Mx.D.P

I’ve had flu for over two weeks, or is it COVID-19? I have no idea. As a household, we are a plague house. We all have it.

I am always busy; I probably have ADHD… I know that it’s more nuanced than that, but..

I have ‘managed’ my neuro-spicy nature by always being busy and constantly pushing the envelope; it is how I am.

Now, I have had two weeks of forced inactivity; I am in a desperate place of existential crisis. I also know that happens anyway on art courses because art f*cks with your life… it makes you question everything.

I love this little skit from the Fastshow about Johnny Nice Painter…

https://www.facebook.com/share/r/TLdhsGMB4ouUK5XU/?mibextid=WC7FNe

I don’t think the gulls have plucked out my eyes, but they have certainly buggered about with my brain.

I have a lot of decisions to make over this summer about how I live in the future. That, for me, is quite a funny statement as I am never sure if I have a future or how long that might be, so it’s pretty nice, I suppose, to worry about it!

My long-suffering Dora Maar looks at me and smiles, then says, ‘Ffs, you have lived your life on the theory of Just F*cking Do It! So it’s just too late to stop now.’

So on I go…

What have I been up to while quietly dying in bed? Well, I have found the perfect place to stage the identity flags… not telling here as it’s a tactical secret.

I have made friends online with a fellow queer artist, so hopefully, there will be a queer Gell Print group online soon, which won’t be governed or censored by the patriarchy… our group rules might be:-

We are done with censorship and gatekeeping in art.

We are happy to burn the patriarchy down.

“Be Kind when you talk to each other or Be Gone.”

We are trans and queer positive and don’t tolerate queerphobia/homophobia/transphobia.

I’ve been watching endless gell printing shorts, and I’ve got many ideas to expand on those techniques.

Ballpoint etching and wax/oil resist, but what shall I make with these new techniques?

Well, I’ve been sketching Procreate florals for my upcoming three months of summer tattooing. I have a vast repository of stamp brushes I’ve made on Procreate, as well as thousands of drawings from my animations that all live on this iPad in the Procreate program.

Most are backed up as JPEG images on the cloud, but if this iPad went down, I can imagine the work to get it all back together. I feel they should be transported somehow to another space.

Of course, any of us who works digitally must face that dilemma.

I’ve spent 7hrs drawing time making these 13 stamp brushes. The drawing time is recorded on Procreate. It’s never happy viewing as time ticks away, but it does record the video of your efforts. These are simple sketches with some shading ideas nothing complex. Here is a mash up of the 13 designs.

I thought I’d add up how many designs I have drawn since having this iPad in 2017.

Over 7 years I have drawn…. Wait for it…

3871 design stamp brushes…. Wtf!

What shall I do with them?

Maybe I should Gel Print them?

Then they will be freed away out of this iPad and live in the world…

I may be delirious on Lemsip…