so with that whole christmas thing round the corner, i guess it's probably SEASONAL BLOG DUMP TIME.





so as part of our efforts to make the green to cover the degree show, our year set up shop for the last week of term. folk made a whole ton of funky festive themed stuff. one of the things we put together was an advencalendar. ok, so we didn't choose the most time effective way to put it together, but it ended up looking pretty tight! not to mention all the artwork everyone did. here's my offering:






asides from that, people also made a tone of cards and decorations. check these out!:

fredrick eden's christmas cards. perfect for animal lovers everywhere.

eileen kwan's totally dapper cards and labels.

these hand made decorations abi moulder put together. whoar

aaaaaaaaand here's the art for the cards i whipped up:




well that was that. MERRY CHRISTMAS FOR TOMORROW! oh man, i hope you all have a great one.

so yeah. we're currently in the middle of trying to organise a wee fund raising event to save the rec centerohwaitimean to put towards our degree show. if you'd like to come along to buy some sweet arts and crafts, that would be the greatest. there might also be cake.

one thing there most defiantly will be will be a run of calendars put together by some of the fine folk in our year.



here's my paltry offering for november. i saw such things for this but i seem to be in the midsts of the most glorious self-loathing art funk. blllllllaaaaaarrrrrgh!

on the subject of november, i do believe it's that time of year that the men folk do their best to grow some illustrious upper lip hair. may all your moustaches be long and prosperous!

christmas doodling in the spirit of CHRISTMAS.

HAPPY HOLIDAYS, Y'ALL!

more of those one minuet drawings. maaaan, it's not even funny how much this speed drawing malarky loosens you up.

in other news, we're only two weeks away from christmas? could have fooled me; i think i've been bitten by the humbug because up until now, i've been feeling impervious to christmas cheer. maybe it's the fact they haven't been stuffing it down our throats since september... or maybe it's that our visit to hyde park's winter wonder land revealed that place to be where ghost rides go to die. who knows.

that all changed with santa con this weekend. holy cow. so many santas. SO MANT SANTAS.how we hadn't heard of this before is a total mystery.

oh coral painter. you sexy mother fucker, you. i think i love this programme.

anyhoo, one of the final images for the christmas project. for proof of just how super pimp orson welles was, check this out -> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VlKR0i-51S4

so our holiday homwork over christmas was to come up with the perfect gift for a famous dead dude or dudett. our ficticious secret santa was chosen at random from a hat and i managed to bag orson welles (atleast, i think it was orson welles. it might have been george orwell and my memory was once again proving it's sive like worth BUT OH WELL).

good gravy, that man was awesome. there was an orson welles season on tv over christmas and it was a real eye opener to what a talent/personality he was. it's such a shame that he was pretty much constantly screwed over by the studio system once he stopped being flavour of the month. you can read all about it here -> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orson_Welles

anyhoo, here's all the SUPERLY FABULOUSE INTENIVE/EXTENSIVE reserch done for this brife. oh, and ther's some festive wrapping paper featuring (OH SNAP SON, SPOILERS FOR A 70 YEAR OLD FILM COMING UP)rosebud to boot.

it's like the sixth day of christmas so festive doodling is still legit, right? something else i submitted for this month's issue of meow because i'm a super keen keno.

shit composition is shhhhhiiiiiittttaaaay!

belated merry christmas, y'all! hope you had a good one!

submission for this month's meow.

lo, my mad rhyming skillz!

 

for the art jam- this week's theme was something you got for christmas. i thought i'd mix things up with a little multi media action. 

oh god. 

what was i thinking.

(apologies to clement clark moore)

merry christmas, y'all.

did you know that contrary to popular belief, coca-cola did NOT invent the red sporting santa that we've all become so familiar with? instead, the finger of blame can be leveled at thomas nast (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Nast), an american cartoonist who transformed him into the jolly little fat man we've all come to know and love. also, there are numerous links between mr clause and the norse god odin but those have pretty much been brushed under the carpet since the ye olde christians felt that smacked of paganism.

#THE MORE YOU KNOW!#