the big wall canvas

Where is the spring? Where are those green shoots of new life? Need it to arrive now, had enough of this bad life and not being able to get out, need the new leaf growth, buds of trees, need those daffodils, need this to be a creative productive positive busy year of painting and energy and enough of this being stuck in doors in the cold and the bad light looking at the bleak trees and the winter defiantly hanging on... Sun trying to fight through the wind and rain today, need to get out there, need to get out and make art outside, share art outside...

There's the big wall canvas, been treating this like my own wall in here through the winter months, adding marks, layers of graff-leaves and spray paint marks, the marks you would associates with tags and street graffiti, marks on top of marks, the new covering the old, layer over layer, far from finished and new marks to be added and new leaf growth, more layers on the canvas wall, many layers to be added yet... should have been documenting it as the layers build up...

Got a great e.mail yesterday from someone who had found another of the seven inch vinyl pieces... Enough, time to get out and paint, oh, the sun has gone in, 1pm and I need to turn the lights on in here again...

Time to organise a show...

Week Six of the virtual street experiment

Week Six of the leaving work on the virtual street experiment, back to painting on found reclaimed recycled cardboard this week and a piece called "S15082422" (the size is 14cm x 37cm). Last week's vinyl piece of work is off to Newcastle yet again (am I being collected?). Once again the piece is on Ebay and the opening bid price once more is just one penny, view it (or even bid for it) here on Ebay. I'm rather enjoying this...

Richard Hamilton's 88th birthday today, the father of pop art? Certainly of British pop art

Back to this big canvas piece I've been working on here for a few months now, been revisiting the wall that is this big piece of once very white canvas to add more marks since last Summer. This isn't street art but it certainly is influenced by the excitment of the marks street artists make, the idea of fresh makrs and new spray over old marks, I use leaves rather than letter forms but it is graffiti, green growth over walls, the Captains Table and Trillian greens sprayed out of paint cans...

And they are so much better in the flesh

"Thank you very much... that was a great surprise, I saw a blue one up this week and felt disappointed that I wouldn't have it... And they are so much better in the flesh, I was really quite taken aback by the colours, I really love them, just perfect, thanks. And just what I needed having got home with a horrible sore throat and drinking a lemsip. Thank you, they're great, I love them...." read the e.mail from this week's happy 'winner' of last week's 1p piece left on ebay... a black seven inch piece of leaf covered vinyl. But a black one couldn't leave here alone, so a blue one went with it... and yes, you really can't see the colours of any of this art on line, can't see the colour, the texture, you don't feel the need to touch...

I do rather like this recycling of old vinyl records that remain here from the days when I had a record company hat to wear. And I do rather like leaving them to be found on the virtual street at places like Ebay or the real street... no more feedback from the ones left to be found, wonder if they were found or went in the bin or....

"Is this like some sort of Banksy thing? Will it be worth a lot of money?"

the 1p multi media leaving art on the virtual street experiment goes on, week five is a blue vinyl seven inch record, find it here on ebay. Last week's has been packaged up this morning ready to go to East London, deepest Deptford. There are 24 of these singles, mostly black vinyl, this one is an old Dream City Film Club/Rhatigan single we put out back in the last century - never sold it, bee nhere unplayed andsd unloved, will it gind a loving home now?. Some of these seven inch leaf covered singles have gone on line at ebay, some left on the street, once all 24 have gone then that is it, this series of leaves on seven inch vinyl will be gone. There's a couple for sale in Graffik Gallery, Ladbrook Grove, West London...

Got an e.mail from someone called Mike who found one of the seven inch vinyl pieces in Greek Street, Soho, this week. He seemed rather pleased with his find. "Is this like some sort of Banksy thing? Will it be worth a lot of money?" he said, "are there any more?"
Maybe some on a tube train somewhere later on... Wonder what happened to the rest, need one of those tracking things that put on geese to see where they fly...

Case show opening tonight at Signal Gallery, you'll find more about that on the art pages of Organ over at www.organart.com

Batch of fresh leaf-growth on black(and blue) 7" vinyl

A repost of a Twitter - well a Twitter explanded a little beyond 140 bites... the links will take you to Twitter page or... This is what's been happening with cold Montana and vinyl that once lived for the music of Gog Magog, Rhatigan and Dream City Film Club...

