Printing with a view

Holidays! And great weather for printing outside! We are house sitting for a work colleague, out in the country, great to get away from town for a while.

The inspiration: The clouds + sky, has been great, so decided to to a print based around that.

Skytone matching system.

Printing with a view - what more could you ask for?

Also have 4 little helpers, who come to check up on me every so often.

It's a one colour print on A3. Thinking it will look good framed.
Small limited edition of 4.

Was trying to achieve a framed view of the sky I've been staring at the last few days, almost like looking out a window. Hopefully when we're back in town, I can get this up on the wall, and be reminded of this great weather and country air!

I'm working on something else for the next few days based on some completely different inspiration since being out here, so hopefully have more to show soon. Also hoping the weather hold out! Enjoy!

Power of Place - Parkour video

During 2010 an exciting project: Power of Place – Shetland’s Year of Architecture and Place 2010 took place in Shetland.

Throughout 2010 Power of Place hosted: lectures, workshops in youth clubs, themed architectural articles, an international architectural conference, an architecture film festival, and held Architects’ Doors Open Days.

This short film about Parkour in Shetland features local Parkour group "Northern Focus Parkour" utilising Shetland's architectural environment.

The original footage is courtesy of Northern Focus Parkour (youtube.com) and mixed media animation was filmed and animated by Jono Sandilands (jonosandilands.com).

Power of Place Final Fling events:
Saturday 5th March, Shetland Museum & Archives, Lerwick.
Saturday 12th March, Sandwick Carnegie Hall.
Saturday 19th March, Mid Yell Hall.

All from 11am – 2pm. FREE. Everyone of all ages welcome.

Power of Place - Parkour

Over the past week I have been filming and animating a mixed media video for Power of Place - Shetland's Year of Architecture (Shetland Arts, Shetland Architectural Society & SIC). (That's the videos rendering just now - and they're being shown tomorrow! Eeek!)

Northern Focus Parkour kindly jumped in to help with the short film clips which will be shown alongside loads of other things at the Power of Place Final Flings (poster for events).

Saturday 5th March, Shetland Museum & Archives, Lerwick.

Saturday 12th March, Sandwick Carnegie Hall.

Saturday 19th March, Mid Yell Hall.

All from 11am – 2pm. FREE. Everyone of all ages welcome.

www.shetlandarts.org

The Art of Ping Pong

The Art of Ping Pong Prototype #4 - Full Size from Jono Sandilands on Vimeo.

I have been developing my "The Art of Ping Pong" project in the very little spare time I've had over the past few weeks - have come to some conclusions about how to finalise the project, which I plan to exhibit in some form later this year! Ping Pong, Art and Beer!

The blog (www.theartofpingpong.blogspot.com) has a complete process of my work on the project so far, please follow for further updates and info on future plans!

Remember me

Everyday at work I come across a website I am interested in.. but it's blocked! So I email myself a link. This isn't the best way to go about things so I thought I would start a bookmarking system on Google Bookmarks instead of filling up my own inbox.
Feel free to follow!
Remember me on Google Bookmarks

Beard Sea

This week I have been hand cutting a woodblock based on one of the doodles from our Co:Lab February Doodle Week. (Sketch below)

More about the doodle: The idea of doodle week is to come up with ideas everyday for possible prints. I stretched the rules a little bit - in that on doodle week Tuesday - I sketched the wavy lines which I wanted to be a rough sea, but wasn't sure where it was going so gave up for the day. When I revisited it on the Wednesday I instantly saw a beard - I must have been inspired a little bit by Up Helly Aa season and Vikings. So - Beard Sea!

For me the idea was screaming out to be a woodblock print so I got carving...

Inked up and ready to print:

The final prints:


Hip hip hooray!!

Buy Beard Sea on Etsy:

Too Fast

Anyone looking out of their windows in the early hours of this morning may have been shocked to see a man running around waving his arms. I'd like to say thank you for not phoning the police, and it was not a mad man, but it was me... at work..?

Shetland Youth Theatre are putting on a production of "Too Fast", By Douglas Maxwell, directed by John Haswell - part of The National Theatre Connections. (more info and tickets)

Having only 24 hours to do the artwork for the promotional material, the director John Haswell and myself sat down and did some research into ideas for the poster. After a while we came up with the idea of using light graffiti to create a surreal, artificial look, mixed with a real world scene.

But with no stock photography on hand, the challenge was to get this ready overnight. At 4.30pm I ran over to the nearest DIY store, Frank Williamson's, and found a cheap LED torch. Just one of them ones that can connect to your keys.

The problem with this being a rushed project, I had already made plans for my Tuesday night. Leaving no time to work at night. My plan was to get up at 6am Wednesday to catch the last bit of darkness before sunrise at 7.41am. But came 3am I was wide awake in bed ready to go - so I just got up and started with some indoor (warm) tests.

I got the camera ready inside - and after I was happy with the technique I was ready to move outside and for more space to experiment and have fun.
A selection of some of the different options we had for the poster.