Catboy Figurine

Catboy figurine.
Made from clay and acrylic paint.

Spoken Word Piece

Spoken word piece of 'Lets Follow Catboy' poem. Movie runs for 1 minute 45. Some time is needed to download.

I have artistic license to change the words ...





A lot less serious bloopers!

Catboy Popup

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The poems below are read backwards in order starting with Lets Follow Catboy.

By Cheruboy 11 years old.

Night until Out of Sight

Pigbird zooms around the sky, turning into night.
A flock of glowing sheep make the hills all bright.
Catboy has Sticky’s jetpac and to home takes flight,
Until I can’t follow him, because he’s out of sight.

The Fair

Now this is really fun following to a fair.
Sticky is a magician waving magic in the air.
Hey, is that a man or woman standing over there?
Catboys been on the coaster, look at his hair!

Back Street

Strange houses here are growing out of magic concrete.
Run your feet Catboy, a shark wants you to eat.
It’s looking very dangerous on this crazy back street.
Watch out! Pinnie and a mouse are about to meet!

Mona Lisa in the Park

Faceto’s painting Mona Lisa and very artistic.
Catboys’s batting arm has turned missile ballistic.
A duck flies to bread which could be fatalistic.
Sticky with his jetpac is looking futuristic.

Lets Follow Catboy

Lets follow Catboy where he goes in afternoons.
That’s him there in the lights shining like two moons.
Lets hope that car doesn’t blast toxic fumes.
Fat bird has teddies hanging from balloons.

Interview with Artist

For the project I interviewed an artist who combines image with poetry.

Thank you for your time Modroom by doing an interview for my school project.

Artist: Modroom

Biography: (where you went to artschool more if you like)
I started a Photography course at barking College about 5 years after leaving school, but left that after a term to take a Foundation Art course at Canterbury Art College the next year. Ian Dury went there years before me! It's called Kent College Of Something Or Other now. After that I went to Bradford College and did a Degree in Art, David Hockney went there years before me!.. where I ended up specializing in video. Also did an M.A. at Bradford in Printmaking where I got a Post Graduate Diploma because I messed up the thesis.

Website: Gohatgo - http://gohatgo.blogspot.com


Q: How did you get started in the illustration/literature field?

A: Only entered this field recently when I started blogging last year. Before that, beginning at Canterbury Art College, I would write snippets of lyrics from songs I'd be listening to whilst inside my sketchbook.. usually obscure lyrics and sounds such as B Side of 'Remain In Light' by Talking Heads, early Roxy Music albums and the like. Later would start putting odd phrases of my own or bits from novels by the likes of JD Salinger, Kurt Vonnegut, Vladimir Nabokov and so on. I did'nt start rhyming until I started blogging.


Q: How did you find your style? Has it changed since you started?

A: Style has changed since started drawing when a kid, made a conscious effort to change a few years ago, and continues to change. I tend not to look at other work too much and see what pops into my head and rolls down my arm to my hand.


Q: Why do you mix literature with visual art?

A: I've always loved words, especially those that tilt the usual perspective on things, either in songs or novels. Putting them to pictures can create another dimension to the art.


Q: What is your creation process?

A: I draw first then make words. This can be tricky sometimes, but sometimes it creates a meaning that was'nt there. Am trying to go words first occasionally, but as yet they seem to wait for the pictures. I tend to start drawing without knowing what it is I'm going to draw, which is not always easy, and let things develope as I go along. Often I return to unfinished drawings and find they suggest something when I get back to them. I need to develope a more reliable way as well as this one though, and interpreting themes for Illustration Friday is good for fixing my head onto a subject. Working with music is a good way of finding a space to create too.


Q: What is the best part about what you do?

A: Finishing something! Also when an idea finally comes together on the page.


Q: Any advice for young artists experimenting with drawings and poetry or pursuing creative goals?

A: Develope some skill with hand/ eye co-ordination, I used to like drawing from life and copying classic paintings etc. Find your mood-space that gets the mind moving, then try to change what is accepted as the norm and put something of yourself into it. Don't forget your audience, I try not to lose them. Experiment with different media and expand. Don't be afraid to let go of something if you feel it is'nt working. Be an individual. Keep healthy, drink plenty of liquids and try to be nice to people and animals and plants. I remember the first ever school homework I got, we were given a copied list of the alphabet and numbers in handwriting and were asked to trace over the lines. I thought everyone's will look the same, so I deliberately drew along the sides of the lines, this created I nice double-vision effect. No-one said anything.


Thank you,Cheruboy

Thank you.Modroom

School Project

For my school project I combined image with poetry in a pop-up display. This is what it looked like from above.

Speech for Project about Cartoons

In 1843 the word 'cartoon' was introduced into the English Language as a humorous drawing. A good caricature, like every work of art, is more true to life than reality itself.

The Australian Cartoonist’s Association is the world's oldest cartoonist organisation. In 1924, a group of cartoonists met in a room in the Royal Arcade in Sydney, called the Australian Black and White Artists' Club. In 2000 they changed its name to the Australian Cartoonists' Association. Inkspot is the name of their official journal and they have a section for kids on their website.

Since I could draw, I have been doing cartoons. At the beginning of March last year I started publishing my work once a week onto the internet. You can see my project on my website.

Every week a website called Illustration Friday emailed one different word to illustrators and artists around the world and they would draw their interpretation of the word. Most of my work was illustration only but when I became more confident I began to include words which made cartoons.

One of my supporters on my website is Ian Thomas who does lots of reviews and interviews for the journal called Inkspot. He also draws lots of comics. The girls might know Rock N Roll Fairies in the magazine called Total Girl. The boys might know the manga series called Oztaku. Manga is a Japanese style comic but Ian is Australian.

This year I have been putting poetry to drawings after seeing the work of an English artist called Modroom. I interviewed him for my project. His advice to young artists experimenting with drawings and poetry or pursuing creative goals is:

*Develop some skill with hand/ eye co-ordination.
*Try to change what is accepted as normal and put something of yourself into it.
*Don't forget your audience; try not to lose them.
*Experiment with different media and expand.
*Be an individual and have fun.
*Keep healthy, drink plenty of liquids and try to be nice to people and animals and plants.

Show project and read poem …

Collage Mask

I'm 11 now :)