Like A Stone - Jones

Here's my nice early posting for Like A Stone. Found a nice bit of free time early on to nail the idea, and a bit towards the end to do some finishing off with the colours etc. Bonus. I've noticed though, that the ones I've managed to spend a bit more time on have generally been ones where I've chosen the songs! Strange?

All quite graphic-y I know, and not really conventionally illustrative, rather a little bit conceptual. Hope you don't mind.

The downward lines are used in different ways to spell the words "like a stone", with the arrows showing the gravitational pull as they fall, like a stone, towards the bottom. Simple as that I'm afraid!

Like A Stone – Reeko

Arcylic on board, A1.

"In your house I long to be
Room by room patiently
I'll wait for you there
Like a stone
I'll wait for you there
Alone "

Traffic In The Sky - Owen

"pant pant, puff, puff..."

Here I am, sorry I'm a bit late!

My effort is a bit like what I'd envisaged, but a lot less detailed and not quite as good! This is based on my first sketch. I later ditched the sketch and wanted to just concentrate on the red and white light trails in the sky but couldn't get it to work very well with limited time, so went back to the sketch.

I like the fact I experimented with a slightly different style, and I like the rough pencil work (to a point, anyway) showing through. If I had a couple of days just to dedicate to it I'm confident I'd have managed something more 'finished' looking!

Traffic 'Cone' In The Sky - Gallusness

Now if I just keep talking no one can possibly notice what I've done there/here…

Right so this month I decided to get a bit cheeky with my entry. The image depicts the Duke of Wellington statue which is regarded as one of the original statues to get continually 'coned'. It stands outside the front of the Gallery of Modern Art in Glasgow city centre. Because of the sheer number of times the statue gets 'coned' and due to it's location the cone when a top Wellington's head is now no longer removed by the council.

It's become something of an icon it's own right and many see it as a cheeky pop at everyday folk showing up the modern art located mere feet away. It's quite a statue to cone as well, sitting at nearly twenty foot high and on top of a big concrete pedestal. If the statue does happen to lose it's cone it usually only takes a student night to pass by for it to be sporting it again.

March was a funny month in that I knew what I was going to do for a while. Then life/work went a bit crazy mental busy (hence my post of last week saying guys I'm struggling). Then yesterday I got landed with a day off and some time to cobble my entry together. Most unexpected but welcomed none the less. Style wise I wish I could back to half way through this entry and change the finish. But ah well it's done now.

Bring on April.

April 2009 - New Song

Hiya. I'm hoping I might scrape together something for March this week, apologies for the delay.

In the mean time, the new song for April is:

Like A Stone by Audioslave.

If you have time that is...!

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Traffic In The Sky – Reeko

This month, well firstly I thought I wasn't going to post at all! Then I finished stuff earlier than I thought and discovered to my delight that I had a whole day to play with.

I decided to paint this one in acrylic on board... mainly because I just wanted to. I've been looking at a lot of painted work lately and fancied having my first bash at it for... ooh, could be 5 years?!

The idea comes from this line in the song, "Shadows of the planes...". What you may not be able to see is that the figure has a toy plane in his hands.

Have a great month!