Shambala is soon and Duggan and I are going to be performing very strange voodoo rituals and giving away voodoo fortunes.Talking in tongues, wearing leather capes with glitter, multi-coloured, terrifying, silly, costumes.Today I made the fortunes. Inside each tiny jar is a tiny fortune, some glitter and powdered paint.Pour out the contents, blow a puff of colourful, glittery cloud, find out your fortune.It's going to be fun.Here are some of the fortunes:
You are an able man.
You are a beautiful woman.
Do or do not. There is no try.
You’ll never be any good at gardening.
He who laughs at himself never runs out of things to laugh at.
The fortune you seek is in a different fortune.
Your days shall be long and your dreams fulfilled.
Getting some of these illustrations done, rather fun today in the sunshine. I'm illustrating some of the words in the jokes, usually the punchline. Things like 'Breasts, bum fruit, his poo was on holiday, it is dead, eek, free and kiss a potato really hard.' All are shit jokes made up by kids. All the words I am making using nicely sharpened pencils, coloured graphite and viscous watercolour paint.
These glue moulds are like an untidy and unorganised version of the piece 'Ladle Moulds' I exhibited at the Surface/Space/Time exhibition back in 2009. This time, working on a flat surface. It's made with Drawing inks and a pva/water mix. I’m have been adding bit by bit for the past year. It takes a long long time to dry, so it’s been another ongoing thing, which is now done and I can now find another use for the massive shower door which has been looming over my studio space (as much as a glass door can loom)Here is some more about the Glue Mould / Glue Quilt process
I've been dealing with getting heatrash whenever I'm somewhere hot, for about 5 years now, it's starting to irk me off a treat. Bobbly, itchy, scratchy and stingy, I have evoked some hate for my heat rash by making this disgusting image:
A nice little Saturday project which has been both hilarious and addictive. I want to get good at this. Nice to play around on Photoshop. I think there is something special about the owl.Email your animals and mouths to hello @ lucybarfoot.co.uk. I want to make more.All made using a variety of mine and my sister's mouths.
Web-Cam-Stop-Motion: "This corner of the Internets is a space to experiment with a neat flash game that lets you create stop-motion animations. All you need is a webcam, a few seconds and a little imagination." Created by Piter WilsonQuick and fun. Here's a couple of mine:
A couple of months ago, I came across Craig Atkinson, (found him on the Boooooom website)He drew these:Which are quite like these... Apart from the ones I have made have much less suspicious eyes. Here are my monsters, which I have been playing with for 4 years now. A fancy dress costume, a nail design, a drawing, wallpaper.So after finding him, I got back into the monsters, and had a little go at creating something like his collective. cutting paper to size, allowing it to stand up. It's like a little army.Craig Atkinson's website is here, and contains a lot of photographs of Britain, drawings and a collection of Spanish serviettes. He also lectures and directs Café Royal Books. A busy man! Find him on Twitter: @craigatkinson
When dogs look up at their owners whilst being walked on the leadWhen people drive past you singing loudlyHow much percentage of your laugh comes out your nose, and how much your mouth?
Sat on the loo in the studio, I thought how nice a little message would be in there, and more than just your usual 'hello' so I made these - one for girls and one for boys.
Burma, Auckland zoo's only elephant. I was lounging on the bench during the 5 hour zoo trip, very relaxed. Heard a noise and looked to my right to find a massive elephant trunk. The elephant keepers walk Burma daily around the zoo.
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Whilst away in Serbia at Exit Festival, on the walk home to the apartment on the Saturday night, I heard a very loud squeaking noise. I followed my ears and found two cats looking sheepish behind a bush. Were they watching over their kittens? No. They were playing with a frog, and every time they poked the (small) frog with a paw, it made a squeak, not dissimilar to the squeak a chew toy makes.Obviously, this was hysterical. Since arriving home I have found two brilliant youtube videos, one of a squeaky frog and one of a screaming frog. Incredible. My research tells me that most frogs can squeak, and it's a defense mechanism, to get predators to get off 'em.Squeaking frog:http://youtu.be/hWTrQkzhXKgScreaming frog:http://youtu.be/948rhsRvIkw
