Musical Goodness from Tim George

I'm very excited to announce that my beloved, Tim George is releasing his first official album later this year and that he has asked me to do the cover artwork for it!!

I have been busy with ideas, making him a fan page, and he's been finalising the track listing and liaising with the CD manufacturer... we are both dead excited! Should be ready in May to buy and a little later for download on iTunes and Amazon. The album will consist of a whopping 15 tracks of his more mellow, acoustic goodness.

In the mean time you can check him out on his Reverbnation page, or over on the Facebook fan page, and yey perhaps become a fan!

I'll be posting sneaky peaks of the artwork as and when it progresses.

Things n Stuffs...

...  I'm into right now. Here's me sharing goodness, both web based and actual physical thingymabobs.

Crumpet - by the exceptionally talented woman with what I can only assume are alien thumbs KitLane

Seriously cool networking site for artists, curators and art fans alike really worth a looksie.

Moths, or more specifically the insanely cool and slightly spooky Death Moth, or more scientifically correct given name Acherontia lachesis

Sketch Theatre - it's wonderfully vicarious but I just love watching people draw, anyone in fact - famous or a mere mortal! But Sketch Theatre showcases some of the best artists of our time, drawing right in front of your eyes. Haven't heard of it?! Then what the hell are you still doing here?!

More to come, I'm into a lot of stuffsies right now.

Bye Bye MMA

Mail Me Art

52

I didn't make any *resolutions* this year, I like things that are bad for me far too much! So instead I have decided to set myself a unobtainable goal... it might seem wildly pathetic compared to some of the goals I have heard artists set themselves already this year, but here goes.

Being that there 52 weeks in the year (I think, I haven't actually checked), there are therefore 52 weekends, seeing that this is the time I tend to make stuff I have set myself the goal of 52 works of art, at least, for 2010.

The rules are:

- They must be finished works
- No sketches or doodles, however bloody lovely they are
- It must be a drawing, painting or other "craft", snap-happy photos do not count
- I must try and complete one a week, not none for three weeks then four shit ones all at once
- If I'm not happy with it, it doesn't count - no making up the numbers with mediocre mindlessness

There, it's *public* so now I got to stick to it!

On another note, no bunny-bird in the post tonight, far too much white stuff on the ground, plus side is I get to keep him for one more night! Oh, he is counting as one of the 52, is that fair?! Yeh, course it is, I really like him! I can see these rules being bent already...

Mail Me Art

I have devised a plan to help me let go of stuff, and by stuff I mean art.

I can't take credit for the plan, Mail Me Art is a project now in it's second year, whereby artists send work in by post, there's a monthly winner and a show at the end - last year there was also a book published from 200 of the best offerings.

Dan May's incredible piece from last year

The TWIST? The ground for the work is the envelope you send, be it a tube, packet or whatever takes your fancy, that is the canvas and you just pop it in the post - the fact that there is the potential for them to get scuffed up in the system is apparently all part of it, so much so that you are NOT ALLOWED to put it in another envelope. Seriously masochistic isn't it?!

I'd been meaning to send something since I heard about it last year - and then recently it dawned on me, I'll be killing two birds with one hefty blow; I get to submit to a really cool project whilst at the same time learning to let go of stuff, in a seriously hardcore-letting-go type of way. I'll remain safe in the knowledge that this little guy is most likely gonna get stomped on at the sorting office, probably dropped in a puddle, or worse, dog shit... I KNOW WHERE YOU LIVE POSTIE!! Ok, no I don't.

So here's my thingymajig, I call him Birdie-Bun... or something. He's got him some coloured pencil and watercolour on a home-made Arches paper envelope. He's going in the letter box tomorrow...

Note the excessive-wishful-thinking postage...

They are open for submissions until the end of this month.. so go get doodling (or creating a Renaissance masterpiece) on an envelope! Hell yeh.... I can feel myself detaching (and slowly unravelling?)

Hi-Fructose Vol. 14 is here...

..... and it is YUMMY!

Festivities Creativities

Over the festive period I did actually get around to doing a few creative things, in between the copious amounts of food and fun!

Here's the Christmas card I ended up making from my original graphite drawing.


It's printed on my six-colour Epson in duotone red - as I figured the black and white was a bit too macabre for Christmas! Little robin got a good reception from all who received him, even by my Nan who I thought wouldn't be too enamored by the plight of the wormy!

I also had a bit of a play around combining coloured pencil and watercolour in a couple of new pieces. Usually for things like this I outline in pen, like my Anima Femina drawings, but I like the quality that the pencil outline gave here, much softer - maybe more forgiving...

Below are some initial sketches, progress and completed shots. Photos are a bit naff - can't be bothered to scan them right now.

"Reminder"

Materials are Derwent Coloursoft pencils and Dr PH Martins watercolours, on Somerset printmaking paper.


EDIT:  "Kiss Me Slow" (retitled from"The Kiss") a tribute to Klimt's "The Kiss"

I actually did this for a show of the same theme at Pop Revolution Gallery, Mason, OH. But I'm in two minds whether to submit it or not. I think I like it too much to part with it; this has always been my problem, it's like sending your babies out into the world alone! Eeeek, what should I do?