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Ulster Museum Tags not Labels - demonstration

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

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Ulster Museum Tags not Labels - proposal

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

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Ulster Museum Tags not Labels - opening night

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

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