Sean_Worrall - Batch of fresh leaf-growth on black(and blue) #recycled seven inch vinyl, find ten of these pieces left around #London tomorrow - www.organart.com/aartvinyl1.htm #streetart

There's 24 of them in all, these seven inch leaf pieces... That's all there ever will be, they've all numbered on the back...

Some art isn't meant to last forever....

The fourteen painting "wall of love" collection of canvas pieces that exists at Graffik gallery (Portobello Road, London) right now, will be taken down once this weekend is over. The pieces may exist on Canvas but these walls evolve and no, this isn't quite street art but it is in the spirit and so this paintings will exist in this state for one more weekend, unless that is someone chooses to allow them to stay as they by buying them. Anything left of the wall will be treated just as any other wall covered in those marks of a street art nature and the canvas pieces will evolve some more... None of these paintings are ever finished. Of course in any of them are 'sold' there's no reason why the next person can't work on the canvas should they choose... just as this current set of vinyl record paintings were once pieces of music I released on my record label (ORG) and are now a set of circular paintings... some art shaped things just aren't meant to last forever

The 1p PAINTING EXPERIMENT PART 4, THIS WEEK ON VINYL

And on goes the 1p multi-media painting experiment and leaving a piece a week out in the virtual world to be picked up physically by the highest bidder. This is piece/week number four, last week's piece sold for £1.21. So far pieces off to Newcastle and Liverpool. Lots of feedback and questions and such, I'm rather enjoying this...

This week we move from cardboard to black vinyl and a seven inch vinyl record. never played, fresh stock and a punk band from London and a single released in 1995, band called Gog Magog, not that that matters now, you can't play it anymore (well I don't think you can...). Came out on my label ORG Records

So once again you can find the piece on ebay here, you can bid on it, you can watch it, seven day auction... out there on the virtual street...

Meanwhile, out on the real street, you might just find some around Soho tomorrow where we might just be for the preview of the Faile/Bast show(s), more of that on the latest Arts new page over at www.organart.com, lots of news over there in Organgrinding land...

*CREATE AND SURVIVE #1: THE THOUSANDS, STREET ART AND... *

CREATE AND SURVIVE is a series of on-going visual art radio documentaries, made by the Organart team in conjunction with London arts based radio station Resonance 104.4FM. Tune in worldwide via www.resonancefm.com .

*CREATE AND SURVIVE #1: THE THOUSANDS, STREET ART AND... * The first in the series of radio documentaries from the Organ team, finds Michael 'RJ' Rushmore, he of respected street art blog Vandalog, and curator of The Thousands art show (as well as writer of the accompanying book – The Thousands: Painting Outside, Breaking In) in conversation in the gallery at the Village Underground, East London, with Sean Worrall and Marina Anthony from Organ. Informal conversations about Street art, the pieces in the show, and some of the major (and not so major quite yet) players of the ever evolving street art scene...

Create And Survive number one will run on Resonance 104.4fm on Thursday 11th Feb at 8pm Tune in worldwide on line, or via FM in London..

More information via http://www.organart.com/aaacreateandsurvive1.htm

"WHITE SPOTS 3"

The "Wall Of Love" as Graffik Gallery chose to call it (with their tongues in collective cheek), is being built, some of the pieces have gone up on the Organart website, really don't get some of the textures with digital imagery but there you go, some of the pieces up... I guess we get to see it all in the flesh later this week (Graffik opens for Fridays and weekends) . That one there is a piece on canvas called "White Spots 3", I believe you can buy them all direct from the gallery as Valentine gifts, very reasonably priced they are... Of course it you would like to buy one as a gift then there's still time to act, shout this way and out will come the paints and... Just get in touch.. a unique piece of art rather tha nma mass produced card...

And this week's 1p painting experiment sees two pieces going out, one to Newcastle (again) and one to Liverpool. More of that later...

No pieces were left at the Southbank yesterday in the end, weather turned, rain lashed down and so straight to the radio station without leaving any art... however, it seems another piece has found a home, got an e.mail last night from someone who found a piece of leaf art on card and wanted to know more, didn't say where he was or where he found it but did say he liked it and wanted to know why it was just left on the street....

