First Proper Exhibition Entry

I've actually pulled my finger out and entered four paintings for the Spring Open @ The Egg.
I was originally going to enter some in the last open exhibition 'Winter Blues' in December, but I bottled out at the last minute. Well this time I'm a lot more confident and I'm even painting two new pieces especially for this exhibition.
I've never shown any of my paintings before, so it's quite a big achievement for me getting this far.

I know I won't sell anything. . . . The art world isn't quite ready for Mikey Gannon

Bleuuurgghhhh!!!!!

I woke up this morning at 1am and projectile vomited from both ends. It's a special talent that I didn't know I had.

Another Expensive night out.

What is it with me and these gallery nights at The Egg? I buy myself a cool piece of art for a bargain price and it ends up costing me an arm and a leg because some other weird thing happens to me on the way home. Well it happened again. I went to the opening night of Tinsel and Twinkle's show,
'It was the best of times, It was the worst of times'
As determined as I was not to repeat the 65 quid taxi ride, I think I would have been better off getting drunk and letting it happen all over again.
I took all the precautions I could; I didn't drink Alcohol, I didn't travel home by train and I took my car.

The show as great, very Banksy/Pop Art-ish (I'm not an art critic so that's as far as I'll go). I bought a couple of prints by Twinkle. (Click on them to see bigger versions) and Jazamin found a "Lucky Penny" on the floor and passed it on to me and I thought everything was going great. I got the prints for a bargain price and I got a bottle of wine to take

home. But then the good luck turned bad.
Being a good samaritan and wanting to show off my new car, I decided I would give Karen and Jazamin a lift home. As I was reversing out of my parking space I 'kerbed' one of my whizzy alloy wheels. Then, about ten minutes later, I got flashed by a speed camera on West Derby Road :( I was doing nearly 40 in a thirty. It felt like I was doing about 20. Bloody quiet modern cars. . . . There's a 60 quid fine and 3 points already. I don't even want to know how much an alloy wheel is to repair.
Lucky Penny My Arse.

Tomorrow, I'm having a lie in. . .

I'm not getting up until 8am tomorrow. That's a three hour lie in and i think I deserve it. I'm getting a bit fed up of 10 and 12 hour days, for no extra pay. By 7 o'clock tonight i had a bit of brain ache. I think I'll start claiming some overtime. . .

Painting

I bought a couple of canvases today and started a new painting. At the moment I've got a green thingy going on, so it's green and that's about it. I'm off to the Egg on Wednesday for the latest opening and to pick up Karen's Cannibals :)
This time I'll be driving, so there's no chance of me falling asleep and waking up in Manchester. I'll just be drinking orange juice.
Forthcoming Exhibition

I wonder if I. . . .

. . . . should delete my MySpace account? Does anybody still use MySpace these days? How long will it be before Facebook goes the same way? What will be the next big social networking thing?