Making Friends - MrHass

A tall man with a bucket of white paint brushes a smiley face onto an open A-board.

A tall man with a bucket of white paint brushes a smiley face onto an open A-board.

Making Friends

(2021) Personal work [self-directed learning]

One way of coping with social isolation. As humans we anthropomorphize objects more often than we realise, especially those we like.

A note whistled from Posterboy becomes a convenient perch for his feathered companion Lapi.

With a chisel-tip marker, a young girl pulls a line of red ink across the surface of an A4 drawing pad.

With an oboe held diagonally across her body, a young girl in a long red dress is poised to play. Illustrated poster artwork for World Music Day.

A spectacled character with a back-turned cap holds up a giant computer pointer, arguably the most active icon in visual communication online.

A floral assortment emerges from an artist's palette and paint brushes.

The creative thoughts of a young girl are augmented by the circuitry of an AI neural network.

With crayons in hand, a young girl uses an upright easel and canvas to draw a large picture of herself.

Tucked in the beak of a bewildered homing bird, a hand-written list is flown through the air

Masked and with his typical whistle, Posterboy brushes a wall with paste ready to hang up his printed posters.

A mallard stands poised in high heels and accessories.

An infantry soldier with a warped combat helmet becomes the subject of a paper craft cutting

An array of herbs and vegetables are sent flying from the colander of a headless chef.

Sat amid the trees in his pull wagon, Posterboy uses traditional mark-making tools to draw up the new artwork to be hung.

An anthropomorphised tree stands smiling with red leaves abloom

A rooster stood upon the screen of an upturned smartphone crows in the dawn light.

J Card design for the Posterboy Mixtape

A polar bear drifts upon a floe of ice.

An infant learns to play the xylophone.

A giant fish is cradled by an astonished fisherman.

A man tends to the foliage upon his indoor plant stand.

As a red pencil is turned within a green sharpener, its shavings curl in the shape of a flower head.

A tall man with a bucket of white paint brushes a smiley face onto an open A-board.

Emerging from silhouette, the hands of a man are entwined in the chain of a swinging pocket watch.

A double bass player taps on computer keys that lay where his bass strings would ordinarily be found.