More Glittering Prize Art…
You can never have too much of a good thing, right? I do sometimes think that maybe I need to seek help…or I should just go back obsessing about birds. Blackbirds, eh? Phwoar! Lol – Don’t start me off on the tits!
You can never have too much of a good thing, right? I do sometimes think that maybe I need to seek help…or I should just go back obsessing about birds. Blackbirds, eh? Phwoar! Lol – Don’t start me off on the tits!
I just wanted to try something different…but with the same subject matter I fall back on. In times of…descending melancholia, just…working on art around this beautiful face gives me focus, purpose. He’s my “human fidget spinner”, if I can be so crude? (I can. And now my mind is wildly wandering…GALLOPING…off elsewhere). His sharing of…
Every time I get a “new” previously unseen pic of Jim, I always gotta have a play around. This one is no exception…
Sometimes it comes really easy and after just a short play…something develops, takes shape and is there before I know it. Other times (like tonight)…I build layer upon layer upon layer…add things, remove things, change things. Get a sense of what I want, but lose perspective trying to find it. That…nothing ever is quite right….
I wish the video of this performance hadn’t been taken down from YouTube…and someone had uploaded such a fantastic clean copy too 🙁 All I have of it is a little animated gif of Jim’s funny little arm movement when he sings “shadows”, and some screengrabbed stills. Anyway…this one tonight really was just a basic…
Back to the early stuff because I just cannot leave the young man alone… I could play with (images of) him all day…
Working on trying to get my muse back. It has forsaken me for such a long while now. Tonight there was a tangible inkling of it. The only way I’ll get it back is to work at it. Persevere. And geez, I wish I could paint. But I really, REALLY need the room! So…I need…
I always get very, very excited when previously poor quality video clips of Simple Minds TV performances seemingly get aired by the TV channels concerned…archived and preserved wonderfully and those clips get shown again to then be uploaded to YouTube in improved quality. Most things back in the late 70s/early 80s were still shot on…
Fiddle, fiddle, fiddle…
Guess who has a new favourite bit of footage to play and play with?
