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The Fool presents - Magic to change your life!

the Fool

06:01 / 16.12.05

I've posted the first three images before, but they were sans sigils and final colour tweeks. Here they are in finished form. They have been printed on A1 metallic photographic paper and are currently off being framed for a gallery show. I'll take pictures when they are ready.

The sigils are quite meaty, if it all happens I'm going to be a very busy lad.

Good wishes and charging appreciated

...and some new characters using the new sigils...

Laughing

06:47 / 16.12.05

Whoa. Those are amazing.

(doffs cap)

lord nuneaton savage

13:37 / 16.12.05

Fuck me, matey! Those are spectacular!

Can I have one?

FINKLESTEIN!

16:34 / 16.12.05

Those first two are my favorites. Smiled to see Ganesh on my third look. How'd I not see him before? Copying that to my desktop fo' sure.

Always enjoy seeing your work, Fool. Your style has a simplicity and a complexity that play very nicely against each other. Your color choices are excellent, and the repetition of shapes really holds my eye on the pieces while encouraging me to take in as much detail as I can. Thanks for sharing!

FINKLESTEIN!

18:16 / 16.12.05

Ha! Just noticed the polar bears on Ganesh World. Killer.

LVX23

20:55 / 16.12.05

I trust there will be large prints for to purchase sometime in the near future...?

FinderWolf

21:58 / 16.12.05

Absolutely beautiful. I will give these my attention and focus...I really enjoy looking at all the intricacies of your work.

agent darkbootie

06:48 / 18.12.05

This is f***ing beautiful! Should I even ask what the change is about? Or would that spoil it?

What I won't worry about asking is whether you're gonna post big versions of these somehwere, or put them up on deviantart.com so we can order prints of them.

Man. You have made me happy.

Tim Tempest

08:23 / 18.12.05

I remember seeing these gorgeous pieces before...But now, with the subtle changes, they are even more sublime.

the Fool

11:01 / 18.12.05

Thanks for the kind words everyone. I'll try and work out a way to make the large scale prints available when holiday craziness subsides a bit.

As for what the sigils do, well, they will hopefully give me fun things to do in the new year. They cover three aspects of what I do, design, character creation and music.

We'll see how it goes...

the Fool

02:17 / 19.12.05

The third character, the dancing sigilbot!!!

the Fool

06:56 / 19.12.05

...and one more, he's not sigiled up, but he snuggles nice

Mordant Carnival

03:00 / 21.12.05

Those are splendid as always, Fool. If it's not too intrusive a question, whyfor the 3 red chevrons on the sigilbot's head?

the Fool

06:36 / 21.12.05

whyfor the 3 red chevrons on the sigilbot's head?

No idea really, it just made it look a bit more 'machine-y'. I use chevrons a fair bit in my design (there is on in my logo). Is there significance to 3 red chevrons that I was unaware of? (I hope it not something terrible and foreboding if there is)

Mordant Carnival

11:55 / 24.12.05

It's just that 3 red chevrons have been turning up for me in various bits of trancework/visualisation for years, and I wondered if you'd ever come across that symbol yourself. The only idea I've been able to come up with is that they are runes (Kenaz).

Thass all.

Ganesh

12:20 / 24.12.05

Gorgeous, as ever. Love the second one, which appeals to my narcissism (Ganesh = centre of everything) and very keen to buy a print if/when they become available.

akira

12:38 / 25.12.05

I ♥ my fool

the Fool

23:27 / 29.12.05

It's just that 3 red chevrons have been turning up for me in various bits of trancework/visualisation for years, and I wondered if you'd ever come across that symbol yourself.

For some reason I remember being asked or reading about this question before. So, I googled and had a look what was out there...

chevrons: 3 (red)
ivry-la-bataille (municipality, eure, france) - this has a yellow flag with 3 red chevrons pointing up

http://www.crwflags.com/fotw/flags/fr-27-ib.html

and...

traditional chevron weaving patterns

then the topics all seem to be military insignia, racing clubs (or other sports) or glass beads for a while...

then this...

http://ancientneareast.tripod.com/164.html

and...

a game...

the Fool

04:35 / 19.01.06

UPDATE!

The opening for the show was tuesday night. Here are some pics...

proud dad

I added 6 extra little pieces as offerings.

love

compassion

beauty

happiness

peace

kindness

I burnt a copy of each of the offerings under the light of the full moon (master of my sign of cancer) that directly proceeded it. I then put the ashes into a watering can and watered the lemon trees on my balcony (which I though was a nice touch, lemons being filled with gentle virtues as I watered). Each offering has the virtue sigilised within (at the top of each circle).

05:03 / 19.01.06

You're very talented. You know, I'd really love to see your take on the Cthulhu Mythos. Sure, Yog-Sothoth isn't exactly what most people think of as "cute", but I'd love to see the Necronomicon monsters filtered through your style.

Mordant Carnival

10:43 / 19.01.06

Oh, I just LOVE those! *points and squees at happy shirts and little fluffy chooks*

Scrambled Password Bogus Email

11:46 / 19.01.06

Bloody Gorgeous. You are my graphic guru.

I feel really guilty for not sending you the pics of the t-shirt yet. I've finally got my phone to speak to my computer, so I'll get it sorted shortly!! Sorry :-(

akira

16:38 / 19.01.06

Wow, they look even better framed and on the wall.

buttergun

17:18 / 19.01.06

Fool, your art is fantastic! In fact I printed out several pieces to decorate my office. If Grant Morrison's "Pop Magic!" is ever published, I'm going to lobby for you to do the cover! Keep up the great work, and thanks!

Captain Zoom

22:02 / 19.01.06

Fool, those are really beautiful. Congratulations on the show

diz

08:18 / 20.01.06

Very, very nice.

the Fool

00:26 / 24.01.06

Another quick update. The big blue piece with all my characters is going to be used as a cover for the local gay street press's pride march edition. The editor of the paper was at the opening and was rather impressed. 50,000 copies!!! WOOHOO!!!

Dead Megatron

03:31 / 24.01.06

Much too cool, my brotha! You should consider animation. short movies or turning those circular paintings into rotating mandalas. that. would. be. AWESOME!(not that are not already)
Congrats

Mordant Carnival

15:16 / 25.01.06

I keep coming back to the six small pieces. They're enchanting. I love the way they look like advertisments, but instead of selling something they're simply offering it. No purchace necessary. In fact, you already have these things.

Lovely.

the Fool

12:53 / 04.02.06

UPDATE!

It hit the streets this friday. 50,000 copies, with directions in it to go visit the gallery and see the show, distributed all over the city... a mega charge you could say... Hopefully it'll help sell of few pictures at the gallery and set a few other things in motion...

www.mcv.net.au

paranoidwriter waves hello

00:18 / 05.02.06

*Chin hits floor*

Stunning. The use of red in the first and third pictures is particularly mesmerising. I could look at these for ages.

Fell

09:18 / 05.02.06

Love the work, man!

Fell

09:35 / 05.02.06

No intention of digressing this thread — I adore your work — I just think it's interesting when others incorporate sigils into their illstration and/or design. I'd love to see this field developed more in magic, chaos magic in particular. Here is an example of one I did last year, as an abstraction of a sigil unto itself:

Shahaoul

16:40 / 05.02.06

Hi Fool, love your pieces. Good work on getting the magazine cover spot, will have to see if I can get a copy filtered through to me in Sydney. It's one hell of a way to get other people to invest their energies in your sigils

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