Kat Charles

3/07/2012

Life and Found

I found these images on my desktop, sometimes i drag things i like that i find on the international creative space that is the world wide web and leave them to linger and clog up the arteries of my mac. they are however also inspirations, images that invoke something in me that i would like to pass on through images i may capture along the way. the moments in time. that is how epic photography really is... capturing that moment in time that may never be caught again. surreal hey?
i fucking love it.

Killing it slowly on the Krackbook.

so i started a Facebook page.. its pretty much a blog on wheels.. i think more peeps suss it out that this but yeah i thought id do it to mix things up. did i mention i got a business card now.. yep. stepping up.
head over to my Facebook page
Kat Charles Illustrator/Photographer
and see all the weird shit im throwing down and the suspect crew that creep infront of my camera from time to time.
The girls are going to bali so im finally gonna get some work done around here.

Heading to Melbourne soon for a group show.. il tell you all more as the story unfolds.

Arrivederci!

Brunswick Buses, Brick a brack and Bowls.

See more shots on my Facebook page... thats kinda where its at right now.

3/06/2012

Kommune K Art Group Show Gold Coast.

Kommune played host to a colab exhibition last weekend known as K Art. Organised by artist and surfer Karlee Mackie the night was focussed around auctioning art pieces for charities; Surf Aid and Surfers for Cetaceans. I threw in some pieces with the Real Creative Design girls. The live auction was pretty fun, an interesting concept but turned out good.. stoked to sell some work and support two great causes. Following this we headed off to the Neverland bar for Michael Crawleys solo show "Because I can" a loose night super fun, great to see some Byron cats creeping out on the town too... good behaviour.

Diva Cory from Real Creative Design Studio

Maria Nilson from Real Creative Design Studio

My submissions.

Posca flairing

Seedy Rats

Untitled ~

Nights of the round table.

Boy with hat under chandelier.

2/24/2012

Now.

Hello people of the sun.
I sit alone in my studio partly hungover, drained of inspiration, tired as fuck.. editing, listening to Youth Lagoon and wishing I could sleep but I tried that and it didn't work.
Iv been pretty busy of late so its hard to get on blogger and think of something to post that
a. doesn't give away too much
b. is somewhat entertaining
c. is somewhat inspiring
d. is some insight into my movements and patterns

what do you want to see?

il tell you a bit of what im doing and hopefully the ball with roll from there.

So. I have recently been shooting look books, catalogues, websites and that jazz... a far cry from the kids i used to shoot in my backyard pulling bindies out of the grass. Models with pretty faces, versatile, nice rigs, some bad facials, beautiful pieces of silk and hand painted patterns... all translating into things you can buy so that you can maybe look that good? I love it all the same..
girls are really nice to look at and not too difficult to edit.. its the lighting part that drives me up the wall and forces me to smoke copeous quantities of rolling tobacco.

In between these shooting antics I have been cooking at an Organic Kitchen in Byron Bay tucked away somewhere between the yoga centre and centrelink.. or centreline.. i don't know cos i haven't been into one for fucken ever.
and I wont.. inspire of the fact sometimes my cat eats better than I do. yes I do own a cat.. something you may not have known about me.

Thank god im doing this right now it is seriously distracting me from the deadline I have looming.
Lykke Li just ticked over. Love that little sexy voice.

Where was I?
oh yeah what Im doing...
in between the cracks of sanity, working to earn a crust, designing and editing and pointing my sandy lens all over the shop I have also been preparing for 2 shows. One is at the Kommune hotel on the Goldie this weekend coming... deadline thursday and the other is my own.

Yep im doing a solo...
the sole purpose behind this was purely experimental. I work pretty tightly with a guy called Rafe, he has a company called Adrift and he screenprints anything from t-shirts to stickers to skateboards and does a fucking epic job of it too... anywhooo he just bought a black and white printer and needed to calibrate the thing so.. thats where I come in. I compile a whole lot of dusty old and shiny new images from the archives, greyscale em, preset em, bee and double u them, lift the blacks, threshold, whatever it takes to bring the image to life.
Then oldmate burns them onto paper and bobs your uncle. well maybe not but he tweaks it susses the colours and were in business...

so at the end of all of this test printing and calibrating im left with a compilation of images to share with you.

You see a good friend of mine Matty "Bone Machine" Atkins just opened an exciting new skateshop last night full of epic woods some handshaped some collected some vintage some recycled some new, no borrowed, no blue just the marriage of epic and awesome.
Bone Machine... yeah I got a boner too when I saw them all slung up on the walls.
And then some.
My little solo is a tribute to Two Tone... not just the colour scheme but the old school skating co. that killed it back in the day. Sew. you can come view this madness in a couple of weeks...
until then you can catch more of my work in a little chinese grocery store in Coolangatta on the Goldie for the last of the Bleach* surfing the fringe festival. And more at Kommune this weekend...

Blah Blah Blah.

The End.

2/14/2012

Rooftop Radness

Board Art for Bleach*

Iv been away with the Fairies in a field of mushrooms.

Dear people from the outskirts of awesome,
thankyou for your visits....
i have noticed.

as my blog remains in a pit of stagnant filth I cant help but feel slightly guilty...
guilty pleasures

You have heard that lame busy bee excuse one too many times before and I am almost afraid to use it again... il just give it a little spin add in some adjectives and as the Cure ticks over on my Grooveshark I am attempting to formulate an excuse for my lateness...

I have been up the Goldie no babies...
super cute boys, a fuck load of epic art.
NOTE: "epic" is now my work for EVERYTHING. yeah sorry about that

soooo everything has been wonderfully wonderfully pretty
we should have each other with tea... we should have each other with cream
make mine with mushrooms.

sorry kids im going to start flinging shit at you like a monkey at the zoo

check out my Facebook page im in the process of buffing myself
EPIC
XXXX

1/30/2012

Doc x Deus x Shayne Allen

Shayne Allen on a Deus log by Thomas Bexon from shayne allen on Vimeo.

1/25/2012

The ocean is the salt of life x

Kat loves talented freaks x

1/10/2012

Light tricks and shop shadows.

Been playing around with some little layouts before the silly season... Sliding sweetheart Leana on a couple... and together again for the first time x

Post Script

Iv been in the wild west for 2 and a half weeks peeps do you know what that means?.....

too many memory cards to sift through and a list a mile long at the studio of TWO DOOS ouch... busy bees we are...

il be back in a minute to post through some new shots, old shots, new designs and some illustrations I can give you a sneak peak of...

got a couple of art shows coming up so its head down bum up. post surf that is.

post script.
dolphins was rad this morning and all the punters went in cos of a shark... wussbags it was super fun sucked in sideways

ariverderci

xxx

Gaz Art

Such rad photos, super inspiring stuff, sexy swimwear, summer fun, surfing sillouhettes, feather leather, this guy can shoot just about anything have a peak at his stuff and buy his book e wook.....