Shakespeare Festival Brochure artwork

Recent Art stuff

So this is a poster I did for a production of Patience by Gilbert & Sullivan. Commission work has been a bit unrelenting at the moment, mainly because it's for OUDS so it's not like I actually get paid for it. I just may as well walk around with a post-it note saying 'gullible moron and art-whore' on my forehead. Anyway, this one was reasonably fun, although the pattern repeat caused bare issues blud.

A Little Part of Me Died Inside

So my ex posted this on Facebook today (technically it was his housemate but this is not relevant).

 

So as an English student (albeit one with a tendency to mercilessly mock and belittle revered works of literature) I had a sense of humour fail. Because this guy is clearly an idiot, who has (likely) never actually read Jane Austen. The assumption of idiocy can also be applied to "Samantha"s comment, which reads kind of like it should be followed by high pitched squeeing. 

This, however, did not make me die inside. The reason I lament so is because, on the Facebook link, someone had written "i LOVE Jane Austen :)" underneath. The lower case personal pronoun and smiley face gave me reservations about the background of the sentiment, but nonetheless it is one I largely share. I (naturally) followed this comment with some kind of obnoxious and pedantic comment about Jane Austen being "unrealistic" on purpose for satiric effect. To which Smiley-face-grammar-fail replies with the following.

"Lol but its actually got fundamental truths and is the basis for modern romance. The unrequented love n the obnoxious guy becomes nice :)"

Yeah. A little part of me died inside.

Pictures from around Regent's Park College this summer.

So the Coca-cola advert and the multitude of merry Christmas elves in the form of fellow undergraduates have alerted me to the imminent arrival of the yuletide period. I have been painting and designing like a machine because the untimely decision to buy a £900 graphics and gaming laptop a week before the end of term has left me inconveniently impoverished. Hence everyone is getting handmade presents this year. The above is for my Grandmother. Been inspired a lot by religious art and Mannerism, which was what inspired the Madonna pose. Renaissance vs. Medieval English this term has lead me to the realisation that as far as art is concerned the Catholics pwn Protestants. A few people (George Herbert, the entirety of the Netherlands) somehow managed to come out of Puritanism culturally unscathed but I just think most things are improved by a healthy portion of gold leaf applied (see above for said liberal use of gold ... it isn't entirely evident in the photo but you'll have to take my word for it). So this was project number one.