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There’s an agreeable whiff of King Kong’s Skull Island about this photograph taken in a wintery Central Park in December 2014.
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You’re supposed to play petanque on a nice flat bit of sand or fine gravel – not on the lumps and bumps of a shingle beach. Nonetheless, we’ve enjoyed many games on Whitstable beach, lobbing those satisfyingly heavy silver balls through the air in the hope of landing them near enough to the jack to…
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With Mervyn Peake’s drawings laying down the gauntlet for The Kick-About 57, I decided to attempt some character drawings of my own, as inspired by the trio of villains in my own work of fantastic fiction, Chimera. I don’t really draw, or identify as someone who does, but this bloody Kick-About business keeps prompting me to make…
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From the percussive, delineated sound-shapes of a Sandy Nelson drum solo, our muse for our previous Kick-About, we are this week riffing on the appreciably softer tones of the drawings by Mervyn Peake, and likewise the richness of his imaginary worlds and all their eccentric inhabitants.
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A last hurrah courtesy of The Kick-About No.56 and Sandy Nelson’s percussive powers. My unrequited print and textile brain insists I do something with some of these images (“To the loom with you at once!”), but I lack the skills, stuff and wherewithal to act on these impulses!
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A penultimate set of percussion-derived images for The Kick-About No.56.
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Raiding another of those newly uncovered photographs from our 2014 trip to New York.
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A further batch of images produced for The Kick-About No.56, with drums and drumming as their muse.
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More Kick-About No.56-inspired images, seeking to visualise the percussive effects of a Sandy Nelson drum-solo. By this point in the process, I was getting some nice effects and was enjoying all the mid 20th-century vibes.
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A third set of images produced in response to The Kick-About No.56, and specifically this drum solo by Sandy Nelson. I was trying to create a sense of cymbals being struck and percussive vibrations and much fun was had in my pursuit for the best expression of that idea.
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