficult, it cannot be done, then we quizzically reply, ‘If Entirely Fathomable, Wouldn’t Be Unfathomable’.

To drive true change we need new behaviour to accomplish whatever is necessary, environmentally speaking. Art can motivate, encourage, nurture, grow, develop and achieve unimaginably positive solutions we just didn’t think possible.

‘If Entirely Fathomable, Wouldn’t Be Unfathomable’.

Some have wondered at the random placing of words onto the A3 paper with regards to the use of ‘canvas’ space. Aquamarine naturally aligned centrally. Red Ochre (#1 of #2) shifted right, whilst Sap Green ascended higher textually than the preceding colour oil works.

Perhaps this is the result of pure chance, coincidence. Or possibly preposterously we can read formulaic thinking into the letters. After I completed the art pieces, super happily viewing them drying late evening, I couldn’t help notice the positioning of certain letters:

Y over O in ‘Aquamarine’,

Y intersects B in ‘Red Ochre #1’,

Y is a constant over MA in ‘Sap Green’.

T required calculation.

Likely astronomers, engineers and mathematicians can help explain the correlation to us.

Thank you for reading.

I hope you enjoy my Pop Art works.

Pip McGarry – International Wildlife Artist Extraordinaire

“White Rhino, Lake Nakuru” by Pip McGarry, Oil on canvas, 20in x 18in, Sold at Sotheby’s February 1999.

Choosing Pip McGarry for the express purpose of bringing art and wildlife conservation commentary into my blog took me about 30 seconds.

If it takes former Navy SEALs, ex Marines and Army veteran’s to protect the world’s endangered wildlife heritage then so be it. Recently I’ve been extremely heartened by international Governmental policies regarding the humane treatment of animals.

Such changes take courage, strong effort and time.

Educating people about the importance of wildlife conservation, ecological recycling and food sustainability is one of the greatest challenges for the human race.

Pip’s work has the capacity to move us into seeing the astounding beauty of our natural world. Booking your wildlife adventure will help countries unlock the full potential of their ecological economy. Not just Africa and India, everywhere.

Zoom in at the macro level. Take in the wider picture.

For younger readers especially I’d like to mention that I loved reading Willard Price adventure books whilst I was at mid-schooling age. Ferocious and informative, exciting and action packed. Writing and reading is for everyone to enjoy.

“White Rhino, Lake Nakuru” is a masterful painting of a solitary white rhino seemingly asking us about its future. Certainly for the Northern White Rhino this could not be more pertinent. Can we allow poaching to ravage our natural wildlife indefinitely?

The stylish colour paintwork, expression and personality of these graceful creatures make this artwork a forever classic like “Bedknobs and Broomsticks” (1971).

Hopefully you will find your Isle of Naboombu and I’m quite sure your local travel agent would find your itinerary an interesting challenge.

“Winner Takes All” by Pip McGarry, Oil on canvas, 60in x 20in, Sold to Private Collector.

In the artwork above, “Winner Takes All” we see a hefty tug of war for any leopard to take on!

The hyper-realist detailing of this magnificent reptile’s scales and the width ways composition give this piece dramatic flair. The sunlight reflecting from its mighty tail adds to the display of artistry.

“Chilling Out” by Pip McGarry, Oil on canvas, 30in x 20in.

Snow leopards have always been one of my wildlife favourites. Their elusive, specialist quality and patient nonchalence is breathtaking to watch. The speed and fearless nature of their hunger-driven rocky descents into chasing mountain goats is a sheer cliff hanging sight to behold.

A Snow Leopard at relaxed ease like this in “Chilling Out” is a perfectly adorable painting. Immediately this painting won me over. Snuggling up to a snow leopard would be a dream come true.

Although definitely not for the faint-hearted.

Painting the intricacy of fur requires a lightness of strokes and wispy handling. Selecting the best brush for the work is essential. Particularly noticeable to me is his usage and treatment of light throughout his work. Strong noon sunlight contrasted with evening hues synonymous with the African plains and tropical landscapes.

Pip McGarry is expertly accustomed to using techniques to fine tune adjustments in texture, tone and density for his paintings. Pip is also a highly accomplished art teacher with on-safari and studio workshop teaching experience encompassing two decades.

The snow leopard’s eyes in “Chilling Out” are completely alive, three dimensional and ponderous.

“Zebras Drinking, Namibia” by Pip McGarry, Oil on canvas, 30in x 20in, Sold at Summer Exhibition 2003.

“Zebras Drinking, Namibia” is compositional brilliance almost entirely in black and white. This painting demands that our brains make sense of each individual zebra. Where one starts and where the other outline ends. Very clever and uniquely distinct.

If property value is based on ‘Location, Location, Location’ then realist art value is based upon ‘Composition, Composition, Composition’.

You cannot better perfection.

Only then can we begin to compute the hyper-realist quality, their water drenched muzzles and trusting comradery. Thirstiness as a splashing of the liquid surface. Absolute markings around the head and necks ‘like fingerprints and stars’.

Pip McGarry has extensive wildlife television experience including judging “Wildlife Artist of the Year” for the British Broadcasting Corporation. He has also been the Artist-in-Residence at Marwell Zoological Park in Hampshire, England for fifteen years.

You can see more about Pip and his artwork at his website here http://www.pipmcgarry.com/index.htm

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