Dwarf Jesus

Definatly the last Jesus, he has to be Dwarf Jesus I;ve run out of plasticine

judgement Day

The other Jesi are offering themselves to be weighed  aginst regular jesus . I hope they are not found wanting but I'm worried for them.

i made this too

A Childe of Light Walking in Darkneffe

I've done a maquette for something to accompany the child of darkness

Pregnant Jesus

I,ve made a plasticine Pregnant Jesus to go with fat, regular and disabled jesus. Thats probably enough Jesuses , you get the drift

A childe of Darknesse walking in light

i made this kind of shrine today , I like it, it's creepy. I collect old books the script is from the title of a book I've got from the1640's A kind of religious thing written by a buddie of cromwell's , I've no idea whats about but i like the title

Cant sleep

Trouble sleeping last night , work worrtes , real world intruding.Took some photos around the house by the full moon .

Sacred Heart

I'm making a sacred heart jesus . He will sit on a shelf with a holy candel in front of him. I remember things like this from my childhood when I visited my Irish grand parents. Comming from England I found all the holy statues fascinating and a bit scary

Disabled Jesus

Today I made a disabled Jesus to accompany fat Jesus

bored and just putting crap on

a tresher shark i saw in the red sea

really good wreck diving , the red sea

my dog hero swimming in my pool  shes not enjoying it , i threw her in .

a painting i did of some diving freinds , looking heroic , their not, though Mike, at the front probobably saved my life once when i got lost overstayed my time and paniced on a deep dive once . So maybe he is a hero  

me swimming in the river at night

i painted the lakeside drive portroe

i painted an old abbey near ennis

the poor struggling artist , who's a bit pissed and better go to bed cause its half one and hes diving in the cold cold shannon in the morning

Im bored , having a few beers , waiting to collect va daughter from babysitting ( walking) sticking a few photos up

Prick up your ears

I've been read ing the biography of the playwright Joe Ortan and his lover Ken Halliwell . They started out two gay loosers who met at RADA in the early 50's . They lived together in total obscurity for 10 years writing unpublished novels like 'the boy hairdresser' and defacing liberary books. Ken was older , inatially more confident,and had some family money from his parents . His mother died on a family pic nick after being stung in the mouth by a wasp , his dad gassed himself soon after. Ken ,origionally the more dominant was eclipsed as Joe became a phonamilly sucessfull playwright. Whereas Joe was hansome , cocky , warm and increadably promiscious . Ken was at war with the world , bald ,awarkward , shy and hostile . Evereone loved Joe and disliked or ignored Ken.

what is worring me is that i see a lot of ken in me and very little Joe. They lived for years in a small bedsit that Ken decorated.'The room was halliwell's theater and mosaic of his mind . its humour was a testament to  his fear and loathing'.  The room was carpeted floor to ceiling with a collage of high renaisance cut outs , monkeys in tu-tus and other  scary crap . Ken was someone , for whatever reason , wasn't equiped to deal with the world  , lacking self - regard , a hopless artist (no one but Joes busniess   partners ever bought his collages) uneasy with his homosexalaty, jealous and needy. He saw the world as a hostile place 'The faces passing seemed to him pale ,with hunger not physical, mixture of brute and human , devouring and defiling;long claws and bird mouths ,fat hips and loins' Thats what worries me , its the world i describe in my art . If its that hostile and unlovley  maybe i shouldn't do it . Anyway one day when Joe was just 27 ,Ken came home and beat joes brains out with a hammer.

I'm not an unlovley person ,my middle daughter was sick thursday night so i drove 7 hours to bring her  stuff she needed  . when i arrived i said it was the least i could do , cause im not much of a father , she said ' i dont know why u say that ur a great dad 'i was fierce touched by that .

This whole art thing is becomming \a way for me to deal with all these things ' i hope all the hostile bird crap and jesus stuff im doing will lead to something more mature ,pretty and uplifting

now on a compleatly diferent note i bought a little silver box its late 17th or early18th c. and pure rococo-coco and lovley. Ive also put an offer in for a large 17th c. spanish wooden s. francis we've gone from 1,650 to 1,350 to 1,150    ive said ill take it at 1,000 we'll see!

And compleatly, compl
eatly ,differant this is a picture i painted after a week of diving day and night off a small boat in the red sea. Swimming and diving at night is som
ething  i'll come back to very soon

Fat Jesus

I brought a little plastic Jesus today, I made him a fat twin out of plasticine. I wonder if jesus was short, fat and bald on top would people would have taken him seriously , maybe they would maybe fat was good then . Maybe he was short ,fat and balding . Certainly he only became fairly fixed in art as bearded and long haired by the byzantines in the 7th c.

    The little figure is also an exercise in modeling the figure for me , he's only @ 10cm high but looks quite lifelike his expression even has some dignity. He took me @ half hour to make I'm quite proud of him .He can go off now and do miricals and win disciples in the toy box .,Go Jesus

50 pictures in 20 minutes

I sat in the corridoor out side the canteen yesterday lunchtime I tried to sketch everone who passed thru during 20 mins I will try to make it an animation