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People often ask me how my creative process works and It’s not easy to explain. I spend a lot of time collecting knick-knacks, odds, ends and other junk and keep it in a repository of miscellanea.When I have some time to spare I like to go and pick and choose from the parts I have and see how they look together with each other. I’ll often pick something up and think "This could be an arm, or a hand or a body" and I’ll begin searching for accompanying pieces and parts.
Any project I undertake has countless revisionary stages where one trinket is switched out for another, rotated and whatnot.
The pictures above are a pretty standard state of my work desk. There’s a boardroom sized pad of paper underneath which I always keep out in case of emergency ideas and inspiration.
I don’t go looking for inspiration, I wait for it to come to me, to reveal itself one piece at a time. Tags:None. 0 Comments
Former pocketwatch turned arboretum. Tags:Art Clockwork Love Trees 0 Comments
The next threadless design is up here. If I can trouble you for a vote.
Under the sea voting has now ended with a 2.3 Average. I hoped it would be higher but that’s not back for my first try, no? Tags:None. 0 Comments
Hey, if you could, would you vote for my design on threadless.com. I love you? Tags:None. 0 Comments
Robot Royalty Tags:Art Cute Love Robots 0 Comments |
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About meI am an artist for lack of a better word. I hate the term "artist" because it conjures up the vision of a holier-than-thou hipster type who makes up profound meanings for a blue canvas. Post modernism is rarely art. I’m not really an artsy person either. My wife studied art history and I enjoy things like that. I mostly subscribe to the "I may not know art, but I know what I like" philosophy.
I prefer terms like "Tinkerer", "Creator", "Maker" and "Builder". Constructive terms.
I like to make new things out of junk, bits, pieces and various miscellania. I recently decided this compulsion to build complex compilations of simple parts has roots in my childhood obsession with LEGO. My father made me a LEGO table from an old door and steel brackets that sat in our basement. I think I spent more time seated at that table bushing aside an ocean of coloured bricks searching for the specific one I needed than most people spent outside in their childhood.
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I'm available for freelance web work and commissioned artwork or even if you're just bored!
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Some Things I like
Tiny Cartrage, PSG Metafight, The Aquabats, James Howard Kunsler, Etsy!, H.P. Lovecraft’s Commonplace, Secret Museum of Mankind, The art of Ashley Davis, Pineapple Soda and The Journalism Show, Dinosaur Comics, Wired, Rogue Basin, LOST, A poem for Alan Turing, Tiger Army, |
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