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16th December 2011

Areas: making of paintings sketches street art

Last weekend I was invited to do a street art demonstration in the Ulster Museum as part of the opening of Victoria and Albert Museum, London touring exhibition of Street Art and Tags not Labels.

I named the demonstration “Something out of nothing” as I like to create characters out of commonplace things. In this instance I liked the idea of creating something from the shape of a few clouds.

Below I’ve included some sketches, photos and a time-lapse video of the final piece ‘cloud monkey’.

In preparation for the piece, I simply drew a lot of clouds and then after a few hours reviewed the shapes and what they looked like to me. In this instance I thought the cloud looked like a sea turtle.. © Copyright David McClelland 2011. All rights reservedAfter a few more sketches I settled on this idea of a monkey. I felt it worked well as I could incorporate the Ulster Museum building into the piece.. © Copyright David McClelland 2011. All rights reservedFinal piece ‘cloud monkey’, acrylic on board, Ulster Museum.. © Copyright David McClelland 2011. All rights reservedArtist David McClelland with the final piece ‘cloud monkey’.. © Copyright David McClelland 2011. All rights reservedA step by step video of the artist David McClelland (aka TWEET, David Creative) painting ‘cloud monkey’ at the Ulster Museum, Belfast.. © Copyright David McClelland 2011. All rights reserved

9th December 2011

Areas: making of paintings prints sketches street art

A few months ago I sent in a proposal to do some street art in the Ulster Museum to accompany the opening of Victoria and Albert Museum, London touring exhibition of Street Art - showcasing the work of some of the biggest artists in the street art community such as Banksy, Shepard Fairey, Sickboy, Pure Evil and D*Face.

The Ulster Museum was looking to showcase four of Belfast’s local street art talent in an exhibition called Tags not Labels. Whilst I wasn’t selected as one of the main four artists I was given the awesome opportunity to do some live painting in the Ulster Museum on the opening night.

Below I’ve included some sketches and the final piece for the proposal to give you an idea of the process.

I really wanted to do something with a forest scene as the orientation was going to be landscape. The first idea was to simply have a bird or cloud flying through the trees writing my tag name ‘TWEET’.. © Copyright David McClelland 2011. All rights reservedThe next idea focused on using the trees as legs, whilst this was my favourite I didn’t think the Ulster Museum would have gone for it.. © Copyright David McClelland 2011. All rights reservedI settled on this idea of using the uprights of the trees as parts of letters that would be defined by white pieces of wood hammered onto the trees by a local animal living in the forest.. © Copyright David McClelland 2011. All rights reservedThe finished image, I liked it so much that I made up a few gilcée prints of it which I’ll be selling at the http://www.blackboxbelfast.com/event.aspx?e=1407<Xmas Black Box Bazaar><blank> this Sunday.. © Copyright David McClelland 2011. All rights reserved

9th December 2011

Areas: exhibitions making of paintings sketches street art

Last night I was doing some live street art in the Ulster Museum as part of the opening of Victoria and Albert Museum, London touring exhibition of Street Art and Tags not Labels an exhibition showcasing selected local artists Fritz, KVLR, DOC and Lucas through large gallery installations alongside photographs of art in Belfast’s urban landscape.

As last night was a closed exhibition I’ll be doing another demonstration this Saturday at the Ulster Museum from 1pm till 4pm that is open to everyone and is free.

I’ve named the demonstration “Something out of nothing” as I will be revealing my approach of manipulating existing artwork to transform it into something new. I hope to see you there.

Below I’ve included some sketches and photos of the final piece ‘dead on’.

I had decided to do another landscape / head combination, but with a Belfast slant. I liked the flat cap on the right hand character.. © Copyright David McClelland 2011. All rights reservedI decided that the pipe character was the stronger of the two and liked the idea of something coming out of the pipe forming the letters of a Belfast colloquialism like ‘so it is’.. © Copyright David McClelland 2011. All rights reservedFinally, when messing around with the smoke letters I decided that the phrase ‘dead on’ would be better as its triangular shape would fit into the composition better.. © Copyright David McClelland 2011. All rights reservedFinal piece ‘dead on’, acrylic on board, Ulster Museum.. © Copyright David McClelland 2011. All rights reservedArtist David McClelland with the final piece ‘dead on’.. © Copyright David McClelland 2011. All rights reserved

8th December 2011

Areas: for sale paintings prints sketches street art

This Sunday (11th December) from 12 noon, I’ll be selling some of my artwork at ‘Belfast's best-loved alternative craft market’ the Xmas Black Box Bazaar.

The market will be held in the Black Box (18 - 22 Hill Street, Belfast, BT1 2LA) and is looking to be a real corker.

