Monday, November 25, 2013
200
We did manage to grab a few photos along the way which you can find below and we met some lovely people too.
All manner of Impossimals found their way to new homes, from Tuppenny Pennysaurus's to Love Me Do sculptures each one was dedicated where possible and as personally as possible on the day.
Pictured above is Charlotte with her family who came along and bought with her a copy of an art project she put together based on the Impossimals and delightful it was too.
The gallery had even supplied a special little cake for the day, a lovely touch much appreciated.
Sunday and a tower of cakes heralded the start of the Castle Galleries Meadowhall appearance and boy did it get busy.
With queues approaching six deep at times the large gallery started to fill up with collectors.
It was another incredibly special day, so many people, so many stories as we found out what the Impossimals meant to such a lot of collectors.
Both limited editions and sculptures went on the day gradually thinning down the walls until the gallery closing time came along. A wonderful weekend with plenty of memories.
So a big thankyou to both galleries and of course to everyone who came along to help us celebrate.
This coming weekend we will be at Cardiff on Saturday, who now have a new location and have moved from their Cardiff Bay gallery to a more central position in the new St Davids shopping arcade and on Sunday we make a welcome return to a very Christmassy 1st December appearance at The Original Art Shop in Trentham, Stoke-On-Trent.
Two great events and some of the last chances to see Bloodlines in its entirety, some classic Impossimal editions and to get those special dedications for Christmas as only seven events are left before we disappear to the studio for a few years to bring you more Impossimals and to begin a project that is going to challenge us to the core - Revelation pencilled in for autumn 2015.
Friday, November 22, 2013
The Big Weekend
STOP! I'm Michael Caine and you Sir are an imposter! Begone! Right, where were we? Ah, Master Wayne I would like to inform you that the artist formally known as Peter will be making...
HALT! You're not Michael Caine, I am Michael Caine and it is my job as a well known celebrity to endorse this weekends...
You lot, OUT! Hang on a minute, lads, I've got a great idea. Not many people know that my name is Michael Caine and i am a nosy neighbour.
Aaaargh! See what happens when you try to get a celebrity to promote this weekend, looks like I will just have to settle for Lady Gaga after all.
Oh Gaga, I told you not to wear the Baublemoose outfit again you're so disappointing, looks like I have got to do it all myself again...
Right, this weekend is the big 200th Appearance weekend with a free to enter fun giveaway. On Saturday 23rd we are at Castle Galleries in Wolverhampton between 1-4pm then on Sunday 24th we have a big mega event at Castle Galleries, Meadowhall 1-4pm for our official 200th appearance since we started touring with the Impossimals way back in 2005.
They are both FREE and require NO invite just come along to any of the events on the day to join in the fun, get dedications or learn more about the Impossimals. We even have badges and assorted other goodies and don't forget to bring along your free entry form too, you can find it at www.petersmithcollective.co.uk just click the 200th banner for further details.
See you this weekend!
Thursday, November 21, 2013
Get With It
Designed to take on the latest iPad and Tablet computers the ZX-81 is a real enthusiasts computer pitched directly to compete for our Christmas stockings this year at a humbling £49.95 self assembly kit version, far undercutting Apples latest offer. The ZX-81 comes with a built in 1k of memory, enough to hold 1024 characters and large enough for most brief word processing requirements with the ability to expand to 16k in the future through the innovative RAM pack. It's full sized touch sensitive keyboard is so cutting edge and space age it makes touch screen technology look shoddy by comparison. Even better it comes with no software whatsoever so you have a completely blank canvas to work with. All ready we are receiving home grown software absolutely free for this new machine and I'm sure it won't be long before so called programmers come up with some killer apps, it's already rumoured that a calculator is on the horizon and arcade games such as Breakout in glorious black and white graphics has been announced.
Fully portable along with its own storage unit (not supplied, a C90 cassette and tape player is required) it has full hack proof security by having no access to the internet making its competitors security arrangements look shoddy by comparison. The display can utilise any television built before 1989 and as these can now be picked up for less than £5 even the display is a bargain during these difficult times.
