So the day finally arrived. like Christmas morn children awoke from their beds and asked 'Mummy? Is it really Community Billboard day on MFB?'. And my friends the answer was of course YES!
So Today i got out the slightly meager but no less exciting stack of contributions and went a pasting. The results hailed broccoli, advertised artists, talked of recycling and a whole lot more. See for yourself:











I will add a list of contributors names to this post tomorrow but frankly its too late for me to be concerned with that tonight.

edit: As promised the contributers list:

David Yates - www.jehan.eu
Allison Glancey - www.strawberryluna.com
Guy Burwell - www.guyburwell.com
Fag Baboon - www.fagbaboonillustration.com
Paul McCann - www.chedderhawk.com
Mike Lawton - www.mlawton.org.uk
Ben Swift - www.eyeskull.com
Milk Two Sugars/Bob Milner - www.milktwosugars.org
Filming East Festival - www.filmingeast.org
Helen de Main - www.helendemain.net

Wonky wood...

Hello all and sundry

New print as ever in this final furlong of this part of the project. Today's print i will call Wood for the Trees. Its a layered drawing based on scenes from an old Chinese copy of a Tin Tin book and is part of a series of works i did entitled Reformation. they are a series of layered comic drawings with all characters and narrative stripped out of them rendering them sombre barren landscapes and interiors.
Pasting up the print proved tricky today as fatigue and poor judgment got the better of me. Sorry about that. The result is a slightly wonky print but it has a certain charm still:





Tomorrow is the long awaited Community Billboard. I have had a range of items. I would have loved more bizarre sales adds etc but the arty contingent have still done good.

Judge not lest ye be jugged...

Sorry for the hiatus yesterday, busy busy.

Well because of that we have a bumper double spread with two new billboard image sets. First we have one that i am lovingly calling Chap as its a picture of a strange chap. The image is a composite drawing made out of images i have found inside books at charity shops and libraries. Not much more to say on it apart from maybe he seems to have been very popular with the viewers...judge for yourself:






Speaking of judging, here comes print two, todays paste up, called Are You Ready? I like the idea of being asked huge, theological questions and shrugging them off with simple one word answers. This chap (with an air of Peter Sellers i think) had a certain look of being in control, like he wouldn't let a wrathful Lord bother his working day. Good man! Or maybe hes the one with the finger on that old doomsday switch:







I have also received and should continue to receive some rather splendid contributions towards the Community Billboard so roll on Thursday. There will in all likely hood only be another two or three new prints from me now in this leg of the project so keep those peepers peeled as we wrap it up. The culmination of it all will be shown at Chelsea Motel - Postgraduate Diploma in Fine Art Show at Chelsea College of Art so if you can come and see it. Heres' the info:

Chelsea Motel

Postgraduate Diploma Fine Art Show

Chelsea College of Art & Design,
Atterbury Street,
London,
SW1P 4JU

An exhibition showcasing the work of the students from 2008 Chelsea College of Art and Design Post-Graduate Diploma in Fine Art

Sat 9 August, 10am-4pm

Monday 11 & Tuesday 12 August, 10am -8pm

Private view: Friday 8 August, 5pm – 8.30pm. Attendance by invite only. Please contact for information

Getting there: It is easiest to get to Chelsea by tube, getting off at Pimlico (Victoria Line) & then please follow signs for Tate Britain

tel: 020 7514 7751
email: enquiries@chelsea.arts.ac.uk
www.chelsea.arts.ac.uk

A true friend looks at itself...

After yesterdays mammoth double-post bonanza comes today's no less heady but still slightly less eventful new single print.
Pasted up yesterday in treacherous conditions (well it was a bit windy) and to critical acclaim. Its a design based on two ads from an old Italian comic, one for GI Joe the other a Barbie-esque figure called Lisa Jean. I found the Lisa Jean ad confusing, it has this disembodied head floating at one side looking down at an aging plastic couple like a spectre of youth judging these old cronies. The GI Joe text seems bizarre especially when put through an online translator. I suppose it ended up being about such grand things as lost love, missed opportunities, romantic picture books and novels. I think i achieved at least some of that. Judge for yourselves:

Here's the printing process, sheet 1:


And on the board:





And to allow all you wonderful folks to have a little snapshot into my world, here's is the view from up on MFB. Thrilling stuff I'm sure you'll agree, like staring into the jaws of death but not once flinching:


Finally, I have been receiving the first of the posters etc for the Community Billboard day. Keep them coming as its a little thin on the ground at the moment. Also i was hoping for a few more small ads type items, you know people selling a sofa or looking for love. Where are you old romantics with overcrowded living rooms?!? It's your day so i guess its up to you what you send in though...