Wednesday 6 April 2016

Reading on the train, Cafe Leon and Schmittz sports bar


The reader on the train, on the way to cafe Leon taking the  S3 using a .8 fineliner  


Outside Cafe Leon Georgenstraße 202 Berlin with a Pentel indelible ink brush 


Table tennis, darts and foosball in Schmittz Bar Gormannstrasse 19 Berlin. Using the same point 8 fineliner with water colour.

Tuesday 29 March 2016

Wohnzimmer Berlin Lettestrase



Wohnzimmer in Prenzlauerberg last Monday where Burly drunk guy thought he was Chuck Norris and smashed a glass door panel with a round house kick (not pictured as quick his speedy exit was made)


Tuesday 22 March 2016

Tier Park East Berlin

 Potenially creating mayhem during any school collection 

So why the phrase taking a cat nap?

Tuesday 15 March 2016

Clärchens Ballhaus

Many many people cutting a very fast rug. The Everst of quick drawing...Salsa night at Clärchens Ballhaus, August Str Berlin. this is good practice stuff where the unforgiving tightness of the fineliner had to be foregone for something looser and sloppier. In this case a water soluble school issue Jumbo Grip. hopefully the result caught the atmosphere in there....


Tuesday 1 March 2016

Bar sketching



Atopia bar last night on Prenzlauer Alle. my god they have a table tennis table in there!! goodbye foosball, goodbye pool and darts.




Sunday 28 February 2016

Saturday 20 February 2016

Tribute to a 'sound and vision' man

Shortly after I had finished college I was looking for any opportunity to get some art work on walls anywhere. At the time I made the acquaintance of the Manager of a restaurant on Dame st in Dublin. He was an all round decent guy and appreciated art. He gave me permission to hang work for sale in the establishment, which i could change from time to time. He personally bought a few pieces of my work. 

 Signs on as time waits for no man and the restaurant changed hands a new manager was brought in with whom I also negotiated wall space. The relationship was a courteous functional one with no love lost on either side she didn't really know why i wanted to hang pictures in the place at all. 

 Around this time it came to my knowledge that Bowie was due to play in Dublin and was staying in the U2 owned Clarence Hotel. During a conversation with two friends and beer, an Idea struck me. The most recent painting I had hung on the walls of the restaurant was a portrait of the thin white duke himself. In all bravado and naivety I determined to inform Bowie of the paintings whereabouts and existence (the impudence!). Setting pen to paper I wrote a note addressed to Mr Bowie, got on the next bus into town and beat a purposeful path to the Clarence Hotel. the concierge was naturally polite but icy and would neither confirm nor deny if a Mr B was currently shacked up in the Hotel. I politely requested that if a certain Mr B happened to be staying there, could this note make its way to him? the concierge politely accepted the note and grinned. 

 I heard nothing of it and tried my damnedest to think nothing of it for the next few days but secretly hoped against hope that something might come of it. At the end of two weeks of hearing nothing, dejected, I felt it was time to take the painting down and possibly replace it with something, or possibly not. I entered the restaurant, approached sour puss and told her I was taking back the painting. She proceeded to tell me very animatedly " aw jaysus you will never guess who we had in here the other day, only David Bowie's wife Iman we were all soooooo excited it was mad altogether!!!,....oh yea I forgot ...you have a painting here of David Bowie...." 

 from one of a billion Bowie fans I raise my glass to you may you rest in piece..



'Bowie' Palette knife, oil paint on denim (cause it's cheaper than canvas;-)) 
Part of a series the rest of which can be seen by clicking the link below
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