I’ll be selling a bunch of lovely things on the day and so To give you a feel of what you can expect I’ve been posting some photos along with prices over the past few days.

If you missed my last two posts about the comics, ‘say what you like’ and sketchbook A6 greeting cards that I will be selling at the Black Box Bazaar you can click on the following links:

comics and say what you like A6 greeting cards
sketchbook A6 greeting cards

The last items that I will be selling are my gilcée prints of some of my sketches and street art paintings. To make things simple, I’ve made each print to a size of 18cm x 24cm that will fit perfectly into an IKEA 20 x 26cm RIBBA frame.

Hope to see you there!

‘The Albert Clock’, black and white gilcée print, £15.00 each. © Copyright David McClelland 2011. All rights reserved‘The Europa Hotel’, black and white gilcée print, £15.00 each. © Copyright David McClelland 2011. All rights reserved‘Samson & Goliath’, black and white gilcée print, £15.00 each. © Copyright David McClelland 2011. All rights reserved‘The Palm House’, black and white gilcée print, £15.00 each. © Copyright David McClelland 2011. All rights reserved‘Two Brothers’, black and white gilcée print, £15.00 each. © Copyright David McClelland 2011. All rights reserved‘Mary’s Tree’, black and white gilcée print, £15.00 each. © Copyright David McClelland 2011. All rights reserved‘So Close’, full colour gilcée print, £20.00 each. © Copyright David McClelland 2011. All rights reserved‘Lonesome Wolf’, full colour gilcée print, £20.00 each. © Copyright David McClelland 2011. All rights reserved‘Home Sweet Home’, full colour gilcée print, £20.00 each. © Copyright David McClelland 2011. All rights reserved

7th December 2011

Areas: for sale prints sketches

This Sunday (11th December) from 12 noon, I’ll be selling some of my artwork at ‘Belfast's best-loved alternative craft market’ the Xmas Black Box Bazaar.

The market will be held in the Black Box (18 - 22 Hill Street, Belfast, BT1 2LA) and is looking to be a real corker.

I’ll be selling a bunch of lovely things on the day and so To give you a feel of what you can expect I’ll be posting some photos along with prices over the next few days.

The next items that I will be selling are my A6 pen & ink greeting cards. All taken from my sketchbooks.

If you missed my last post about the comics and ‘say what you like’ A6 greeting cards that I will be selling at the Black Box Bazaar - view it here.

‘The Albert Clock’ and ‘The Europa Hotel’, greeting cards, £2.00 each.. © Copyright David McClelland 2011. All rights reserved‘Samson & Goliath’ and ‘The Palm House’, greeting cards, £2.00 each.. © Copyright David McClelland 2011. All rights reserved‘The introvert’, greeting card, £2.00 each.. © Copyright David McClelland 2011. All rights reserved‘Old Friend’, greeting card, £2.00 each.. © Copyright David McClelland 2011. All rights reserved‘Sleeping Cars’, greeting card, £2.00 each.. © Copyright David McClelland 2011. All rights reserved‘Two Brothers’, greeting card, £2.00 each.. © Copyright David McClelland 2011. All rights reserved‘Mary’s Tree’, greeting card, £2.00 each.. © Copyright David McClelland 2011. All rights reserved‘Hidden pathway’, greeting card, £2.00 each.. © Copyright David McClelland 2011. All rights reserved‘Secret Place’, greeting card, £2.00 each.. © Copyright David McClelland 2011. All rights reserved

6th December 2011

Areas: comics for sale prints

This Sunday (11th December) from 12 noon, I’ll be selling some of my artwork at ‘Belfast's best-loved alternative craft market’ the Xmas Black Box Bazaar.

The market will be held in the Black Box (18 - 22 Hill Street, Belfast, BT1 2LA) and is looking to be a real corker.

I’ll be selling a bunch of lovely things on the day and so To give you a feel of what you can expect I’ll be posting some photos along with prices over the next few days.

The first two items pictured below are my A7 mini comics and my ‘say what you like’ A6 greeting cards.

More to follow tomorrow, until then keep warm.

‘Function’, ‘Futile attraction’ and ‘Encourage’ mini comics. £1.00 each.. © Copyright David McClelland 2011. All rights reserved‘Something’s brewing’ and ‘I remember when’ greeting cards, £2.00 each.. © Copyright David McClelland 2011. All rights reserved‘In the picture’ and ‘A novel activity’ greeting cards, £2.00 each.. © Copyright David McClelland 2011. All rights reserved‘Some feedback’ greeting card, £2.00 each.. © Copyright David McClelland 2011. All rights reserved

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