Of course we’ve been sucked in to Tim Kring’s HEROES like everybody else - HEROES Season 1, HEROES Season 2 and HEROES Season 3 … and an excellent ride it has been too!  Here’s what we learned about art from watching HEROES:

1. You can’t draw or paint until your eyes go white.
2. Drugs are useful even if they are made from dung.
3. Everything in the comics comes true.
4. Just coz you’ve drawn it don’t mean you can stop it (Oh wots dis in your back?).
5. It is a dangerous business! If you are a good guy artist you probably get the top of your head cut off or fully decapitated.
6. Good artists with a big stick don’t die, they come back as spirit guides.

So; the final conclusion from HEROES :

Go work for Marvel, be a bad guy with a big stick and take loads of drugs full of dung.

We’re not totally sure Tim had that in mind though

Just to give you an idea about what date you can order up to at  Artists UK for a good chance of delivery by Christmas this year, these are the recommended last posting dates for Christmas for 2009 :

4th December for South and Central America, Caribbean, Afric, Middle and Far East, New Zealand, Asia and Australia.

10th December for Japan, USA, Canada and Eastern Europe.

11th December for Western Europe

21st December within the UK

Of course, if you just get on and order straight away then you’ll get your goodies with plenty of time to spare

I just came across this news report :

Ozzy regrets Osbournes TV series

It talks about how the original Black Sabbath singer doesn’t really like doing television and how he was out in Beverley Hills and could feel people’s eyes on him.  Unbelievably, given the title of Black Sabbath’s arguably most famous song, he said, “I thought I was getting paranoid or something.” 

We are going to start putting up a classic here each month.  That is a perhaps a bold statement with the hectic couple of months of pre-Christmas trading fast approaching but let’s see what happens.  Anyway, this picture really deserves a lot more attention than it currently gets.  The real problem is that no photograph can actually do it justice at all.  When we traded at Merton Abbey Mills in South London all those years ago the Limited Edition of this painting, despite being fairly pricey, still outsold a lot of cheaper prints because it would just stop people dead in their tracks.  It is just a stunning work of art admired by art-lovers and artists alike all over the world.  It is called ‘Blind Narcissus’ and is by the extremely talented and well-known artist Jeff Jones.

Blind Narcissus by Jeff Jones

Painted in the 70’s the original painting is 90″ x 48″ painted in oils on stretched linen. The Limited Edition print was published in 1979 so it is 30 years old this year!   Image size of the Limited edition print is still a massive 850 x 425mm and is signed and numbered by the artist over 1000.  It is printed on acid-free board.  Often considered as a beautiful centrepiece for any large room or at the end of a hallway.  There is also a collectible poster version of it as the Big O poster published by Dragon’s Dream and distributed through Big O Publishing.  If you want to see more on the print or poster or see more art by Jeff Jones then just click on the image.  One of the things that strikes people about this painting is its enigmatic quality.  The posture of the woman is unusual in itself but seems somehow not that contrived.  The way her dress seems to merge into the ground gives a vaguely ghostly air to the whole painting.  The painting technique itself is reminiscent of the best of the pre-raphaelites.  We really couldn’t think of a better classic to kick off our new theme with.