How I Use My Ability to See Sound to Draw Portraits of Musicians: The Portrait of a Bassist Series Lately, I’ve been experimenting with time-lapse photography while I draw music. You will have seen my Iron Maiden drawings in my last post. This series…Read more
See Synaesthetic Art Magically Appearing; A Time Lapse of Drawing Iron Maiden I thought I’d do something a bit different this week, I’ve been experimenting with time-lapse photography while I draw music. It adds a whole new…Read more
How It Took Eleven Years After Leaving Art School to Learn How to Draw Properly. I’m not one of those people who is going to disparage my time at art school as unproductive, I learnt loads while I was studying,…Read more
How Simon Gallup’s Brazen Crazy Bass Sound Gave Me The Reason I Need To Start Using Bronze and Copper: The Cure Play Wembley Arena 1/12/16 I was a huge Cure fan back in the late ’80s, big black and white poster of Robert Smith on my bedroom wall, had all…Read more
How Vivid Synaesthesia and Muse Live Briefly Disintegrated My Conscious Mind. People often ask me “…what is it like to be synaesthetic, what do you see?”. I talk about it all the time in the context…Read more
Seeing the Music and Hearing the Image: Some Expeditionary Art with Solo-bassist Steve Lawson The bass guitar is a wonderful instrument, if it were not for my learning to play it none of this would ever have happened. I…Read more
Sound, Spacescapes and Some Fairly Psychedelic Jewellery I am synesthetic so I work with sound to create abstracts from what I “see” when I hear sounds or music. I’ve been working with two…Read more
The Space Bass: Custom Painting My Bass Guitar When I learnt how to custom paint, it was to use the skill in my jewellery, however, being a bassist I couldn’t resist painting a…Read more
First Custom Painted Jewellery: Icons of Formula 1 and Over Easy Rider New skills are always inspiring, particularly when you know where you want to go with them and just require a bit of practice and experimentation…Read more
A Trip to Belfast to Learn Airbrushing and Custom Painting I’ve been wanting to learn how to airbrush for a very long time, I seem to remember both at school and art college being told…Read more