Trial separation

Work in progress/preliminary sketch for a photoshop composition.

Smoke

Photoshop sketch

Karaoke full of bourbon ( or single malt and red wine)

My custom karaoke version of this great Tom Waits song. Made from scratch in Ableton Live, guitars bass and drums by me. crooned, half in the bag  by myself  at tonights karaoke get together. nice.

Godzilla: Hafrsford SOS

They're knocking down the house next door. Couldn't resist. 

redcoat

A pencil doodle from a while back combined with collage and colour in photoshop.

Mansion Machines

Inkjet on collage on inkjet

Musical Heart

Subject- tin foil container with rubber bands and contact microphone

Media- pencil on paper, coloured in photoshop

Chapter 4

Cut paper + inkjet on tracing paper

Hulk

A 5 min DS scribble  before i went to bed. its certainly green

Normalise

Inkjet print, cut paper and plastic. plus wonky white balance from the photo, which i quite like.

pyramid lips

Nintendo ds doodle

Think Tank

Inkjet print, cut paper and plastic.

Won't Got Far

Collage with inkjet print, cut paper, tracing paper, plastic and pen.

Some Guts

Detail of a pencil drawing, deliberatly under-exposed (the highlights are the reflection of the camera flash on the pencil marks). Some colouring in photoshop.

Homemade noise

A quick 3 track improv using some of the home made instruments from this weekends workshop.

Thumb piano

A thumb piano/multi instrument. one of three DIY instruments I made at a workshop with Johannes Bergmark at Tou Scene this weekend. no doubt some sounds will be posted here soon. 

Buildshit detector

multi track improv in ableton live. using bass, guitar and drum loop samples

Bulb

Nothing much to say about this. Photoshop, obviously. I'm using some basic comps like this as the starting point for some semi-abstracted pencil drawings, worked this one up to be a bit more finished

2basses2

Bass, prepared bass and prepared guitar. (crocodile clips, bolts metal plate cello bow). 3 tracks improvised one at a time. no editing.

A trophy

 This didn't quite turn out how i wanted, but the point of this blog is to be a warts and all doc. so i'm posting it.  I was going for more of an unreal/false look, (maybe something like old school special effects?). As it is it  feels more like a failed attempt at a convincing photoshop job. Also the left hand side of the composition just doesn't work. I might work some more on it and see what comes out of it.

4track improv. in live

An ableton live improv set using 2 guitar tracks, bass track and a drum sample

Mobile Suit

Inkjet print plus Gundam toy. colour and light effects in photoshop.

Glove

Photoshop drawing. Another exercise in a monotone style. 

I like the almost woodcut effect from using a basic 

round brush shape with 2 tones.

A shadowy Flight

I didn't spend as much time on this as I would have liked 

but it turned out not too bad.  

Knight Rider intro starring a Hotwheels K.I.T.T. 

photographed against a printed background, colour work done in PS

(I'm glad no-one told the 10 year old me that he'd have 

to wait almost 30 years for a hotwheels kight rider toy)

Wiring Diagram

Paper collage. I toyed with doing some colour/levels correction 

in PS but thought it missed the point a bit.

Generation Loss

This comes from an old 3rd year project at art school, some 13 or so years ago.

It's a super 8 movie which was photographed projected onto canvas, the photographic prints

were then arranged in a sequence and photographed again on colour positive film. 

Today i took this 13 year old slide and photographed it using my "Crappy Home-made Backlight" technique

and did some extra cropping, texture and colour work using photoshop.

Precious function

Trying out some collage styles in photoshop

Water baby (unfinished)

This is a detail / remix of a current work in progress.

Photoshop

Untitled 25.11.12

some audio today. a quick guitar improv with croc. clips and bow.

In two parts

Paper collage.

Sitting room

My first proper attempt at a comic book monotone style  . 

even more of a Mike Mignola rip off :)

Drawn in photoshop

Big Moon

Photoshop sketch. An attempt at a Mike Mignola style character

Stone ground

Another paper collage

Out in the open

Cut papercollage

Free candy

Modelling clay

Steam engine

A quick doodle on colors for the NDS

Here in the country

Pencil on plastic on window

The trail leads nowhere

Collage, inkjet print, tracing paper, plastic and marker pens

Spiney Heaven

A cut paper collage

U.F.O

Jelly sweets plus photoshop

It's about having fun

         OK so what I'm going to do here is once a day make some quick piece of creativity, preferably  in less than one hour, without over-thinking or getting precious about it. This isn't about posting finished pieces of artwork but rough ideas, sometimes half-formed fragments from more bigger projects, sometimes fun diversions. My hope is for this to be basically a public sketchbook, to help me stay loose, not afraid of doing anything fun or silly and keep my creative muscles in shape!

        To get the ball rolling here is a sleepy self portrait drawn using the excellent Colors homebrew app for the Nintendo DS.