Little Taster.

Little taster of some base pages, and some negatives, for my brick lane book.

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Tribute.

To the glorious Olympus Pen

What?

The funniest, strangest, most nonsensical image I have ever seen.

All the same, nice Pineapple

Who is Sylvia?

Well i went to BRIGHTON from Wednesday morning through to saturday afternoon to see my old chum James Harkness perform the lead role in the play...

A little gem directed by http://lucypapoosky.blogspot.com it was pretty dark, all about bestiality and there was even some incest thrown into the mix that caught me totally off guard! I had a bloody great time in Brighty, so I thought I would tell you about it.

Treated myself to this little Box Brownie Beaut! I purchased it at a place called Snoopers Paradise,which was like a jungle for antiques. Essentially the place little interesting artefacts go to retire, too old to be useful to anyone any more they go there and sit in glass cabinets looking intriguing and pretty.

Me and J Dog literally looked through old photographs laughing to ourselves for about half an hour. People from the past seem to have strange faces, enjoy holding animals and standing next to flowers.

Also purchased this National Geographic circa 1999 from a nice chap with a van to read on the way home.

And this one because the gorilla looked pretty mean.

James also showed me two of the most macabre animations I have ever seen, think I will be having serious nightmares about these two, bloody unsettling is what they were!

"but why will you say that i am mad,

see how calmly, how precisely I can tell the story to you"

This one is the scariest thing.

Enjoy kids!

My Favourite 3 Golden Half Photos That I Couldn't Resist Blogging.

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1: The View From a Special Window.

2: An Underpass in the Rain.

3: My Table at the Russian Wedding.

How About Those In Negative.

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Book Art Baby.

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A book art project I am currently working on that is based on brick lane. I am focussing on Misfits that Migrated to that area of London.

Images 1&2 show some initial observational drawings I did on site of brick lane in my Sketch book, and 3 are my initial experiments into how my pages could look.

I will add posts as it progresses, since I'm all caught up to the work I am doing currently now.

Flash Filters are Fun.

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Fin.

Hybrid Workshop Days are Dandy.

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A one day workshop on collage and characterisation, how wonderful.

Self Portrait As... My Inner O.A.P.

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People always tell me that they believe I am an old woman in the body of a 19 year old. Perhaps its my general mentality towards the general public, how seemingly frail I am, the signs that perhaps I am going a little senile in the head or the use of certain phrases like "it's going to be a hoot!". Maybe its just that I wear my mothers clothes and my hair in a victory roll, regardless I wanted to do a piece about this little character that seemingly lives inside me, I wanted to bring her to life.

The 1st image shows my initial ideas for a self portrait project, and the 2nd shows some research images into how old people look and present themselves, and some 3D tests I did for the final puppet. The small black and white photographs are taken from an old holiday photo album I found on Portabello market. They were just put right into the back of the Album, I find them beautifully unsettling.

The last image is of the little puppet I made, I love her dearly and really do feel like I need to look after her. So naturally, in case anything happened to me and someone else was given the burden of having to look after my puppet O.A.P self, I included instructions on how to care for her in the form of tags attached to her strings.

I made the whole doll (no cheating or templates), using wire, fimo modelling clay, lacey fabric, wool and some hair off my hairbrush.

I think she is lovely, and if you would like me to leave you her in my will so that you can look after her then just tell me!!

Leslie.

Here's a silly picture that Leah Leslie, my fellow illustrator, took of me in the classroom where all the illustrative magic happens at Central St Martians Back Hill campus. The ears, might I add, are of her craftsmanship!!

http://sweetvisage.tumblr.com/

Something That Should Be Outside That is Inside Something Else.

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I was given a bag and basically told to do something with it, so i decided to put a garden inside it, with characters that each had their own narrative and plot to escape from their baggy prison. I will write some more about this project when I can muster the courage, honestly I'm a little sick to death of talking about it for now. *grin* *grin*

Naughty Girl.

I actually took this image out of one of the library books on the sly. For some reason i felt like i had to have it and it had fallen out of the binding already anyway.

Avant et Apres La Destruction D'Ypres.

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Ah, so i started with an old project, one from quite a few months ago. I own this set of old postcards that i got at a tiny bookstall in what is essentially my home towns 'flea market'. The postcards come in twos, and side by side are images of before and after the beautiful city of Ypres was destroyed during the first World War. As its in Belgium, Ypres was essentially attacked from both sides, resulting in its utter obliteration.

I don't like war, it upsets me so its not a subject i have delved very far into whether through art or history or literature, but the more time i spent in Southampton Row library trawling through ageing images the more i decided i wanted to use this destruction to inspire my own work.

I looked to Victorian stereogram images for most of my inspiration, mainly sourced from here...
http://faculty.kirkwood.edu/ryost/keystoneviews.htm
(i love that site, seriously look at every image)

Image 1 shows some of my sketchbook work, and 2 shows some acetates i created showing contrasting images of mainly people before and after the war.

The 3rd image was my final outcome. Visual restrictive images that appear almost 3D with the glasses on but when you close wither eye you see something totally different and separate from the initial image. The blue eye shows Ypres before the war and the red after.

Oh Me! Oh My!

Ok well, I figured it would be a dandy idea to start a blog, and get some of my work out there on the scary world wide web for all my adoring fans (*cough* ) to see. So here it is, for your viewing pleasure!!