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About Me

Hey I'm David, I go to the North East Wales School of Art and Design in Wrexham (NEWI) where I'm doing a course in Illustration for Children's Publishing. I'm usually pretty easygoing, I can be really quiet sometimes but it just means I like to listen :)Here's a random list of things I like:Interesting Facts ~ Rollercoasters ~ Rainy Days ~ Jelly Beans ~ 'Retro' Stuff ~ Peanut Butter ~ Lava Lamps ~ History ~ The Paranormal ~ Orange Juice ~ Pop Art ~ Carravaggio Paintings ~ Eddie Izzard ~ Walks ~ Autumn ~ Snow ~ Driving ~ Ghost Stories ~ Dreams ~ 1960's Movie Posters ~ Classic Rock 'n' Roll ~ Thunder and Lightening ~ Album Art ~ Museums ~ Ripley's Believe it or Not ~.. I'll add more things to this when I think of them.Here's just a nifty slide-show of some of my work:

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My Interests

Art and design, mainly drawing and painting.music, books, football (Everton FC), dreams, films, history, the paranormal, concerts, long walks, cheese, fifa 08, thunder-storms, freaky weather, walking in the rain, long walks in general, unusual facts and origins

I'd like to meet:

I love it when you instantly 'click' with people :) I love being with my lovely Sarah :D :D :D

Music:

The Beatles, David Bowie, The Kinks, Thin Lizzy, The Doors, Dire Straits, David Bowie, AC/DC, Led Zeppelin, Chuck Berry, Bachman-Turner Overdrive, Little Richard & other 60's/70's misc. I also like Aerosmith, Blur, Oasis, U2, The Cure, The Libertines, Kings of Leon, Kaiser Cheifs, Franz Ferdinand, The Zutons, The Fratellis, Katie Melua, Norah Jones.

Movies:

Star Wars, Vanilla Sky, The Prestige, Collateral, Meet Joe Black, Interview With the Vampire, The Village, Batman Begins, Across the Universe, Donnie Darko, Shaun of the Dead, Highlander, Trainspotting, Human Traffic, Spider-Man, Back to the Future, Indiana Jones, Gremlins, Gregory's Girl and Ghostbusters.

Television:

Life on Mars, Top Gear, Q.I, Red Dwarf, Family Guy, South Park, That 70's Show, Alan Partridge, That Mitchell & Webb Look, Supernatural (below).

Books:

The Book of General Ignorance, The 'Haunted Liverpool' series, 'Tom Slemen's Mysterious World' and 'Liverpool Ghost Walk'. 'The World According to Clarkson', Dixie - Uncut: The Lost Interview.

Heroes:

Eddie Izzard ~ Jonh Lennon ~ Tom Slemen ~ Jeremy Clarkson ~ David Bowie ~ Mark Kermode ~ Robert Ripley

My Blog

"Little Grace" ~ NEW

This painting took me over a week to finish! Pretty pleased with the final results though, the gravestones in the background were quite tricky, as was the hand trying to get it to look transparent but...
Posted by D~@~V~I~D on Tue, 04 Mar 2008 10:06:00 PST

The Rodney Street Spectre NEW!!

~ THE RODNEY STREET SPECTRE ~ From Haunted Liverpool 4 by Tom Slemen One cold, foggy, Sunday night in the Autumn of 1871, sixty-eight-year-old Lionel Harland, a respected Rodney Street doctor, left hi...
Posted by D~@~V~I~D on Wed, 30 Jan 2008 10:07:00 PST

Music Hall Mysteries

MUSIC HALL MYSTERIES In the 1970's, a lady dressed in a long, dark, crinoline dress, was often spotted gliding about the ground floor of the old Liverpool Music Hall, early in the morning. Some ...
Posted by D~@~V~I~D on Thu, 10 Jan 2008 05:29:00 PST

Frog Went A-Courting new

Evening all, I know it's been a while sinse I posted one of my arty Blogs, hopefully this one will make up for lost time. I've been doing roughs, compositions, doodles etc, so it was a...
Posted by D~@~V~I~D on Wed, 28 Nov 2007 10:12:00 PST

"In the town.... where I was born...." (well, not really)

Let me take you on a little trip, I needed to get a bunch of reference photos for my research file for college, so I headed to that humble fishing village we know as modern Liverpool.. Started at the ...
Posted by D~@~V~I~D on Thu, 08 Mar 2007 09:40:00 PST