Street Art Barcelona

A long weekend in Barcelona cant go with out snapping a few lovely images of the graffiti round the Gothic area that i stayed. I thought it would be nice to share some of the best with you!

Smelt bad but i like the image

 Made me think of a Geisha Olive

(as in Popeye the sailor man and his lady friend Olive Oil)

I really lived this tribal face!

I hope that you like the Images!!

Local gallerys

My town in Orkney is small and quiet during the winter, during summer you have the lively hum of the tourist season but all year round i feel that we have a great art community. The Pier Arts Center is a newly renovated building with a beautiful space for works. In the main exhibition area there is a show on by Scottish artist Jim Lambie. I just thought this show was very worth mentioning!

 I just think the floor is so cool and mesmerizing. I wish i had a photo of a battle helmet sprayed fluorescent green encased in glitter spotted resin. AMAZING

Let them eat COLOUR CAKE

As one of my good friends was away for his birthday party we decided to have a mini dinner meeting for him. We thought it would be nice to keep things a surprise... till he called and said he couldn't make it, so the ball was dropped there. Eventually we decided to tell him of the lovely wee get together. But to the point The cake that was made for him was AMAZING!!!!!

The candles just out on the Smartie encrusted cake!

From the outside amazingly colourfull...

But from the inside more COLOURFULL

I just thought that it was well worth mentioning!

my summer so far

Some of the paintings i have up 

I like to paint so over the summer i gave myself a mini project to try and do some form of paining or drawing each day.  Because of this i have a rather large stack of images now and what better to do as a poor student than sell them! So that's what im doing! I cant quite quit the day job but its something more productive than sitting trolling the internet all day!

I hope you like My images!

My men

Images from my sketchbook i hope that you like them! Mostly i worked with water colour and ink pen, there the one i got the best results with!

some of my drawings form my sketchbook.

 For our mens wear section of first year we had to design a pare of trousers. A nice beige cotton twill fabric for £4 a meter and some heavily ribbed knit i got done by the fancy machines that just go form the kit technicians. For some reason the only photos i have of my trousers are these ones so i guess i will just make do with showing you them! :3

very un-ironed back of mens trousers.

also very creased front of my trousers

My trousers are full length to the ankle, they sit at the waist and then the crotch come to just above the knee and the heavy knitted part starts just below the knee. My first attempt of making mens clothing AND I WOULD SAY I DID ALRIGHT! Looking forward to second year and all the making fun we will have!

Māori!

Before I started the course at Heriot Watt i decidedI would take a year out from all the hard work of life and see the world a little bit! So i went to New Zealand. Having secured my place at university i was free to go till 2010! I took full advantage of being in a different culture. The history of the native Māori people was great and well shown in the museums of NZ. I spent many hours in the Museum of Auckland looking at the great craftsmanship these people had and still practice in there culture. The carvings are very intricate, the tattoos telling a story beautiful joining together and the traditional clothing was made with fine care and knowledge of weaving and beading. Although the Traditional clothing was not made form fine materials like silks of fine threads, the skill to make them must have been great! The straws, leafs and other materials all had a relevant  link to there culture, respect for the land.

One of the many drawings i made form Auckland Museum, not very finished but i like it none the less.

I hope one day i can visit New Zealand again! To many things to do just for the one visit to that country!

Possibly maybe??

So i entered a small contest on facebook for a design thing. I chose to use the Blue tit print i made for UNIVERSITY! i would like very much if readers of this blog would support me and 'like' on facebook, you have to become friends with the page first. but thank you if you choose to like it!


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Shame on you for the self promotion! :3