DarrenCarnall

'Ancient and Forever' is now available as a 10" x 8" fine art print for those who have been asking!! Also available as a framed version.

(sorry, no larger versions are available with this first piece. I'll see to it that future releases are available at the full range of sizes, t shirts etc)

It's based in the U.S. but they do ship to other countries.

Buy here: society6.com/DarrenCarnall/Anc…

If so then you can help me out. (with just one click of your mouse) ..I'm looking into getting into making my own, but I'm unsure as to what sizes people buy. Do they go with set sizes... what fits premade frames, and so on... I've done a one question poll on my facebook page, could you just shoot over there for 5 seconds and click yer answer for me? You can come straight back then, I promise!

You'll really help me get into this 'cool n groovy' art thing once and for all!!

www.facebook.com/DarrenCarnall…

Cheers folks!! (It's right at the top of my page)

Darren

Seeing as I've now got literally a BAZILLION new people watching my work on here since my recent Daily Deviation (hello!!!), I figured I'd give you my Facebook fan page too. I update that more frequently than I do here (I practically live on Facebook lol) so you'll get a mix of stuff I'm working on, stuff I've finished, unedited nonsense streamed directly from my brain, and other works of art from different artist that I've seen.

www.faceboook.com/DarrenCarnallDotCom

Also on my profile I have my web address (www.darrencarnall.com) but I'm in the middle of redesigning that site at the moment. (I lost all the images off my blog for some reason so I decided to abandon it and turn it into a more typical website) . Give me a little time on this.

Anyway, welcome... nice to meet you.... and I look forward to talking to you all eventually. Go easy on me

Wow. I was sitting on my couch here in the UK watching the Olympics when I got a Facebook message on my phone with a friend saying "hey, congrats on your Daily Deviation!!" ....I had to look up what one of those was LOL. Seriously, not a clue.

Apparently it's when someone nominates your work and it gets selected to be featured on the front page?? Wow, how effing cool is that!!

Anyway I'm in the middle of two weeks holiday here for my 40th birthday (yes I'm old, get used to it lol) so I've not been at my work desk for a week. I just logged onto the site on my new iPad (the benefit of having a birthday with a big zero on it, cool presents!!) and holy crapadoodle!!! HUNDREDS of comments, messages and favourites. Amazing!

I might not be able to reply to them all for a while as I've still got just over a week off work before I'm back at my work desk (one more day watching the Olympics, then driving down to London to go to the Harry Potter Studio Tour (very cool!!) and then going to the Olympic Stadium to see the closing ceremony.... IN PERSON!!! ...and then camping in the countryside for a nice relaxing week. Not a bad way to spend your 40th.

Anyway I've just read through them all here on my iPad and... Guys, seriously... THANK YOU!!!! ..all of you. You've just given me the biggest grin ever, and made my 40th birthday even better. Awesome stuff. Thanks!!!!!

A while ago I was contacted by a friend in America who had a commission she wanted me to do for her. This would turn out to be something I would spend many enjoyable hours working on.

She had an old black and white photograph of her Grandparents (mothers side) in the 1940s, and she wanted two custom figures making of them... so she could give them as a gift to her Mother. (such a lovely idea)

We discussed it back and forth, and ended up on the idea of having the figures sitting on a park bench. This would make a nice display, and something a little nicer than just having the figures standing upright next to each other.

I set about making the head sculpts, and started buying in the pieces that I would need to put the figures together. (bodies, clothes, wood for the bench etc). Also I had to figure out how to make a park bench that could be taken apart and sent 'flat pack', but easily assembled out of only 3 or 4 pieces. (much harder than I thought it would be! If only I was a carpenter)

Anyway... eventually over time I got the head sculpts made, made resin casts of them, painted them up, put the bodies together, did some sewing work on the clothing (well... got my wife to do it!).. and built the bench.

They looked fantastic all set up (I was really happy how they turned out, I always worry about things like that... and whether or not the customer will like it) - thankfully she did. And so did her Mum (she saw the photos right after I'd finished them).

She cried. In a good way.

So now the figures are on their way over the Ocean to their new home. It's always hard sending something off when you've been working on it for many months. It somehow becomes part of your studio. You get used to it. Also you have the additional worry of "will they like it?" ....thankfully the answer to that has so far always been 'yes'.

I can't wait for the figures to arrive in their new home, and to hear about the reactions... it's such a lovely idea for a gift. Something relaly personal, even emotional.

And I'm happy, and honoured to have been asked to be a part of it.

I'll put some photos in my gallery here

Darren