Flesh on The Bones

The bones maybe in place but still a lot of flesh to materialise. A lot of writing - up to 300 poetry cards for The Poetry Machine, dozens of phrases for The Random Phrase Machine and the DIY Poetry Box to bring together; and the likes of this fella cannot be allowed to escape a wall of text.

100 Works Complete!

Well, the bones of them...

Possibly Unique?

This is possibly unique: my mother Muriel Mallin died in 2002 and left one or two half finished paintings and this painting I decided to develop myself. It is quite a large canvas and I've tried to carry on from the general shapes and colours she left on the canvas. I'm half-caught between emulating her technique and pursuing my own. Some problems within the painting have yet to be resolved and I must complete it this week!

Collage Landscape

Here is a small collage made of lots of pieces of blotting paper.

Small Landscape

Again I have used blotting paper but over painted with watercolour and acrylic.

UPDATING MY LINKS

My list of Links on the right shows a) some folk change or transform their sites and b) others go on vacation. Over the Christmas Break I will not only be updating my Links, but will also highlight/publicise some Old Favourites and some New Sites on the Block. If you have a site you think I should link to, just drop me a line and link!
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Undoubtedly the online social networks of Facebook and Twitter have taken over from Blogs as a means of instant individual and collect communication. However, I argue, the Blog (even better than websites) records and documents - and have become a wing of history making. This, I think, is their role now - a role I applaud.

Even The Painting Is Boxed

More for my 100 Works Project

"A Landscape Of Another Country"

A work in development for 100 Works.

A Detail

A small detail of a piece for 100 Works.

Out Of The Machine

Inspired by the Poetry Vending Machine, here are some new boxes off the conveyor belt - Out Of The Machine...

Allsorts of Art

Here's another work in progress for 100 Works: a comment on Gormley's Trafalgar Square 'Fourth Plinth' Project. I doubt Gormley's supposedly democratic art work could have happened without the X Factor and the New Labour project of empowering individuals over Working Class activity. The irony of promoting the individual as a commodity is that individuality is lost in the act. Plinths and TV votes don't raise the masses but lower them - at the same time as they lower Art.

Scores of Images for Small Boxes

Here is a very small image - one of very many I'm creating to help fill small boxes of art work and text...

Getting Dental

This pink stuff is the rubbery compound placed in your mouth to take/make a cast for false teeth... "in progress" for my 100 Works.

CHANGES TO RUPERT'S BLOGS

From now until the new year a number of changes will take place to Rupert's Blog and attendant blogs:-

• East Coast Art News has ceased. East Coast Net, the ARC Blog (to which I contribute), The Waveney Valley Blog and Rupert's Blog itself cover all the regional arts and cultural news making East Coast Art News redundant.
• The Heather Poems (Letters) Blog will grow over 2010, along with my Broken Links Blog, which will publish more general poetic contributions.
• My Voice Visual Blog will be retained to develop it into an online Gallery for my own art work, while larger scale projects or more complex projects will appear on my Fifty-Seven Pence Blog.
• The Asparagus Shed will be relaunched soon!

Most importantly, Rupert's Blog (this blog) will be made even more eclectic and magazine like in the new year, while my online magazine textVISUAL will realise a second issue this December.

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The Tom Mallin and Muriel Mallin Galleries will also be updated by the new year, with a new Gallery for the work of Don Rout.

Leaves Like Fireworks

Walked the four miles to my factory studio today. Some of the leaves had dried out from earlier rain and sounded like a fire underfoot. It must be November 5th - just over three weeks left to create over 100 works.