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Sketchy Friday

Lots of coals in the fire at the moment and LOTS to blog about... just trying to get the time to do it...hmm. Anyhoo, I've been working alongside a very talented artist on a couple of exciting collaborative projects. He's flying ahead with ideas and I'm trying to catch up. Whilst plotting and planning our pieces I rediscovered my love for my A2 Marker Pad (Daler -Rowney) and my 0.2 Artline drawing pen. It must be the nights closing in or something but curled up on the sofa with pen and pad is bliss!

.. especially when I have a DVD boxset of 'Ulysses 31' to get through...

Awful KnAwful

"Awful Knawful" 

Aerosol and acrylic on found fence boards.

It is pronounced 'Kin-Awful'. He was a real guy who was the cell mate of a young tearaway who the local police knicknamed Evil Knievel.

 

"Building" Exhibition opens tonight

The launch of “Building”, an exhibition of original prints by artists from Seacourt Print Workshop responding to Bangor’s built environment, takes place tonight. The works will be on display in Bangor Museum from the 5^th to 30^th October 2010. A launch of the exhibition and accompanying catalogue with an essay by  historian and Museum Manager Ian Wilson will take place on Thursday 7^th October at 7.00pm.

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... My piece "Summer Fun! Admit One" is a celebration of the rickety old fun house that was Barrys Amusements. In the days when computer games were a glint in the milkmans' eye there was nothing more exciting than scaring the shinola out of yourself by hopping on one of the rickety high speed rides.

Toot! Toot!

Meat For Bait

I found a better photo of the Live Paint piece.....

..... As a piece constructed in 8 ish hours I'm really pleased with it.

It is part of a continuing series of pieces where I'm abstracting both my own created characters and some that have already been abstracted from other sources. I want to emphasize 'abstracted from other sources' here. I'm not copying images directly, I want to use them as a jumping off point and then take them through several stages of reworking and abstraction before I use them. Sometimes when you take an image out of it's context it takes on a whole different meaning, and this is a brilliant foundation to create a piece where all the elements in it are reactions it's neighbours.

The MTPt logo is in itself an ongoing experiment in abstraction, more later.

Live Paint @ Alternative Ink 2-10-10

8 hours to produce a piece of art from scratch that will be displayed in the Alternative Ink gallery for 6 weeks...is that all...

Anyway here it is in 12...

1. Worst fear, a blank board! We were all supplied with the same size of primed MDF board.

2. I'd seen this panel in an old Ritchie Rich comic and have been wanting to use it for ages. The bottom of the panel would be hand drawn so I used a Sharpie to draw the lines.

3.  Block in the colour.

4. beefed up the type

5. Laid down the background colour with aerosol (green over yellow) and sprayed some tone on to try and give it the old school comic book look.

7. Bit of masking, bit of darker green.

8.rip off the masking..

9. spend an absolute age kneeling on the floor with a tiny brush inking the lines in..

10. Then sand the lot back.

11. I stenciled the main character colours to save time and then started inking in the details.

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12.Finished the piece off with a MtPt logo. 8 1/2 hours on the dot, stop the clock!

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