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Happy Halloween!

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Happy Halloween!

Happy Halloween! Once again we're looking forward to a bit of Halloween fun and hope you are too! The decorations are up, we've got a bucket-full of Halloween sweets to hand out to visitors. The film we've selected for this year's traditional family Halloween horror film viewing will be 'The Thing'  -  the brilliant 1982 John Carpenter version. Yes, there will be pop corn and maybe a cheeky take-away!   To complete our horrible Halloween celebrations we've added the suitably dark: 'Bright Light Dark Soul' original painting to the website this week and you can keep up with all the...

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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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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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New Arrivals & What's Happening This Week

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New Arrivals & What's Happening This Week

It's been another busy week, I've been working on the New York Cityscape piece, it's very intricate and slow going!! You can take a look at the progress on my instagram feed, here: Johnny the painter (@johnnyinthe56artist) • Instagram photos and videos We've also added more original paintings to the website this week, they're all hand painted and include: Airport Crime Fiction Painting - pictured. A second Hunter S Thompson portrait - called 'On The Road'. A Japanese landscape on Mount Fuji and a temple. A piece of vintage French film inspired art - Rififi. Have a great weekend and thanks...

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New In this week - Coen Bros Film Art & Space Art

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New In this week - Coen Bros Film Art & Space Art

It's another busy week and I've added more original paintings, including film art and space art pieces. I'm still working on the largescale detailed abstract piece, which is currently running at 9 sheets of A3! You can follow it's progress on instagram, my name id johnnyinthe56artist  Someone said me this week 'You seem to paint all the time'. Just to prove that I do stop sometimes, here's a little run down of what I'll be up to this week. When I'm not painting, I'll be out walking along the river, reading, cooking pasta, visiting family and watching films. The pot...

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