Since it is almost a year since last journal entry, I figured it was time for an update. Though few deviations added, it feels like I've been having a lot of things 'going on' anyways.
Why not give me a chance to sum up my artsy year of 2008:
Made a series of paintings called 'Meta Monks' - a rather cryptic and esoteric collection of ink paintings suggesting recognizable meta-belief patterns. More closely described here
www.egilpaulsen.com/blog/?p=90 The Meta Monks-series will be exhibited at the ByLarm festival in Oslo early 2009
bylarm.no/ Came in contact with a film producer and director who were interested in a short movie screenplay I wrote called 'Black Milk'. Since then I've been working as screenwriter and production designer for my film. The film has been given money for production developement by Filmkraft Rogaland and Vestnorsk Filmsenter. Even though we are in pre-production, this usually indicates strong interest in full financing the project. More and more talented and great people gets involved and I believe this will be a killer milestone of 2009. Read more about Black Milk in my blog
www.egilpaulsen.com/blog/?cat=… I was featured in Ilex Press’ new book Gothic Art Now with my two paintings Lost Circle
sc0pe.deviantart.com/art/Lost-… and Masquerade
sc0pe.deviantart.com/art/Masqu… (p.17). It is funny to have my earlier work published today because these are paintings I did when I was just a teenager
Anyways, the book was nicely done and I felt well accompanied with artists such as Giger, Joachim Luetke and Erlend Mørk
Started on a potential Hell-series with a couple of concepts lurking around. As many artists tend to portray their inferno like a hot and horned place, I would go rather introvert and personal. We'll see what it turns out to be. The intro for the series could be concidered my latest painting, Omega
sc0pe.deviantart.com/art/Omega…I must admit my studies has taken a lot of my time this year. I am doing my last year on the bachelor degree of computer science and things got kinda busy. Everything went well this year though with grades and interesting projects. Actually one project worth mentioning was designing a prototype of a painter program specially made for people with no arms and legs. It worked
Mentioning studies, I've begun attending lifedrawing sessions every week and join café sketch crawling every sunday. So I actually draw more lines now comparing to 2007. In the army they say "Train hard, fight easy". I say "Practice hard, draw easy". My personal rule is however "Think hard, draw smart"
Goals for 2009:
Solo exhibition (already mentioned the exhibition at a music festival, but..)
Finish the short movie 'Black Milk'. Clean up some ideas and pitch some of my new film ideas.
Apply for a master's programme in (probably) human computer interaction to complement my prime field of interest in computer science.
That was a lot of me-time. I wish you all now a happy new year and good luck with your great art.