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Moleskin upload

john — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 17:17:11 +0000

A few more pictures from my moleskin.

Mixture of pencil, micron ink and tria markers.

Playing with paint: girl with a 286

john — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 20:03:30 +0000

Following (chronologically in chip fabrication order) on from Girl and an Altair 8800 and Girl and an Apple II is “Girl with a 286″:

The 286 in question being Intel’s 80286 chip – the motherboard of which can be seen in the background of this painting.

This particular painting is much larger than the previous two. Rather than the A4 size of the previous, it’s 40″ tall. This is because it will be featured in Congregation 2009 along with many other “life-size” portraits.

So if you want to see this painting in the flesh please go visit St Paul’s Church from the 4th-25th of May between 1.30pm and 4pm.

Drummer Girl

john — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 17:53:20 +0000

LOGON: Joshua

john — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 07:36:02 +0000

Seeing as Wargames turned 25 years old this week, it seemed like a good time to do a drawing of David Lightman (Mr Broderick) just as he logs into WOPR for the first time. It’s a classic moment in the film and shows a slightly more realistic view on hacking/cracking. None of this “re-routing the encryption codes” nonsense. Good old-fashioned sleuthing and intuition instead.

Muadib

john — Tue, 27 May 2008 08:51:28 +0000

Brush-pen mentats

john — Sat, 17 May 2008 08:43:15 +0000

I’d bought a brush pen quite some time ago, but hadn’t used it massively. I’d found that I needed a waterproof ink for the kind of stuff I was doing (mostly inking the outline and painting with water-colour over the top).

Anyway, I thought I’d revisit the brush pen last night. So I did a few sketches with it:

The sketches include the mentats, Piter de Vries and Thufir Hawat, as well as a certain girl sleeping. Very pleasant working with the brush-pen, as it’s nice and quick and the results look quite striking. Think I’ll be doing a few more of these.

Mass portrait: girl with book

john — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 13:49:30 +0000

Well it’s finally finished. I’d best get on with delivery to the venue…

You’ll be able to see this painting as part of MASS which will be running on the 3rd, 10th, 17th and 24th of May.

Bear and Mouse with Clogs

john — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 19:43:31 +0000

Playing with paint: Girl and an Apple II

john — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 20:06:18 +0000

Carrying on from Girl with an Altair 8800 here’s another vaguely Diamond Age inspired piece. I’m quite enjoying doing paintings with these themes so there might well be a few more to come – probably tracking the evolution of the modern computer.

NB. That’s a “mouse army” at her feet.

Cherry Blossom Tree

john — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 23:40:00 +0000

Cherry blossom tree
Quite a satisfying way
to finish this day