breaking practice amp+bad guitarist+monkey wearing glasses=bad freakout monkey music

I'm planning on doing a drawing today, don't know exactly what it will be yet but think I will go with a music themed piece. ATP was pretty amazing and inspiring, really great to see some excellent live music.

Highlights for me would be seeing LOW for the first time, they were just incredible, delicate at times and then growing to all out fuzz distortion apocalyptic destruction. Lee Ranaldo and the Dust were also really great, I saw them awhile back at the Brudenell in Leeds they killed it there and really killed it at ATP too. They are crazy tight and the songs Lee is writing post sonic youth are really amazing and heart felt.

Chelsea Light Moving were great too, it is interesting to see what each member of sonic youth is doing now. While Lee Ranaldo has gone down almost a classic rock band sound with occasional noise freakout thrown in for good messure, Thurston has seemingly traveled back in time to no-wave New York and is creating songs made from scraping all the sonic memories caught in the walls of CBGB's. The results of both bands are, in my mind, amazing and soften the blow of never seeing sonic youth again. CLM makes me want to go out and buy a fuzz and octave distortion and bring the house down around me through sonic warfare. (Groovy and Linda being a definite inspiration there ''DON'T SHOOT!! WE ARE YOUR CHILDREN!! DON'T SHOOT!!'') The dust make me want to actually learn to play guitar...ha.

Anyway before this blog becomes some pretentious naval gazing music review blog (as if anyone reads it or gives a shit and as opposed to it being a pretentious naval gazing doodle blog no one actually looks at or reads) I'll just say that other band highlights were: PORN, mum, magik markers, the haxan cloak and seeing mr Har Mar superstar selling massages in the merch shop and people actually fucking buying them.

Anyway here are some older pictures I did a while back for an exhibition in Helmsley, I'm going to dust them off and take them to a Vintage  Pop Up shop in Birmingham and hopefully somebody will like them enough to buy them.

Well, It's been a long time since I last made a post on here. It's been a bit of a crappy year and I've not really been drawing too much. I'm hoping to get a lovely digital camera for Christmas which will help me document and upload some of my bigger paintings. So I will be putting some of them up and hopefully getting my painting mojo back and doing some large scale canvas paintings again. (I've started one so far and another 3 are halfway done)

In the meantime I may dust of the old brush pen and do a picture tomorrow and upload it, wonders will never cease.

I've just got back from 3 days of alcohol intoxication at All Tomorrows Parties festival and feel mentally and physically drained but very happy. Saw lots of great bands and got to be with some old friends. While drunk and lying on the floor I wrote a bad poem on my mobile:

We are building houses of venom,
my hands are cut,
but they spill no blood.

I coil them gently around your neck,
and
squeeze.

Above is the zenith,
not far above.

We can accomplish any goal,
kill ourselves,
quick or slow.

Preprogrammed virtual destinations,
to travel without moving,
and arrive screaming,

Covered in guilt.

         Soaked in blood.

Just follow the yellow line and go,
everywhere,
nowhere.

These are our forests,
turned to wood.

When all the horizons point to zero,
a no real destination.

All beginnings just mark an end,
you,
   
      have,

              arrived.

old sketchbook

About a year ago I did this sketchbook as part of the sketchbook project NY. Seeing as i haven't had too much time to post any zombie pics, enjoy this post apocalyptic tale instead. The story is in the right order but the covers and inside covers are at the end. Enjoy!?...

There are also some older sketchbooks from previous years here: http://www.sketchbookproject.com/users/jonprocter/artwork

Should you be lucky enough to live in NY city you can actually visit the art house co-op library and see my books along with many many other peoples too. I have 3 books there altogether. 

The address of the Brooklyn art library is: 103 A North 3rd st, Brooklyn, NY, 11249. They are open 12-8pm everyday. My book numbers are #50500, #S53745 and #S70630. I have never been but I think if you have my name and numbers you can find my sketchbooks as they are all bar coded and what not.

More movie night posters for Dead meet York.

My friend Greg 'pickles' Parsons has been keeping me busy again with more poster designs for his movie nights in York. Here are two drawings for Braindead and Nosferatu. Lord knows when I am going to start drawing zombie girls again. I am planning on starting some large scale paintings again, seeing as the weather is nice and I can paint in the yard! ( I am too poor to afford a studio) When i get them done I will post some on here. Yup, maybe i can squeeze a zombie picture out of my breainbox soon too....

poster n what not

My friend Greg from York U.K is putting on some more movie nights at the Duchess this month and also in August. The blob is in August and The Thing will be shown in July. It's a great night with competitions and free popcorn so support this great event if you live locally and get down and see some awesome films! Here are the posters for the events with some doodles done by me.

Also here are the original pictures I doodled. I tried a bit of photoshop colouring in with the blob one. It's a bit hashed as i don't have a mouse, or a good computer...or a good version of photoshop! But i am making excuses.

Finally here is a t-shirt design for the very same Greg's band. I basically had to look at research pictures of people who have committed suicide with shotguns...which was nice. Should be on a t-shirt and available at all good R.S.J gigs soon!

Finally I have been a bit crap at putting more stories and drawings up on here for awhile. It's a little disheartening to have zero feedback and lots of page views from robot hacking programs from Russia....I am going to get some more up on here when I have time. But I found a lost duckling recently and have adopted it! So have my hands full being a mother ducker! If anyone wants more stories let me know and I will get some doodles done.

Jon P

My good friend Greg recently asked me to doodle a picture for a movie night he is putting on in York UK from June. Here is the original drawing and the flyer he made, if you're in the York area drop down and watch some horror films and get some free pop corn!

More dead girls coming soon when i have chance to draw some more!