My illustration of a photograph of Frances Macdonald with her son, Sylvan McNair in 1904.

Ouse

Ouseburn, Newcastle upon Tyne.

Dart. My favourite dog. She's not mine though. Seem to have encountered a number of pet's of late which I have enjoyed photographing and drawing.

Bang bang

Last week I spent a fantastic few days in the Suffolk countryside. I collected things during various rambles including these shot shells which I have arranged in colour order. I also collected feathers, bark, bus tickets, a pebble and a bird wing.

Satan

i like to draw kitty kats

Kinetic Type

http://vimeo.com/22050725

Bob Dylan interview from 1965. Animated using After Effects.

Please view at the above address. Difficulties embedding the video currently but will fix very soon.

i want

grr

found on a blog. no source. aim for easter holiday: draw everything. be imaginative.

Strut

Sweet shoe designs by Kobi Levi. He treats shoes like sculptures and takes inspiration from everyday objects. Check this for more of his pretty pretty creations...http://www.mymodernmet.com/profiles/blogs/incredibly-creative-high-heels

New Languages

New Languages brief to 'take on or invent a new form of experimental practice or design
tool and develop a way for this to be used, received and understood by the public.'

I wanted to create a new way of printing in a kind of graffiti style. I would involve using an aerosol/spray paint, magnets, iron powder and a surface, paper, to print on. The sketch above hopefully demonstrates the idea in theory.

There were a lot of draw backs to this method and I found it impossible to find a successful method before it was time to present my work. The only real outcome I got was a by using monoprinting style. However, it was difficult to remove the iron powder from the paper as it had dried in with the gouache paint.