I’ve got a crit tomorrow about a project based on this blog and I’m terrified because I’ve created some 4/10 work and I’m just well scared because sometimes you doubt yourself which is really weird because why doubt yourself when the only thing you can be is yourself and why even doubt the only thing you can be because that’s just so dumb so there’s no point even doing it so we should all just stop and reblog this post and celebrate creativity and parents who fund your 25 double g&ts a week habit cos drinking clear spirits provide an excellent juxtaposition to your ridiculously bleak present and murky future.

Sometimes its easy to be surrounded by beautiful gradients but feel more inclined to fall into the black hole of despair inside you. Luckily there is that lil tinge of peach on the edge (refer to g&ts point above) and the fact that  if you squint a little (THEN SET YOUR EYEBALLS ON FIRE) a mcdonalds uniform doesn’t look so bad and you could deffo get used to the free burgers after you’ve finished crying into someone’s XL diet coke (diet cos tears are calorie free FYI!!!!!!)

BYEE!!!! XOXOXOXO

Everyone in pic number one just looks well solemn which is really worrying considering its a wedding!!!!! So I decided to give everyone gradient party hats because gradients are fun, parties are cool and hats are wicked DUH!! Look how excited everyone looks!!!!! Gradient party hats for everyone except ugly people because ugly people just RUIN parties.

Ps if you’re thinking you can get your hands on a gradient turban, you better think again sunshine because they are reserved for the groom ONLY. 

Apologies for my hiatus, I have been busy attempting to look busy! It’s been a busy month, but I’m stopping being busy for one moment to create this and preach my gospel for the month of May. 

This is a piece entitled ‘being this cute is a hard job, but someone’s gotta do it’. JUST KIDDING, I don’t need to create art in order to show how bloody cute I AM. This glorious piece is actually named ‘Branching Out’. Inspired by recent events in my personal and work life, I have created this to urge you all to go above and beyond, reach for the stars, grab a bull by the horns (then probs run for your life cos u will die xxx). And if death is the price you pay for pushing yourself then so be it cos you’d rather be dead and 50% interesting than be alive and wasting this sweet air by breathing it into your good for nothing lungs. 

Don’t be that weird little squiggly thing that is so in right now (unfortunately I was unable to craft the trendiest of squiggles because I am surprisingly inept at inDesign). You are a gradient. Your whole body is a gradient. Put your hand to your face and tell me that they’re the same colour (which is really weird and annoying when you’re buying lipstick and you test it on your hand but it turns out it doesn’t even suit you because your face is like 5 shades darker (on a sunny day) and you can’t return which just proves lipstick should be free, who is with me?

Back to the topic at hand, branch out. Look at all the gradient boxes flying into thin air!! Look at how much of a laugh they’re having!!! Don’t you wish you could be a crazy, flying gradient box. Don’t you wish you could be an object of my creation? I AM VERY TALENTED YOU KNOW, CMON ADMIT IT. THESE GRADIENTS DON’T APPEAR ON YOUR TUMBLR FEED THROUGH THE PROCESS OF DIVINE INTERVENTION. If God was a real thing, s/he’d definitely take the form of a gradient on this Melly Loves Gradients Blog.

Merry Christmas from me and my Best Mate. I hope Santa is kind to you this year and I hope that you all make new year resolutions that involve you being less annoying and selfish and I hope that 2013 iS A BLAST even though there is less fun stuff happening ie the Olympics Games 2012 in London and the End Of The World 2012. Keep safe especially at night- just because its Christmas doesn’t mean Thieves have a 2 week Holiday. Thieves are always operating in your Local Area because they don’t have real jobs and so they must self employ themselves which means working irregular hours (at night). 

xxxx

This is a piece dedicated to my little brother and pastel colours x

The best part of my all inclusive holiday was that I could watch BBC TV whenever I wanted to. I watched a few documentaries about something called the Junebilee- something about the Queen and it being the beginning of June, I think. 

Ergo, I created this piece. I wanted to highlight the difficulty of being a female monarch in Britain. From Empress Matilda in the 12th century to Elizabeth now, I feel as if there have always been male oppressive forces at work, whether it be advisors or a Prime Minister and his government. A woman is seen as passive and unfit to rule. When a woman assumes the role of a (often seen as bold, strong willed) male, she is seen as a monster, going against nature.

We may say that we embrace our current Queen now. However this Queen only reigns, not rules. 

I’m sure there has been a massive, gradient shaped hole in your lives since I’ve been gone (I had a great break, thanks for asking. My tan looks exquisite.) 

I’m jetting off for a business trip for a few days- strictly business not pleasure, so none of your cheek please! I thought I’d leave you all with a leaving present and a flirty teaser of whats to come…Thats right. I’m holding bulldog clips. Every professional graphic designer’s 3rd (4th, 5th, 6th, etc etc, you get my point) hand.

EXHIBITION PERHAPS?

Yeah ok, you convinced me.

(PS, bought some new Ray Bans. Hope I don’t lose them in first class.)

A portrait of Kingston university’s rising star, Jack Beveridge.

This is definitely a one off, so don’t even try putting your foot in the door and go around thinking that you’re gonna get a portrait done by the one and only Melly Loves Gradients so shhh, pipe down and reblog this. (Would consider if the price was right and exceptionally high. Kisses also welcome.)

‘I call it…SUNSET FUNSET’- Kel Kimble, Ep 5, S2, Kenan and Kel.

My work is kinda becoming a ‘big deal’ now. And when things start becoming ‘big deals’, they start getting copied and ripped off. 

On the left is anyone’s attempt at gradient art. On the right is MY attempt. 

Support your local artist. Say no to piracy.

Part 3 of the ‘Mini-mel Gradients’ series. A piece for the viewer to look at and reflect on the beauty of life. Lets hold hands with hope and run into the sunset that takes us to eternal happiness.

‘Doing your best means never stop trying’ - Helen Keller.

I think I just sold out to generic graphic design. 

I’ve had an overwhelming number of people asking me if I am selling any of work or if I am available for commissions. The answer is yes. 

Please email blockcolourshoulddie@hotmail.com for more information.

I was playing around with my last piece (an artist is never fully happy with their work) and was left with this. Even when I think I’m not thinking, I’m still thinking! I must have subconsciously made this man, reclining on a chair and looking into a telescope. Maybe its a hint that I want to explore the stars more. Inspiration never ceases to pass me by.

‘Life Today’. A piece I created to express how I feel this morning. I think its fair to say that I’m a complex person. I wouldn’t be an artist if i wasn’t.