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More Year 3 stuff

2007-02-11T12:23:00.000-08:00

Yr3 1st term work

2007-02-10T13:48:00.000-08:00

pics from essex

2006-04-09T12:40:00.000-07:00

Heres some juicy footage from down here in lovely southend. Pavement grit running through your hair, its soo hackney down here i love it. broken windows and sirens,
drunks on the kill, awww no place like it.

heres some shots of the cafe anyway. and look! short hair on long hiar chris, thought id never see the day. but the cafe man, looks proper rank a? it was tiny, like 2 rooms in halls knocked together with bathroom tiles to cover the grime. shudder me timbers.

perfect for the film though ;)

Here we go

2006-03-11T10:48:00.000-08:00

More paintings in progress, im sure you'll agree. The Orange and Blue is the Radiohead one, Sit Down, im sure you'll be sorry to hear. I wanna do it better than what it was before. So, im gonna get some mega cool stencils and the like, and do a job of it, or better still, try my hand at sign writing. My Aunts Ex used to do it, so i have a chance at being an apprentice or some excellent.

The Sketch is of a friend, with a moustache. He he he. The Gun is going to be for Transending cultural boundries ;) and the abstract thing with the skulls is probably war. enjoy!

Painting In Progress

2006-03-08T08:57:00.000-08:00

Heres one of the paintings im working on, guess the film its nicked orf ;) Still needs work, im thinking more spaceships and burning buildings. My favourite :)

The Beast Stirs...

2006-03-04T12:31:00.000-08:00

YES! Im actually making some work instead of pissing money up the wall again. This particular work is a B52 Whale im working around. Should be pretty cool once i figure out what im doing properly, wanna make a h-yuh-aoooge one, maybe with like, detatchable wings or what have you. I wanted to show you the painting im working on as well, but alas, the photo isnt with me, bless. So, i'll have to do some more work, clearly. Hope you enjoy this teaser. And look, pics of when it was only half made! Joygasm. Oh, and i think i might migrate to MySpace. So there.

Paintings from the assesment, and Ceramic close up shots

2006-01-26T13:03:00.000-08:00

Yes, the paintings. I love them to bits, i just wish i'd had more time... well, I wish i'd spent more time is more accurate. ANYWAY. here we go....

The first and personal favourite, the good old Mountain Bed. Originaly a painting of my bed, it evolved into a kind of, dream landscape. It looks safe, but staying in bed all day really screws you up. So im kind of trapped in this painting, behind those darn so good it has to be cancer duvee covers.
Cool huh? :D :D :D

Here we have the self portrait. Its painted from a photo of me looking really tired and depressed sitting in the union bar, i just thought it looked amazing and wanted to paint it. The skull mustache was added to give the image more resonance. And yes, big words are very cool. Im really dissapointed that i couldn't spend more time painting it, but you get the gist. The bar of light was an impulse I went with, i feel it helps the composition. Painting people is a lot harder than mountains and tower blocks, so expect to see more of this stuff. Im not giving up that easily mr trampoline.

I also submitted this painting, im thinking of calling it "Absense of Life" or "Hardware Deficency" or something. Its an other worldly painting based on my college union building. cool huh?

This is the finished (I WANT TO DO MORE DAMNIT) thunderbirds painting. I still dont think the central tower is right. But you get the gist. Its influenced from blade runner, and its covered in icons, like the school bus, and a black 2001 space ship in the distance. and thats that! those are all the paintings i submitted... well actually there were a couple of studies i made, but i'll save them for another time. ENJOY!!!

THE ASSESMENT - Ceramics

2006-01-25T08:33:00.000-08:00

here it is ladys and gents, the one you've been waiting for...

This is a shot of all the little monsters and buildings and trains i made for my bloody assesment. Sorry its not that great a shot, but you get the gist.

We have several general-ted optimus prime figures, 2 in camo, one in light grey and black, and the prototype in dark grey. There is also an optimus prime head concept. Up at the front, is a train emerging from billowing clouds of smoke, influenced by Edward Hopper, and Batman. Then there are 2 towers, one a McDonalds tower in red, and an empire state building. At the back, a plefora of strange monster creations. The biggest monster of them all however, is the dark red glazed cacodemon beside the train. I'll give you some close ups and the paintings later on, as right now im in a hurry ^_^ STAY TUNED!

Last update before X-MAS :D

2005-12-15T06:02:00.000-08:00

I expect there will also be a final assesment kind of, gallery post as well, when all my junk finally hits the walls of the art room, and the floors, and possibly the ceilings if I have my way with things. Right, here we go...

Here is the current state of my futuristic city painting, admitedly a pretty shite pic, but what can you do. The kind of train-thing really improves the image, but its nothing like i want it to look yet. This damn painting will take me the rest of my natural life at the current rate of progress, so stay tuned!

Here is my Upscaled Bad Ass One of a Kind Tower of Doom :D Just look at it, isnt she pretty ;) I guess it needs like, sanding down a bit, and my lecturer is gonna love firing this thing, its only just about gonna fit in the kiln :D The question is, what to put on the top? Mcdonalds sign perhaps? Maybe a doller sign.... Ahhh the joy.