As part of our celebrations for the launch of the ZX-81 we have included absolutely free a computer program that will give you hours of entertainment allowing you to type literally anything in to your ZX-81 for it to be gloriously displayed in a scrolling display of delight.
SUPER SCROLLER
10 INKEY$=A$
20 PRINT A$ + " ";
30 GOTO 20
Simply type in and then type RUN followed by return, experts may experiment with the code and remove the ';' from line 20 to give a pleasing column scroll effect.
NEWS
Apple have announced the latest addition to their popular 'i' range, it's called the iTosser, basically it's an overpriced piece of kit that turns you into a tit. Shown above it comes with a pair of shades and a tendency to over act in photos like you are having a good time. The guitar attachment comes separately and it ambitiously priced at £349 in the UK and only available from Apple stores providing you have booked an appointment with an iPenis, the iTosser specialist.
Commodore has taken the world by storm and bought out the first computer pet, called the Pet it removes the need for a furry four legged companion with a penchant to soil the floor and replaced it with an expandable unit that purrs, barks and even bytes!
GAMES
As graphics technology gets better every year we are now reaching the pinnacle of its technology with a almost photo realistic game from the makers of Grand Theft Auto called 'Modern Life', a gritty game allowing you to experience real life outside your house in today's world.
Our reviewer couldn't get enough of this when he tried out the beta version. 'The graphics are unbelievable, when it told me to get off my arse and leave the room I though I would wet my pants. As I left the room the graphics suddenly came alive, there was even a section where someone called 'my mum' asked me what I was doing out of my hole and isn't it time you got yourself a job. Amazing 9/10 nearly as good as Zelda'
It was about then that I realised that I'm not an editor for a computer magazine or a geek addicted to online gaming, I'm a rabbit with a drinking problem.
Cool.
Tuesday, November 19, 2013
Bitstripping Action
Take this, after only five minutes I had already created a leading porn actor called Mike Monsterpants. Even worse you can choose provocative poses such as this clutch thrust. My filthometer hit ten as the realisation hit me about this corrupting bit of entertainment.
Full graphic photo realistic representations of sexy stuff with no filters or warning, I was physically sick that this is allowed to be distributed freely around the Internet and I for one shall be writing to my MP just as soon as I find out who that is.
Until then be aware, this new Bitstripping craze is ruining our children, if I had my way I would smash up all the spinning jenny's and boycott this new horseless carriage. I'd also give them all six lashes of the birch, it never did me any harm did it nanny?
Nanny? Nanny? Bring the whip Bertie has been a very naughty boy, Bertie want spank, spank.
Ohhhh, thank you Nanny...
Monday, November 18, 2013
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200th Appearance Weekend Giveaway!
It all kicked off at 1pm, unfortunately rugby at Twickenham kicked off shortly afterwards and we wondered if it was going to affect the appearance somewhat. But no, our fears were unfounded as slowly a trickle of collectors turned into a constant flow and the appearance gained momentum.
Unsurprisingly the Whatabanker proved incredibly popular and we had chance to talk to plenty of collectors both about the Lost Impossimals and of course Impossimals in general.
Including the new owners of the Deluxe Charcoal 'Slurping Sipper Slosher' one of only six charcoals specially created for the entire tour.
So a great day in Kingston with a great gallery crew to boot :)
Sunday was a total contrast for location, instead of the hustle and bustle of London life we visited Trident Gallery in Leicester, a family run gallery with a great gallery space and threw open the doors to a wealth of collectors.
Many collectors old and new came along with many a dedications dedicated in between. The Tuppenny Pennysaurus's disappeared quite quickly along with many other limited editions.
One original that was still looking for a home when I left yesterday that you may be able to snap up if you are quick was this, the first oil sketch that I did for the Wonky Wonder, a lovely small piece that outlined my ideas on what the whole scene should look like. Nice to see it again.
Its always great to see lots of smiling faces and none are more smiley than the smiles in this photo which pretty much sums up the whole day :)
So a big thankyou to Castle Fine Art, Kingston and our Sundays host Trident Galleries in Leicester for a great weekend of events.
