25th October 2024

prints of Hel now available

(See what I did there?)

https://davidseedfineart.etsy.com/uk/listing/1785933504/hel-gothic-wall-art-pagan-gothic-skull


25th October 2024

how's everyone doing?

All good here, my tax return has gone off and I don't have to worry about that for another year. I've decided that my shadow self (my carpentry business - David Seed Domestic Solutions) will cease trading and I'm going to draw my pension next year and concentrate on drawing, painting, building instruments and automata. It would be quite nice if Etsy decided to adevertise my prints a bit more as things have gone a wee bit slow, but that's a minor consideration. If you want prints, teeshirts, originals, or to commission me, just contact me directly and I can sort you out. I'm seriously considering bolting a Shopify onto this website anyway.

 


 

7th September 2024

Imagine, if you will, a mobile and aerial view of our island. Mayhap it’s the observation of one of the bravos of the Flying Monkey Brigade undergoing a reconnaissance of the iron-grey seas and flinty clifftops before flying inland towards Severin. Murmurations of Jameson’s Storm Petrels are aloft, seeking prey on the high meadows before indulging in their nightly blood feast (oh farmers keep your Kine in the byre), and the bloated diaphragm of the Reverend Zep Crowther’s dirigible is illuminated once every four seconds by the lamp of the lighthouse upon which it is moored. 
Closer now, and the rooftops of the great house become visible, a concatenation of tiled ridges, spires, turrets, chimbleystacks, cisterns, all crowned by the dome of an observatory.
There is a minaret (Old man Jameson-Black having traveled and boarded in Constantinople and visited the Hagia Sofia) and a flagpole from which fly the Jolly Roger, the Flag of the Spartacus League, and the Yellow Jack, this latter having been hoisted to alert travellers, both friendly and malign, to the status of quarantine currently imposed upon the island.
An oil lamp is shining in one of the high windows and if one were to further imagine alighting on the wet, crumbly, lichen encrusted sill, and snatching scribbly-scrabbly at the stone mullions, the following scene plays out:

There are two figures in the room. One is tall, slim, wearing a riding jacket, britches, tanker boots (more practical than laces in the case of fuel spillage and conflagration), and a monocle screwed into one eye. Their hair is cropped short and greased back with brilliantine. They draw upon a lit cigarillo that fumigates the air in the room and causes any non-human entity to either drop dead or flee. This is Emily Parkes, librarian, historian, and Captain of the Bifurcated Battalion. She commands the room, and strides back and forth, extemporising, expounding on THE CURRENT SITUATION, and issuing directives.
The other occupant is a white-haired man in his late sixties. His sunken cheeks are webbed with broken veins and a beaky drinker’s nose juts below eyebrows akin to a wintery hedgerow. Until half an hour ago he had been contemplating a) sin (he was a clergyman once for this is Zep), b) his subsequent defrocking, and c) the nature of his relationship with the librarian. He had added some coals to the fire, procured some goose-grease to fight the chill (the quartermaster was quite out of embrocation), and was hoping that a further act of a private performance might ensue when Ms Parkes had received a message via the Lansom tube (*1) and had become disagreeably businesslike (*2).

Our imaginary observer must now leave this charming scene and glide down to the courtyard below this particular tower. Once the puddled and broken flagstones are safely attached by gravity to the underside of your feet (or vice versa), proceed towards a wisteria covered doorway, through the walled garden, past the conservatory, and into the grand kitchen. 
The short but imposing figure of Agatha Mote, housekeeper, cook, wise-woman, horologist, ex-nun (*3), ex-magician’s assistant, barber-surgeon, and commander of the coracle fleet, gazes at you (imaginary or not) and raises a quizzical eyebrow before knocking the flour off her large alabastrine strangler’s hands and wiping them on her haunches. She’s breaking the fourth wall but it’s in her gift so to do. Behind her the slight figure of Florence Bousfield, maid of all works, is busy preparing gruts and lungfish, an island specialty. Fire burns in the cloam, and Ned, a one-eyed ramshackle knuckle boned husk of a man is busily feeding gorse into the maw of the flames. All is well, or all is as well as can be given the SITUATION. 
In the artificer’s house Shunt and Boodle labour into the night, the Hexenschule is running evening classes, and the boning hall is adrip with condensation and grindyclamorous with the sharpening of flensing knives.
This is the island. We are tribe. There is a SITUATION.

