Parkadge

Greenskin

2012-01-07T04:41:00.001-08:00

044, originally uploaded by parkadge.

armour added, plus a wash of green

2011-12-19T13:24:00.000-08:00

So I have the basic head and shoulders the way I want them. I was worried that the sculpey would crack as there is a fairly hefty wire armature inside.

I have a lot of fine tuning and sanding to do and then I plan to add armour made from real steel and copper pieces riveted together

Ork Bust WIP

2011-12-03T04:33:00.003-08:00

ork2 015, originally uploaded by parkadge.

Ork Bust WIP

2011-12-03T04:33:00.001-08:00

ork2 017, originally uploaded by parkadge.

I'm going to try working some texture into the skin while I mooth out the bumps with some oild and a brush

Ork Bust WIP

2011-12-03T04:31:00.001-08:00

ork2 016, originally uploaded by parkadge.

some more work needed on the ears and around the eyes

Ork Bust WIP

2011-12-03T04:28:00.001-08:00

ork 006, originally uploaded by parkadge.

I decide to open the mouth up to give him a snarl

Ork Bust WIP

2011-12-03T04:27:00.003-08:00

ork 008, originally uploaded by parkadge.

Wooden pegs inserted for teeth to be replaced by ceramic

Ork Bust WIP

2011-12-03T04:27:00.001-08:00

ork 003, originally uploaded by parkadge.

Built on a wire and tinfoil armature with sculpey

birthday present

2011-09-05T09:39:00.001-07:00

barbarabirthdaypresent, originally uploaded by parkadge.

This started out as several castings I made from a "Form-u-lay" mould joined together to portray the facade of a Factory building as part of a military diorama but a friend liked it so much I ended up dedicating it to her for her birthday

Katri's Fox

2011-07-14T14:58:00.001-07:00

Katri's Fox, originally uploaded by parkadge.

My Daughter katri drew this fox's head for me and I figured out how to do it in copper.

Pierced

2011-07-14T14:57:00.001-07:00

Pierced , originally uploaded by parkadge.

The was a hole in the piece of copper I used for the heart. it closed up a bit during the beating but it's still there- I like it.

Queen

2011-07-14T14:56:00.003-07:00

Queen, originally uploaded by parkadge.

Better luck with this one

Queen

2011-07-14T14:56:00.001-07:00

Queen, originally uploaded by parkadge.

Finding it hard to line up the letters as I punch them

birdskull6

2011-07-10T16:27:00.001-07:00

birdskull6, originally uploaded by parkadge.

Winged birdskull inspired by a trip to the In Storage display in Collins Barracks where I met Aideen McBride and chatted about WarHammer

birdskull4

2011-07-10T16:25:00.007-07:00

birdskull4, originally uploaded by parkadge.

birdskull3

2011-07-10T16:25:00.005-07:00

birdskull3, originally uploaded by parkadge.

birdskull2

2011-07-10T16:25:00.003-07:00

birdskull2, originally uploaded by parkadge.

birdskull1

2011-07-10T16:25:00.001-07:00

birdskull1, originally uploaded by parkadge.

birdskull

2011-07-10T16:24:00.001-07:00

birdskull, originally uploaded by parkadge.

winged heart X

2011-07-08T11:58:00.001-07:00

winged heart X, originally uploaded by parkadge.

The texture on the wings is from german hammer and the X on the heart is is just done by hammering the design in with an old screwdriver- very basic

Via Flickr:
Beaten copper heart with wings

winged heart

2011-07-08T11:49:00.001-07:00

winged heart, originally uploaded by parkadge.

I'm just using basic hand tools because I'm not really set up for this- my anvil is the head off an old sledge hammer. I have a few hammers and a couple of hand shears, pliers and punches. I used to do a lot of this kind of work but I realise I forgotten a lot of techniques

Via Flickr:
Beaten copper heart with wings

winged heart with arrow

2011-07-08T11:47:00.001-07:00

winged heart with arrow, originally uploaded by parkadge.

