Happy Bloody Christmas!

Raw Art Christmas - Week Four - TELEVISION Marquee Moon

Hey cats.
I've painted Television - the Marquee Moon album. It's a great cover. I usually hate the skinny white boys rock band thing but they all look so incredible. So tense. So beautiful but really bloody miserable with all that NY angst and pollution and blankness and stuff. They look punk. Of course they do.




It's nearly 2015. Aint that strange.

Prices

UK inc P&P £70.00 GBP Europe inc P&P £72.00 GBP Rest of World £75.00 GBP

Raw Art Christmas - Week Three: Mugs - SOLD OUT

Finally, they're here. We can announce the return of the
Raw
Art
Mugs.
They are useful. They are beautiful. They claim to be dishwasher proof but I would lovingly hand wash them instead. Sometimes they speak in tiny voices and sometimes they help with the hoovering.
Quantities are extremely limited. Each mug is packaged in safe n stylish polystyrene and dispatched via the Royal Mail.


NUMBER ONE: Throbbing Gristle "20 Jazz Funk Greats" - NOW SOLD OUT



NUMBER TWO: Robert Wyatt "Robert Wyatt" - NOW SOLD OUT

NUMBER THREE: Lou Reed "Transformer" - NOW SOLD OUT

Finally, NUMBER FOUR - SOLD OUT

Any questions, please ask.

RAW ART CHRISTMAS: WEEK TWO - PET SOUNDS

Hello. Welcome to another in the series of art blog posts about art.
Welcome to Week Two.
Today I can unveil the latest painting on canvas board. It's Pet Sounds, that album, you know. It's by the Beach Boys. It's good.
I thought that it was one of the most complicated album sleeves of all time, so I decided that it would be interesting to paint, to see if it was possible. So I had a go.




You can buy a piece of this Beach Boys magic - a little bit of the life force. (You would not believe the price of art materials, they are going through the roof.) Painted to order as multiples, limited to twenty.
Any questions, do ask. If you want an extra-large version, a handy 60 x 60 cm, then please do contact me as I can do 'em for Christmas.
Thanks, friends.

AVAILABLE AGAIN SOON

We interrupt this blog to announce #livedraw TONIGHT

You may remember #livedraw, it happens at Eurovision and the World Cup as a way of bringing art to your mind from the medium of National Telly then onto canvas then to the internet via the Twitter then here etc. It's a social art experiment that's a) not an experiment and b) is quite social and c) has got some art in it.

The football's on tonight, a "friendly" between England and Scotland. Oh yes. And wooh. But what is it really about? Is it about millionaires in shorts? Is it about goals? Is it about art? Or is it about Mylene Klass and her many Mansions? Who knows. Anyway, there's going to be some #livedraw tonight so get some gin, turn on the telly and watch the Twitter.

UPDATE - ROY HODGSON



SORRY THIS HAS NOW SOLD

UPDATE - GORDON STRACHAN


Gordon measures 18 x 12 cm, acrylics on canvas board.
SORRY THIS HAS NOW SOLD


UPDATE - MATCH OVERVIEW

RAW ART CHRISTMAS: WEEK ONE - CARDS

In what people refer to as "the past", back in the midsts of time before time actually had midsts and was called Olde Tymme or something - Raw Art was called the Outsider Christmas Art Shop. For lovers of facts I have just checked the records – and I can confirm that it was two years ago.
How. Time. Flies.
It's now nearly Christmas again - we don't want to think that but we must. It's bloody November and here we all are. Loveable, difficult, offensive – but utterly clueless. And utterly unprepared.
Bearing this in mind, the Raw Art Outsider Christmas Art shop countdown to the festive season is BACK. Back Back Back. And the thinking person's crumpet, Father Christmas, is coming down our collective chimney quite soon.
And what do we want when our chimneys are thus preparing? (?)
Cards. That's what. Raw Art Christmas cards.

CARD NUMBER ONE: Pissy Christmas

CARD NUMBER TWO: Crappy Pissy Christmas

CARD NUMBER THREE: Happy Pissmas

2014 Raw Art Badge Meltdown - SOLD OUT

And afternoon to you too. On this rather sunny day, teeming with garden birds and motorists and men with their stomachs out, here is the latest vital piece in the jigsaw puzzle that is Raw Art.
Badges are not known for their coruscating views or their ability to mix cocktails. But badges are friggin cool, right? They mark you as as a leader, not a follower. A wolf not a sheep. A man, a woman, a child. Or something else. But anyway, since they were invented in the 16th Century* they have been celebrated as small metal things with stuff on them that you can put on a coat.
And lo! It's 2014, the dawning of the Age of Badge-quarious where we, lovers of raw, lovers of art, want to wear some more, some brand new, some arty badges.
Here are four, sizzlin' hot, quick-as-you-like badges that won't put the kettle on.