 

*1) Pneumatic messaging system often used in banks, post offices & Japanese Love Hotels. See also Fish Cannon.
*2) As opposed to agreeably businesslike. For further explanation search in the group using the term Emily Parkes. 
*3) Despite both being of an historical ecclesiastical bent which has since gone awry, neither Mrs Mote nor Zep Crowther have any known previous connexion. Indeed the only relationship between the two has been in terms of the latter’s predilection for gin and the former’s fierce protection of Severin’s supplies of such.

 


5th September 2024

The Teeshirts are now in the shop. Go to the shop link at the bottom of the home page if you're interested. £30 plus shipping. They are certified organic cotton and available in a number of colours and sizes. 
I'm considering doing other designs and styles such as this prototype vest top modelled by the awesome Drea Blackbird Artist.

Let me know in comments if you're interested.

 

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24th July 2024

My Circus My Monkeys Teeshirts

I can do these for £35 including shipping for customers in the UK
Or £48 including shipping for overseas customers. Unfortunately, due to Brexit driven redtape, I can’t currently ship to Germany.

The shirts are organic cotton, available in a variety of sizes and colours, and are DTF/DTG printed (direct to fabric / direct to garment).

Let me know if you’re interested. 
Red Cat will be available very soon.

Bird feeder and grizzled auld fella not included.

#mycircusmymonkeys #SomethingWickedThisWayComes #FlyingMonkeyCorps

 

 

 

Teeshirts printed by Teemill on organic cotton

 

7th July 2024

afternoon all.

Have just spent a couple of days partying in a field at the Rising festival in Staffordshire and prior to that a lot of time in the campervan in June so I've only really done one drawing in that time. Here it is.
Aviator. A1 150gsm paper. Charcoal and mixed media.

You can find A4 giclee prints in my Etsy shop if you click the link on my landing page or follow this one directly:

https://davidseedfineart.etsy.com/uk/listing/1742775758/aviator-flying-helmet-valentine-erotic


 

17th June 2024 - some old scribblings:

 

 

Inside -

Velvet hooded window panes 
blinding, binding Redhall farm
with night as dense 
and thick as marl

Outside,
A motorway 
runs through the holding;
Not quite a mortal wound 
but still...

Listen:

Engines, 
wheels of cars on tarmac  
a grumble of white noise

Big beasts lowing in the byre;
Small beasts scrabbling
in the skirting

At the edge of hearing:
- Two short rusty choking screams
A pause...

...another

The dogs of Beresford’s farm
out beyond the road
Go crazy for it

You’ve heard the little fox before
She’s been getting braver
Or more hungry
Or more desperate
Closer now

A stream runs under the road

A concrete culvert
Silted beach
Plastic sheeting
Sleeping bag

A scalp of year dead terrier man
His sharpened shovel
Clotted shiv

She walks upright on two bare feet
Hugging shadows
Paints on a smile

Bangs at the door
 

 

 


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Once was a girl
Once was a girl who was wrong
And because she was wrong she was wronged

Why was she wrong?
They said:
"She was wrong in her nature
"She was wrong in the way she spoke up
"She was wrong in the slyness of her glance,
"In the pertness of her attitude
"The way she walked in the light

And so they wronged her

Once was a girl
Who knew her own nature
Who had right in the way she spoke out
Who was right proud to stare down the starers
Was was scared of no man
Was not one to walk in the shade

And then they wronged her

That girl held fast
That girl held fast to the wrongs
The wrongs that were now branded on her

She danced them 
She danced them clean
She danced until the night fell
She danced until her feet bled
She danced until her skin split

The crows watched while
She danced another nature
She danced her own unmaking
She danced herself unhuman

Her wrongs she made black pinions
Her wrongs a burnt bone beak
Her wrongs a gimlet stare
Her wrongs a file's rasp screaming

Once was a girl
Once was a girl who danced free
Once was a girl who danced free of wrongness

 

 


 

 


 

Hooded with a coalsack

Pinioned arms and scapulas jutting

The damp of the flags under numbed bare feet

Breaks chill sweats and shivering 

 

They caught you in their nets, 

Dragged you into their cathedral

Called you devil’s spawn

- careful boys, hold ‘em, that bick is sharp

 

Weighed you

Ringed your ankle

Marked you down in their book

Released you and slammed the door 

 

The tall one

The one with the gob on him

You’ll remember him

His blue blue eyes

 

 


 

16th June 2024

would anyone be interested in teeshirts?

let me know in the comments

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16th June 2024

been working on a couple of new drawings.


