Leporine inhalant abuse

Leporine inhalant abuse

Anyone who knows our work might think that we have something against rabbits and that’s just not the case as I actually really quite like most of the little blighters. That said that doesn’t mean I think they have rainbows following them around. They can definitely have a dark side. And you’d best believe that they are certainly not cute.

I actually tried to get this fella some help for his addiction when i came across him. Sadly i learnt the hard way that they are best left alone, as he came at me with those dead zombie like eyes looking straight through me, teeth bared and ready and willing to go for the throat but luckily i managed to escape as he was a little slow on his feet. I lived to warn all those unfortunate enough to come across other such Leporine inhalant abusers.

This picture captures a bad moment in a young leveret‘s life. One he’d probably hope hadn’t been caught for posterity by an inquisitive artist. But it had to be done and now we all know.

Cheers

id-iom

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The mirror crack’d

In what i’m hoping will be my last post of the day we have this slightly odd commission. I’m not entirely sure how the mirror came to broken (i.e. I’m not the one with seven years bad luck!) but as soon as it was brought in for us to evaluate exactly I knew there was something just crying out to be put on there. We could not try and hide the crack as it would then look even worse than it did already so we thought the best thing to do was to highlight it’s imperfections.

The line ‘the mirror crack’d’ was floating around in my head and it turns out ‘The mirror crack’d from side to side‘ is the name of an Agatha Christie book starring the unflappable amateur sleuth Miss Marple but she originally got the line from a poem by Lord Tennyson called The Lady of Shallot and it seemed to fit perfectly:

“Out flew the web and floated wide

the mirror crack’d from side to side”

Once we’d found a suitable font, cut a couple of stencils and also got a couple of lightly glittered arrows on there to really put all the attention on the crack we realised that we had job done and to do any more would risk ruining it so we decided it was time to down tools. I’m particularly happy with the result as i managed to restrain myself before adding more and in hindsight it just fits perfectly. One more happy punter taken care of…

For reasons that are hopefully completely apparent it’s pretty tricky to photograph a mirror whilst: a) trying to make the mirror look relatively normal shaped b) trying not to get yourself or any other objects that just attract the eye in shot c) trying to highlight the big crack running across the mirror and the text either side of it. Now whilst i’m certainly not saying that Duffy, Donovan or Bailey couldn’t do better I think I did a pretty reasonable job considering my usual level of skill with a camera.

Cheers

id-iom

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