Friday 14 October 2011

It's A Beautiful World 002

It's A Beautiful World 001

It's A Beautiful World Cover

About:
graphite, coloured pencil, acrylic, ink, oil monoprint, A4 paper, scan, Photoshop (very slightly).
If you don't like these drawings there's nothing I can do. Unglibly, unslickly, do let me know why.

©Paul Davis 2011

Unfortunately Back From Italy And Introducing The Next Episode In This Never-ending Battle For Recognition

Now back in London and I have to say I'm really looking forward to the perpetual overhead duvet of gloom that'll be above us weeping occasionally pretty much every day until late May/early June. So to keep busy and to show my six or seven close friends that I'm easily the best and most thoughtful person on this planet, I'll be posting a 30-odd page book called 'It's A Beautiful World' over the next few days/weeks/years/never. I do hope you seven gorgeous friends, you septet of loveliness, you coalition of joyousness, you gang of bastards, enjoy it - and even if only one of you like it, it makes it worthwhile (like fuck). It's a positive book full of wisdom and insight and laughter.
Obviously these drawings aren't commissioned; they are again unpublishable in today's market (unless you have the balls to do it). Coffee table book on The History Of Banality anyone? Would you like a pointless authorised eighteen year-old celebrity autobiography (part one of one I pray) ghosted by some talentless hack dancing on the coat-tails of someone else's primped and appalling fame flapping the remittance advice of his obscenely huge advance in his sweaty, dirty little palm?

Or this book, this uncovering of my soul, this baring of my distilled existence? I'ts obviously for sale so stop thinking of something interesting to Tweet or posting a photo of an interesting deformity and let's do something - it's simple: I can give you my bank details and off we go. Everything else has failed: the politeness, the bowing, the buying of lunches, the biting of the corporate pillow, so even though it's not really in my character to ask, I want something back and I want one of you, out there, to help me.