 


16th June 2024

I was lucky enough to  be commissioned to do a mural in Gloucester's Westgate Street on the site of the old Poundstretcher convenience store (formally Gloucester's Theatre Royal). The shop front had been boarded up for some time and looked really shabby.

There has been a lot of work going on in this part of the city, renovating the buildings, some of which date back to Elizabethan times. Gloucester City Council, the Cathedral Quarter project and Gloucester BID, are all working together to make Westgate a better place, improving the environment, and encouraging business. My mural was part of that and the last two days was a celebration of the work that is going on.

My inspiration was hand painted wallpaper found in the Gloucester Folk building (formerly the Folk Museum) which showed Tudor Roses, Pomegranates (symbolic of Catherine of Aragon) and a geometric knotwork pattern. The whole thing took four or five days and I had to contend with torrential rain and dive bombing seagulls. Good fun though. 
Thanks to Brewers paints for their materials, advice, and support.

 


 


 


 


 


 

16th April 2024

So who wants to hear some spoken word stuff?

Click on this link. Let me know what you think.

https://youtu.be/AeSpaDBeYQM?feature=shared

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16th April

Back in the studio. Drawing practice

https://youtube.com/shorts/yrGMgRCVfBo?feature=shared

10th April (still)

Ok, now in the shop:

https://davidseedfineart.etsy.com/listing/1698161576
 

10th April 2024

Back in the studio but I feel like I'm struggling. Not at all sure about this one or which version to go with.

 

 


 

4th April 2024

Who wants to see more prose or poetry dropped into my blog? I can easily do this and it might make a change from looking at the pictures. Let me know what you think.

 

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4th April 2024

I've been revisiting my older drawings and paintings and have decided to issue some of them as prints. For details go to the shop (link on home page).

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10th March 2024

Afternoon folks. Prints of my drawing "Hearken" are now available in the shop.

 

https://davidseedfineart.etsy.com/listing/1668505306

 


 

 

7th March 2024

Well the inevitable has happened and I've finally had my Instagram account hacked.

After years and years of being hyper vigilant I fell prey to a phishing scheme yesterday. I am now locked out of my account by a scammer who has blocked me and is now messaging people on my friends list trying to catch them in the same way.

 

If anyone follows me on IG, my old account is dave.seed@instagram.com - please don't respond to any messages you get from that account. Report them and block instead.

 

My new account is www.dave.seed1@instagram.com and you can tell it's me because you'll see old beardy weirdy David Seed doing a video about it and being very annoyed.

I sincerely hope none of you get caught out.

David

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4th January 2024

I've reduced some of the prices in my shop. There's a link at the bottom of my Home page if you want a gander.

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3rd January 2024

Happy new year everybody. I didn't stay up until Midnight listening to my Jimmy Shands as I had the snot, and won’t be posting any new art today as I haven’t created any this week (again because I have the snot).


Instead, can I alert you to the existence of a facebook group which is an adjunct to my facebook art page (see links). The group is "Something Wicked This Way Comes". To find it use the search term "Mrs Mote".

SWTWC is a generalist art group that caters to vagabonds, pickpockets, thieves and pirates. 

To give you a flavour, here’s an abstract describing how one of our society came to join us:

Florence Bousfield, maid of all works, is not indigenous to the island.  She originally hails from Mablethorpe but left there under something of a cloud having spent her early teens running with the Lincolnshire razor gangs and organising protection rackets amongst the amusement arcades and gelateria. 

She fetched up like a bad penny in the bustling metropolis of Norwich and for a while earned her crust in the Mermaid Fishe and Chip Shoppe and Payday Loan Specialists. For serving behind the counter, she was given two shillings and sixpence an hour and all the luncheon meat fritters and scraps that she could eat. This played merry hell with her complexion and she would return home to her back street garret stinking of fat, and with a band of batter coating her lisle stockings at shin level from the basins stored under the counter.


