Ever wondered what goes on when the proprietor of secondhand record shop at the butt end of the world chucks in the towel and goes back to having a life??
….to celebrate moving from level 4 to level 3 (or level 4 with takeaways as I’ve heard it referred to) I have decided to share the end pages of the new sketchbook that are “obscured” by “template B” in the last post….
…( I also realised that the image doesn’t reveal the true nature of any of the pieces that I’m currently wondering why I started in the first place and that there was absolutely no reason to keep this experiment in alternative uses for “template B” under my hat)….
…(oh yes…there’s more than one of the damn “template B” things)…
…tried dredging the sketchbook and most everything in there is part of an ongoing secret project with a planned “big reveal”….
…except for this….
…was becoming concerned with the polls for the American Presidential election…(yeah…remember that?)….and thought I should possibly drift towards commenting in words and pictures….(haven’t done that for awhile)….
…finally had to lean on Shepard Fairey’s masterpiece from awhile ago….
….but, decided to leave it to the professionals…(surely Shepard has already thought of this)….
…just one obsessive scrawl in the corner of a page….casually re-imagining that skull and crossbones design thing you’ve been chasing around…(and around….and around)….
…and then….you add another idea involving bits of scrap ply you still haven’t re-cycled since closing the record shop…..(just below ANOTHER octopus)….
….head back to the flies to flesh them out and make them more patterny….
….realise that they could be a good “venue” for those marvellous acrylic metallic, paints they sell in handy test pots at a local paint shop (…er…national chain of paint shops…big ups the Resenes folk)…
…get said acrylic metallic paints…
…get serious with the acrylic metallic paints….and the afore mentioned skull and crossbones design thing….
…suddenly wish you hadn’t done that in your sketch book instead of maybe committing it to some form of less pagey media….
….console self by going out and collecting a-lot of metallic test pots to further experiment with colour combo’s…..
…film the whole damn matter so as to get the glitter affect through to the slightly confused….(“what is he going on about these acrylic metallic paints for, looks like flat colours to me”)….
….prepare for “relaxing” holiday in Kokonga….painting metallic flys on all manner of things, 24hrs a day or until made to stop….
…see you all in a week or so with (hopefully) some results….
…(some areas of sketchbook pages blurred to protect other ideas and aid concentration on the idea at hand)….
…time complete the “library” sound system shelving build….
….boom….
and when the choons be crankin’…
…a weeks worth of cutting and pasting with old bits of record shop (still a few more under the bed!!) and looking ambient with some LED strip lighting rescued from an old display at the current job…
…a little something I jammed out whilst taking a pre-shop-close break…
…seed planted by Scotty…who talked murals then never got back….
…Scotty, phone home.
…(shit…not much brain space for drawing or posting at the moment…whoda thought telling everyone you’re closing their favourite record shop would cause soooo much chaos…thank the little baby Jesus it’s not Christmas any time soon….)
…(stamp collection seems to end in 1976 with the Xmas issue of that year…I would’ve been 13/14…mmm….records…..).
…(really in love with that 4 colour ballpoint pen…it’s so messy!).
