"an unplayed trumpet dreams of making music" (2008)

this painting is about a trumpet, who hasn't been played for years who dreams of playing with steely dan. he just wants to make beautiful music again. because that is his reason for being.

don't mess with santa

actual evidence of what happens when you eat santa's biscuits.

album cover i did.

need to get my shit together.

haven't done any painting for about 2 weeks. slack.

new yellow fury updates

click here to see pictures of chickens

old breakfast face pics.

this took about 4 months to upload, so i can't be fucking bothered to do more.

yeah. nice work guys.

haha.

apparently this is in bad taste.

didn't write anything. just shoved an arm in the bin. some old woman was staring at me.

jug of tea.

yeah. jug of dirty old tea. nice.

landscape with pond

tester for pond.

spot of tea

bit nervous about my assessment tomorrow.

news from the front...

once i punched a horse, a pigeon bit me and a salmon tried to breed with me while i was swimming.

now that was a busy day

assessment time.

yeah. set this is up today. it's colourful.

look in here

did my first tester for the landscape in box.

5th months

i've been clean for 5 months today. and to celebrate here is a picture of my hair brush.

college space

whoever did this is a genius

yeah. posted the wrong site earlier. this is the right one.

http://www.picturesofwalls.com/

sdfr

still feeling terrible. but feel lighter. i'm very lucky.

sigh.

mike : (23:51:58)
you should read the great gatbsy

mike: (23:52:13)
i mean, i haven't read it but you should

just wondering

when will i get to look in the mirror and not see myself as a pale shaky wreck?

"jazz music playing" (2008)

the most inspired title ever. or not.

found these photos from when i was in america.

i was 16. it was an awesome holiday. these are from the family photo album. in the photo on the beach is my longest serving friend ben. been dwelling on lost friends for a long time now. there is no wind in my life anymore.



my mum had this photo of me and ben on the mantlepiece for a long time before someone said "that's a lovely picture, shame about mike sticking his finger up"

...

i'm sick, miserable and hopeless.

i've got a new painting waiting to be photographed, but i can't really move much. i'm so sick.

ugjlftkft f

i found 8. not 1, not 2 but 8 opeth albums on my computer. i have NEVER listened to opeth. i wouldn't know opeth if they came up to me and were like "yeah we're opeth". i need to get a fucking grip. 8 opeth albums. i 've never listened to opeth. i dread to think what else is on there. it's time to chuck all my posessions in the bin.

**update: i listened to 10 seconds of opeth. it totally fucking sucks, so i deleted it all**

letter to charlotte gainsbourg

Cher Charlotte,

j'ai juste voulu dire vous je t'aime et si vous voudriez traîner et des cigarettes de fumée et thé de boissons alors que je voudrais vraiment à.

regards,
mike

"watching the casualties of love" (2008)

my cat's teddy has been chewed with love.

just incase anyone is in any doubt, the title is meant to be a joke.

"in the womb of the dan" (2008)

steely dan erupts from a defunct record player and it's soul soars.

uh

yeah. you'd probably be right in thinking that i haven't painted anything remotely decent for ages.

but i'm working on it. in theory.

oh Charlotte Gainsbourg, Je vous rencontrerai dans mes rêves.

sigh.

"you rabbit on too much" (2008)

ha.

"freddy" (2008)

did this for my friends birthday

"it's time for breakfast so wake up" (2008)

i'm struggling to use my hands because of the meds change. so i did a picture of my cat waking me up for breakfast.

yeah and the guy was like "look mate, i said i had socks on"

i thought i should post because i've been at uni today and been in mass production of cord cows. i've been painting. 2 paintings nearly complete. hanging out with godders and making plates tomorrow. awesome.

i've watched the science of sleep 3 times this week already and i think i'll be watching it again tonight. i think i'm in love with charlotte gainsbourg. well her character in that film anyway.

david lee roth would punch you to the moon

oh and any band that has those talking guitar bits are like totally awesome.

this is one of those times when this happens and you totally don't want to say "dude... put your pants back on" because david lee roth wouldn't care what you said.

fun with paint

might take a little while to load...

b b b b bird bird bird's the word.

i'm so pumped today it's stupid. i've got 4 projects on the go in different parts of my house and i'm just bouncing between all of them and not really doing any of them. haha. stupid. yet strangely awesome.

a mikeypig in it's natural habitat (2008)

awesome.

cord cows (plural)

they leave little bits of cord poop everywhere. actually it's real poop. and actually it's me.

a mikeophant (2008)

i'm a bit miserable. did this to try and cheer myself up. didn't work so much.

*update* erm. yeah it did actually. awesome.

light on the sea (2008)

did this a few days ago. didn't post it though.

update

there's been an update on the photographing the shit out of everything bit of the site.

cord cow

i made this little fellow. he's called mike.