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Now Feels Like A Good Time To Make Some Plans!

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Now Feels Like A Good Time To Make Some Plans!

Well, we've got the 1st month of 2025 under way and hopefully you've just about recovered from the excesses of the festive season.... So now feels like a great time to make some plans!   Here's a few things I like to make some gentle plans for during January, whilst it's still cold and dark out.  Creative inspiration - things to make. Wardrobe update - You may want to add a new hoodie or a unique t-shirt, we've got you covered! Catch up with friends & family - just in case we missed anyone during the festivities. Menu Plan -...

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What I Think About When I'm Not Thinking About Football or Art...

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What I Think About When I'm Not Thinking About Football or Art...

So the football season is well and truly over and life's other distractions can take over for a few short weeks. A moment to draw breath and look about us before the next season, with all it's excitement arrives! So, I was thinking about things other than football and here are some of highlights, in no particular order!   Posca pens - these are great art pens - they're my favourite art thing - I know I said not thinking about football or art, but that's not really possible. Waterslides & roller coasters - they please my inner-child. Joe Strummer's...

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Time For A Bit Of A Clear Out! ART SALE!!!

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Time For A Bit Of A Clear Out! ART SALE!!!

Spring is properly here now, and the longer, brighter days, are making me feel a bit restless and that I need to be moving more. So I'm having a bit of a clear out . I'm going through my stuff bit by bit and just clearing out anything that I don't really like or use and more. It's really energizing - I've found a few things that were lost and seen a few bits and pieces to inspire some new ideas for paintings along the way. Anything that can be reused has been donated, so all in all a pretty...

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Happy New Year - It's been a Slow Start to 2024!

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Happy New Year - It's been a Slow Start to 2024!

Happy New Year 2024 to you all! It's quite likely that you've (like me) been enjoying the dubious pleasures of the 100 day cough! It may have been a virus or possibly three, according to my doctor! Either way, it has finally done one and I now feel that I can look forward to the year ahead, or what's left of it!   So here's what I'm planning for this year: Ongoing work on the LUFC murals and a new mural project is on the books for 2024. We'll be adding more of my 200+ paintings for sale on the...

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New art drop this week....

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New art drop this week....

Hi, it's been another busy week! I've been spending a lot of time at Elland Road East Stand working on the murals - follow me on Instagram and you'll see the daily progress pictures. If you have a mural project you can find out more about what I do on the website Johnnyinthe56 murals page. We've also added more of the 100's of art pieces to the website: Another Steve McQueen portrait - this one pictured. A piece of Space Art called 'The Lost Planet'. And a Scooby Doo inspired monster painting. Have a great week! Johnnyinthe56

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