Southsea free art exhibition - Someone has me!

Southsea free art exhibition
Originally uploaded by my dog sighs

Yay!

Someone is the proud owner of one of my doodles.

Taken at the It's Yours - Take It event held last weekend in Southsea.
Looking on the Flickr group everyone who attended came away with something and being part of it is great! Kudos to My Dog Sighs for organising the event, I am pretty sure that the next one will be tip top as well.

Minotaur Dude

Minotaur Dude
Originally uploaded by Mr.Burning

This was created in response to DogTired's Flickr group 'Pimp My Dude'.

Basically DogTired Sent out some whistles/Ocarinas with the brief of Pimping them anyway we could then posting back to her.

Green Stuff was applied over the whistle before being painted.

LOTS OF CARD

LOTS OF CARD
Originally uploaded by Mr.Burning

The great thing about having two hungry cats is that I have lots of cat food boxes on which I can paint and doodle. The downside is that, as a hoarder, I am fast running out of space to keep the material and then to keep my creations after I have finished. A lot has been dropped at various Birmingham City locations, and elsewhere, as Free Art but this still leaves a lot remaining. i will be distributing this little collection over the next few days and week, freeing up space for me to start on something else.

Collaboration 3 - Tappy Turtle

I may be tempted to use another similar sounding name for the turtle soon.


This is my current effort at achieving a turtle shape, Its not coming along as well as I would have hoped for. I have in my mind the turtles and koopas from Mario Bros hazing up my thoughts a well as Ninja Turtles and their ilk.

Maybe I should just go and do some research on Turtle and Tortoise' just to try and get an acurate idea of shape and build before turning my pencils and pens loose.

I am just to impatient.

Comic Hero?

Acrylics and Black Barker on 9x12" Board.

Adapted from one of my previous comic doodles. This guy is a hero, of sorts, helping to save a lad caught in some mega trouble, he never speaks, eats or sleeps. I'm not even sure that he is truly a good guy- he isnt an anti hero by any means - but his thoughts are his own as is his agenda.

I'm having trouble with the marker bleeding through under the white acrylic smoke trail and I am having issues with the marker on the figure itslf. I will remedy this by going over in ink or black acrylic hopefully this will dull the lines down a little.

Seal (Clubbing) New Piece

'Seal Clubbing'

9x12 Board

Acrylic and Black Marker.

This is similar in technique to 'Amnio Bunny'.

The flipper like arms were a late addition to the overall design of this character. I not terribly sure that I like them. I'm none too sure about the character itself but had to give it its moment of glory.

Maybe I will go back to the drawing board with this, I want to change the head, make it smoother and the eyes. maybe the flipper/arms could go as well or be made a bit 'chubbier'? the marker outline is too shaky.

'Amnio Bunny' New Piece

'Amnio Bunny'.

9x12 Board

Acrylic and Black Marker.

One of the new pieces that I did just last night, it possibly shows but I don't care. True to the original doodle of a 'slightly' malformed parody of a bunny which I scribbled into one of my cheap little black books (markers bleed through numerous pages) resized to fit the board size that I am using.

I primed the boards with Cadmium Yellow Hue for a nice bright finish, upon drying I then splodged some red and gold acrylics onto my mixing plate and using some scrunched up tinfoil dabbed over the surface. letting this dry I then drew the bunny outline with marker, filling in the eyes before applying masking fluid to the outlines. I then let this dry and then roughly daubed some of the Cadmium Yellow. when this dried I peeled back the masking fluid to reveal the intact thick black bunny outline.

I have started using the masking fluid technique quiote a lot in experiments and it is giving some good results especially to the way that I create my work. It isnt perfect, but nether am I, so it all works out quite well.

Bunnies, in numerous bizarre forms are taking up a lot of my time at the moment, I cannot pinpoint the exact time or the reason I started debasing them. Possibly, I distres and distort the childlike image of the rabbit, being cute and fluffy? Dunno, I'm sure that a psych evaluation will sort this fetish out!