I'm playing around making these copper ornaments. I start with a heavy guage sheet copper cut with a hand shears and hammer it into shape then weld it together using copper to copper rod

Love Fish

2011-06-30T14:46:00.001-07:00

002, originally uploaded by parkadge.

Copper fish approx 3 inches long

Love House

2011-06-30T14:45:00.001-07:00

004, originally uploaded by parkadge.

Small copper pendant- very rough but just done as a test piece

Hat

2011-03-13T12:39:00.001-07:00

Untitled-2, originally uploaded by parkadge.

Been quiet lately but I had promised myself I'd work on some sculpture this weekend. Instead I started work on this hat. Probably from rereading Patrick O Brian's Aubrey/Maturin Novels.
I might add a cockade with a harp on it and pint the whole thing green for Saint Patrick's day

unidentified tank

2010-12-30T05:29:00.001-08:00

unidentified tank, originally uploaded by parkadge.

033

2010-12-25T15:31:00.001-08:00

033, originally uploaded by parkadge.

Fortress

Tank and army men

2010-11-25T11:38:00.003-08:00

Tank and army men, originally uploaded by parkadge.

These are just ginger bread biscuits -this time. They could be art if I found a context for them. I really liked making them- I used my memories of old army men sets that I had when I was a kid, the generic green plastic blobs of figures that could belong to any army you liked.

Army men Biscuits

2010-11-25T11:38:00.001-08:00

Army men, originally uploaded by parkadge.

Not art- gingerbread cookies they got burnt while I was getting the tank ready. They remind me of the old style green army men soldiers

This is not art it's a biscuit

2010-11-25T11:36:00.001-08:00

Tank, originally uploaded by parkadge.

When I hear the word culture .....

2010-09-24T14:33:00.000-07:00

Culture night in Dublin. I can be very cynical about cultural events like this but since I was invited to the Artsquad twenty years exhibition I dragged myself into town to The No Grants Gallery in Temple Bar. The exhibition was disappointing being just a slide show and a projected video but I met some other artists that were part of Arts squad the same time I was so that was good. Katri and Paivi were with me and we came across Simeon and his Samba drummers in Temple Bar, hard to miss them really with all that racket. I can't relate to Samba drumming anymore since I was stuck in a room with Simeon and about thirty young people learning Samba drumming for Halloween when I was working with Stoneybatter Youth Services. I liked Culture Night though - it was good to see so many families out in Temple Bar on a Friday evening rather than the usual population of people intent on getting out of their face drunk. I also dropped into Exhibitions at the Project which is an exhibition about exhibitions- wha?
It left me cold anyway.

Passed by the Exchange which looked to be buzzing and was packed out to the pavement and went on down Smock Alley to Coming into our Own an exhibition by a group of women from Ballymun. I saw this in Ballymun and it is even more powerful seen out of it's local context. My plan was to nip in and out quickly but just as I was leaving Emma from the axis was introducing the artists so I was stuck. And it turned out to be great- I really enjoyed hearing the women tell their stories. Plus there was cake.

Since we were in temple bar I took the opportunity to drop into Connolly Books and have Paivi take my photo with a copy of "Music and Culture" which has a still from the movie "Once" on the cover featuring me and Gel Hansard. No mention is made of Once though and I just look like a street drunk hassling Glen as he plays. I don't know- I'm considering legal action against the Publishers.

I had made the mistake of telling Katri that The Leprechaun Museum, (- no, no link here) was open so she insisted we go. Alas it was full- which I don't really believe but I was glad of it as I hate all talk of leprechauns which are an invention of the English. When the revolution comes all images of leprechauns will be banned and anyone sporting those stupid green hats with the red wigs and beards attached will be made to do community service. Anyway Katri was disappointed but Paivi promised her she'd bring her another day.
That was about all the culture I could handle so we legged it back to the car and vamoosed home.

Glad I went into town though. I enjoyed Culture Night..........no need for the revolver after all.

