BOWIEOKE!

Ok this is FAKE...but imagine if it came true...and was streamed into cinemas and venues all over the world? It would raise millions for cancer research overnight and be a monumental way to celebrate an authentic genius.

#JustSaying

Excelsior Out!

It's a crash course for the ravers!

My completed Bowie tribute...created in an attempt to mark his passing in my own small way. I tried to capture as many facets of the man as possible but...how can you know the unknowable, how can you represent a dream, how can you draw an inspiration?

It's been over three weeks now since he passed and I still have not come to terms with it...maybe I never will.

He has left us but, rest assured, he has not left us alone. The sound, the vision...the man will never diminish, he has too much work to do. For every confused and broken soul born into this life...Bowie's teachings await. Whatever the pain...he has lived it, whatever the sadness...he has the poetry and however the alienation bites...he is the balm that soothes and say's "It's a crash course for the ravers, it's a drive-in Saturday"

Excelsior Out!

A crack in the sky and a hand reaching down for me.

As part of the "Blackstarman" development process I'm now posting up the finished black linework. In a departure for me i've inked directly over the pencil line and kept some of the loose quality of that original pencil in. It's part of a conscious effort not to "slick" things up all the time, keep textures and accidents in. 

When time allows I'll get to the colour.

Excelsior Out!

And the stars look very different today...

Just over a week ago a great artist left us and, not having come to terms with it or my efforts to mark his passing, I have created this caricature tribute. This is the pencil rough from which I will develop the finished piece. This will take a while but, once complete, maybe I will begin to find the will to finish this chapter of his story.

It hit the world hard, you need only cast a glance at social media to see that, but that which he left behind will endure. As long as there are broken souls to heal or burning hearts to quench...his music will be there. As long as there are minds to blow or lives to change...David Robert Jones will be there to guide us...and, in his tender care, we will find our way home.

Excelsior Out

The Eyes have it...

That which inspires also challenges,informs...and sometimes changes. 

When transcendent, however, this inspiration opens an eye in the heart which can never close again. 

But, as with all things, even transcendence must pass...and when it passes the World fractures. 

Into that fracture pours all expectation, grief, agony and worship.

Finally, all that remains is etched in the soul...eternal.

And that which remains....is...LOVE.

Sons of the Silent Age, they never die they just go to sleep one day.

Excelsior Out