About Kerry

Kerry’s information here. Someday she’ll write it… ;)

About Brook

I’m an artist whom lives with Kerry, the mother of my child and all time beloved, whom is an artist also, read Kerry’s bio above. I approach my artistic endeavours with a desire to do the best I can. I utilise multiple mediums and are interested in the idea of merging mediums. I started out at school trying out what ever the school had to offer and settled into pen and pencil drawings. Right now the main ones are Computer Generated Imagery (CGI) and Bone Carving. Although I have dabbled in many types of mediums over the years.

CGI History:

I started out early on, first scanning my pen drawings in using a friends Mac Classic with a black and white scanner the size of a car. This equipment also included a huge publishing printer and colour peripheral monitor and HDD.

At school there were a couple of PC’s, although they had a handful of colour, they were horrid to use and a room full of LC’s (Low Cost Macs), all black and white machines but I was more able to create little images of my own. Later the school upgraded the LC’s with LC II’s with colour displays. They were very nice at the time for us. The colour range was excellent and software had improved.

I “encouraged” my parents to buy a computer for me to use for school work. Amazingly they did. They bought an LC II. I began creating many little colour works of art with that. Non of which I think, unfortunately, are in existence today. I also used to produce these funny little black and white stick figure animations.

After year 12 ended I went to New Zealand, where I worked with a graphic designer who happened to also be my landlord. He had an LC III and while I was there purchased a Top of the line PowerMac 8100 with loads of amazing equipment. I got given the task of working out how to implement it into his current line of work so he didn’t have to take too much time off doing so himself. I loved that sooo much. He tried to convince me to invest in one of my own. Instead I went traveling by each in the South Pacific ocean.

After eventually getting home to Adelaide, I used my parents LC II for a while until a friend lent me an unused LC II. Later I bought what was officially “my first computer”, a PowerMac 6200 with a little extra under the hood. To this day I am impressed with how that machine performed until it became, shal we say “a bit loose under the noggin”. With that machine I delved into the world of 3D; using an application called Infini-D which later merged with RayDream Studio to become Carrara.

The merge of the software and the divesting by MetaCreation around 2000 lead me away from this. I had some interest in moving to a software package that at the time was more high-end. Maya was one of my favoured choices which at the time was not available on the Mac OS. I almost moved myself over to a PC, rather reluctantly, to accommodate my creative direction. Then it was announced there will be a Mac version. I took a course of Maya Basics and was on my way.

Anyway before the MetaCreations shakeup I was at uni and purchased a new Mac. Specifically a PowerMac G3. Once again I was impressed with the performance of this machine and how well it handled the extreme load I put it under. In fact I used it to run Maya for many years when even from the start it was listed as not suitable for Maya. I retired this computer with the purchase of a MacBook Pro, core2duo 64bit. I still use this ageing machine as of this writing.

Bone Carving History:

My Bone Carving history is a little shorter. If you read above you would have read that I went to New Zealand. This is where I learnt the craft. Prior to going I had received a Bone Carving book from my father called Bone Carving: A Skillbase of Techniques and Concepts by Stephen Myhre. This had inspired me and I had decided that next time I went to N.Z. I would learn to carve.

While in N.Z. Len and Candy Kay of Pacific Carvers taught me the craft of Bone Carving. Len at the time was the primary carver and taught me the bulk of the skill. His work was of a extremely high standard which aligned with my own fastidiousness. He was also an excellent teacher. I enjoyed my time with them enormously. After I finished working with them I planned to setup a workshop at home but never did so.

For many years I pulled out my box of tools and bits of bone and what was left of my collection of carvings, which was meagre, and ponder the studio idea again. For a long time I was never in a situation that allowed for a home studio which influenced my decision to not set one up. I came to believe that I would get around to it in my later years as Len had.

In 2008 I met Kerry the mother of my child and my all time beloved. She encouraged me to setup a studio and she also owned a property which was more than sufficient for the job. As it turns out my love for it in practice hasn’t been all consuming like the CGI was and now only dabble in it. I look forward to doing more of it in future.

About the Theme:

The original theme was called Polished by Elegant Themes. I modified the theme quite a bit and thank the original artist/s for their Terms of Service which allowed me to do so. I have learned a lot so far from working on this theme.