little experiments

in between tidying and organising the house i have been doing one or two art experiments with bits and bod i find round the house. here is an old tobacco tin that was in a toolbox covered in green paint and dirt. with the green paint and dirt removed. siting on a lump of pallet wood that i  buff with some black boot polish, 

 here is the same lump of wood given a light sanding to lighten the wood

time lapse doodling on cardboard experiment:just experimenting

Lungful of Liqueur

"Lungful of Liqueur" is the new single off the hunchbakk album "Anubis Horror"
and once again i provide the artwork. as with the "Anubis Horror" and "Tennaging" artwork  i started with a photo taken in my brothers old bedroom bringing back the duck from "Tennaging" this time shareing the frame with a ghost which has lived in the room longer than i can rember

is Hunchbakk single?

 No but he has got a new single out. “Teenaging” available asa pay-what-you-like download via bandcamp and I have been playing around with dolls in my brother’s Teenage bedroom to provide some artwork.

waltham cross redevelopment

well that substation is still bouncing around my head and sparking ideas so i have knocked up

some concept art 

substation concept art waltham cross

getting head in the garden

that right another head print, to stop her ego getting any bigger i have sent her for some meditation and self reflection in a zen garden

wet dreamland

wet dreamland

going gray

here my latest art work "going gray" it was going to be paint it black but the line work looks best in black and black on black doesn't really work so i went gray instead. and you may recognize the painter (my brother) from these

paint line

&

paint target

 

pigeons and rifles

as promised new art work pigeons and rifles 

and here are some of the photo i took

happy street

new art work from a photo taken in london with lots of photoshoping

ok. ok that not the right photo but i already had this one in my picsa wed album from a earlier post but you get the idea 

print and card available here

take it for red

take it for red

make tea not war

make tea not war 2

paper mash 2

my paper mache experiments have continued with me filling my old shoes and molding tentacles coming out of them 

i will upload a photo of the finished shoes in the next couple of days

paper mash

i like to reuse lots of stuff in my art work so given the amount of paper that makes it way in to the house as free newspapers pizza leaflets and packaging for food stuffs  and other stuff it seamed about time try to help some of it leave as art os i have started experimenting with paper mache

here are some of my experiments simply coating stuff with paper mache and pulling it off once dry 

more half finished work.

this is another half finished art work set in my dystopian future using a photo taken in Waltham Abbey (just opposite McDonalds)  

the endless quest

you may have spotted a change to the blog (if you haven't look up) i have change some of my pages. link to my about me,Ian Byford Art on redbubble,Ian Byford art on zazzle,pages now appear at the top of the page, i have also started the endless quest of trying to influence what ads google adscene put on my blog by blocking the ones i don't think you are like to click on and by try to slip more science fiction-ish words in to my blog to increase the amount of ad for DVDs, book and game adds that are put on the blog and use the words DVDs, book and game twice in one post won't hurt, now with all that going on you would think i wouldn't of had the time to do any new t-shirts or art well think again

grow your own couch potatoes

undead love

and the art well I'm going to save that for a future post 

post cards and tea

my art work is now available on post cards. and i have added a new t-shirt 

dave 2

here are some more photos taken out and about before going to see dave Gorman live

dave 1

i know i said i was going to try to blog more and i am i just got a bit distracted by my birthday

for my birthday my brother got us tickets to see Dave Gorman and if you don't believe me theres the tickets there

  so as we were in london we had a walk about with our cameras to look for a venus figure my brother had read about just after a had writen this post and here it is

i'm not to shore i like this venus figure i don't think it has any maternal qualities it just look like a fat woman who can't get up but on the way to see the venus figure i did see something i like a rock playing football and here it is

well thats all the sculpture from yesterday but i have some more photo to share tomorrow

door 18:Neptune sketch

sketch in pencil and pen of neptunian architecture I'm going to add some colour and texture to this in photoshop and may make it available as a print because for a quick sketch i think it look dame good 

keeping it local;ordnance road enfield

just a quick one i had drawn on the figure and need to put him somewhere so i photo shopped a background for him from an photo of the ordnance pub i had took just because it had a cool for sale sign