Next up, its the big 200th. Wolverhampton and Meadowhall.
Can't wait!
Friday, November 15, 2013
Roll Up, Roll Up
Should you want to risk meeting Peter he will be at the following galleries this weekend
Saturday 16th Artisan Galleries, Kingston-Upon-Thames between 1-4pm
Sunday 17th Trident Galleries, Leicester between 12-3pm
All welcome although protective clothing will be issued on the day we cannot guarantee responsibility for your safety especially if Peter is allowed brushes or crayons.
*NB Tapir not included, photo is not representative of Peter in any way, shape or form apart from his big nose of course.
Thursday, November 14, 2013
I Deduce A Deduction
Sherlocks Elementary Observations Vol IIXX
The power of observation should never be underestimated, often vital clues can be found just by watching carefully and following every chain of thought to a conclusion. Training in this field is difficult to obtain so today I am going to test your powers of observation with three scenarios and the deductions that can be drawn from them.
1) You are on a train in a carriage occupied by two other people, one a lady dressed in finery and sat reading a book about flowers the other a stout man with a rather gruff face holding a long piece of rope and staring at the lady with bulging lust filled eyes. The door to the carriage slides open for the tea trolly service, as it departs the train enters a tunnel and the carriage is plunged into darkness. There's a scream and when the light returns the lady is on the floor dead with a rope tight around her neck. The stout man has gone.
What happened?
2) You attend a dinner party held at a country manor, around the table are six people including yourself. At the head of the table is Sir Reginald Bucket, a retired general, to your left is Miss Ponceby Bonnet, to your right Lady Bucket. Across from you from left to right is Reverend Pickle, Mrs Bessy Spaniels and Lord Farquhar Frufru. Tomato soup is served and seems to spark a disagreement between the servant serving and Sir Reginald. Heated words are exchanged and the servant leaves with a dark look on his face to fetch the wine. When he returns he fills Sir Reginald's wine to the top.
Dinner is served and Sir Reginald sips his wine, seconds later he is dead, the victim of a fast acting poison.
Who is the killer and how did they do it?
3) Inspector Lestrade walks you through a crime scene. A bedroom, decorated with green wallpaper with a large brass bedstead, it has one entry point and one window, the window is smashed but wide open and looking out you see the glass on the floor outside the window. The room is in disarray with many drawers open and their contents strewn about. On the bed is the body of a young man with twenty six knife wounds and a knife plunged through his heart, a note in his hand reads 'I will see you tonight and we will sort this matter out once and for all'
The inspector thinks the murderer may be someone the victim knew, the note suggests the possibility and the inspector also points out that the crime has been made to look like a break in followed by a struggle, hence the broken window open but the glass on the outside that would only occur if it was broke from the inside.
Do you agree with the inspector?
Answers
1) Start with the stout man, he was a gruff looking fellow fondling a rope, obvious signs he was a sailor who was practicing his knot tying during the journey. His lust filled eyes was down to the fact that he had just completed a French knot which reminded him of a memorable night in Zanzibar involving two camels. The lady was interested in flowers hence the book about flowers, a pursuit that led to her death. For as the lights went out she rose to reach for a second book that I conclude was in the luggage rack just as the stout man had successfully tied a sailors half hitch. In the darkness she stumbled her head falling through half hitch which tightened as she fell. The stout man didn't notice and dropped the rope, he was preoccupied in following the tea trolley after feeling rather peckish and longing for a cream tea. Of course you would arrest the trolley pusher for placing temptation in the way of the stout man and for causing a tragic accident.
2) Reverend Pickle killed Sir Reginald Bucket. It should have been obvious from the start that the Reverend was the odd one out, the others were all well known strumpets with loose morals deduced from the layout of the table which was positioned to stimulate maximum excitement. Couple this with the aphrodisiac properties of tomato soup and the Reverend was driven into a frenzy of lust that went against all his personal morals and religious guidance. Blaming Sir Reginald for the frisson of excitement the Reverend poisoned his glass using sleight of hand tricks as we all know members of the church are avid amateur magicians.