WILFRED and LEAFHEARTS and WALLS OF.... Busy busy...

busy busy creatively good times... Sunday is me on the radio day, playing music (but that's Organgrinding and this is the No Organgrinding blog), playing the music that others don't on London's finest radio station, Resonance 104.4FM - on at 9.00pm UK time, you can hear it worldwide via www.resonancefm.com - you should check out Resonance FM, an arts based radio station, lots of art on the radio...

Here's a couple of cut to the chase 140 character Twitters from just now....

@Sean_Worrall A load of my specially commissioned one off Valentine's canvas spray pieces in Graffik & Portobello Rd restaurants as Graffik's "WallOfLove"

@Sean_Worrall #Radio day again, I'm on @ResonanceFM, 9pm UK time,104.4FM #Ldn or www.resonancefm.com, a bag load of the stuff other don't play on FM radio

You see, delivered some new pieces, some of that hand painted vinyl, some fresh canvas pieces and such to Graffik Gallery last Friday... and they commented that those leaves look like hearts - well lots of you do, leafhearts. Now it could be that I'm heartless, the truth is I'm painting leaves, but who's to say, if you see hearts then You are as right as I am when it comes to what the paintings are about and what can be seen on the canvas... So the good people at Graffik asked for more heartleaves, and why not? I showed them some on the website and that was indeed what they wanted. THe idea fired me and so an all night session of work (again) and waiting for the sun to come up on Saturday morning (and hoping for no rain) and spray paint hitting canvas in the dawn light and a 1o new pieces of "Leaf-heart" art (along with the four they had requested from the website) delivered at 10am Saturday morning for the Graffik "WallOfLove" that's happening both in the gallery and in a couple of the Restaurants over the street on the main drag of Portobello Road, just up a bit from the Westway bridge (do I get a free meal? I can't afford to eat in Restaurants...). I'll take some photos and put up the new work on Monday, busy here today getting tonight's radio show together and painting more pieces and this really is a non-stop operation, both the Organ grinding and the non-Organ Grinding...

That's a painting of "Wilfred" up there, a battered beatbox who has a lot of history to him, belongs to Marina, did time at the GLC Capital Hop Hop Jam of '85, served well on Robot dancing, street busking duty, he's the real deal... and he's now been painted several times on cardboard, vinyl and in that case up there, on canvas. That one is from last year, one of the works delivered on Friday and now on view (and indeed for sale) at Graffik - is that a leaf or a heart there? Busy busy, creatively busy.... The Wall of Love Valentine art will be up on line tomorrow...

And later on today I shall leave some more Cardboard pieces on the Southbank... This is what I like about so called "Street Art", the marks, the way it evolves, the uncluttered real way it gets out there... I don't consider myself a street artist, I don't really have the right to claim I am, but I do like the marks and the atittudes and the way work evolves and how it gets out there to people, and spray paint has been my medium of choice for years (and years...) And I do like the idea of leafhearts.... not really that hearltess then?

7" singles, 12" singles, born again black vinyl

Putting old ORG Records stock to good use today, four slices of fresh unplayed vibrant black vinyl painted during the day and given a whole new life now the bands have been and gone. Now the question is, if I sell these, do I still have to pay the bands some royalties? (well they are records released on my record label somewhere back in the last century), Now should I paint on the rarest record I can find rather then this redundant old stock?

The world famous Ringling Brothers Mechanical Bird Circus

And off went the mechanical bird to join the circus. The world famous Ringling Brothers Mechanical Bird Circus.

Today's daily piece of creativity, I 'finished' it last this morning... There's always five or six pieces in not so 'finished' states here. I need a bigger workspace...

MECHANICAL BIRD

This is how the mechanical bird looked before the paint came in and he went off to the circus... a work in progress that's now full of colour and out there in the leaves and... all part of the CROW CROW COLLECTIVE thing

1p painting experiment part 3...

Part 3 of the ongoing 1p weekly painting experiment. This week a piece called WHITE LEAVES, RED SPOT, you can view it and indeed bid on it here on ebay. So far two pieces have been put up and both have sold for just 1p each, double the number of views for painting number two, or double the number thinking the work to only be good enough for Michael Landy's Art Bin (or maybe not?) I certainly don't see the work or the sale as a 'failure', I'm rather enjoying this, kind of like leaving the pieces on a virtual street... so far rather like the results and feedback...

And today is Imbolc, we're looking for those green shoots of Spring... an important day, maybe even more so that the turning point of the Winter Solstice? Green shoots to paint? New crop of leaves?