This is a sculpture based on my brother. We always played games with toys, and to this day, I believe he see's himself as a general. The guy has a goddamn army for christ sakes. And he always, always, wheres his army coat. Seriously, he wont take it off when we go to the beach, the hottest weather, the poshest resturant, you name it. And of course, when we played all these "little people games" with toys, Ted would always have to be the leader, the goodest good guy, Optimus Prime, Batman, Im not sure about aliens... probably Hicks, and I think Gambit from the X-Men was always his favourite X-Man, where as I was a Wolverine/Cyclops fan (Cyclops is far to much of a fag in the films man, in the cartoon he kicked ass, the guy was blowing away sentinels like a shotgun to zombies). Anyway, i've made a couple more of these, but they we're more hurried, I'd like to spend ages on a large one to try and get the form perfect. The shape of this particular one is pretty much spot on i believe. Now theres a rant and a half....

The CacoDemon :D You might think him a crude replica of the classic monster, looking at him now, he isn't nearly evil enough, far to happy, like he's just eaten a nursery full of bastard children, and has just spied an old lady struggling under the weight of her christmas shopping. Not nearly evil enough. But my GOD he's sexy as hell, and what a pleasure to build it was.

This is just an assortmant of machet monsters, prototypes, cool little things I wanted to see in the flesh. They remind me of the kind of thing you see in secondary schools everywhere. Always a laugh making a monster ;)

Heres the McDonalds tower i made at the start of term, quite an unintentionally glorifying image, that will deffinetly end up in my scetch book in a vain attempt, to fill the bloody thing. The Mcdonalds M, aka, the Golden Arches of Evil, is a bit wonky, but you get the gist of it.

Heres a self portrait im working on :D Its changed a lot now, you'l have to wait and see it ;D The story behind it is, a mate took a photo of me at the pub, and i was feeling sooo shit, and it showed sooo obviously, it was just such an awesome shot, i had to turn it into a painting. What do you mean it looks nothing like me? Shuuuuut uppa your face!

Stolen from Radiohead lyrics, and influenced by a couple of text paintings, SIT DOWN slaps you back into your place. I've gotta play with words more, they're some funky things.

Another work in progress, a reaction to a piece called "Protect me from what I want", i chose my bed, sleep, and all the inuendo's and things you can associate with bed's. Lots of people Die in bed, my brother was born in bed, and most people waste away most of their lives sleeping and dieing in bed. THIS IS YOUR COFFIN, and we turn to it for comfort... I for one, can never get out of bed. Its far to tempting to sleep. Unless there is something really pressing i have to attend to, like, food or... well anyway, This has since changed a lot again, but I really liked it at this point, the fold of the fabric came out infinetly better than i could have possibly imagined. At the moment its taken a divergence into dream land, with tanks and mountains, but its going off the point a bit. This is why painting is such a bleeding nightmare. You need to redo everything all the time, and you might go to far, or not enough, or the colours are wrong, or it doesnt look right, or you hate it, or you love it but its shite, or its to much like another artist, or blah blah blah blah blah. But eventually, it should kick ass. with any luck. If i dont kill it before it kills me.

Finally, Here is the prototype for Ted, some more monsters/warhammer terrain, a mysterious figure/shape, and another tower I made. Ok, ok, its a photo of the tower on campus at night. It been inspiring me to do tower related things all year, at its a hideous monstrosity that everyone hates, but I cant help but love really big things like towers, just because they are so magical and fantastic. Stand next to a really tall building, and stare up at the sky, it will look like its falling over. How cool is that?

2005-11-19T17:15:00.000-08:00

RIGHT, heres the new stuff i've knocked up for the course, and uploading for your displeasure >:) First off, i've finally finished (as much as i'll let myself finish it) the Dank and evil view of the union building, with the tower behind it. You can even see the before and after. After i'd gotten through that bastard, I started playing with OIL PAINT :D which is pretty cool stuff, it never bloody dries, and you can grab it by the tits. so to speak. ahem. it has nice textures to it.
the green one was kinda just playing around with the medium (the oil paint dummy) and the one with thunderbirds 2 in it, was really just fleshing out a concept scetch of a blade-runner esque futurescape of a city, which will probably get fine tuned. You can see the mess oil paint makes, im right at home with it ;) although its a bit of a pain in the ass to work on top of, as it never drys. or takes ages anyway. like, weeks. serious man. And i thought acrylic took to long to dry, sheesh. anywho, best be off, ive got shit loads more of these bad boys to pump out. Enjoy :D

SNIFF :D

2005-11-10T08:21:00.000-08:00

The new family dog, Sniff :) aint he cute? He'd deffinetly be more cute if he stopped crapping everywhere :P

The first of many pics

2005-10-24T11:50:00.000-07:00

Thats right, pictures of work and such. We've got the empire state building, a Bile Demon redux, and me and my workspace, complete with a plefora of obligitry crap-that-took-2-seconds-to-make-it-look-like-I've-been-working. Ugh, if only I had photoshop I could get rid of the purplness of that emp state building pic. Meh, you get the gist of it.

Enjoy!

Holy Crap! I need an ARTIST!

2005-10-21T06:20:00.000-07:00

thats right, for my bussiness of art module, i need to shadow an artist, observe some kind of art related industry, or something along those lines. drop me a line man. xargon666@gmail.com

First Post

2005-09-21T08:03:00.000-07:00

VVelcome to the show. Tonight, i will be demonstrating my lack of talent, with a bizzare webcomic, provided my scanner cooperates. Also, this blog will be my online dumping ground for various works of art, as long as i can remember what its called.

rock on.