MY 2011 HIGHLIGHTS OVER AT BOBBYSIX

Click HERE for my review of 2011 including my top 5 albums (yes Dave Grohl makes an appearance) 

and a few words about my ongoing love affair with my purchase of the year.

Oh Moroccan rug, how I love thee... 

MERRY XMAS FROM OWLSTATION!

Here's an early GIF for you to unwrap...Get it GIF, cause it sounds like GIFT. HAHAHA 


Nevermind. Anyway wishing you a very merry Christmas. Check back soon for more Owlstation treats. Lots coming up in the new year. Love Alice xxx

INSIDE BOOKLET OF TELEPATHETIC E.P

TELEPATHETIC E.P ARTWORK

The artwork for the E.P. is finished! and what an E.P! I'll be posting up some Telepathetic tracks this week for your pleasure. In the meantime, I hope you enjoy the artwork I created for them. 

JESSIE IN SKETCHBOOK

Let's just get a couple of things straight here. 1. I am not a fan of Jessie J's music. 2. I will however point out that she has an amazing bum. Come on now, she does. I discovered this when doodling her in oil pastel from her new Pretty Polly Tights ad campaign.

MY ROOM

Oil Pastel pic of my room!

SHOES BY OWLSTATION

       


Because you're worth it!

THE GREAT HIGHWAY

Here's a little something I've been working on whilst being out of action with Tonsillitis (apparently you can get it in your twenties...It sucks) The Great Highway, continuing my love affair with Cowboys Indians and the wild west. Hope you likey :)

MY ENTRY FOR THE STYLIST COMPETITION

SHOES

EXPERIMENTS FOR STYLIST MAGAZINE

THE MUSEUM OF EVERYTHING - OWLSTATION INVESTIGATES!

I wasn’t sure what to expect from the Museum of Everything. Having visited their website and rootled around for a bit, I was no closer to knowing exactly what ‘everything’ consisted of and how anyone might hope to fit it into a museum. But I was drawn in by the site's witty, friendly humour and still eager to pay a visit to Selfridges in London for a peek at the unknown.

Tucked away in Selfridge’s Ultralounge, my first impressions of the exhibition were that of entering someone’s slightly crumbly and decrepit old house, packed from floor to ceiling with weird and wonderful creations. Excited by this, I whipped out my camera and gaily started snapping left, right and centre, until eventually noticing the cheeky signs that stated I would be fined £1000 for any photography. (photos: kindly provided by the Museum of Everything, fines: currently unpaid). This set the tone of the one of the quirkiest exhibitions I’ve been to in some time. So what was going on here? We were greeted by a miniature construction site. A row of perfect, tiny cranes dangling their hooks over the banisters of a fake upstairs. Its creator, German artist Roland Kappel, was described by his plaque as a construction site obsessive whose passion for cranes and diggers harks back to his childhood of urban renewal and his own architectural practice.





Continuing through the labyrinth of 400 drawings, paintings and sculptures, I arrived at the spectacular work of Paulus De Groot. These were big, bold acrylic paintings; the type where the paint has been piled up so thick, you could stick your finger in and then lick it. Paulus is inspired by sex and horror movies, I instantly got the horror vibe. Each of his works housed a brightly coloured monster, the FANTASTICALLY named ‘Vampier met bloed aan de tanden’ (go on, say it out loud – it’s fun) aka, vampire with blood on the teeth (above), was easily my favourite piece of the exhibition, with his massive fangs defined by pitch black outlines. I didn’t get the sex bit until the museum’s founder, James Brett, pointed out a craftily disguised (but pretty big) penis attached to one of the monsters

After spending some time reading the artists' information and watching the short movies displayed on iPads in some of the rooms, it became apparent that the artists were working in creative studios dotted around the globe. James told me that, in fact, all of the art in the exhibition had been created by ‘outsider’ artists who have psychological, physical or learning disabilities. He explained that these talented, previously undiscovered creatives were able to produce their work thanks to the support of these studios such as Herenplaats (Netherlands) and Atelier Yamanami (Japan). He had also firmly chosen not to explain this on the website. As, really, should it make any difference to people’s opinions of the art on display? People might bring to the exhibition their preconceptions of how the art would look and what they expected to see there. You wouldn’t think this way before visiting the Tate, so why not turn up and think as you find?


