Maoris are way cooler than Ninjas

Day Twenty Five: Body art, Maori style!

So, I saw some ridiculously amazing maori style tattoos in a tattoo magazine covering peoples entire backs - maybe I will scan in the photo as they were just awesome! I decided to try a quick bit of similar body art on myself in a spare twenty minutes and thought I might as well post as I did turn out quite nice.

Many wet wipes are now needed . . . 

halo spARTan . . . see what I did there?

Day Twenty Four: Picasso/Kandinsky Inspired Painting

A request! A friend of mine asked for a Halo Spartan drawing. Knowing that this friend thinks little of abstract art I decided to broaden his mind/really piss him off by doing exactly what he didn't want: an abstract Halo Spartan.

As a slight consolation prize I have included my 'absract-isation' sketches below where he can enjoy a rough yet accurate Spartan. 

Plan -

He's there, the Phantom of the Opera . .

Day 23 - Acrylic painting.

So, after a long break - art returns!

It did not take me long to settle on a subject after having seen The Phantom of the Opera twice in the past week (unnecessary, yes, but awesome? YES).  I found the character of the Phantom so captivating I wanted to capture the wonderfully melodramatic image of him beneath the opera house with his music.

This Phantom is based on the performance by Scott Davies though I had the pleasure of seeing both him and John Owen Jones in the role.

Lets get 70s.

Day Twenty Two - Macrame

We have quite a few 'How To Macrame' style books which I have never made use of; so today, I decided I would.

I don't how I feel about weaving/macrame style art but it was good to have a go.

Seeing my nose everywhere was weird.

Day Twenty One: Papier Mache / Andy Warhol Inspired

When I was requested to do 'Nose Art' I was a little stuck for ideas. As fun as sticking a pen to my nose and trying to draw a picture sounded, I knew the end result would probably not be post worthy so I decided to do a piece of art based around my nose rather than created with it.

So, I papier mache-d my nose 6 times and arranged them in way reminiscent of Andy Warhol's pop art.

I watched an insane amount of Time Team while waiting for the papier mache to dry on my face - it was good.

Kraken 2: The Revenge

Day Twenty: Emulate a B-Movie Poster

So, following my Andromeda picture, a friend of mine asked where me Kraken was; and I thought, considering my love of B-Movies, it might be fun to take the Kraken out of its mythical setting and put it into the B-Movie setting.

Why it has laser eyes I don't know. It's just too bad ass to not.

Mc Escher is my favourite MC.

Day Nineteen: Mc Escher style repeating pattern

Recently, I re-watched one of my favourite Stanley Kubrick film: Eyes Wide Shut. The 'Bauta Mask' has always been my favourite mask in the film and I have found it particularly striking so I decided to try and create an Mc Escher style pattern based around the design of the Bauta Mask.

I know it's not a perfect tessellation but having made a perfectly tessellating pattern a couple of times before I know you would have been waiting longer than a day for this piece of work.

Bauta Mask from Eyes Wide Shut

Because if you're portraying an epic story you have to have a naked lady.

Day Eighteen: A portrayal of The Rime of the Ancient Mariner - Pastel, Pen and Watercolour

This was really tough!!! Trying to capture the epic nature of the story in one image was hard but I hope I've done it some justice.

Garrr, this didn't photograph very well but I'm still pleased with it. A friend of mine requested my interpretation of roughly these verses of The Rime of the Ancient Mariner:

'Are those her ribs through which the sun
Did peer, as through a grate?
And is that Woman all her crew?
Is that a Death? and are there two?
Is Death that Woman's mate?

Her lips were red, her looks were free,
Her locks were yellow as gold:
Her skin was as white as leprosy,
The Nightmare Life-in-Death was she,
Who thicks man's blood with cold.'


I must admit I sacrificed being completely accurate for appearance when it came to 'skin as white as leprosy' as the piece was lacking some colour contrast to the cold colours - I'm sure I could have made it work but alas, time constraints!


I am really pleased with my night sky and giving Death a cow's head - I didn't want to do the archetypal image of death yet still wanted him to recognisable so I tried a few different skulls. 


And if you haven't read The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and don't really understand what's going here there's a boob for you.

Hell?

Day Seventeen: Pastel/Abstract

A friend of mine asked for something on the theme of 'monster'; I decided to divide it into two pieces and this is the first. This is the more fantastical interpretation of the word monster as I have depicted the Nine Circles of Hell - a subject which I have always found oddly facisnating though not being religious myself. The other type of monster, I considered, will be a more real interpretation of the word - awful people etc. But you'll have to wait for that.

I have included my original design so you can see which circle is which.

The Nine Circles of Hell

Mother's Day innit.

Day Sixteen: Simple Printing

I've had a manic couple of days hence no art but I was determined to do something today and, more to the point, something my mother had requested. I don't really do chocolates or hugs so this suited me much better and I hope she likes it.

She requested a print; and here it is.

My stamp . . or whatever you're supposed to call it.