I took this opportunity to finally finish the Cthulhu book!
Books
Category: Artwork
Movement
I happened to find a child’s praxinoscope in a charity shop, so did this. If I were to do it again, I’d probably have something without a background as it doesn’t work so well. Although tbh I probably wouldn’t bother as it was a lot of effort for not much reward. Flip books are better. 🙂
Aliens
This is Sydney the periscope alien, invented by one of my best friends in school, and here made out of cotton reels, paper, wool, buttons and a bead!
Eyes
These are eyes from my artwork and photos, plus a few random others of squid, octopus and cuttlefish.
Dreams
This is a dream I had back in 2006, and always had a vague plan to paint. I’ve not had any interesting dreams recently, so this was clearly the time! Here’s what I wrote at the time (and why I still have any memory of the dream): “All of my more entertaining dreams seem to involve my friend Lee Chaos. Presumably because he’s the Herald of Fun. This one is the sort that’s actually semi-plausible. I was in my secondary school, doing some work (apparently as some sort of staff member) whilst drinking a can of cider. Well, it was Friday. Some bitchy schoolgirls looked in the open window, and some patronising conversation ensued, possibly about what I was doing there and why I was drinking. This was interrupted by a bang from outside, and the schoolgirls wandered off looking excited. I look out of the window, and there’s Lee, marching up the school field in a rain of fireworks. It seems he had been hired by the school for this very purpose – what a great idea! (Well, the schoolkids loved him, anyway.)”
Hands
Back in my teens I had a lovely pair of not-quite-elbow-length velvet gloves, for about two years until I lost one. I’ve kept the lone glove ever since, and finally had a use for it.
Silhouette
It being the lunar new year of the rabbit around this time, I wanted to include a nod to it by putting bunny masks on my action figures, which I then photographed in front of my extremely cool Tetris light (you can stack the tetrominoes in different ways!) Super pleased with how this one came out. I think it would have been better if I’d had one big plastic sheet to put underneath, but you can’t have everything.
Splash
Made by dropping a heavyish bead into little dishes of paint. Yes, the rug does now have some new spots of colour on it. 🙂
Love cards
This theme came from a concept that Yves Saint Laurent came up with in the 70s. I wasn’t really feeling it, but I happened to have been doing a big fairy jigsaw at the time, so I quickly knocked this out, lol.
Danger
I decided to paint a pattern based on the skin of the DANGERous blue-ringed octopus.
Attic Mirror 