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Johnnyinthe56 Art & Life Blog — murals

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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March Murals....

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March Murals....

If you follow me on Instagram you'll have noticed that for the last few months my feed has been full of the mural work I'm doing at Elland Road the home of LUFC. I've been having a fantastic time, working in collaboration with the artist and author Rob Endeacott and between us we're once again transforming the East Stand stairwells with our Leeds United themed murals, featuring players from the past and present. You can see it all here, on my Instagram feed. If you're interested in taking a look at my LUFC inspired art, you can view it here:...

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More New Original Art Pieces Added...

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This week we've been really busy. I'm still working on the Leeds United murals and you can follow the progress of that on the Johnnyinthe56artist Instagram feed. We've also started creating a collection, which features: mugs, eco-friendly organic T-shirts, sweatshirts, bags and hoodies, all featuring my art. Along with this you can also there are prints of my original artworks in small, medium and big poster sizes. This current collection contains several of the space art pieces I have done and I'll let you know when it goes live on the Johnnyinthe56 website. We've also added several new original artworks...

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