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And for the record…

Posted in Available work, Cartoons, Illustration, Inspiration station, Just because, Make, Paper works, Photography, Poster art, Records, Vinyl, Vinyl and Linocut on May 14, 2013 | 1 Comment »

Recently, I was given a stack of cast-off scratched, or just really bad House records – Yaya… Talk about score!

So here’s my newest work created using one of said records as the support :

I really wanna do a series of these now… Just got to find the time/ motivation between the moving and sorting out the mess which is my life of late. They’re about all I’m up to creative wise – A bit of bright, slightly warped colour to take me away from it all.

And here’s a bonus :

I really fuckingsuperlove Archer… And I’m not opposed to a bit of fan art every now and again. Dammit, last season went WAAAAAY too quick for my liking. Now I’m left waiting for the latest Venture Bros for my next fix… Bring on June 2nd!

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Makertorium

Posted in Available work, Birds, Commission work, Design work, Exhibition work, Felt, Inspiration station, Make, Photography, Vinyl and Linocut on April 27, 2013 | Leave a Comment »

Makertorium is on at Te Papa today. My friend Matthew Pettengell kindly asked if i’d put up some of my new perspex swallow flock as a backdrop for his desks

These swallows are a new variation on my vinyl swallow flock i’ve had made through Makerspace… Really pleased with how they’ve turned out, i’m thinking on doing up a couple more sets in white and also in red next.

I’ll be adding them up on my Felt Sales shop in the next day or two, to be sold as installation sets, along with smaller individual swallows made into brooches.

If you are interested in an installation piece, or a commission work along these lines – Maybe involving a different bird, I would love to hear from you! I can be contacted by email at : vincenteknight@gmail.com

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Play that funky tune

Posted in Available work, Birds, Cartoons, Commission work, Illustration, Just because, Make, Photography, Records on October 2, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

I’m supposed to be working on a new flock of cut-out swallows as a commission for a close friend of mine. But they’re tedious and slow going, cut out by hand and all… And I’m a bit over all the black dust created when sanding them at finishing stage.

So I took a wee break and re-purposed one of the extra records I’d picked up. What with all the brightness I painted up for Magic beans, I thought I’d keep on the same theme and create a gathering of Fearsome Friends.

And ya know what? I think the two fit really well together! I cant wait to paint up a couple more …Once I’ve finished those Record Swallows and all!

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Clean slate

Posted in Cartoons, Friday brightness, Inspiration station, Just because, Make, Paper works, Paper-cutting, Paste ups, Photography, Street art paper cuts on May 12, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

Remember the Paper garden I pasted up in our little brick courtyard last year? Well it was getting a bit weathered and old – I decided to scrub it off and start fresh.

Enter my new fascination with pitcher plants… I’m determined to hunt me down one of the Nepenthes variety. I’ve got such a thing for hanging plants at the moment!

I learnt a bit from the orchid cut outs I put up last round – This time I went for brighter, denser colour. Plus I cut right down to the image edge rather than leaving a white border. They def. jump out at you from the bricks way more.

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Add an Armadillo to that…

Posted in Available work, Cartoons, Felt, Illustration, Jam Jelly Pickle and Relish!, Just because, Make, Paper works, Photography on March 12, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

So after the success of my Red onion jam I thought I’d add to my cupboard with some spiced Nectarine chutney. I made up Armadillo labels up this time round.

Decided to add to the cartoon series inspired by these little labels too. So here are my Armadillos with their stacked up chutney hoard :

And Llama Llama sauce for the Spiced plum rocket fuel I plan to make up tomorrow… As I’ve left it way too late tonight to start anything cooking now.

I like the simplicity of these pieces. With the handmade brown fibre paper showing through where I’ve left the Animals, borders and jars raw and unpainted.

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No Narwhals were harmed in the making of this jam…

Posted in Baked goodness, Jam Jelly Pickle and Relish!, Just because, Make, Photography on March 8, 2012 | 1 Comment »

I’ve been procrastinating over a commission piece I’m supposed to be working on …I’m a little burnt out after the last one – Because it was a rush job with a window of only 3 weeks, I ended up working both days and evenings to complete it on time.

So instead of painting New Zealand birds and bush, I’ve been watching The Mighty Boosh – Which I have somehow never seen before – And making Red Onion jam.

I seem to have used up all my blank sticker paper, so had to make do with labels made out of the brown tape I usually use to back my canvases and picture frames. That meant I needed to come up with a sort of longish image to fit the tape, rather than the swamp monsters I did last time. I think Narwhal jam is totally awesome! No Narwhals were harmed in the making… Though my finger came out a little worse for wear, after a run in with the serrated knife on the very very last 1/2 onion, of the 2kgs of onions I chopped up. Ouch!

Luckily the deliciousness of this jammy sticky oniony process way out-weighed the damage… I’m thinking now I need an excuse to make these cute as and uber tasty looking bite size Brie pops. Or maybe I should just go all out and bake a whole brie wheel and eat it with fresh baguette instead!?!

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Papercut

Posted in Inspiration station, Just because, Make, Paper works, Paper-cutting, Photography, Stencils on February 20, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

I spent my Thursday evening last week making these basic papercuts to use under blacklight for my brothers housewarming. Up until now, I have usually made flocks of birds for when making decorations, but as Duncs already has a collection of prototype birds from my vinyl swallow flock, I thought I’d try something different.

I love what you can do with white A4 paper, a pair of scissors and a uv light tube!

Sorry for the graininess again – Only had iphone with, rather than d’s nice cannon.

But I’m really pleased with how they turned out… I kinda love making papercut decorations *I think my friends should have more parties, so I can make more!!!

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Felt like sharing…

Posted in And they're sold!, Available work, Felt, Friday brightness, Just because, Make, Orchids, Paper works on January 27, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

Ooh my little pink orchid painting is currently up on Felt’s homepage this week :

Lately Felt has been great to me, sending through lots of surprise emails notifying me that I’ve sold paintings and even a couple of my newer swallow brooches.

Its always a nice feeling to know there is someone else out there that also loves those pieces of work too. Yay. Thanks Felt… And all the lovely people who use this site!

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Flock

Posted in Birds, Design work, Inspiration station, Make, Photography on December 18, 2011 | 9 Comments »

Here are a few pics of my vinyl swallows installed. Loving the shadows they make!

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Box of Birds

Posted in Birds, Design work, Exhibition work, Friday brightness, Inspiration station, Make, Photography on December 16, 2011 | 1 Comment »

So here’s a peek at what was in that gorgeous custom linen box I made last month :

So stoked with how they look. Next post : Installation of the birds up on the wall!

These birds were handcut out of old vinyl records - In the process of working through this idea I found that you can’t get vinyl laser cut as its highly carcinogen and corrosive… It’ll basically fuck that expensive-as piece of machinery, as well as being really damaging to both the environment and anyone in the same space as the lasercutter. So my swallows were painstakingly cut out and sanded all by hand. And it really was a labour of love – Lots of time and swearing involved with getting the finishing perfect … I have a whole new found appreciation for jewellers now!

Thinking presentation boxes are def. the way to go with this new work now, fully worth the time and effort to make the whole finished piece ‘right’.

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