"So I'm out here again, sparks hid behind my teeth, i wont say a word for fear of fire spreading through."

Chalk, Cahrcoal and Conte on Mounting Board

Chalk, Charcoal, Acrylic, Emulsion and Conte on Mounting Board

Acrylic on Paper

Chalk, Charcoal and Acrylic on Paper

Acrylic, Emulsion, Chalk, Charcoal and Pencil on Paper

Acrylic, Conte, Chalk and Charcoal on Paper

Acrylic, Emulsion, Water Colour and Gouache on Mounting Board

Acrylic, Chalk and Charcoal on Mounting Board

All of these except the 2nd and 5th pictures were done on tuseday, when i filled a backpack full of a range of materials, took a nice long walk around the hills and had a great time painting and drawing what i saw. The horse fly arent quite so fun but they gave up trying to bite me after a while haha!

The images above are all going towards my final major project for college (im liking the sound of the final part!) but having a small amount of time to create the most amazing work youve done through out your entire education to date with no guide line, not even a breif, is quite tricky... Even though its still early days as far as this project is concerned, i know the time will fly by and before i know it, i'll need final pieces to mount and be ready for the final show...

The title of this post is a quote from David De La Hoz by The Chariot which i have had stuck in my head ALL week... Glad its an amazing song hahaha :)

Thanks for being on my blog, looking at my work and reading my words! :)

Life Drawing

I stumbled upon some old life drawing work the other day, which was included in my college course but now isnt. I used to enjoy it so much, its a shame it was only for the first year of the course, but here are a few drawings and a painting, which were all done in limited time :)

Chalk and charcoal

Pencil

Acrylic

Oil pastel

Calk, coloured chalk and charcoal

Thanks for looking, reading and being on my blog! :)

Clown Mask Photographs

I have a lovely new gadget, so i thaught i'd have a quick play about with it :) 

(I really hope this doesnt scare too many people away, so incase anyones scared of clowns, SCROLL DOWN QUICK!) 

My new gizmo is a neat little camera, nothing too flashy and it was second hand, but it works well and im pretty damn happy with it!

These photos are of my clown mask (which features in a post loooooong ago) that i made a couple of years ago for Halloween. I played about with the shutter speeds and movement to make them look like this. I think they look a bit like they're laughing away and something fairly grousome...

The Land Harbour

                                          

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Ive been etching with with aquatint an all! :)

Its a very enjoyable process which... i have... enjoyed!

Ive found that a huge variety of marks can be made when using both the hardground etching and aquatint, i also like that each colour print is ever so slightly different, which gives a unique quality to each print of the same thing. Ive also invested in a fairly cheep, half decent camera that a friend was selling, so thats why these pictures aren't quite as grainy or grimey as the usual ones :D (the ones that werent previously were from borrowed cameras)

When i leave college in july im going to miss the print facilities, but im mooving out so hey, its going to be good!! However... money is needed to survive off until i get a proper job, so im going to be cheeky and say, anyone wanna buy a print? name a price? not looking for alot... 100% of all money goes towards a starving artist! DONATE NOW AND GET A FREE PRINT!! ;)

But seriously... c'mon, please?

Also, Download Festival looks good this year (Cancer Bats, Refused, The James Cleaver Quintet and many many more bands are playing)

Not feeling charitable? dont blame you... Thanks for reading and looking with your eyes :)

Jordan Buckley - Every Time I Die - New Junk Aesthetic artwork

Jordan Buckley plays guitar for a band called Every Time I Die (a hardcore punk 'n' roll band from America) and this is the album artwork for their 2009 album New Junk Aesthetic, which really is EXCELENT but the cover artwork aswell as the artwork in the liner notes demands some attention and severly due credit too, so here they are! lyrics and all...

I think theyre screen prints over ink splashes, but im not entirley sure as it doesent say in the album credits.

Hope people enjoy them as much as i do :)

take a listen?

                                                 Every Time I Die - Wanderlust

Furthering The Close

Mixed media collage, acrylic and ink on board

Acrylic and ink on canvas

 

Acrylic on board

Acrylic on board

Close

First of all i am going to apologise for the awfull

photographic quality of these images, i have no money for a decent camera, so nasty, grainy, grey-ish photos shall have to do, untill i stumble across a Leprechaun (the hunt has begun) or get adopted by a million heir and then can afford a good camera. but bad quality pictures are better than no pictures right?

Well here they are anyway!!

This is where i have lived since the age of about 2 or 3 and the opening sampling of Lost by Neurosis did get me thinking, most of my powerfull childhood memories are based in this part of the village i grew up in, well i supose im still growing up but do we ever stop growing and evolving to an extent? Well thats besides the point i guess.

Here are some of my paintings and drawings of the place :)

Close - I

       Oil Pastel on Paper

            Close - II
                      Acrylic on Paper

Close - V
        Acrylic, Ink and
Oil Pastel on Canvas

 

             Close - VI

                    Acrylic, Emulsion and Masonry
               Paint on Canvas