Wednesday, February 25, 2015

1O views of Manko-yama life drawing scribbles of the model Manko at voutOreenees art club

Our life drawing model Manko graced the sofa at Vout-o-Reenees art bar for scribbling practice... Here's my version of it....... ....
 THE MOON & THE SUN 













MANKO is a professional model (&artist) to be found herewww.modelmayhem.com/30494

 if there are any catwalks that need strolling on.




Saturday, January 31, 2015

Nebula Arts and i&i are having a joint solo show of our creativity launching next Friday the 6th until the 28th Feb called "LOVE IN THE DAWN OF THE APOCALYPSO". we are having a music jam public privet view (sic) on the launch night 6-9pm , one and all weLKom esp those bringing instruments to make weird noise and funny sounds... wine, absinthe and fine cheeses available on the night.. see yous at it... (-:


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Monday, January 26, 2015

60 metre mural on Borough high street

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Avon Place mural on the side of the BSO (British School of Osteopathy) 

7 months in the planning and 5 weeks to paint in midwinter much to the pleasure of the 99% of the public we met in the process of transforming a grot-spot alley into a colourful work of art (-: 

it features themes of local history such as Trinity House and its marine safety / lighthouse connection, Henry the 8th, a fire in the church, a naughty brake cable munching fox, nature, archeology, yoga, community spirit and academia

we were amazed the amount of positive feedback we had from local people who once found the alley way a dark and sinister place to suddenly telling us it was now a pleasure to walk thru it... 

This is guy local resident's response to it:
  • I thought I should write to thank you and the Council for all your work in completing the Avon Place mural.
  • The end result is a most attractive and vivid record of local themes, places and events.
  • It has greatly enhanced what was a a rather drab and unpleasant alleyway.
  • My own children used to ask not to go down Avon Place.
  • Now they ask to go on a detour to look at the pictures and happily linger to enjoy their favourite scenes.

  • Many thanks to you and Morganico for what you have achieved and your patience and hard work in getting there.

  • Best wishes,
  • (Local resident )

Wednesday, June 11, 2014

PRESS RELEASE: An article on the new arts club in E1 i paintid at... >> Vout-O-Reenees.com

i paintid this garden room in the new E1 arts club with 'Monet's gardens at Giverny' theme, Rene Magritte style clouds on the ceiling and a

Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood style 3D illusion of a fishpond on the floor featuring gold fish and a koi carp... (with Claude Monet expert and chief wizard mural minion consultant Brian Barnes MBE advising on water lily design)


Emma and Chin AKA: KEELERTORNEO.COM paintid the details in the rest of the club floor,with hollywood set painter Tony Common painting architectural patternings on walls with Paul Sakoilsky's colours.


Vout-O-Reenees(.com) by Sophie Parkin and Jan 

<<for the surrealistically distinguished !..>>


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and said:..>> PRIDE OF PLACE PRESERVED FOR POSTERITY BY THE MONA LISA


colours.

Monday, June 9, 2014

Hokusai wave muraL completion update...

Wow... just realised this is the 1st post of 2014.. what a naughty laxidasical blogger i am,... 

We completed the Hokusai wave mural restoration with much fanfare and a winter BBQ in the snow with free food donated from the local community (BIG THANKYOUS to shopkeepers/The Sun "& but no Doves" pub)
The London Mural Preservation Society with Ruth Miller, Vinnie O'connel of New Leaf garden project, SoloOne and all the volunteers and Dominic of the house did great werk,,, 
and we got in the papers...(SouthLondonPress)

 
several months on now in "summer" (ie rain with occaisionaL sunshine) the mural still looks great- the free paint from Dulux (Weathershield masonry paint) scheme called "Lets Colour" held its pigment well  

After restoration..... (^%

And before with illegal meth lab fireball explosion damage





all the stages of it- the original/fire damaged/photoshop mockup plan/ and post restoration

we added an eruption from Mount Fujiyama and an anti-nukes sign to reference the incident with the fire beside the mural and the ongoing nuclear disaster at Fukushima due to the 3/11 tsunami

The view from the street 

Hokusai the japanese artist's original woodblock print design


Afterwards i met a local squirrel 

He likes eating cupcakes 


and running about a bit 

i thingk hes nuts...




Sunday, December 1, 2013

"Great Wave" Hokusai mural of camberwell werk in progress

Our restoration project is inder local papers again...
Y£$, This mural is mostly Blue (-:




















Lovely enthusiastic volunteers kept appearing to help paint in the snow!


Saturday, November 2, 2013

dementid scribbling of HUNGRY SOULS Halloween gig at Starving Arts event

https://www.facebook.com/groups/186023224894397/?fref=ts

Many bands rocked out, roving actors mimed, artists scribbled, audience danced, maggots wriggled, a live goldfish swam thru the crowd.. 





i put a bunch of these around in public years ago - this is the 2nd of 2 that survived. good advice if ever i heard it 
pro Thieu artist rocking the Klimt-esque facepaints