Old man Kostas (he wasn’t Greek, just in the habit of assuming new names when his creditors came calling – he was working through the alphabet) was forever trying to persuade her into the cellar to see his spud peeler, but she was nimble and slippery as an eel, and had thus far evaded his attentions when sorting out the King Edwards.


The Mermaid was a cut price outfit, selling wormy pollock as cod and slices of Battered Mother’s Pride as plaice, and it was notably lacking in any investment into either deep fat fryer maintenance or fire precautions. One Saturday night the inevitable happened. Five gallons of black dioxin-laden tallow caught fire and Kostas, for want of a fire blanket or suitable fire extinguisher, deployed a basin full of wet batter to disastrous conclusion, burning fat exploding over the counter, floor, and igniting the filthy gloss-painted polystyrene tiles on the ceiling. Kostas, wearing as was his wont a cotton apron encrusted with one or two inches of DRIED batter, was largely armoured against personal immolation, although he did lose his eyebrows and toupee. Florence lost her employment, although it is arguable that the long-term health prospects of some of the local population increased.


Being short of money for rent Miss Bousfield ventured to the Post Office to withdraw the last of her meagre savings. As she got there, she spied in the window, amongst the standard issue wasp cemetery, a yellowed card bearing the following faded message in turquoise ink:

 

“Monsieur P requires personal assistant for ongoing journalistic project. Must be punctual, petite, and consciensious. (Florence noted the spelling mistake) 
No tattoos.
Three shillings/hour.”

 

There was no indication of an address or telephone number on the front of the card, but on entering the post office (the bell above the door eliciting no response from the blonde, middle-aged post-mistress who sat behind the glass barrier gently snoring) she saw another message on the back of the card saying:

 

“Stoat and Ulcer, lunchtimes, ask for Roly”

 

That afternoon Florence found him in the snug of the pub, drinking his fourth Gold Label Barley Wine and watching the horse racing on a snowy TV in the corner. Once she’d explained to him that she was in need of a job he bought her half a pint of stout and introduced himself properly. His name was Roland Parsnip, and he was attached to the Norwich Gazette and Racing Post. He was a photographer and Illustrator (with a capital I) and it was his job to take his camera along to interviews conducted by the writers, photograph horses and greyhounds, as well as providing a weekly satirical cartoon entitled “Norfolk Piddock”.


Parsnip revealed that he was also a serious artist who produced photographs and drawings for a number of quarterlies and periodicals of a somewhat specialist and esoteric nature. He required a personal assistant to fetch and carry, make tea, answer correspondence, and run interference when invoices needed paying. He needed an employee who could begin immediately and although Florence didn’t have a resumé or references, seemed extremely keen on giving her a start. For her part she ensured that there would be holidays, negotiated an extra tuppence per hour, and the use of a bicycle for transport. They shook hands and Florence skipped home for a celebratory eccles cake.


The next morning saw Florence approaching a row of railway arches that had been converted into workshops and storage space. One, next to a canal that ran underneath the railway, had open wooden gates and a sign painted with the words “Alf Tupper – Welder”. 


The gloom of the workshop was periodically lit up by the flash of a welding arc and she recognised the workman one of her customers from the Mermaid. He was a man in late middle years with a pronounced limp who would try to sell her copies of the Morning Star when buying his fish and chips. Known affectionately to his friends as “Lenin”, Alf had been something of an athlete in his youth before a ripped cartilage in his knee had put paid to his competing. Alf was a friendly chap but apt to latch on to his listeners and use words like “dialectic” which Florence had thought was medicine for the runs.


The railway arch next to Alf’s was partially bricked up with a steel-plated door bearing the legend “Nightshade Studios, Monsieur P. By appointment only”, whilst the remaining lockup in the row was sealed with rusty corrugated iron sheets.


Florence banged on the door which was opened after a minute or two by a rumpled and bleary-eyed Roland Parsnip.


