sneaky peek

Next Nazdrove flyer... Bad Brains go to Russia... should be done soon

Bits and pieces

Chair recovered with shopping bag. Would have done it with all my chairs if it wasn't for the Morrison's logo.


A squid cake. Some tentacles lost on the walk to my friend's house. This contains so much sugar I felt sick for about 3 days after.


Playing at tattoos.
Ambulance supplies catalogue collage... let my friend count off the hours left of his student paramedic placement.

Woodcarving

I've carved a few spoons over the years, but tend to be held back but having the wrong tools. These two are carved with a chisel and are unfinished until I can find a spoon gouge.

The smaller is carved out of birch I got from a woodpile in Finland. The larger one I can't remember...


This was the carnage left on my desk....

Virgin Maryness

A birthday present I made for a friend. The image is cut from a postcard I found in a bin in Barcelona. Made a frame out of cardboard then went wild with glue, glitter and sequins. Glueing sequins down with tweezers is very soothing.

Stamped stamp

Here's a teeny little fake postage stamp I made using a carved eraser and a little holepunch.


And in its natural environment...

New lino print

Made a lino print last week to go into a new zine I'm working on. Cutting it was the easy part; lining up the two colours was a niiiightmare. Had to invent 3 contraptions to align them, involving cardboard, tracing paper and lots of tape. Only the 3rd worked. Generally happy with how it turned out, although getting enough pressure to get a decent print involved putting my 4" thick paramedic textbook on top of the lino and paper, then standing on top of it and stamping on each corner.


The text is a quote by Charles Rennie Mackintosh which I like.


I'm planning my new zine to involve quite a bit of printing and hand-assembling - I'll probably regret that as I put 300 copies together - but I hope it'll turn out well. Although it took me all evening to make 30 copies of this print! But now I've worked out how to do it....

Rarrrrr!!!

I made a tiger outfit for a party last weekend. Here's my highly technical sketch planning the hat:


...and the finished hat in action:

I had planned to make a whole tiger suit but that fun fur is well expensive. I ended up buying half a metre of it for £3.50, plus 2m of satin bias binding and a square of pink felt. It worked out about a fiver, but I think I'm going to get considerable mileage from this outfit... I also made furry short shorts with a tail but don't have any photos. Sure some will turn up eventually, I danced in them for about 12 consecutive hours so there must be pictures somewhere.