Lost in my mind.

Mid-twenties. Actor. Writer. Vocalist. Lesbian. Non binary. They/Them. Vegetarian. LGBT & Mental Health advocate. I'm on http://www.imdb.com/name/nm4946750/ Stimulate me with forteana, history, sarcasm, religion, literature, art, the countryside, and adventure!

[decayingyouth]

Introducing Ruby Sunday, played by Millie Gibson, the latest companion of The Doctor.

This piece took me approximately 8 hours to do. Got a new tablet for Christmas with a more precise pen which makes detailing even smoother. 🌟 ⭐ 🌠

Head to my shop to buy a product with this (unofficial) design on:

Enter the blue box for the adventure of a lifetime

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Still struggle with drawing hands, but I'm really pleased with the creasing of the shorts.

Over 30 layers, yet only 5 brushes used. Software: Ibispaintx

Are you a Swiftie? If so, what is your favourite song? How does it resonate with you?

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Make a statement this pride month

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Been working hard on updating my redbubble store.

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GLOW IN THE DARK BOOKMARKS.

Hello all, due to a reduction in hours at work, I'm looking to make some money from selling my art. These are available for just £3 each. UK only. Will be posted via first class postage.

The back has been left blank for a personalised msssags/name to be written on. Will be laminated prior to delivery.

Though, designed as a bookmark, you can also just pin it on your wall.

[sandandglass]

Russell Howard’s Good News s10e07

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The wedding of Princess Bubblegum & Marceline (Adventure time)

A digital art redo of a piece I originally did on pen and paper.

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I made this comic today.

The wedding that should've been shown on Adventure Time.

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Making your own Christmas cards this year?

❄ Feel free to print & use any of these pictures - digitally drawn by me. The backgrounds are transparent so will have the same colour background as whatever paper/card you print on to! ❄

❄🎄COMPLETELY FREE TO USE🎄❄

But if you would like to show me pictures of your cards or crafts then go ahead!

Don't forget to find me on insta: Red.Gibson

[decayingyouth]

Another digital painting for tonight- this time of one of my Mum's reborn dolls. I used a watercolour brush on ibispaintx again.

I'm not too keen on the ears and mouth area but I thought the nose was cute ☺

[decayingyouth]

A speedpainting in 4 parts.

I used the grid method for reference but found it more distracting than helpful. I prefer just winging it, like I usually do 😅

[decayingyouth]

Digital self portrait using watercolour brushes on Ibispaint.

I used the grid method for reference but found it more distracting than helpful. I prefer just winging it, like I usually do 😅

[thoodleoo]

*takes you on a museum date and proceeds to explain the most disgusting and bizarre facts to you with unveiled excitement*

[decayingyouth]

My Halloween weekend consisted of getting soaked whilst handing out sweets to little goblins, creatures, and ghosts whilst dressed as a Demon. 👻

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Spilling the tea

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British Ceramics Biennial at The Good Yard in Stoke

Visited the British Ceramics Biennial exhibition at The Good Yard in Stoke this week.

I couldn't fit all the photos I took on to here but SO much talent, so much expression, so much beautiful aesthetics.

The last photo is snaps I took from the shutters facing out towards the canal 😌

Reminder that I'm on insta- red.gibson

Heading to Manchester next week, so expect more Museum & art posts. 💕

[decayingyouth]

Happy Halloween 🎃

Insta: Red.Gibson

[dry-valleys]

“When I came to Spode didn’t know what to expect liked the look of this place, the workshop artist’s touch everywhere I wanted this experience” Justina.

The British Ceramics Biennial is this year sprawling across the Potteries Museum & Art Gallery, Airspace Gallery, Spode, and here at The Goods Yard, a long-derelict building which used to be a warehouse between the canal (first dug in 1777) and the railway (1849). It is in partnership with Staffordshire University which, though a Keele man myself, I acknowledge to be be second to none in its ceramics work.

Here I found (1) plates by Ho Lai in bone china, a style riffing off (we might now call it ‘approriating’ traditional Chinese porcelain, developed in Europe by Potteries man Josiah Wedgwood (after going to the Goods Yard I went to hear Tristram Hunt give a lecture on Wedgwood at the fine Emma Bridgewater factory, opened in 1985 in the teeth of scoffing from armchair experts who insisted it would never work, and have been proven wrong).

Ho Lai, who comes from Hong Kong, is now in exile after finding that her home is no better off than it was under British rule and has exchanged one empire for another.

On a related note (2) Alison Cooke on British history and prehistory, thinking of our forefathers and foremothers who crossed what was once a land bridge (’Doggerland’) between what is now Europe and what is now the European continent, and what our heirs will face given climate change and coastal erosion.

Next came (3) Abi Wills, working in terracotta and porcelain, using clay because it is ‘an alchemist’s material’ (one of the pioneers of European porcelain actually was an alchemist, Johann Friedrich Böttger, who obviously failed to turn base metals into gold but ending up helping in a work much more worthwhile than that during his tinkering!)

Gerald Mak (4), who like Ho Lai is a Hong Konger now in London, was inspired by his traditions and by the city of Jingdezhen, a city I’ve been facinated by since I heard about it at the museum years ago; like Stoke-on-Trent, it is an ancient ceramic city which is now home to modern factories. Unlike Mak I have not been there, but I can admire the art inspired by the city.

Cicely Peers (5) is using the new technique of 3D printing and the ancient craft of slip casting to push forward the boundaries of pottery. Nicole Waefler (6) does the same in a rococo style. You can actually see tiny ‘flaws’ from the printing process but this only adds to the art in my opinion (I do also have a house full of ‘seconds’ from factories in the city, a widely accepted practice here!)

Oriel Zinaburg (7), an architecht whose love of materials brought him into ceramic art, has a more abstract style, as part of the Fresh 2021 collaboration with Staffordshire University. This playfulness and seeing where the material takes one also lies behind Rosie Harman’s exploration (8); she developed from painting into a 3D artist.

Becky Houghton (9) likewise makes sculptures and ‘shrines’ from clay just for the sheer pleasure of playing with ‘mud’, which I discovered as a child in one of the many ‘marl holes’ where I live, simply wetting the clay and drying it out, though I have not then or now made a work of art like this.

Lastly (actually not lastly; there are many more shoots to come in this series, though this shoot is now at an end), Dorcas Casey (10) shows her interest in ‘dreams, stories, intuition and memory’ with a remarkable display based on leeches!

Justina and other have told their stories to Anjum Malik and they have been written on plates, to go alongside the works of art which are also speaking their truth.

I have lived here my whole life and had never heard of the Goods Yard until last month; I have also never been to Valentine Clays,where the exhibition also runs, but will do so this weekend.

The long-term future of the Goods Yard is still in some doubt so I would urge everyone to come to the exhibition while it’s still on (until 17 October 2021 and then it’s off for two years!) to show everyone what Justina and her friends already know, that art and industry, “use and ornament” are the twin turbos that will heal the wounds caused by the first deindustrialisation.

“sense of peaceful serene environment just be free of all problems for a while a healthy outlet for me”

[decayingyouth]

I still need to visit this