3) I totally disagree with the Inspector. The clue comes from the green wallpaper, not obvious at first but the green colour is actually created from arsenic. Our victim had been overcome by fumes from the wall paper which had sent him half crazed on a rampage in the room smashing the window to let in fresh air. Unfortunately he had been eating in bed and inavertantly left a knife on the bedclothes. As he leapt back in the knife cut him twenty six times as he bounced up and down on the springs fatally going through his heart to leave the scene we see today.
As you can see not everything is a straightforward as it seems in fact as I write this I am looking in the mirror and seeing an artist that should be painting instead of living in a mildly amusing fantasy world of Sherlock Sidewinders and Wriggling Watsons pursuing Moriarty Marauders throughout history.
Hmm, maybe I should take this wig and skirt off, Mrs Marple day is tomorrow.
Wednesday, November 13, 2013
Hartley
Occasionally, just ocassionaly something rather special happens that remains with you forever. Yesterday I had one of those memories resurface as I sat in Bunnyopolis with Iona, Jura and Aaran, our three continental giant rabbits.
All three have different builds, even though they are from the same litter, Iona is rather, how shall we say, plumpish even though we measure out food she manages to hoover up anything that drifts into the garden. Aaran is more robust than chunky and is a more like a bumbling dog with his massive paws that he uses to get attention with, Jura on the other hand is slender, often concerned and very hare like in stature. Last night she did her little peculiar stretch which involves letting her back legs flick out like a frogs and a bit of a crawl forward until she is at maximum stretch, which is over three feet, then she yawns and pulls everything back together, very hare like. It was that that triggered my memory.
Way back in 2010 we were visiting a gallery and had set off very early in the morning, one of the roads had been closed due to an accident so we were detoured off the main road and into a sleepy village. For some reason our satnav decided to reroute and take us down the road equivalent of Narnia. It was quite strange, as we pulled off the small village road and down a tree lined we both remarked how quiet it had suddenly become. Further down the road the early morning sun shone through the trees the fresh dew sparkling like jewels as the road started to narrow. The edges of the tarmac became rather ragged and eventually succumbed to weeds and grass along it borders, the road looked like it hadn't seen traffic in many a year and we were wondering if our trusty satnav was having a laugh and we would end up plunging off the edge of a precipice or at the very least find out we were trespassing up some driveway and would most likely be shot by the gamekeeper.
When, to my right, out popped a hare from the hedgerow. I don't know who was more surprised, me not expecting a hare or him not expecting a balding lost idiot staring at him whilst he was out for a stroll. And you know what, he plodded a little lopingly along beside the car. I kid you not, this rather large hare was steadily keeping pace with us, occasionally he would glance up at me wondering why I was following him with some annoyance but undeterred he carried on.
He accelerated and ran in front of the car, steadily weaving around and we followed him. No really, we were mesmerised, it's not very often you get to witness something like this so we slowed down and just enjoyed the moment.
I was so engrossed in Mr Hare that I didn't see the cliff edge and off we plunged. We didn't really do that, I made that bit up but what we did do was follow him for quite a long time before he decided that he really had had enough of this hassle and disappeared back into the hedge row. Now here's the strange thing, he popped back in the hedgerow directly opposite our next turn which our Satnav gleefully announced as if she had suddenly remembered where she was. I like to think he helped us find our way back to the main road but I think he went home that night to the missus and said 'can you believe it, I go out for a stroll and some balding pillock starts to follow me.'
Anyway, not much of a story today just a nice little memory for me, an annoying one for a hare.
Tuesday, November 12, 2013
Tuesday's Top Tittilation
It's nearly that time of year, Christmas time, misery and whine, children bleating all the time, with no gas fire and no electricity, a time to curse the util-i-ty...
Anyway to while away all those cold days where you have to choose from heat or eat the latest from the government is to play games to keep you moving so in the interests of helping here's a selection of top games to play this Christmas with your family.
