Bulbs and Moths

oil paintings using just a spatula to paint with.

STaMp BuNTinG

seemed to have spent a lot of time sewing recently, simple bunting with tape and brilliant stamp material.

CD paint splash art

inspired by doing this at fetes and shows as child, but also made famous by giant versions made by Damien Hurst. experimental piece with old CD's (may make into clock).

equipment used:

electric drill
vice (to hold drill)
sloppy acrylic paint
paper plates
thats pretty much it

here's the process and result

                       much splashback

part of the messy series

red deer stag, richmond park

snipe

kitchen art

possibly a bit twee but wanted to try some easy on the eye stuff

(fish with guns?! no its just a spoon)

it must be Colonal Mustard in the kitchen with.. knife/spoon/rolling pin

fish 4 u

spooning leads to..

Four candles

minimalist style sketches

Lindisfarne

Finchdale priory

Record Revamp

I have undertaken the task of trying to up-cycle some old records from the attic into other items such as bowls and such. I know some people think defacing records by melting them down is an act of great inhumanity against music. I myself own a record player and enjoy the delights of some great un-synthetic/little adulterated tunes. But some of the crap records in our attic.. well suffice to say i feel no shame in remodelling them into items other than those they were originally designed for.

Hence this week i attempted to make a bowl from a record. numerous youtube videos show you how, I combined the instructions from a few and used mostly common sense. The result was a method mainly consisting of, step 1. put it in the oven. step 2. take it out of the oven. step 3. enjoy your revamped record.

If you want to try this i suggest watching a few of the vids on youtube so you really can't mess up. I did take some photos along the way though so here they are.

 First find some terrible music

 Then put in the oven over a bowl with a weight over the centre

 and voila, a rather crinkled record bowl

Here i added a paper slip of my own illustrations although i have not decided if i like this effect or not