Don't Eat Paint

2011-03-15T00:49:00.001-07:00

some shit

2011-02-24T09:53:00.000-08:00

oi oi peeples
:D today was glorious and sunny!! Wahoooo
Here is a picture I made super quick fast

today i made...

2011-02-14T12:18:00.000-08:00

Christ and some deciples ... namely a cat ,,, and a chinchilla ... obv!

D-orm twoopers

2011-02-07T16:05:00.001-08:00

2011-02-04T10:45:00.000-08:00

Germination

2011-02-04T01:56:00.000-08:00

I had a dream ages and ages ago - There was a part of the dream I really wanted to draw but never got round to it until the other day

all neon like

2011-01-15T07:28:00.001-08:00

happy new year

2011-01-13T02:08:00.000-08:00

2010-12-10T06:30:00.000-08:00

2010-12-10T05:56:00.000-08:00

Amanda Visell

2010-12-07T11:17:00.000-08:00

http://www.amandavisell.com/talk_to_me

fortttz

2010-12-06T23:44:00.001-08:00

i want to live in here!

2010-12-06T00:05:00.000-08:00

Tuesdays face smile

2010-11-30T07:55:00.000-08:00

Shary Boyle

Mark Warren Jacques

Lisa Congdon

Henri Rousseau

The Laughing heart

2010-11-21T23:39:00.000-08:00

your life is your life
don’t let it be clubbed into dank submission.
be on the watch.
there are ways out.
there is a light somewhere.
it may not be much light but
it beats the darkness.
be on the watch.
the gods will offer you chances.
know them.
take them.
you can’t beat death but
you can beat death in life, sometimes.
and the more often you learn to do it,
the more light there will be.
your life is your life.
know it while you have it.
you are marvelous
the gods wait to delight
in you.

@Charles Bukowski

Compuderr skillzzz

2010-11-20T10:50:00.000-08:00

I used photoshop for the first time last week to complete a uni brief we had been given to design a book cover for a wildlife book using a maximum of three colours and incorporating text etc etc yadda yadda
anyway heres what I came up with
I hand drew the owl and mice and scanned them in and then inverted the outline - all very complicated and technical I assure thee :)

ADRIENS FINALLY FINIIIISHED!!

2010-11-12T12:41:00.000-08:00

It only took a year :p
but there were large gaps of no painting were I just couldnt face him (ha) - theres still lots I could do with him - lots of blemishes and more stubble but for now Im pleased to have him hanging on my wall - that giant head! awwww

moleskine

2010-11-12T04:37:00.001-08:00

A town up there

2010-02-02T04:45:00.001-08:00

I want to live here - for a bit atleast

in this instance ... id love the skills of Penny Crayon!

sketch 4 - a darty one

2010-02-02T04:40:00.000-08:00

**Im sorry the pictures are papp - my mobile phone is pretty darn sturdy but it was created a decade ago ***
I did this little dude today ... need to make more of a habit of sketching away! Im really worried that Im getting carried away with myself taking on an illustration degree when i have absolutely no idea how to use a computer :) oh well lifes for living and learning!

sketchy 3

2010-02-01T23:04:00.000-08:00

i forgot already to post :p eeeeeeeeeeee
heres one

Sketchbook pt 2

2010-01-31T02:52:00.001-08:00

Most* contemporary art is poo poo

2010-01-30T15:07:00.000-08:00

The Tate Modern depresses me and not because i find the work so amazing I leave feeling talentless and unworthy - In my uneducated and worthless opinion - The Tate modern is full ... FULL ... jam packed ... with visually unstimulating tosh ... theres the odd treasure sure - but to be honest the fact that often its just spewing at the sides with pretentious wankers is enough to keep me away :)

the end

p.s. Damien Hirst - you are a twat

Rachel Whiteread

Well Indeed

2010-01-30T14:53:00.000-08:00

I am not a good Blogger ... its hard to remember to sit and do this all the time - but ... i stumbled upon this amazing website called 43 Things and in a bid to get the most out of myself creatively - and in preperation for a possible move towards University I made several resolutions - the usual stuff ie: excercise my brain and body more often, Meditate, and Draw more .... I have never really kept a sketch book - i generally just go at a canvass and see what happens - but I made a resolution to do ONE sketch a day ... like all resolutions however I have faltered - This will not do!
So this blog is my commitment ... From today I will upload a picture a day from my sketch book!