Hide And Reek
Turn those Christmas leftovers into an amusing game by simply hiding them all around the house. Leave them a few days then as you family to join in and find all the rancid leftovers using only their noses. Such joy can be had, chuck a few prawns down the back of the sofa for a stonking aroma, place overcooked brussels at the back of underwear drawers and leftover trifle placed in shoes and slippers also make great hiding places that are difficult to nasally detect. Be creative, get the neighbours to join in by posting chicken drumsticks and sausage rolls through their letterbox, Sellotape peas to lamposts for a special hide and reek outdoors edition.
Hungry Hippos
For this you need several players and one referee / bondage expert. All the players hands are tied behind their back and made to lay face down on the floor where their legs will also be trussed up to their hands so all players can rock forward but not easily escape. Place all the players so they are facing each other in a circle no more than five inches apart from face to face. On the count of ten empty a jar of pickled hard boiled eggs between all their grimacing faces and the fun begins. Each player must gobble as many eggs as they can within a sixty second time limit. The winner is the one who either gobbles the most or manages to last sixty seconds without being sick.
Twisted
For this you need a deck of cards and a group of friends. The cards are shuffled and placed face down on the table whilst the players remove their upper garments. Each player takes a card from the top of the deck an lays it face up on the table for everyone to see. Once all players have taken and displayed their card the player with the lowest card loses and the remaining players take it in turn to 'twist' either of their nipples as hard as possible. If they scream then they are taunted for being a wimp and no longer is allowed to participate. The winner is the one with the least red nipples.
Cowrades
It's exactly like charades only all your acting out of a book, television program or movie has to be done in silence whilst wearing a pantomime cow outfit. Correct guesses can be acknowledged by filling a water pistol with milk and spraying the 'guessers' with a simulated udder squirt.
Pass The Persil
Sit everyone in a circle and play some music. Give a bottle of Persil to a player who then has to pass it only to the left. Randomly stop the music, whoever is holding the Persil must wash the pots after dinner.
Pound Shop
Minimum two players. Decide who is going to be the shopkeeper and who will be customers. The game starts when a custome approaches the shop keeper with a random item from around the house and asks 'how much is this?', the correct reply from the shop keeper is 'a pound'. If the shopkeeper fails to say the phrase then the customer wins, if after several hours of play you have used up every household item then the shopkeeper wins, unless of course one of the players has already uttered the words 'for gods sake, when will this bloody game end!' then we all lose.
Remote Roulette
Place a television remote control on the floor and seat all players around it. Spin the controller just like you would in a game of spin the bottle. Whoever the controller points to after a spin gets to choose what to watch on television. Fantastic fun for all the family and what a great talking point at parties, spice it up a little and devise forfeits such as watching television with the sound on full volume or if you are really feeling evil get your set top box to record nothing but Bargain Hunt and have a 48 hour Huntathon with back to back episodes.
Those Winter months just fly by in our house. If you have suggestions for further games to play on these long dark nights then post them under plain brown cover to Bored Games, The Yellow Skip, No Sharp Objects, PO Yaketty Yak.
Friday, November 08, 2013
Mr Handz Datdodishes
Unfortunately Peter is an artist, recent medical advances have still not found a cure for this crippling condition that renders Peter unable to conduct himself correctly in public places as he lives in a make believe fantasy world that expired sometime around 1979. As part of Peters rehabilitation we are trawling him around the galleries to allow him to experience full immersion therapy which will hopefully knock this silly artist idea out of his head and make him get a proper job.
Peter will be on display this weekend at two venues for you to come along and poke, the first is Castle Galleries, Cribbs Causeway, Bristol on Saturday 9th between 2-5pm and the second is on Sunday 10th at Castle Galleries, Chester between 12-3pm.
All events are free, just turn up on the day where Peter will be happy to chat to you about his awkward 'artist' condition and to also offer advice on how to create a blog entry from nothing more than an orange, two rubber gloves and a piece of paper.
Both events will be stuffed full with Impossimals and the new Bloodlines collection, you may even get a few hints as to the solution of the murder encoded within the eight paintings...
See you this weekend :)


























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