Inside, the archway was surprisingly large, maybe twenty foot wide by forty deep, but there was a lot crammed in there. In addition to a plywood shuttered office-space there was a dark room, a changing room and toilet, clothes rails, a sink and kettle, a painted backdrop and screens on stands, spotlights and silvered umbrellas on poles, a drawing board, and a couple of plan chests. 


Parsnip was in the middle of a photographic shoot and explained to Florence that whilst some of the pictures generated would be used in magazines, others would be used as reference for drawings and cartoons. The subject of this particular session was a forty-year-old Scottish redhead called Rhona who was, from the waist up, dressed up in hunting pink and top-hat, and sitting astride an antique mahogany rocking horse. Introductions were made and Florence was dispatched to the kitchenette to make tea and lemon curd sandwiches whilst Parsnip carried on taking photos. She noted that there was also some potted-beef but Rhona, a philosophy PHD student, revealed that she was a “life-long vegetarian, thank you very much hen”.


And so it went. For weeks Florence cycled along the tow path of the canal to work, sometimes visiting the corner shop on the way to pick up supplies, and spent her time in the studio as factotum: cleaning, making tea, producing contact sheets, delivering bribes to the vice squad, ironing costumes, sourcing props, unblocking sinks, writing letters; in fact, absolutely everything surplus to the creative process itself. She found that she was enjoying herself immensely, was greatly relieved that she no longer smelled of the chip-shop (her skin improved) and was forming friendships with Rhona and the other models that Parsnip employed. These included Georgette, a six-foot five émigré from St. Kitts who moonlighted as a model to supplement their income as a hospital porter, Cecily, a seventy-year-old dominatrix from the home counties who wrote poetry and articles for a feminist journal, and Mackenzie, a tiny contortionist from Doncaster.


For three days every week Monsieur P returned to the newspaper offices, or as far as Florence could see, their annex the Stoat and Ulcer, and carried out assignments for the newspaper.  For some of the rest of the week he became Norfolk Piddock, and would sit sweating and twitching at the drawing board in the studio, desperately trying to carve satire out of the quotidian. On these occasions Florence learnt it was best to avoid him, and find tasks to carry out in the darkroom or in town. On other days however, he would perch like a king on the same seat, squared off photographs in front of him, and drawings of a most peculiar and recherché kind would fill his portfolios. Talent, he had in quantity, but Florence soon came to the opinion that if he spent less time in the pub and concentrated on a more mainstream subject matter (landscapes? Pet portraits?) he might be more successful. He never bilked her on her wages however and was generally a fair and considerate employer. 


Weeks turned into months, and Florence’s list of duties increased to include liaising with the editors of periodicals such as “Gâteaux”, a quarterly specialising in photographs of twinset clad ladies first baking, then sitting on, cream cakes (Florence set up an account with the local bakery and organised the installation of a shower and twin tub but considered this to be a terrible waste of food), “Suffolk Punch”, fin de siècle poetic smut badly translated from French, and illustrated with soft-core photos and drawings of matronly types doing what Parsnip asserted were “Gallic things”, but which Florence had doubts about, “The Ring”, an annual devoted to masked wrestlers and body-builders in which Georgette featured prominently in a Lucha libre mask and thews anointed with baby oil, and “Stern”, a small, yellow, limited-edition book of illustrations of a most peculiar kind. Florence was sometimes asked to nip next door to see Alf the welder about constructing specialist equipment for the shoots but, for the most part, Parsnip relied upon his febrile imagination to come up with the goods. 


After half a year Florence was persuaded to take the plunge and model for a publication aimed at devotees of all things ecclesiastical. Much merriment ensued and many lemon curd sandwiches consumed but, one September afternoon whilst she was clad only in wimple, scapular, and victorian lace-up boots, the air was riven by a police siren and the door battered down by the rozzers. Georgette and Mackenzie grabbed Florence and spirited her out the back entrance and onto the towpath where they flagged down a passing narrowboat piloted by a retired civil servant from Gurnsey.


Once more Florence was unemployed, and so, having changed into more appropriate clothes, returned to the Post Office. She found another card in the window, this one advertising for a “maid of all works” at a place called Severin House. It had a PO Box number to write to for an application form and specified most particularly that replies written in green crayon would be binned. The post-mistress still snoring behind the counter, Florence filched a pack of Basildon Bond writing paper and some envelopes from a display stand, scrawled a response, then woke up the woman such that she could buy a stamp.


