Friends and Neighbours..

Over the holiday period I'm always getting itchy feet and want to shoot stuff.. As we're always having people drop by for a drink, I thought I'd approach friends and neighbours to shoot a portrait of them, for a series..
All up I shot about 23 friends and these are my favourites from the lot, Roseanne being my favourite.. What I love about photographing close friends, is that when you're grading the images you really get to study them close. Even more so than in the flesh, every line, scar and dare I say blemish..

Friends and Neighbours are as follows:
George (Father-in-law), Max, Dave, Hannah, Judith, Roseanne, Lee (Mother-in-law), Kenny, Isabelle, Mal and Gav...

Pigment.. Neil Frazer's Portrait, oh and Brains...

 

I emailed Frazer this morning if he fancied a quick portrait shot, before my wife gives birth over the next few days.. He said for sure, so I popped round to shoot him in his studio along with Brains, his and wife Jo's dog... Artist Frazer and his wife and artist Jo Braithwaite are lovely, I've only met them a couple of times, but I feel like I've know them for much longer.

Frazer will be having three separate portraits done over the next few months, this been the first of them.. It's not very often you get an opportunity to shoot someone, whose jeans can stand up by themselves... My friend Matthew Lawrence Bespoke, is going to be making him a suit for one of the shots and the third will involve his plastic paint covered wall... ]

Brains also got in on the act today getting a few snaps taken before I headed off, Brains was a natural in front of the lens..

Jo's portrait will be shot in a few weeks time..

Hopefully next up in my Oil series will be Euan Macleod, along with Ben Quilty..

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Clinton Duncan's Beard... Sadly Removed..

It's always a sad day when someone decides to shave his or her beard off, a few days back was one of those days.. Bad ass biker Clinton Duncan, who works for my mates Paul and Simon at There Design, worked on my website last year. Recently I popped into There to see Mr Duncan sporting a fine facial beard... I saw the crash helmet and shades at his desk and said he'd need to wear them for his beard portrait, when he decided to shave it off.. What followed was a roller coaster of looks for the bearded man.. Put it this way, if we'd had a power cut after we trimmed it down to a tash, it could have ended ugly.. Fair play to Clinton for being a good sport, you can see how sad he looks minus the beard. My thoughts are with him, at this difficult time..

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Pigment.. Neil Frazer.

Neil Frazer is the fourth in my series of artists Oil.

http://www.martinbrownefineart.com/ArtistNFrazer.html

'Frazer' is married to Joanna Braithwaite and they work and live is a wonderful space just a few blocks, from where I live. On meeting these lovely people I really had no idea how their spaces would be. Jo said she'd just recently cleaned her studio up, Frazer's on the other hand was a goldmine, for what I'm working on.. To be honest I could probably just document Frazer's pieces of stuff and do a book, due to the fact there was so much of interest to me.. It was really intersting to see how very different they were in their work spaces and I'm only uploading a selection from what I shot with Frazer. The majority of these abstract shots are of Frazer's paint lids he uses to paint with and his work trousers, that could pretty much up alone..

I will be going back to shoot Frazer's space in the near future and photograph both Jo and Frazer for their portrait, along with their dog ' Brains'..