Halloween

Haloween soon! I always love holidays because there a dead good excuse to get creative! Cliche but I have carved a pumpkin. This year is was bored of doig the same old faces and so on and so forth so instead I created an american horror story styled pumpkin as I felt it suited. Also ahs is my favourite just now.

"Normal people scare me" who wants to be normal right? From Tate langdon's tshirt

Human figure deconstructed.

Well. I have always been a painter/illustrator. I never ventured far from these areas until the last two years... I have found a love for photography and printmaking within this time. One thing that I can't get my heart into is Sculpture. Maybe it's because I have a two dimensional mind or maybe I just don't like being completely crafty and molding with my hands. Whatever it is, I can't seem to get my heart into sculpture as I would with painting.

Here is what I did today... Playing around and sketching with clay. I took the shapes from previous drawings which I had done to come up with this. 

Dog walking

I always find it fascinating, animals in wildlife so I will always take walking my dog as an opportunity to snap some images of him in the wild.

"A Child's Dream"

This is my latest little piece. This piece is one that I am happy with for my figure deconstructed in motion theme at college.

This piece has more to it, however.

It is a watercolour, acrylic painting with digital art combined.

My meaning behind this piece is a child, this is a child which I had sketched whilst I was at work (in a non... creepy way). I painted a piece of cardboard in warm, homely colours which we associate with safety. I then cut into the paint with sissors to draw this little childs movement.

I added watercolour to some parts to add further aspects of movement (I felt wateroclour brush marks where successfull at this)

On top is a photoshop edited image of the movement of my legs, this isn't just to show movement... the idea behind this is much deeper.

My meaning behind this overall, to make this make more sense to you is that the child represents my childhood dreams of working within a creative industry. Making art for living. The legs in different directions are to symbolise the different directions you can go in life, for example right now I am working part time in asda as well as studying full time... day five years time I am hoping to be starting or newly in a creative career.

I hope you do take your own ideas away from my piece, as I have said this is simply my meaning behind this piece that I created. You could have a completely different interpenetration.

As much as I love my full fringe, it is the bain of my life. It constantly needs trimmed and cared for. It's like a living pet, well I suppose hair is living so.

I couldn't be without my fringe however.

My fringe on that note, does have a mind of it's own. Look here, you see?? Crazy little guy. He's not a full fringe right now is he. Someone's had a little too much to drink on a Saturday night I think... 

Engagement... Money or onion ring?

I've seen many girls say they would turn down a marriage proposal from their partner if the ring wasn't "too their standard" weather it be "ugly" to them or whether it doesn't cost into the thousands.

What if they had been your partner for 6+ years or whatever, are you really going to have the heart of stone to say no to marriage on the bases of the ring? The ring is an object, it has no meaning. The meaning comes in the relationship, the meaning is what you out there. The ring is nearly a symbol but it's not messesary in my opinion.

Does the ring matter?
Does the ring matter?
Does the ring matter?

Are you really going to say no to the person you "love" based on an object.

My World

We all love the idea of having an escape don't we? My idea is to create this imaginative world, I have had this world ever since I was little. I may sound crazy I know but ey anything that makes you feel better right?

Well, if you're still here and haven't ran off then cool! Hey still :). I wanted to share some insights to my world with you guys. My world doesn't have people, meerly only animals as I dislike people (Morrissey alert). Animals on the other hand, cannot talk back, look pleasing, are fluffy and just 100x better. Ever since I was little I felt this way.

I took a huge influence from my soft toys, I would dress them up in clothing and give them human like aspects. I done this because I felt animals are greatly mistreated in our world. I have always thought who are we to be above animals in this world? What makes us any more special than them? I want animals to be equal to humans.

In this world that I created, I have various characters. My favourite character is Taint who is a fox. Taint is shy, timmid and tends to hide from the world a lot. I put a lot of my own personality into Taint.

Then there is Red, Taint's father who is high and mighty, everyone looks up to Red and expects Taint to be just like him but this is not Taint.

There is also Nello the Elephant. Nello is a loud character, who tends to like to know everyones busyness. Nello will invite everyone around for tea etc just to get some gossip and so on...

There are many more characters than these two go but here they are... two of the creatures who live in my world.

Digital Painting

I heard someone say the other day that Painting is dead because of technology taking over. I wanted to prove this statement wrong. I ironically created this digital painting of myself and Robbie.

Is painting dead? I don't think so. Do you?

