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January 2010 in Project365

Lurch Kimded — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 00:14:27 +0000

Well thats the first month of twenty-ten, or two thousand and ten, or whatever you call it, done and dusted. Started two new art courses, both should stretch me but in different ways. So, here we go again another review of my 365… one of these days I’ll actually post something here thats not 365 related

Sketch page - its a sketch page, one of a few done this month, but this one just stood out a bit
Lost Souls - original photo taken by my mate Thomas (headphonaught)
Quick Alien Head - quite pleased considering it was a really quick sketch
Its a Meerkat - Another “its a…” although none have been anywhere near as popular as the first one
New Company Logo - thought it was about to do a redesign of my logo, quite like it
Art Course - How to Make Images - week 01, 02
Art Course - Drawing for Expression - week 01, 02

2009 Project 365 in review

Lurch Kimded — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 17:03:48 +0000

Well this year fair flew buy and it was a series of ups and downs… at any rate here is a little look back at some of my picks from 2009.

In case your interested those that can be bought as prints are below:

Its a Kiwi - print & t-shirt
Lady Wisdow - print
Foolish Triptych - print
Christ and Thorns - print
Homeless Jesus - print
Ice Mage - print
First Love - print
Kiss - print
Tears Bring New Growth - print
Dragon in Cave - print
Remembrance - print
Its a Chameleon - print & t-shirt
Road to Emmaus series - print 01, 02, 03, 04, 05, 06
I am a new Creation - print
The Word Made Flesh - print
Two Views One Room - print
Be Not Afraid - print

December 2009 in Project365

Lurch Kimded — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 15:02:58 +0000

No preample really, needless to say not just end of the month but end of the year, a review of the year is coming…

The Word made Flesh - created, in part, during a sermon and then finished off… not much else really its a Nativity scene.
Two Views One Room - something very abstract, created using a piece I made in last art course
Demon Sketch - its a sketch… not my best but still quite good
Meditating Alien - Oommm
Be Not Afraid - an angel appearing… quite pleased with this one, took about 5 hours, which is a long time for me

Anyway, as I said expect a proper end of year thing soon.

Just an idea…

Lurch Kimded — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 19:36:59 +0000

Just an idea here… so next Christmas, why doesn’t a bunch of people get together a bunch of artists (music, video, paint etc) to make an album, single, and even an art book (or PDF with album), which is made for nothing (or as close to as possible, and if were honest it can be done) and then sold digitally to raise money to help give every person on the planet fresh water.

I’ve seen some rough estimates that are it would take about £4million to give everyone fresh water, now even a portion of that would go some way to at least helping. Hundred of thousands of singles and albums were sold in the Christmas week just for the number 1s this means you could easily raise around about £1million. If you sold the single for £1 and sold 400,000 (I think Rage this year sold 500,000), and sold the album for £8. selling about 90,000 you could easily reach that, and then we could give a proper Christmas gift, the gift of life…

… that and it would again stop that money grabbing Cowell, who, with his music industry cronies, could easily donate well over 4million from their personal accounts… but that would never happen, so how about we shame them instead…

But then again its just an idea…

Times’ 100 best films of 00’s

Lurch Kimded — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 01:09:43 +0000

Times Online have done a “The 100 Best Films of the Decade”, which frankly is a not that great of a list (where are Iron Man, Batman Begins, Watchmen, Sin City… Avatar? and countless others?) , anyway a couple of my friends (here and here) have gone though it as marked the ones they have actually seen, so here is my list:

98 - Crash
94 - An Inconvenient Truth
77 - Bowling for Columbine
71 - Monsters, Inc.
58 - Shaun of the Dead
50 - The Lord of The Rings: The Return of the King
43 - The Dark Knight
42 - The Incredibles
34 - Finding Nemo
32 - Gladiator
26 - Minority Report
24 - 28 Days Later…
20 - Donnie Darko
8 - Casino Royale

And those that are still on my “to watch” list

93 - House of Flying Daggers
74 - Pan’s Labyrinth
69 - Persepolis
68 - Memento
63 - There Will Be Blood
48 - Little Miss Sunshine
41 - Children of Men
40 - Syriana
39 - Lost in Translation
29 - Being John Malkovich
18 - Let the Right One In
16 - Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
15 - Downfall
12 - The Lives of Others
7 - The Last King of Scotland
3 - No Country for Old Men

November 2009 in Project365

Lurch Kimded — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 22:32:13 +0000

What do you mean its December… aaaaaaaaarrrrgh!!

Its a Chameleon - inspired by the “Its a Kiwi” (which keeps on selling t-shirts), may make a few more in the series if and when inspiration strikes
Dreams - the start of a piece I am wanting to make for a DeviantArt competition, haven’t done anything else to it yet and the deadline is soon
I am a new creation - created during the youth councils after the saturday night meeting
West Scotland YC images - a series of six images inspired by the Emmaus Road created for
Art Course - 05, 06, 07, 08, 09 - kinda settled into now, been quite enjoyable, almost a shame it finishes soon, got two more courses starting in January though

Not much else to say at the moment, couple of thought brewing, got a sermon/paint this coming Sunday which I need to plan. Guess we shall see what the typically overly busy December brings.