Addict ® Will Barras 'Parachutes' Artist Series 8 Tee.
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Will Barras 'Parachutes' front placement print.
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Will Barras
I always loved drawing ever since I was really young, when I was a kid I always drew cars, nothing except cars, I was obsessed! I read a comic called Eagle and drew a picture of Dan Dare and sent it in, they ended up putting it in the next issue, I should have sent them an invoice but I had other things on my mind!
About 6-7 years ago Steff gave Rick Blackshaw our number. Rick came to meet us in Bristol when he was researching the Scrawl book, I went to meet him in a hotel like the Holiday inn, after that we went to meet Duncan. It’s funny to think of that now, but this was our involvement with the Scrawl Collective began. I think the Scrawl project that’s stuck in my mind the most is the stuff we did for a company in Osaka called GSSA, just because it was our first visit to Japan and it was a real eye opener as it was the first time we did live painting and a mural. We worked with Kami ,Skwerm, and Pete Fowler. They did an amazing painting; we did something which would have fitted on a postage stamp in the bottom right-hand corner! Recently I did a record sleeve for a band called the Warlocks; I was pleased with the way that came out. By the way you can find it in the bargain bin at HMV in Wolverhampton!
I do a lot of painting with Steff Plaetz and Mr Jago. We usually start with a vague idea of what we want to do, then put some colours and shapes down, and the whole thing develops from there. There’s always a fair amount of tuneless whistling and bollocks being talked, but something usually always develops from this.
How do I describe my style? It’s like being strapped to the front of a passenger train which is on a collision course with another train, it’s ‘in the moment’. Bermuda Shorts is an animation company, it’s where I go everyday and work. They’ve given me a space with a desk where I can paint and draw. When pitches come in I work on those, and a few times a year I get an animated commercial to work on. When that happens I do the design work, make storyboards and key frames and work with a team of animators and after effects operators. I love it there, I do art everyday. I try and do normal hours to correspond with my girlfriends working hours, but I do find I have bursts of creativity, then long periods of watching TV and checking my emails.
However, on the whole I try to approach art in the same way a plumber might approach a central heating system; I just want to carry on doing it and just enjoy it. At the moment I really enjoy it and hope I’m still doing it when I’m eighty, and I probably will be as I don’t own any property and I haven’t started a pension. If I ever lost my creative spirit I would work in a bike shop or have a driving job....
