05 · 23

Paintings from memory

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A really interestign brief to use gestural and narrative painting to end up with images drawn of memories. As you can see there was a bit of experimentation but ended up with one i'm very pleased with. the main one in this set - the actual version looks a bit better as teh light is very soft. Really felt that these were workign things outs, and definitley going to do some more 

05 · 15

So monoprint.. We meet again

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So you may remember the last time I tried to monoprint it went a but wrong. This time I knew my limits and tried to get something a bit more chic and trendy..

We were designing wallpaper, and I happened to be looking through and awful seventies themed hipster design magazine.. The pictures incredibly glamorous, non ironic visions of female domestic servitude.. so yea, the following design ensued.

Yrs, that is barbed wire, no it is isn't veronica lake, yes it is missing a narrative twist, but I couldn't think of one..

05 · 11

Top Twits

So as the Oscar Wilde quote goes, ‘talent borrows but genius steals’*. And the not inconsiderable brain of @laurenannbishop has picked up on the Indie’s top twits idea and run with it – creating @Catalysis_Comms top twits, her one flaw was perhaps including me on that list but hey no one is perfect

So instead of a #ff this week i thought i would **ahem** steal the idea...  So in no particular order , a few of the folks who I would say follow and maybe they’ll name a few of their own as well.

 

@NickiBrooksx

Is just lovely - a rare commodity on a Labour Group Whip. Love hearing and seeing the processes that go on inside the Council chamber and Gedling CLP

 

@RyanPharmilton

The current President of the British Pharmaceutical Students Association providing an really interesting point of view into the developing world of modern pharmacy

 

@paulwrblanchard

Paul is a human force of nature - a vegan, tee total, atheist, and one man army [featuring the awesome Sweep, too]

 

@steve_vr

Could quite easily be an intimidating clever policy guru, but instead is a bloody nice, down to earth policy guru.

 

@MooseAllain

Fast becoming my favourite one line tweeter OF ALL TIME, even if he recycles posts first tweeted by his grandfather over five decades ago.

 

@loudmouthman

Consistently posting the Tweets I wish I had thought of since 2007

 

@CHazelgrove

As basically every list I have written about social media - ever-  has contained a reference to or by Claire.  She is #gleek and #Labourite extraordinaire

 

* Charlatans also steal, which is possibly a blind spot Oscar should have squared off

 

 

 

 

04 · 30

Skull theme continued.. chess pieces

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Ok, ok.. A bit macabre I know but.. The idea was to do some sample chess pieces on a theme. my approach was one clay skull, but with different silver wire elements for each piece.

A crown for the king, a tiara for the queen, a helmet for the knight, a mitre for the bishop, a raven (or rook) for the rook, and a simple band for the pawn.

I'm pretty happy with this, and think the whole skull for a game based on warfare thing works too.

04 · 29

Eye spy eyes

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A bit like the old visual gag of spying through jokers cut in a newspaper. Though it looks similar to that old Tony Blair demon eyes poster, too.
04 · 24

Some skulls

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03 · 05

a note to monoprint

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oh dear, monoprint. we could've gotten along so well, the initial chemistry was good but halfway through you brought colour in to our relationship. and there wasnt room for all of us. so I shan't be seeing you again, for some time.

however, we had good times at the start, so I am posting them here. I liked the way I could block out colour, and do really quite dark and creepy things. there were several things I could've kept but they were ruined with too much colour. oh dear monoprint, oh dear..

actually looking at it I like the frank miller colour scheme. I can see the one with two figures being the cover of a karin slaughter novel and the other one.. not sure.. suggestions please.

03 · 03

a brief aside.. Meatageddon

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courtesy of those meaty wizards the Pitt Cue Co. oh you didn't know? you should`ve tweeted somebody..

delicious looking, isn't it?

02 · 27

life drawing

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really bloody hard to get the human body looking right.. especially backs.. there isn't a huge amount of stuff to draw on a back.. anyway, charcoal is fun
02 · 20

my chair

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ok so.. a quick sketch and maquette of a chair. like the one in the previous post it is more of a back rest. so you sit on the floor in front of the flat bit and lean onto the back rest.

ideally I think a high sheen version in plastic would be cool.

it looks like an animal in the desert from a distance, the legs do it.

I like it :-)

Adam Dustagheer

Adam works in Digital Communications but has also worked in political and community organising. He also writes at the short story project - Political Voodoo.

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