THEATREclub

2010-09-02T01:24:00.000-07:00

I was liaising with Grace Dyas from THEATREclub about why THEATREclub should make a play about my life. I think she was only half listening but she asked me to make a film outlining why they should. What? A film pitching an idea for a play. I recognise that for what it was.... a delaying tactic. Well Hah! Grace Dyas I did do it. My borrowed camera doesn't record sound so I thought about a silent movie- too much hard work. Then I thought I could just record a soundtrack seperately and synch it on Windows movie maker. The it turns out that I don't have Windows Movie Maker but the much inferior Windows Live Movie Maker which is I think another case of if it ain't broke........
Annyway here it is ...

still waiting to hear from them

Locky Morris

2010-08-24T11:40:00.000-07:00

I drove up to Belfast today to see Locky Morris's retrospective exhibition: this then in the Golden Thread Gallery.
http://www.goldenthreadgallery.co.uk/

I first saw his work twenty years ago on the walls of The Well Fed Cafe in The Dublin Resource Centre- painted dust bin lids and cardboard land rovers, in either 89 or 90. I saw more the following year on a trip to London in either The Tate or The Whitechapel. It wasn't like anything anyone else was doing. I was in Derry on a theatre gig in 91 and lots of people were talking about him. I thought he had given up art for music and because I'm so out of touch with the Irish Art scene I missed his exhibitionat Mother's Tank Station in May.
http://artpatrol.blogspot.com/2010/05/locky-morris-7-april-15-may-2010.html

But seeing those cardboard land rovers and bin lids was like travelling back in time to a time when I was actually excited about art.

It's okay with me

2010-08-01T17:04:00.001-07:00

It's okay with me, originally uploaded by parkadge.

These are small pieces about 30 x 30 coms. This is based on the last scene in "The long Goodbye" movie by Robert Altman. I was going to add a 3D figure but thought better of it.

Happy People In the Sun

2010-08-01T17:02:00.001-07:00

Happy People In the Sun, originally uploaded by parkadge.

This was meant to have some figures in it sitting on top of the column but they never got made

Rough unprofitable Ground

2010-08-01T17:01:00.001-07:00

Rough unprofitable Ground, originally uploaded by parkadge.

one of the pieces from The Hello in Blue exhibition at the axis Ballymun Dublin

City work

2010-06-15T02:45:00.000-07:00

Eagle Mask

2010-02-14T14:02:00.000-08:00

2010-02-14T13:03:00.000-08:00

Cairo Gang

2010-01-19T05:37:00.000-08:00

More old images transferred from Village photo

2010-01-19T05:35:00.000-08:00

more old work

2010-01-19T05:27:00.000-08:00

2009-11-29T06:15:00.000-08:00

I still have a lot of work to do on this, add some contrast, some new 3d elements. I'm happy with the direction it's going thoguh.

2009-11-01T09:23:00.000-08:00

Here are some of the masks being worn in the Halloween Parade, Altogether nearly 350 masks were made. About 20 mimutes before the parade was due to start the heavens opened and it bucketed down which I think scared a lot of people away. It didn't rain during the Parade itslf or aduring the festival.

2009-09-25T14:56:00.000-07:00

Another view, I've handed over the prototype but I'll make another one and post a pic of me wearing it.

Crow Mask

2009-09-25T14:48:00.000-07:00

This is a crow mask/head dress made from brown paper tape and card. I came across this method a couple of years ago and really like it. It's really low tech.

2009-08-06T15:40:00.000-07:00

This is one of a series of sculptures I'm working on based around charachters I've encountered while working in theatre, film and TV. It's in a very early stage.

Poor little fishies

2009-08-05T03:26:00.000-07:00

I'm starting this blog with two little sculptures I made using copper scraps and sardine tins. the copper is welded together using copper to copper rods. I made these in June after the Art Day at my daughter's school. The children get to experiment with different art forms for the day and I do some metalwork with them. Afterwards I always get enthusiastic about working with copper and I made a series of these fish. Then it started raining and since I don't have a covered studio the project languished a bit.