M.i.a

This is an old-ish photo before I coloured it in and it got creased in an incident... anyway, this is it! Trying to use Kate's style, probably failing!

Corinne

The Corinne Bailey Rae illustration's finally finished. I'am reasonably pleased with it, but definitely reckon it could have looked bigger if it were taken on a larger scale. I'd quite like to screenprint/colour the final thing, just to get the potential for the drawing out, as it's heavily detailed from around 5 evenings of work. Time well spent? I ain't convinced.

The Great Gatsby

This is the basic illustration for the design of my cover for the literary classic. It'll need editing/colouring before I can think about the back and the spine of the book, but fingers crossed it'll look good, and by the 28th.

I'm sitting on the roof of my house
With a shotgun and a six pack of beer
The newscaster say's "the enemy is among us!"
As bombs explode on the 30 bus
Kill that middle class indecision
Now is not the time for liberal thought
So I go hunting for witches
Heads are going to roll
So I go hunting
1990's, optimistic as a teen
But now its terror, airplanes crash into towers
The Daily mail say's "the enemy is among us!"
"Taking our women and taking our jobs"
All reasonable thought is being drowned out
By the non-stop baying, baying for blood
So I go hunting for witches
Heads are going to roll
So I go hunting
I was an ordinary man, with ordinary desire
I watched TV it informed me
I was an ordinary man with ordinary desire
There must be accountability
Disparate and misinformed
Fear keeps us all in place
-
remembering 7/7.

Paul

I CAN'T AFFORD TO HAVE A BAD DAY.

LULLABY

I have several bits to upload on to here, and I'll do it once I've unpacked my dslr from it's bagged, photographed the drawings and got them on the computer. For now, you, the reader, will have to
put up with this mundane message.

The things that I will upload are:

My M.I.A drawing (attempting to use Kate from vis com's style).
Things from my now neglected moleskine.
Corinne (once it's fucking done). Oh and it's heavily inspired by Kate and Iain McArthur
And my minorly watercolour screenprints I finally got back today.
I might upload a photo of the Anna Calvi drawing too, but I ain't sure.

After that I'll need to:

Sort my essay out, it's not going to write itself.
Finish, and correct all the issues with my Derren Brown painting. That won't finish itself either.
Start the Paloma Faith illustration, continuing the same theme as the Corinne Bailey Rae.
And college work.
And photography, I could do with taking a load of magnificent photos of some shit.

Iain McArthur

Corinne Bailey Rae - Diving For Hearts

Diving for Hearts

Till then I wasn't alive,
I longed for you like the lovesick moon pulls the tide.
So I peeled off my skin,
I just slipped right in
And I become alive.

'Cause down here there's no fear
There's no cause for panic
There's just bright cold calm,
I feel no harm.
This underwater feeling's abandon and it fires my heart.

Was it emotion
Or should I just keep on diving,
Keep on diving down?
Under this ocean
I long to keep on diving,
Till my heart is found.
It's got a hold on me
Can't forget the things I've seen

World will all end
And new worlds will begin
It's a thought so stark.
We're at once determinant,
Yet so insignificant,
Spinning out in the velvet dark.

Still, down here
There's no fear
There's no cause for panic
There's just this bright cold calm
Yeah, it leaves a scar
So show me how to find again,
If I'm lost, show me where you are

Until then...
-

This is why everyone needs to hear The Sea.
But the hardest thing?
Knowing that these very lyrics, and every single other syllable, is a dedication to her partner.

Corinne

The Sea is one of the best albums to come out of 2010. And why it failed to win the Mercury Prize, I'll never know. After resisting to listen to it at first, the album (on cd*) is the must heart-melting, atomic emotioned, delectable... oh! I could go on and on describing how much I bloody LOVE this album, but really I'am not getting anywhere. T

he purpose of this entry is to talk about a piece I'am currently working on (a break from Derren) which just so happens to feature the Leeds-born goddess. By taking the album, I'am producing a black and white ink pen depiction of Corinne Bailey Rae, dominated by "The Sea" around her, as if it's almost swallowing her up. I'am also taking a style that originally occurred in an earlier nautical themed sketch, and applying the same technique of tight detail, where waves clash and overlap around her face. I really hope the illustration becomes what I imagine it to be, and once it's done I'll bang it straight up here.

I feel so lucky to have seen her live, especially in her hometown. It still feels like a pleasure, reminiscing back to the fact it's quite possibly musically the best gig I've ever been to... who knows!

Oh, and I quit Facebook today.

x

Antony and the Johnsons - Hope There's Someone (Live Jools Holland 2005)