The rest, as we say, is history.

 

So there you have it.
Lang may your lums reek.

 

 

Jules Toulot and unknown model (not Florence)

 

 

11th October 2023

New drawing. This is Arachne, and she is drawn using charcoal, black and white conte and titanium white acrylic paint on A1, 130dsm smooth cartridge paper.

Prints are available if you go to my Etsy shop using the link at the bottom of my landing / home page. 


 

27th September 2023

It’s that time of the year again. 
The calendars are now in my shop. This is the best quality print we’ve had so far and I’m really proud of them. They are A4, ring-bound, month-to-view calendars with my best twelve drawings of the year. If you’d like one follow the link, although if Gloucester or Cheltenham friends want to approach me directly, I can sell you one without you having to pay for postage.

Go to the shop link on my landing page.
#calendar2024 #ChristmasGift #Prints #Pagan #Gothic


 

25th September 2023

Mother Medusa is finished and now available in my etsy shop. In other news, the 2024 calendars will be available in a few days time. Stay posted.


 

13th September 2023

New drawing started. this is charcoal on A1 paper  as normal (approx 23 x 33 inches)

I'm hoping to be able to list it in the shop in a couple of weeks time

 

 

3rd September 2023. New drawing. Prints are available if you go to my shop (bottom of my landing page).

 


 

12th August 2023

Typical scammer comment response to my shared posts of late (winky wonky grammar on account of it usually being AI chatbot generated):

“Most ethereal, powerful ART, I like it. I am collector of wildlife paintings and other subjects. Would you be interested in selling your work? Is it available as NFT?”

…umm. No. Not really. 
The scammers have typically only been members of the relevant groups for a couple of days and will block and copy their spiel to about ten other people before finally getting kicked out by group admins. Now because I’m ancient of days and not really down with the kids, I didn’t really understand what NFT means. It’s a little like when I’m in the pub and have had a few drinks to ease my social anxiety and am generally talking bollocks to anyone who will listen and am using big words that I don’t really understand because it makes me sound more photosynthesis. I kind of thought I knew what NFTs were and that they were generally A BAD THING, but I decided to look ‘em up anyway.  Turns out they’re not necessarily A BAD THING for most folk but they are most probably A SILLY THING that will leave you out of pocket. They’re a type of cryptocurrency and can consist of absolutely any type of digital artefact, typically digital images but also other stuff including this Facebook post, not that anyone would be daft enough to pay good money for it. These chunks of data can be bought and sold and stored in digital vaults where presumably you can have the pleasure of lying on them for eons like a digital Smaug the dragon. All a bit Emperor’s New Clothes, but like any other currency including hard cash it only works as long as people believe the collective delusion that this stuff actually has any real value. (I’ve been known to appal my accountant because I sometimes barter labour or material. That sort of stuff has, as he is oft at pains to remind me, REAL value,  and is therefore taxable.) Ahem, where was I?
The bubble has apparently burst with this particular trading operation but there are still people out there who believe that they can make money out of them. 
Here’s the skinny if you want to enlighten yourselves:

 

https://www.theverge.com/22310188/nft-explainer-what-is-blockchain-crypto-art-faq

 

(Bonus info gobbit - when typing on my iPad it gives you predictive text along the top of the onscreen keyboard which you can choose to tap on and use if you so wish. I normally ignore it but I’ve just clocked that the word “but” will give you various options and that they are not contant. Normally it predicts “button” or “butter” but it’s just given me “buttplug” and “buttsmithy”. Try it. You’ll thank me later.)


12th August 2023

Revisited the drawing I’d worked up using Procreate and finished it off using traditional materials (willow charcoal & conte).
The music I’m listening to in the studio is “Cannibal’s Hymn” from the Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds album “Abattoir Blues / The Lyre of Orpheus”.

 


 

10th August 2023

How's everyone doing? 
looks like this website is finally starting to pick up traffic. Not sure what's changed but I'll take that. 
The sun's shining in my corner of the West Country, I've had sushi for lunch, and I'm working up to going outside to the studio.

iIt occurs to me that I've never posted "in progress" videos here. Allow me to address that. 
Here's one from a few weeks ago:

 


4th August 2023

Here's another one. Cornertime. A charcoal drawing again remastered using Procreate. Again available on Etsy.

