Sunday, 28 April 2013

Make Do and Mend

 After the London blitz the metal stretchers used during the raids were used as garden fences in some parts of the city. Some areas still retain these make do and mean fences(as does the end of my road).


Red cross of rose thorn, medicl equipment and the grid of the fence.
Better to remove an component such as the tools and add more plant life.

Saturday, 27 April 2013

Aldini's monster

 Giovanni Aldini unable to test his theories in bio electrical science came to London from Milan to be able to experiment in returning life to the recently departed.

Allegedly ensuring the conviction of Gorge Foster of the murder of his wife and child on mere hearsay so as the ensure a fresh subject, Giovanni Aldini began his grim experiment in 1803. 
Mary Shelly is said to have based the novel Frankenstein on these events that transpired in a little house in Newgate.

Friday, 26 April 2013

HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOWL (Warewolves of London)

America's take on British myth and legend.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDpYBT0XyvA

'....And his hair was perfect'. 
Excitable Boy 1978
Warren Zevon

Saturday, 6 April 2013

Balance

 Readable side
Clean side
Referring to the coins used to balance the mechanism of Big Ben.

Sunday, 17 March 2013

Jenny Greenteeth

British nymph type creature. There is a brilliant version of this in a Hellboy story(The Corpse).

Monday, 25 February 2013

Break a leg and small print

 Francic Walsingham, Tudor spymaster and  agent provocateur for Elizabeth the first. An invisible man who shaped history......and 'visits' unruly playwrights on slippery balconies.

A small section of the lindisfarne gospel motif. Nordic runes. Viking (down) Raid (across)

Sunday, 10 February 2013

Boudica design second try. (drawing the line)?

Drawing the line. refering to the stratigraphic line present in London (as well as Colchester and St Albans) caused by fires from the Boudica uprising against the Romans.
 If ever this is a real window id think about taking the skulls out and adding my patented burnt glass technique.