Archive for April, 2006

Lunchtime Sketchings

Wednesday, April 26th, 2006

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A quick 20 minute lunchtime bald man illustration from yesterday, kind of comic like in style this one. Scanned in then messed with in Photoshop. After setting my goal of more female sketches (or at least some, or one even) I have totally failed another week. Next week will definitely be female sketch week.

Been a bit busy for oil portraits this week, doing a small commission and also working on my pixels for Peter Smuts Human Pixel Project, a really fun idea where artists make him 10 2 inch works of art which gets displayed as a massive image in a gallery. Should have something to show soon.

Totally Abstract

Tuesday, April 25th, 2006

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A new abstract photography section added to my photo gallery.

Yesterday I witnessed yet another abstract event near the local psychiatric hospital. The patients do seem to have some fun. I was driving along yesterday and a man got shot, no not literally, just looked like he did. One moment he was walking the next he’d thrown himself onto a grass verge. I was passing at the time so I went to the place to turn to see if he was alright. While I was turning a Police car screeched round the corner and shot off in his direction. I saw the police car arrive and it was most amusing.

The bloke was led in the verge spread eagled pretending to be dead, when he saw it was a policeman it was like they’d given him and electric shock, he shot bolt upright jumped up and started to run off.

This is the second event I’ve seen in the past year. The other was equally bizarre, it was December and I was walking back from the leisure centre when I spotted 3 police man and a man on the side of the canal. The man was dressed in only his underpants and was threatening at the top of his voice that if the police came any closer he would jump. The police were backing off, not that diving into the canal was likely to kill him as it is about 3 foot deep, I just didn’t think they fancied going in to get him out.

Conspiracy Theories

Monday, April 24th, 2006

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Last week after visiting John Earles site I suggested we swap some weather to solve my wet garden and his parched lawn. This led me to find an interesting story about how days after rain making experiments in 1952, the village of Lynmouth was decimated by flooding. That year Devon received 250 times the normal level of rainfall for the year.

You can listen to the documentary here (Real Media format).

Makes you think, if this was happening over 50 years ago what sort of things are happening today and would it explain some of the rather extreme weather conditions that have been occurring over the past couple of years. In the West Midlands last year we even had a tornado which appeared out of no where in Sparkhill.

The picture is an illustration of Patrick Mcgoohan looking rather confused, he thinks everything is a conspiracy.