Wooowoooo

It might motivate me to produce better work too

We shall see .....

guffaw

2009-09-09T04:45:00.000-07:00

jackson

2009-09-09T04:36:00.000-07:00

end

more owlz

2009-02-26T16:24:00.000-08:00

I played around with some felt today ....

hoot hoot

2009-02-25T16:12:00.000-08:00

I have been loving owls

and their hootings

The Greatest

2009-02-14T12:01:00.000-08:00

I went out last night - i was a silly goosey and had an empty tummy so typically i was rat arsed after ... 2 pints - in total i definately drank 3 maybe four pints ... i dont remember my friends carrying me home and tucking me up and providing me with a basin if i had needed to spewke

notice how kind my friends are. :)

HAPPY VALENTINES DAY

Age has brought me the realisation that its a silly day ... if you love someone tell um all the time :) and make a nice card - Sheila you have such tasty shoes ooom oohm MOONPIIIIG!

i have nearly finished a commision ... i cant wait to finish him and start doing my own thing for a bit

i am trying to sell lots of paintings so that I can work with animals abroad ... maybe in Thailand.
yp yup

So yeah Cassius Clay dont ya know
what a lovely hand yee hath KAPOW

sketchbook stuff

2009-02-08T09:56:00.000-08:00

some bits and pieces in my booky wook - most of it is poopoo

my space

2009-02-08T09:45:00.000-08:00

i need carole smiley to come and sort it out - gimmie some under the bed storage and some lovely shelves ... currently everything is everywere - i hope i dont get wee miceys :0p

the girl

2009-02-07T10:33:00.000-08:00

hello
lately ive been experimenting with form to try and develop a style that is unique to me ... its been a struggle and im not even close ... this painting is 'the girl' ... i love painting human form and ive been adapting it in my sketch book, mixing man with animal (not a first) its certainly fun mish mashing the two ... 'the girl' is the first put down onto canvass - and i have used oils - messier but definately better when it comes to taking your time as you can work and re-work the paint over a number of days. she's not finished - id like to incorporate more form to the ground and build the layers so that she doesnt just float on the canvass but as ive not uploaded much for a while i thought id give you a taster of what wierdness may come in the future - expect horses heads and squiddy feet perhapaps :)
i have been looking about for lots of ideas and stumbled across an amazing artist called NOMI CHI (http://www.cgunit.net/search/label/Nomi%20Chi) HER WORK IS AMAZING!!!

xxxx

a quiet moment

2009-02-06T23:05:00.000-08:00

plom plom

2009-01-22T13:17:00.001-08:00

Neil Gaiman, "Despair is an artist, whose hands will never catch the vision"

Im struggling at the moment to locate that 'quality' that all my inspirations demonstrate ... their unique style and ability to just create something amazing out of thin air. Im hopeless - ill have an idea but when pen hits paper its gone :(

im sure i just need to practice but i am an impatient one and i need this NOW!

I know it wont ever be perfect

but lets have a go

BONJOUR!!

2009-01-18T04:17:00.000-08:00

Hi folkies :)

i hath just returned from gay paris
my oh my what an experience ... Ive never been before so the only french connection i had in the past was Route Nationale courtesy of GSCE wonderment and what id seen in the movies!
Paris is an amazing city ... It took me back with the wonderful architecture and the array of characters Id met with my lovely mother (she will talk to everyone)
I think that the one place i connected with the most was Montmartre, the home of Amelie Poulain, the town itself near Moulin Rouge is bustling with tourists and sex shops ;) but the Place du Tertre at the top of the hill is were Artists gather to paint you portrait and the local scenery. Myself and my mamsley were skint so happy to just admire the scenery but a man approached us while we were lunching and offered to make my portrait :) we had to oblige hehe
it took 5 mins and although the likeness is 'unusual' i love it.
what do you reckon

SHAZAM!!!!!

KEEF!!!

2009-01-07T11:12:00.001-08:00

Cent a la Banc Monsieur Chocolate

2009-01-07T09:20:00.000-08:00

Bonjour!!! :)
Im off to paris tomorrow ... my first trip to the frog land - frogs are lovely though I shant digest any. My camera in hand to take some lubberly pictures
maybe ill post them on this blog thingy .... :)
this maybe better / healthier then facebook perhaps
we'll see
a new year ahead - but really it means nothing eh - i read something that stuck once - something that said dont live in the past or the future - they dont exist ... and if anyone says to live in the present then give them a swift belting cause technically thats gone too - remember 'this very moment'
ha belting indeed, we wont condone that kind of behavior now but yes ... enjoy this very moment :)

heres some art for your eyes... its my first attempt at a piece thats supposed to be truely 'photo real' the picture was taken on my mobile so apologies for the utterly ploppy quality ... its taking me a very long time to do, its a very big piece indeed - we'll see how it goes shall we.

sheers
xx

The Joker. (AhhaHHAHHHAHhHAhahaha!!!!!)

2009-01-05T14:17:00.000-08:00

I like the Batman. I like the Jokerman more...

Faces

2009-01-05T13:57:00.000-08:00

Happy New Year folkies!!!