New Blackbook Drawings

Mouse Trap

Rah! It's an Ambush!

Thursday night was a great night. Thanks to Qwux and the Rah collective kids for helping create a great book and hosting a fun night (Well thanks to Ambush for that!)

Heaps of the kids came out to support the locals and reppin' the Wood was Chris Yee and his baller as always work.

Gouache Gouache Gouache

I love the name and the medium. I hit a blank wall for about an hour but in class I got my juices flowing again.

American Psycho followed by Stuart Bailey, Nick Boerma and then Scott Blume.

Rah! Book Launch

Today I received a very cool book. It's my first published work alongside many other artists. If you're interested in copping one, come to the launch party this 18th of August! I'm so jealous Chris Yee is on the poster! He has a double page spread and is featured in the exhibition on the night!

Here's a little sneak peek/teaser :)

Fly Away With Me.

Gouache on Watercolor paper. 2011

For my love.

Matchsticks By Timothy Duong

Gouache on Watercolor Paper. 2011

Matchstick Men

After my last background done in gouache, I've really grown a little liking to painting little match sticks. So today I went out and bought a packet of 'Black & Gold' Safety Matches, they're not as classy and original like Red Heads but I'm not going out of my way to get matches in a different hue.

Pretty much a 1:1 painting although with slight emphasis on the body and lighting, I've started this line up of matches. Can you match the matches with the matches? It's a WIP but it's very clean and I'm really liking the way it's turning out.

Kozyndan on my Wall

My second Kozyndan piece to own. (My first)

I got it along with a piece from Yoshitomo Nara which I gave to my lovely Grace, it now hangs on her wall :)

Hi-Res version

Got Sauce Plz?

I am a confessed sauce fiend. For the type also known as condiments that are found ontop of your meat pie or alongside your steak and fries or sprayed into your bowl of Pho (Not the one you're searching for after you type 'G0t Sauce?!' in some seedy back alley of the internet). I'm often seen putting too much tomato ketchup* on my food at home and since I've got 'ETA's Original BBQ Sauce' (Seen here) I've been using and pouring it on my meals like it was holy water. Blessing each and every meal with the beautiful wonders of the said sauce like I was the Pope blessing the pilgrims before I eat them.

I, like most people move on from my sauces after long abuse, from a young age I remember drizzling sweet chilli sauce to mayo to tomato sauce but all of those are long gone now that I've 'matured'. I'll still have my Tabasco and soy sauces but my new love that may dethrone a lot of other sauces would be 'Sriracha Hot Chili Sauce' found hidden in many Asian conveinience stores scattered across Sydney and also found in the City on Crown St in Amasia (A clothing store funnily enough which sells Uniqlo and other staple brands)

This Asian chili sauce is often found in Vietnamese joints and added to meals such as the famed Pho (Beef Noodle Soup for all you non-knowers) After being finally reunited, nostalgia similar to that of ETA's BBQ Sauce, this sauce is definitely a must for any person that likes spicy flavour. If you have not tasted this and also like chili then you're sleeping!

Although I do love my other staple condiments, being from a Vietnamese family I cannot blog about a sauce and not mention Nuoc Mam (While sometimes a dressing or dip, this shit is more flexible than the word fuck in the food world), the staple of ALL Vietnamese meals, it's the only sauce I can make blindfolded. I pride myself in making godly Nuoc Mam. I drink at least a cup of that stuff a week! (Note: I'm referring to Nuoc Mam Cham, not the unmixed Fish Sauce)

So while I don't have a camera to take a picture of the Sauce bottle, I did my best to show a rough image of it. Continuing on from the theme of scanned images, I present to you the Sriracha Sauce Scan and model.

*Yes, I know, Heinz Ketchup & everything else from the supermarket labelled as tomato sauce for all you Australian readers




Scanned using Canon MP490 and skinned using Photoshop CS5's 3D tool.
Keep the condiment-ing game strong!

Day in day out

A quick sketch of a scan of myself last night. Reminds me of when paparazzi take your photo. Trying to consciously choose to draw more :)

Scanning for all Lifeforms

I don't currently have a camera since I sold my D700 but I do have a few other alternatives. I wanted to show off my freshly shaved chin but the Apple built in camera is so overused.




D700 sold, Nikon D7000 coming in along with a SB-700, 85mm 1.8, 120GB SSD, 8GB RAM for the iMac and a HDD Dock. Also got my 60mm Micro today. I have a lot of expensive camera paperweights :(

Blue 210

When was the last time you saw me post a drawing? Yeah, that's right you can't even recall it.

