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Monday 12 October 2009

This is only a blueprint

I did this one at the same time as the last one, you can see a shift to darker colours, but i think it suits it better. I attacked this one with watercolours then put it in the microwave to try and make it look messy. Despite not being very romantic, this one was actually for my girlfriend, lol

When things get complicated a robot needs to stop

This one was done quickly for a friend again, again I was trying to break my style mould and try new things, so i used a good bit of spray. This may be the first time 'Ctrl', 'Alt', 'Del' has been used in a painting, lol

Jump for robots!


I can't remember the real title of this one, but it took ages and ages. It was worth it though, I love using lots of different patterns. I even have a t-shirt someone made of this painting, which is awesome!!

And to all the destruction in man, and to all the corruption in my hand


Again, this picture just popped into my head pretty much exactly as you see it, when i was listening to an Interpol song, from which the title is taken. I wanted to do something different again and ditched the mad colours and to do a robot in a real landscape for once. I love scrapheaps by the way, I find them fascinating

A robot can only really be saved by one other


I love to use colour, and I love any excuse to use all othem on one canvas, this is another big canvas and I spent a lot of time blending the colours together very carefully. I wasn't sure about the illustration when i was doing it, but it worked out very well and it's another romantic one, awww....

This robot reaches for the stars, some other robots say that's stupid but she knows they're getting closer

This one was again done for a friend, in a very short space of time. The idea popped into my head exactly as you see it and I was very pleased that I was able to translate my idea to canvas, and its owner was overjoyed with it, which always makes me very happy


Sometimes a robot's world just completely falls apart


There was a big gap between this and my last, and this was the first painting that i did a proper full sketch for. It took over a week of lying on the floor as it's a big canvas and it hangs in my kitchen and is something I am very proud of. My granny's not sure what it is though

Sometimes girl robots are the feircest

I've always taken a lot of inspiration from Japanese cartoons, and this was me trying to do something a bit different, i like to change my style a lot, this had a lot of paint thrown at it and the writing reads "girl" and "chaos" and something else that I don't remember at all. It was done for a good friend and I was pleased that it reflected her personality a lot

Falling through thoughts and feelings

This was the first painting I ever did for anyone, and it was done in about 3 hours, with no prepartion drawings, it just took shape when the paint hit the canvas, i didn't even have very much paint, lol, its a pretty big canvas, it was the biggest one to date and the person it was for liked it a lot

A robot's path isn't always clear

I got a new set of paints for christmas, so i did this one in 2 or 3 days, i wanted to do lots of colour, and i'd been playing with this tube design for a while, and there is a sequel to this painting

Robots aren't always happy, sometimes they get sad and want to be alone

This was the result of a lot of spraypainting, i suffered more than a little asphyxiation, lol, and nearly blew up the garage, but i still like the blending of the colours and the unusual texture

When a robot's circuits stop working, it's parts are melted down but it's spirit lives on

This one was a gradual idea that just happened when i was painting over an extremely bad old picture, ironically, the picture quality is as bad as the picture used to be, lol, for one that's actually one of my favourites