War Boutique 🇬🇧 Metropolitan Peace • Art For Sale

[Coach]

Brilliant piece by a fantastic artist. GL With the sale.

[BorntoKiln]

Jul 30, 2013 14:45:07 GMT 1 Coach said:

Brilliant piece by a fantastic artist. GL With the sale.

Cheers coach, hope things are good with you sir?

[Deleted]

Nice that, hope it goes to a good home or even better to someone who will wear it.

[BorntoKiln]

Jul 30, 2013 17:32:28 GMT 1 @wizbong said:

Nice that, hope it goes to a good home or even better to someone who will wear it.

Haha, Iv worn it a few times Nigel, is a perfect fit. Heavy mind cos it is fully bullet proof.
Great for demos worldwide though one would become more of a target imo.

[BorntoKiln]

Any offers?

War boutique keeps going from strength to strength.
The National Army Museum acquires 'The Great Game' for its permanent collection.

[BorntoKiln]

SOLD - Cheers that man

[Deleted]

available 11th September @3pm
theartalibi.co.uk/

[Deleted]

Love it. I have had loads of Bees this year on the shrubs i planted for them, even on Ragwort which i planted for the moths!,(yes i know its deadly to horses but none go there).
Gotta save the Bees innit WB.

[Coach]

From the art alibi website

The question is how we, as individuals, can contribute to the necessity of protecting our rapidly declining bee population.

Albert Einstein once said : "If the bee disappeared off the surface of the globe then man would only have four years of life left. No more bees, no more pollination, no more plants, no more animals, no more man."


I love this too. And from the programes I've watched, a seriously worrying issue.

Also worries that War Boutique appears no longer to be a member - if so, that is a huge loss to this forum. HUGE.

[Deleted]

Howcome WB is now gone?,WTF happened?, come back or email me WB.

[Coach]

Sept 21, 2013 21:28:29 GMT 1 @wizbong said:

Howcome WB is now gone?,WTF happened?, come back or email me WB.

Big loss. Great bloke. I could talk to him for hours. One of the most interesting artist I have ever met.

[Coach]

I thought I would share with you a little art project that my son and I have done with War Boutique.

As many will know I have huge respect for WB, his art and his passion. As I've mentioned on here before, I find him an incredibly interesting person, and could listen to him talk for hours. If you ever have the fortune to meet him you will know what I mean - he really knows his stuff.

I have met WB a few times, and have kept in  touch. He came up with the idea of a little "art competition" between my son and I. He would send us prints, that we had to "complete".

Now, I'm no artist. but it sounded fun. It's really all in the spirit of Happymeal's Monday art thread - just getting us doing something together and arty. There's no prize, and no need for us to decide who "wins". 

So the prints arrived a title while ago. I sat on it for a while, due to lack of time, and as festivities approached we decided it would be a great thing to do together over the break. We got cracking yesterday.

Really great fun. I had to ask my lad for loads of advice. The first hurdle was overcoming the feeling that we were committing an art crime by making any mark on beautiful prints, gorgeously printed, on such thick card. But once we got stared, it was fab.

Here are the prints, pre our efforts.

[Coach]

And here we go with the results

First my lad's one:




And my one:



We both went with the same theme - the diminishing natural environment for animals, and bees in particular as that crisis is the focus of the original piece.

I hope you like our efforts I hope in particular that WB does. Thanks mate. I really enjoyed doing this with my son, thanks to you.

Please be gentle with me folks! I am not an artist!!!

Happy New Year, my friends.

[yoyosh]

Wow! Well done @coach (and son).

[slimshady]

Really nice!

[Dr Plip]

They are both terrific Coach. And what a cool idea from WB.

[fingerz]

i'm sorry to say coach  i think your lad smashed the bits bits out of it ......
 
but your flowers are real nice .....

[tartarus]

ha i think they are both really cool! Id have no idea where to start!!

[Coach]

Dec 31, 2013 23:28:26 GMT 1 tartarus said:

ha i think they are both really cool! Id have no idea where to start!!

Me neither. You can't see how many times I started and then rubbed out!!

[Coach]

Dec 31, 2013 23:23:33 GMT 1 fingerz said:

i'm sorry to say coach  i think your lad smashed the bits bits out of it ......
 
but your flowers are real nice .....

Abso-bloody-lutley!!!

Cheers fella. Hny!!

[johnnyh]

Brilliant Coach great idea and project congrats to all on the result

[londonboy]

Really nice pieces coach

Hope you'll have a good year
All the best

Chyren

[supercockle]

Really love the concept and especially what your son did Coach. Happy New Year sir.

[LAZAKY]

I love the idea coach! 
Thats a great collab, both are really cool with some nice references! Love the tesco bag!

congrats to both of you and to WB for this nice collab!

[Stoko]

Really nice idea. Good to see an artist not being too precious about their work too.
Well done your lad!

[ashrx]

Hey Coach,

Really enjoyed seeing these! Its all in great spirit. I must say I really like them both but your lads work just tipped it for me. Great idea.

Thanks for sharing.

[Coach]

Jan 1, 2014 17:38:27 GMT 1 ashrx said:

Hey Coach,

Really enjoyed seeing these! Its all in great spirit. I must say I really like them both but your lads work just tipped it for me. Great idea.

Thanks for sharing.

Delighted you enjoyed it.
I agree that the lad's one is much better.
He's the artist in the family!!

[Pistol]

Brilliant...........all round!
It is always great to see you and your lad enjoying your art. There is way to much negativity on here. You two always seem to up the anti. Well done!

[Coach]

Jan 2, 2014 10:58:13 GMT 1 Pistol said:

Brilliant...........all round!
It is always great to see you and your lad enjoying your art. There is way to much negativity on here. You two always seem to up the anti. Well done!

Thank you Pistol. That means a lot.


It's only because artists make it possible.

[jayTown]

Great effort by both but your lad smashed it. Will be waiting for the print run