I got a new little book and a new blue artline. They both fit in my pockets. Will do a lot of sketching.

These scans are straight off the press!

Charisoul

So I've been a little lazy over the last few weeks in terms of producing artworks. I'm thinking of a few new ideas but my physical state of being fat is making me somehow not feeling in the mood... but every so often someone pushes me to produce something..

Charis Lee, I was suppose to make her a 70s style cartoon version of her but after doing several sketches and playing around in Ai, I found out that I wasn't feeling the way her face was coming out using my technique. Since the geometrical shapes didn't get her lovely face-shape (Something that makes the image personal for the portrait) I decided to watercolor/gouache her up from a drawing I did of her when she was a wee young girl :)

When I think of Charis, I think of her and her sweet foods! So I decided to make her a Jelly bean (It's more of a capsule shape, but whateves!)

So what did she look like as a kid? A cute girl wandering through the fields 

(And not much has changed! :P)

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A little More... Life Like?

So a few of you might be wondering what the photos from the N8000 look like... well after developing them on Tuesday and then scanning them on Wednesday I've finally edited them for online usage. Editing the raw scans at home I just cut out the outer images from each 4-frame photo to create a stereoscopic image to be viewed using cross-eyed technique. (They are best viewed in fullscreen)

I also created a couple of animated 3D images which are pretty cool too :)

And then if anyone's wondering my personal side? It's been great, yesterday I found out I got market research next week eating chocolate at Parramatta and getting paid, then also bought some monitors and IEM and a Fiio E1. I really cannot wait to try all of them out, as many friends have noticed, I really like buying headphones. This year alone I have bought 5 pairs and last year, 3.

Bought? Audio Technica ATH-AD700, Soundmagic PL50
To Buy? Fiio E7+E9 and AiAiAi TMA-1s and Alessandro MS-1s

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Cultured & Cured

Bear sculpture by Will Coles, photo by Timothy Duong via Instagram

Go my visit to Waterloo done, processed photos, had lunch with Grace and also visited the galleries.

The French House is so damn good! Love the music, the atmosphere (I'm listening to Atmosphere atm, but that's just off topic now) and the food. The coffee wasn't great but the pastries were delicious. Second visit and definitely not the last.

I was also mind blown by a few works:

Kylie Stillman's 'Vessel' (Utopia Gallery)

Catherine Nelson's 'Future Memories' (Dominik Mersch Gallery)

And of course the best achievements for me was that I finally printed some rolls from my Nishika N8000. Now all I have to do is scan the trannies. Arg, the pain :(

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Glassy Thoughts

For a little project :)

And some photos from Cabramatta that I forgot to upload!

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Slight Observations

Installed my first installation. Here it is.

'Seven Letter Word; _ _ _ _ _ _ _' 2011

By Timothy Duong & Scott Blume

Made from found objects

I think we aced it, with positive feedback. So I'm really happy with all the results and the amount of effect (or the lack of it) Scott and I put into it. I really enjoyed the trial & error process to get from A til Z on this project, we talked and talked for at least 1-2 hours a week on what to do on it and it slowly burned down from an ambitious unachievable idea to a solid and minimal polished work (Well in my eyes)

Some behind the scenes shots. (Scott attaching the rope; Lighting)

The Next Day...

Then on Saturday I had a massively Vietnamese day, after David came over for Banh Xeo, we trekked it to Cabramatta where we OD'd on Vietnamese food. David, Jay, Michael, Chris & Andy were there as I toured them throughout the ghettoes and the unusual sights of Cabra, a sight into Vietnamese culture and lifestyles. We then went to 'Time Gone' where the old school arcade machines brought back good memories, from Raiden to David owning on DDR. That was seriously the kicker to end the evening on an awesome note.

Charis' house party shortly ensued, I travelled from Epping to Pymble dressed as a little school boy with a massive samurai sword. It's not your average sight either, getting many stares from North and Eastern suburb teens and getting stopped by a train driver for apparently holding an illegal weapon (He deemed it safe after inspection)

It was a good night and ended with tea back at my house with Sujin and Grace. I couldn't ask for a better day :)

A WIP of Sneak

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Every Dog Has His Day

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Zine Fair 2011

Zine Fair 2011 at Sydney's MCA Gallery.

I met a few familiar faces there and also a met a few new.

Got my portrait done alongside Grace :)

Done by David Jack, He's very talented, here is his blog: http://imaginajack.blogspot.com/

Short post, so that's all folks!

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