 


4th August 2023

old image updated. It was generated using the Brushes app on iPad & remastered ysing Procreate. It's available in the shop. If you go to home (the landing page) there's a shop link. 
 

A nude androgynous figure kneels on a podium with an egg in their mouth and a chicken on their head. There is a half full glass of merlot on the podium beside them. Another figure stands in the foreground wearing a skull print party dress and latex gloves. Oeuff.

 


 

1st August 2023

Some weirdness going on with this website. when I put in the search term "DavidSeedFineArt" iinto Google, everything is as it should be. If I try that with Bing or Yahoo! or other search engines I get corrupted data: apparently I'm an investment consultant, and there are odd snippets of prose appearing that I have in fact written, but which have never been anywhere near my Ionos website. Is this AI voodoo? what do I know, I'm an artist.

Want to see some old pictures?

Here you go:

 

 

31st July 2023

Hello folks. Its been a while. I'm still creating and selling work. if you're interested in originals contact me, otherwise go to my Etsy shop. there's a link on the landing page that should take you straight there.

 

 

22nd May 2023 

Still playing with Procreate work8ng up charcoal drawings. I like it very much. I was put onto it bythe very awesome Michelle Wolfskulljack. You can see her stuff here:

https://wolfskulljack.com/

 


 

 

 

 

 

 


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

17th May 2023

I've added some new images to the gallery. Please check my Etsy shop for availability.

 

 

17th May 2023

Afternoon folks. Sorry I've gone a bit dark for the last six months. My dear old mum's been ill and has now had to go into a nursing home. Normal service will be resumed shortly.

 

1st November 2023

 

The 2023 calendar is now in the shop. 

5th April still....

If anyone's still on Facebook they might enjoy the following group. If you ask to join, mentionyou saw it here first...    https://www.facebook.com/groups/MrsMote

 

 

 

 

5th April 2022

so I'm completely rubbish at running this website. I get maybe 300 people look at it every month or so so presumably it has some utility, but it's just more "stuff" I have to deal with - anyone want to be a PA? I can't pay anything but I can make lasagna

. Anyway, I've done some more drawings. I'm still working on the large size (A1) in charcoal. this is the demon Paimon from the Goetia. I'll add the others into the gallery. Most are available either as originals (hit me up) or as prints (go to my shop). 

21st November 2021. 
So I've been a bit tardy about keeping this blog up to date of late (any web experts out there with a spare half hour a week? Thought not ?) so I ought to tell you my latest news. I'm part of the Oak and Ash and Thorn collective and have an online exhibition up at the moment on facebook (link below), The exhibition is entitled "Queen of Winter". The queen is Beira or Caileach, the divine hag who hammers the mountains into existence. She starts out in spring as beautiful maiden, but as autumn turns into winter her hair becomes white, her teeth become iron, she loses an eye, her skin turns dark blue, her eyebrows turn into wood, and she brings the snow. Her throne is Ben Nevis. 
I have a couple of versions of the queen as well as a handful of selkies for the selkie fanciers.
 

 

21st November 2021.  Exhibition now on. Go to the Oak and Ash and Thorn group on Facebook.  https://www.facebook.com/groups/684475835245401/permalink/1504084783284498/

 

 

 

11th July 2021. A pair of Selkies. Charcoal on A1 sized paper.

 

 


 

 

 

 

4th July 2021

A4 prints of my new drawing available in my Etsy shop from next week. Hare Witch. Charcoal on A1paper. 

 


 

 

 

 

21st June 2021

The Wild Harvest Exhibition is now live.  Please come and join us.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/oakandashandthorncollective/permalink/198991222127446/

 

 

20th June 2021

Come and join us for the Oak and Ash and Thorn Collective's Wild Harvest Exhibition. Nine artists are exhibiting from the 21st June. Follow this link:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/oakandashandthorncollective

 

 

 

 

29th Jan 2021 https://fb.watch/3k1hosP_Bh/

 

29th Jan 2021.  New drawing. Sisters.