 

What I found was a range of art, some of which I wasn’t so keen on and some of which I loved. Like the clay figures of Masami Yamagiwa (above), peering out at me from nooks and crevices in a plain brick wall, boring their little eyes into me. A readymade pocket-size tribe ready to pounce. And the work of Japanese artist Shunji Yamagiwa, whose huge inky black, splattery drawings of trucks I would happily bankrupt myself to own. The good news is, you can take a piece of art home with you if you pay a visit to the Shop of Everything on the next floor up. I couldn’t resist grabbing a Paulus de Groot postcard and some exhibition stickers. I haven’t decided where I’ll put them yet, maybe on my desk somewhere so I have something pleasing to look at when I procrastinate. As I left Selfridges, I took in the window display by Stefan Häfner entitled ‘City of the Future’, three sculptures of stacked-up, floating, urban flats of the future (below). Beautifully detailed, carefully made and very inspiring, ladies and gentleman, I give you The Museum of Everything.





The Museum of Everything is open until 25th October 2011 at Selfridges and Co, 400 Oxford ST, London W1U 1AT. Open Monday – Saturday, 9.30am – 8.00pm and Sundays – 11.30am – 6.00pm

PASSPORT PHOTO

ARROWS

I was messing around with drawing arrows and liked the way that when drawn from this perspective it could be a birds eye view of a little circle of trees. Gotta love a bit of invert too, simple but effective.

JON BURGERMAN

I went to a brilliant talk last night by the artist Jon Burgerman (great name that, Burgerman!). He was chatting about his career so far and showing slides of his very colourful paintings, sketches and exhibitions interspersed with slides of various salads he's made over the last few months. What more could you ask for? Here's a video of him making some of his paintings

http://kronikle.kidrobot.com/wrap-up-jon-burgerman-live-painting-at-the-cosmopolitan-pt-2/

and here's the lovely drawing he did for me in my sketchbook when I bumped into him the next day. 

TIKI STYLEE

This is a rough little typography test I did for a band poster i'm working on at the moment. I'm indulging my love for all things Tiki stylee :)

MINIATURE CHAP OLYMPIAD

I can't remember if I mentioned or not but i'm in the process of creating a Miniature Chap Olympiad, as inspired by the regular size one I attended in July: http://www.thechapolympiad.com/ . It is currently under construction as you can see but I thought you might like to see the pretty tin that it will be inhabiting. £4 from the sunday market, bargain!

DRAWING PRACTICE = SEXY MAN

DRAWING PRACTICE, GETTING MORE COMFORTABLE WITH PENCILS NOW

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NEW HEADER FOR WWW.BOBBYSIX.COM

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BIG CHIEF SLEEP

THE FLOWER FIELDS

PRINTING TEST NUMBER 1

I nearly killed myself doing this, all to get an effect that you could definitely achieve in photoshop! Printing test numero uno. Having finished engraving the front cover of a copy of Vogue (graced by the gorgeous alexa chung - see previous post) I wanted to see if I could use it as a printing plate. I rubbed ink into all the scratch marks I had made and placed the plate on some paper upside down. then used a rolling pin to roll over the top and try and force the ink on to the paper below. Conclusion: there is a reason why people buy expensive printing presses.

OWLSTATION IN TRASHED MAGAZINE

A LITTLE FEATURE ON OWLSTATION IN TRASHED MAGAZINE THIS MONTH, THE HATSTAND GETS ANOTHER AIRING!

http://www.trashedmag.com/feature/alice-parsons-illustrates/

ART NOUVEAU VOGUE

OWLSTATION INTERVIEW

Check out my interview with Sketchbook Magazine this month. They kindly featured loads of my recent Owlstation work, hope you enjoy it!

OWLSTATION INTERVIEW

SCRUFFY BLACK OWL

METAL MONDAYS FINAL POSTER

A VERY SHORT FILM ABOUT PUNKS

SNAPPY SNAPS BUILDING

ROYAL BRITANNIA

MAGPIE

METAL MONDAYS

FORMALDEHYDE

              OCTOPUS IN FORMALDEHYDE AT CAMBRIDGE ZOOILOGICAL INSTITUTE

THE HATSTAND