shake and bake

I designed this poster to see what the results would be like. poster is spot varnished on to black paper.

user receives poster in the mail.

user places poster back in envelope with chalk seals up and shakes.

Result.

Sighn

Artist Sighn has taken on the a HUGE project, hand-cutting 1,000,000 wooden pieces each with the type "It's ok.” there's definitely beauty in the results and therapy in repetition but this is taking it to another level. I feel like the repetition in my work making 34 bird houses with every part of it being like a production studio. every task involved in part of making each bird house times by 34.

Trevor Reese.

Trevor Reese has made some beautiful typography out of wood, he also creates other sculptures using wood and light to create a wonderful image. how ever I am particularly interesting in the type just due to how perfect and hand made it is, creating a aesthetic ore around the overall design.

today

Today i waited for the post man to deliver my paint so i could finish spraying my birdhouses however while he failed to bring me anything i got on with making some moustache chocolates to compliment the houses.

To do this i vacuum formed my mould, I had to created positives first out of wood which took the majority of morning, using mdf which was cut and sanded to do this, with tapered edges so i had no over hang.

The positives were added onto the vacuum table

table was then lowered

1mm perspex was added

vice was put over the top to hold it all in place.

the heater was pulled over and heated up for 30 seconds

pushed back

table up

vacuum on, and hey prestow.

4 bars of sainsburys belgian chocolate, melted in a pot.

washed casts and pored melted chocolate into to casts and placed in fridge.

genius.

Note: 800g of chocholate = 36 moustaches - total spent £10. = 27 p each.

Foreign News: Grow a Beard - Monday, Jan. 25, 1937

At the end of his first month on the British Throne, King George VI last week continued to gladden his Government's heart by being as little like his abdicated brother and as much like his father as he possibly could. He had shown himself tractable by preferring the solid virtues of rural Sandringham to the glitter of London night clubs. He had reopened the Royal racing stables along the lines on which George V ran them. He was riding in sombre Daimlers and Lanchesters and not in slick American cars. He had even changed his policy about yacht racing to meet popular demands. When George V died his will instructed that his yacht Britannia should be sunk unless one of his sons wanted to race it. All four sons, including the present King, turned this offer down and the Britannia was sunk (TIME, July 20). George VI, however, lately revealed he is willing now to be a "Sailor King" like his father, is expected to take to yacht racing.

Last week jubilant British subjects were looking anxiously at their King's smooth chin. Word had gone round that His Majesty's Government in the person of Squire Baldwin had advised the King-Emperor to grow a beard.

George Mitchell

I like this image by George Mitchell, Type has always been my first love so integration between beards and type is amazing.

Debonair Cigars

I think this might be the best design I've ever seen, designed by Royalt, if i smoked i would smoke these, in fact if there's ever a good reason to start, would be if i was bought some.

If You Grew A Beard

i like this but i don't think id ever wear it as a tee shirt.

unknown neckless off Etsy

I love the cross stitching on this bad boy.

Beard Song

any thing thats inspirational i guess?

Laith McGregor

Laith McGregor is something special just from these drawings, cant find much information on him but these are beautiful inspiration.

unknown note book available off etsy

I really like the idea behind this not book but I don't think it has been executed properly.

Anke Weckmann

Anke Weckmann is linotte the illustrator behind this illustration for Stirato Magazine, im not too keen on lady beards they really scare me and i feel like there a bad omen.

Diana Sudyka

I love birds and beards so when i saw this drawing from Chicago-based illustrator and printmaker Diana Sudyka it was no exception that I fell in love with it.

greedy hen

Greedy Hen is an art collective / studio, housing the collaborative works of Katherine Brickman and Kate Mitchell. this image really caught my attention because while making my houses i really had in mind the idea of birds coming out of beards.

Paul Thompson

Paul Thompson’s portraits of bearded children for Natural History Museum’s Ice Station Antarctica posters are amazing . Creepy and slightly disturbing, but kids should always have the choice weather or not they have beards, in know i would want one at the age of 10.

http://www.paulthompsonstudio.com/

Paul Rudd

Karen Kurycki

I came across this brilliant image made by Karen Kurycki the bold, bright and vivid water colors contrast towards the vintage style illustration, along with basic typography to complete this witty image.

Elmo and Jonah Hill

Elmo and Jonah Hill illustrate the 3 main brilliant reasons for having a mustache.

some links to research into

http://www.beardrevue.com/

http://www.printeresting.org/2009/07/18/mechanick-exercises-or-the-doctrine-of-handyworks-applied-to-the-art-of-printing/

greadyhen

http://dres13.com/

http://www.rolandtiangco.com/

Proposal

To me Traditionally a community is a public audience that come together to understand a present, to see visions of the future or share emotions. In theses ways these people are linked and that what makes them a community. The idea of communities in that sense has been lost mainly due to the Internet, The Internet plays home to many communities!

However this is a world we can all share, the experience is becoming private, individual and even solitary, the sense of community feels real but its virtual. This has let me to believe that although virtual communities are innovative and forever evolving traditional communities are more interesting towards my practice.

Chad Eaton Started a tee shirt company called TIMBER! in 2006. TIMBER! is a t-shirt company based on a story about lumberjacks, their bosses (the top hat guys with an excessive hair curse.) and a bigfoot stuck between both their worlds. What I want to take from chad’s work is how playful it is with the viewer, and how you can almost interact or animate the story with yourself.

Geographical location for the last two years had me thinking about how I would like to comment on communities in Yorkshire. And that’s where I started the research that has brought me forward. Looking at Robert G Neville’s “Yorkshire miners in cameras“ although the book was serious the imaging within was fascinating and each one carried its own story that can be extracted from within. Particularly I loved the facial features and characteristic's that makes these miners look so interesting. How ever most interest image I found was one which features a rescue miner with his budgie. I loved the relationship the image created between the man and the budgie, from this I knew I wanted to expand upon this relationship.

I want my work to spark the imagination creating a relationship between the minors, their budgies and the onlookers that are viewing the work. I like the idea that these characters are trapped within the birdhouses, like we have done to the birds over the many years, keeping them as pets for our own amusement, I plan on my work commenting this reverse roll play in a visually pleasing way.

I have been working in the wood work studio creating these bird houses, I choose birdhouses (over birdcages and trees) because of the simplicity of them they create a really basic but interesting canvas, i‘ve experimented with different ways of illustrating these canvas's the most effective method I have found so far is using theses water based paint pens, however I am eager to experiment with screen printing to create the characters. And using the cnc machine in the wood work studio, which I hope to make tiling for the roofs of the bird houses.

experiments

Here are the results of some drawing on wood, my favorite is the 2nd in from right using pens, i also experimented using gouache, paint pens and acrylic.

they all look great but I'm swayed more towards the pen one for how natural it looks.

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I love the shape of this bird house. not so much the paint job.

painting

Before the house is painted it must be sanded down using a average 180 grain paper.

Dust mask for safety
next the house will be sanded down with a finer 240 grain sand paper. and then can be taken to paint.

when the handle is pulled down half way the gun releases air past half way the gun releases the paint.

Safety first aslways.

the sides that are visible are painted first as the paint tends to soak into the wood, then the flat sides are painted.