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Soldering iron onto wood.

I couldn’t find any nice ones in the shops, then my dad suggested I just make one from an antler. What a good idea.

We have a load in the garage that we have picked up from walks in Scotland, so I picked a suitably shaped one, bleached it to get rid of the lichen, cut it to size and screwed it to a piece of wood.

And voila I now have a headphone stand.

Been doing this for a competition I am entering. I haven’t printed anything in ages so this made quite a nice change to the digital stuff I have been making recently.

Also the final prints from them came out really nicely. BEHOLD:

If you were wondering how i managed to get the small details, like the face, cut out on an A5 piece of rubber, the answer is using a scalpel.

Carving tools are pretty good for most of it but it would look like a dogs dinner if I attempted the details with them.

The prize for winning is only £150 but they mention that the cards will be sent globally from the university. Sounds like a good chance for some exposure.

So I decided to quickly produce one, took a couple hours in photoshop and i’m pleased with the result.

I went for a pretty conservative design as I thought that most people who receive the card are not going to working in the art sector anyway.

My housemate jokingly suggested that I give the robin a top hat. I did, and genuinely think it makes it much better, a bit quirky and breaks up the white space at the top.

I also changed the hue of the whole picture and submitted that as well, image after the jump.

I wanted to make something simple and fluid so I chose to use masking fluid and indian ink. For anyone who has used masking fluid before you’ll know how much of a pain it can be, ruining brushes and tearing up the top layer of your paper, so I had to clean the image up quite a bit in photoshop. Then I altered the colours a bit and added pupils to make the character look less creepy, and this is the result.

I also made a pumpkin for halloween, done in a Mexican style. Took about 2 1/2 hours and now it is sitting outside our front door all mushy and covered in mold.

I wish pumpkins lasted for longer.

Pumpkin seeds are tasty by the way. Stick them in the oven for 5-10 minutes on 160 degrees, then peel them and dip in salt. Yum.

It’s a shame seeds cost a lot in the supermarket otherwise i’d eat them all the time.

I didn’t win but am pleased with what I produced for it.

It’s probably the most complex image I have created in photoshop so far, so it’s nice to know that I am capable of making something like this.

Congrats to Gaven Van Sant for winning the competition, here is his design.

Went and saw the Biennale which was pretty interesting, the usual assortment of weird stuff that reminds me of Brian from Spaced , some things I genuinely liked, and some others which I liked but couldn’t put my finger on why.

I’m not going to post any photos because I would probably be breaching some law, and as a result be hunted down by the Carabinieri.

So here are some sketches that I did in the city, click for larger images.

That is all.

 It is pretty cool to see something i’ve made actually being used in the real world.

How exciting!

They have been throwing their rubbish at our windows and in our garden for the past few months.

Then a week and a half ago they threw about 2/3 rubbish bags worth of rubbish into our garden.

I got the police round and they said they couldn’t do anything because they were denying it and there was no evidence that they had done it.

Then our landlord and theirs came round, looked in the rubbish they had thrown, and found some packaging with their address and one of their names on it. What morons.

Now they are cleaning up all the mess and i’ve set up a camera to record it so me and my housemates can watch it over later and laugh at them.

Justice prevails.

Edit: and here’s the video