Prints for sale

I use a website called RedBubble to create things from tshirts, jumpers, prints, cards, bags, pillows, bed covers and so on with my work on them.

On here, I have a British music collection, American Horror Story pieces, Illustrative quirky animals, Animals and various others, check it out here! Pleaaaaase :(. I'd appreciate it even if you had a tiny little eenie weenie peak at some of m things and give some feedback!

http://www.redbubble.com/people/gang0fgin?ref=account-nav-dropdown


Here are two recent examples of quirky animals :)

Dress making, is it for me?

Planning a night out? Know exactly what style of dress it is you want but somehow nothing comes close to it? I am terrible for doing this so I decided to give it a go with making my own dresses, how cool huh? At least I thought it is.

This is an experimental piece I created, I done this without a pattern and without sizing, by hand also just to see if a dress I visioned could come out the way I imagine it to. It did. 

Should I go forward and continue creating clothing? Maybe I could sell some, make my own mini business on the side of creating my Art works. 

Hmm, any comments?

Collograph, my first print.

My first collograph print, I found this little thing very fidely but interesting and I was very excited to get this printed to see how it would turn out.

This print is influenced by my views of Lanzarote, the buildings, the trees, the sculpture and especially the fencing.

On my way to College

I have been continuing using the water soluble pencils. I done this sketch of Wallace Monument, one of the views I see on my way to college. I experimented with bold areas to make the majority of the image up.

Commision

Watersoluable pencils are maybe the best thing I have ever come across! I love using these things! They are completely brilliant. This is a commission piece which I had created for a family member Baby John, my cousin's child.

It's up high here, isn't it?

The most beautiful views I have ever seen have been from a airplane window, the views from being up in the air are extraordinary. Something out of the usual same old. Scenes which you don't experience everyday. I thought I would share a few I snapped. 

Mono Scotland

I have always have a love for black and white Photography, there's something about it which draws me in.

I tend to take my dog, Diesel a walk in woodland areas quite regularly, I find the surroundings beautiful, calming... I like the quietness and being alone for some amount of time. It;s good to get some head space and I ca get some little sketches etc done.

Here is a photography which i had taken of a leave on a tree which I find very interesting. This tree stands along, myself and my friends used to play around this tree when we were younger, we called it the "witches tree".

This is my Scottish Autumn photography from the witches tree.

Old and New, what's the difference?

Photography has never been a main section for myself although I do enjoy it. I play around with a lot of different ideas but never go extremely far with them.

Here is one idea I played around with the idea of transitions, looking at old and new.

I found some old family images which I found very interesting, I then went back to the areas in which these photos where originally taken and then I took new images of these areas. I then combined the two images together to show a contrast between old and new.

I felt this worked extremely well and I am very happy with the outcome of these images.

My idol, my hero. I actually lived to see this??

5th of July. I made my way down to London for the first time. Ey London's always looked like a fantastic place to me and i've always desired to visit it and here was my chance, a trip which I had planned soley by myself.

5th of July, a very important date. You know the feeling you get when your favourite band split up? I was too young when mines did and I never had the chance to see them live. But take that feeling and then image the band coming back for a few one off gigs. You HAVE to be there right?

Glasgow sold out in seconds! I heartbreakingly could not make the Barrowlands so it was down to Hyde Park I went!

The Libertines, YES I am talking about the Libertines are Hyde park!

Where you there??? It was fantastic!

I done a few memory sketches which down in London, here they are :). Various medias.

The Beautiful Island

I went over to Lanzarote twice this Summer with my partner. I must say, it was two of the best weeks of my life. The Island is beautiful the people are ever so friendly, the way we were treated on the island, I felt asif we were rich millionaires! We have to go back.

There was only one downside, I am not one for sitting around and sunbathing. I am a get up and got to do everything on the island before we have to go home type. This did not go well with my partner Robbie who wanted to chill and tan by the pool. Call me a big kid or whatever but I find that hugely boring, yawn :(.

I needed a way to entertain myself whilst Robbie was catching rays whilst then it hit me, I always pack my little people watching and surroundings sketchbook with me.

Whilst my time in Lanzarote I tried to capture some of it's beauty with drawings as I feel drawing something is a better memory than simply taking an image. I done this for my whole time there.

Here are some of the drawings, hopefully they give you a real insight to the islands beauty if you haven't been there before and if you have, hopefully they give you some memories.