 

19th Jan 2021.  Working on a new painting. This one's going to be a magician's assistant being sawn in half.  I'm doing stetches of heads trying to get the lighting right. Stay posted.

 

17th Jan 2021

On sketchbooks, sketchyness and drawing:
How many people remember having a “rough book” at school? They were (at least in my town) thick pads of poor quality paper bound with gum along one edge, and we were instructed to use them before writing work out properly in our exercise books. The point of rough books is you use them to work stuff out, amend things, edit writing, and do all of this first to prototype the finished article. Mine tended to be full of doodles, but considering where I went with my education, that was probably appropriate.
When I left school I went to art college for four years, first doing a “foundation” year, where I got to try out different disciplines and decide which ones I was best at and/or most interested in (kind of a sketchbook exercise in its own right) then did a degree course in contemporary crafts. Apart from some weeks doing printmaking, graphics and photography on foundation, I didn’t do any finished two dimensional work at all until after I graduated. Throughout those four years however, I filled something in the order of twenty sketchbooks. We were taught to use them in the same way as school rough books; working out ideas and for recording visual information. I still have most of them, and the most interesting thing to me about them is that they only contain fifty per cent of what people would term “drawing”. The rest of it is written. The drawings are unfinished, dashed out, and the writing is full of grammatical errors, spelling mistakes, and some of the ideas are just daft and wrong-headed. You certainly don’t use or keep sketchbooks for prosperity. Now this is the whole point. I have friends who are professional writers and musicians, and their “sketchbooks” tend to be those little lined moleskin books that easily fit into a pocket. They use them as rough books, and jot down ideas or sketches of plots before they forget them. This is drawing, but using words to do it. I’d contend that they are really useful as a tool even if you’re not somebody who works in the arts, or for whom the arts are a big part of their hobby activities, or whom thinks visually. I hadn’t produced any finished sculpture, drawings or paintings for years until about 2012, but I always kept sketchbooks going, as they were an adjunct to thinking. I had a career caring for people with learning disabilities, and I always had a sketchbook to hand, not least because I could use it to help communicate with non-verbal service users.
I’m not a psychologist or educationalist but I think sketchbooks are a way to make amorphous ideas more concrete whilst paradoxically affording more flexibility of thought. This seems to get harder as we get older – we get set in our ways as cognitive bias and crystallised thought patterns set in (do we use up available memory? I dunno), so anything that we can use to offset that has to be beneficial.
So here’s some quick and dirty tips about how to use sketchbooks (and I’m using the term in its broadest sense):
Always have one to hand, otherwise you’ll be searching around for the back of an envelope or empty fag packet.
Don’t use them to do your best work – that’s not what they’re for.
Have them in different sizes. For big work, layout paper is good but wallpaper lining paper is cheaper.
Don’t self-censor. Sketchbooks should only be public if you want them to be, (much like journals), and the point is to use them as part of thinking and memory.
Don’t worry about it if you think you can’t draw, spell etc., if you do you won’t want to get your ideas down on paper. Anyway, the more you do, the better you’ll get.
Use them to experiment, to practice techniques, and develop skills. Part of that process is allowing yourself to screw up and test ideas/techniques/skills to destruction.
Don’t use expensive pads or expensive materials UNLESS you’re experimenting/building skills using those materials. Cheap is fine. If you have a local scrap-store, try and score some old exercise books.
Be prepared for the fact that occasionally you’ll lose one. Don’t get upset about it. Move on.
If you’re down the pub and using one be discrete otherwise people will want you to draw them – which is fine if you want to score some drinks, but it gets old quite quickly.
If you’re creatively ‘blocked’ (which can be miserable – I was blocked for years) you can use sketchbooks like mental sink plungers.
Use them to record things you see, thoughts, plans for paintings, chess moves, directions to get places, chord shapes, ideas for pub quizzes, recipes, ideas for tattoos, poetry, how you think you might put that kitchen shelf up, the titles of songs you hear on the radio, telephone numbers, where you’ve planted your vegetables, in fact anything that will otherwise be lost. You may never look at it or read it again, but you will have helped your thinking process.

11th January 2021

Well here I am attempting to join the twenty first century by sorting out a blog.  Probably not doing this correctly at the moment but it'll do for now.

 

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