You can get in touch with me using the e-mail form below.
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A little bit about me:
I’ve been learning to paint since I was 3 years old.
People have let me practice painting for many years in animation, scenic design and games design.
After much experience of wrangling pixels, I’m rediscovering the wet media I always used to work with. Stuff that I can have happy accidents with. Gooey paints that I can be spontaneous with.
I’m improving slowly, and still learning. Slowly.
Oh! By the way, my name is Michael Hirsh. I live in Surrey in the South of England, quite near London.
This blog is a protracted and rambling reflection on the art traditions that feed into the aesthetics of animated films. It doesn’t always stay on topic.
I have a couple of static websites that show my commercial work.
2) animation-backgrounds.com
This second site contains masses of artwork as well as many tutorials for the natural media vector painting software that I use for really BIG paintings.
The reference to Texticles in the blog’s title is a hommage to the notes that Marcel Duchamp wrote for `The Bride Stripped Bare By Her Bachelors, Even´ (also known as The Large Glass), and the outrageous puns and alter-ego he constructed for his female self, Rrose Sélavy. So there you go.
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8 Comments
Mike! remember me? All those years ago at Purdums and later, Bluth’s? Well…..nice to see you’re still up and at it, with a smart web site. Based in Surrey?
I might be off to Asia again soon, which is where I have spent my career and my liver for a few years now..would be good to see you, should you venture into London tarn. Drop me a line and let me know how you are and all that.
S.
@Simon Ward-Horner:I’ve e-mailed you!
hey,Michael,greetings from China^^
really like yr blog.I just google”minuscule” and then i opened yr website,haha.you know what,i do enjoy reading yr post and those comments.can i ask a favor?i collect postcards and posters from all over the world.i wonder do you have your paintings which later being printed on some postcards.can i have maybe one of those?here is my address,really appreciated.No.202-22,TaiDaYuan,YongAn Street,Hexi District,Tianjin,China.Also,can i also have yr signiture on it.haha.I will write you one back when i have yr address=)really glad i can surf on ur webpage,great info here.thx
Hi Mike
Nice to see you the other night at Festivus, shame I was just leaving when we met up! I pulled your card/slip of paper out of my pocket this morning and realised you were the author/ owner/what’s the name for it(?) of this site I’d found and bookmarked a little while ago. Very nice, my boy.
I’ve put my website address up but don’t bother going there yet because it isn’t finished, I’ll let you know when it is and you can tell me what you think.
All the best
Derek
Thanks for stopping by and commenting, Derek. Perhaps we can chat more at the next Festivus, if you’re in the Londonish part of the country.
Send us a link to your website when it’s up and running, and I’ll put a link in the sidebar here.
Have a Happy New Year, wherever you are.
Thank-you for the piece on W. Orpen; I’m also on a journey ‘backwards’ as it were, discovering things I should’ve known.
Well, I learn best through need, I guess.
I’m an artist based in Surrey quite near London, too.
Presently I’m working on paintings of the front line in Afghan. because my son was serving there last year and will return next winter. I ‘m compelled!
My older son is musician, a composer, and a keen video gamer. Oh what a find this site is. Thanks again.
@Annabelle: Thanks for you comment, and apologies for delay in replying. Do you have any of your Afghanistan paintings online? Or will you have an exhibition sometime soon?
Hello!
No website but have luverly pics on my iPhoto, bit difficult to share I guess… must do the website thing.
As the work evolves, I keep changing my mind about how I want to show it; I started with wanting to just ‘big-up the lads’ and perhaps raise funds for them, but actually, I’d like to be represented by something like the Army Museum because,historically, the situation is unique but has ‘universal soldier’ themes.
Did you see the Waterhouse show at the Nat. Gall.?? Stupendous set pieces, eh?