BADGE NUMBER ONE - SEX DOG


BADGE NUMBER TWO - ROBERT WYATT



* Source: Kelloggs

New Mug Poll for 2014

UPDATE:  votes have been counted and mugs ordered. Watch out, limited edition art mugs available soon. Yowsa.

Hello there, it's the Raw Art 2014 Mug Poll! Excitement, surely, abounds. Go on.
It does.
Here's your chance to vote for a Raw Art image you would like to see on a mug, sometime (hopefully) before Christmas. The mugs have featured in their own article (see "Press" link at the top of this page) and are widely known for their use in containing hot beverages. They are, even, dishwasher-proof (or so the bloke tells me but I'd wash them up by hand if I was you. Or NEVER USE THEM AT ALL. Etc.)
So - use your power to vote! It's not important, but it is political.
Sort of.

Robert Wyatt Acrylics Artwork

Hello there.
The Robert Wyatt obsession continues. Today I am here to show you the Robert Wyatt in acrylics, on canvas board. Mr Wyatt - he won't be beat. After the screenprint here is the acrylics version.
On canvas board, our Robert sits with a plaintive look in his eye. This is the Robert after - not the Robert before. This is the reflective guy - not the frenzied sticksman of Soft Machine. This is calm Robert. Thoughtful. Placid?

Roxy Music - New "Country Life" Artwork

Roxy Music. Those were the days.
I needn't go on.
Instead, I have got for you here new new new artwork. Taken from the Country Life album, two ladies are caught in the headlights. They haven't got many clothes on.
Usually I write a lot of guff about the artworks on the blog but all I can say is – here it is. Country Life.




Acrylics on canvas, 20x20cm. Sold as multiples, limited edition of 20. If you would like one painted to order please use the PayPal button below.

Large Bowie "Low" Art Art

Hey there funky cats.
It's Saturday. I've got a headache. Doesn't matter, because I've got a lot of art coming out of my fingertips. Before the Christmas Raw Art Shop gets going, I have a teasingly large Bowie painting on the so-called shop front, hanging in the window, looking lost and lonely. This measures 60 x 60cms and is painted on deep edge canvas in acrylics. It's well fancy but it's still sad. It's bright, but it's dull. It has our Iconic Dave looking over there - to him it's straight ahead but to us it's the right. The right side of what? The right of where? Or the right of a nice bit of Berlin where he can have a sit down with a cup of milky tea and little German bun sort of thing.
Or maybe not.






As we all know, the Low cover is from a still from The Man Who Fell to Earth so it's actually looking at some bit of New Mexico after having snorted loads of cocaine in that special silvery spoon thing with no milky tea in sight. It's just as well. He's Dave, not Alan Bennett.

If you would like this bit of art on your own personal wall - or even someone else's - it can be yours. Price for UK inc P&P is £200 and I will paint to order. Watch out for mugs soon.

Prices

UK inc P&P £200.00 GBP Europe inc P&P £215.00 GBP

Throbbing Gristle - 20 Jazz Funk Greats - Special Edition

Hello there.
The weather is fine. There are still ice cubes in the freezer tray. There's some old wine in a corner and half a pack of Hula Hoops in the cupboard. Things are OK.
You may remember the Raw Art version of the 20 Jazz Funk Greats sleeve by Throbbing Gristle. Amazing original sleeve, amazing album. One of the best.
Demand was high at Raw Art Towers. The twenty limited 20x20cm boards all sold out. But still some people were asking about it and wanting one and... and... so I did it - I went and bought a massive 60c60cm canvas and painted another one. And I thought I'd show you, the people of the internet and the people of Real Life:




Four cheery faces look out from the cliff at Beachy Head. They think industrial. They think electronic. They think some other stuff but it's probably best not to ask.
Painted in acrylics on deep edge (4cm) canvas this work is big enough to take over a wall, a room, an entire house. Just to confirm, it measures 60c60cm and will be sent via insured mail to UK or Europe. Price is £300 including postage and packing.
Any questions do ask.
And yes, I've left out the car.

UPDATE – ONE SOLD. ONLY ONE MORE AVAILABLE, WILL BE PAINTED TO ORDER.

Prices

UK inc P&P £300.00 GBP Europe inc P&P £340.00 GBP

#livedraw World Cup - It's Over

Well, people of Mars, people of Saturn, the World Cup is over.
I had to write a post about the World Cup being over, because I like writing the phrase World Cup. Odd I know. But also it's an update.
Update 1: We have sold 19 paintings!
Update 2: We have raised £95 for Macmillan Cancer Support.
Update 3: There are still a couple of paintings left, namely David Luiz and his legs