A visit from down south :-)

That lovely southerner Binners delivered a piece of art for me.  Bang on brief and I am really chuffed with it.  Only issue is I seemed to end up with a hangover after his visit

He does lovely work. Ours from him still hangs proudly and is my avatar on many apps/forums.

I saw that on Binner’s Insta a week or so back and it made me smile and sad all at the same time. It’s a lovely piece of art.

My name is Cougar and I approve of this post.

Disappointed he didn’t draw you both enjoying a blunt.

In situ

Your grass needs cutting etc…

Ooh, I’ve always dreamed of finding out what the inside of TJs bedroom looked like 😉

Another binners Insta-stalker here – great picture

@tjagain – I’m impressed with your laundry organisation – 1 for whites and 1 for colours?

Good work Binners.

I am confused, 2 washing baskets imples 1 for dark and 1 for light? Where is the chair for too dirty to go back in the cupboard but not dirty enough for the washing basket?

Nice artwork BTW 😉

1 for whites and 1 for colours?

One for cloth, one for rubber

I’m impressed with your laundry organisation

Soiled and heavily soiled. That’s our laundry basket split. Although my wife calls it “kit” and “clothes”.

Lovely artwork, wish I could come up with a subject he could do for me/us.

Ooh, I’ve always dreamed of finding out what the inside of TJs bedroom looked like

Ew!

One for cloth, one for rubber

EWWWWW!

Fantastic. And he’s managed to artfully get a couple of Greggs pasties into the rocks if you look closely, the little scamp.

That’s… emotional.

Lovely artwork, wish I could come up with a subject he could do for me/us.

Do what I did – a very broad brief.  He had the pic of us ( a favourite pic of mine) and knew i wanted dramatic scenery and an autumn colour palette.  Leave the rest to the creative one!

Ooh, I’ve always dreamed of finding out what the inside of TJs bedroom looked like 😉

Ahem. I think ‘it takes all sorts’ is the correct response here? 😮

Nice work, I can see why that would go in pride of place 👍

Binners’ work is fantastic. I have 3 of his pieces including one my Daughters commissioned from him for my 50th birthday.

Love this one TJ. Absolutely beautiful and no doubt emotional too.

Ah, that’s lovely.

In situ

Awww, that’s nice 👍

Many hours later @IHN’s posts are still perturbing

🙃

Ive the “binners long gallery” at mine.

One was a suprise gift at a mnpr xmas do as i fixed debs car and wouldn’t even take a pint for it and we have 3 duncfest posters he’s penned for the Annual bikes beers and bratwurst festival I host

It was emotional to do. It’s always a big thing when somebody, especially a friend, trusts me to do something so personal. As soon as you gave me the brief I knew exactly what I wanted it to look like though

it was nice to be able to deliver it in person and ended up being a top night

if you’d seem the pair of us putting it up – it was like an Eric Sykes sketch – you’d have understood why it was necessary for us to stay up til Christ knows what time and drink all the red wine

the drive back down south was fun. Even after a Maccy D’s breakfast

I think I should add this, which is a photo I took of the man himself, looking like a renaissance painting

Disappointed he didn’t draw you both enjoying a blunt

Quite a few may have been indulged in by this point…

christ only knows what time this was or how many bottles of Rioja we were in by then

He looks like he’s nicked your wig

Looks more like a cover of a blues folk album by someone in the vein of Nick Drake

We’d been playing an interesting mix of Northern Soul, hard house and Taylor Swift

I may never be the same again

Has anyone ever seen TJ and Uncle Peter in the same room?

https://images.app.goo.gl/9c68aRo7UjHAHMUh6

Wait a minute, TJ had less hair when I saw him and I’d have sworn Binners had some (albeit I think the last pic I saw was the Greggs bike).

Hair theft mysteries aside, that’s some great work, what’s your insta? (if it’s public)

Cheers fella. If you fancy a lot of crayon based twoddle my insta is adam_rowlinson_illustration for my illustration stuff and binlidski for my photos

Looks great, there is something so special about your work Adam.

We have two beautiful commissioned pieces and I suspect more will join them on our walls.

I had a skiing one commissioned for my other half. We love it, the funny thing is that Adam captured exactly how we ski in the poster.

I suspect there’ll be another commission at some point……. worth every penny

Fantastic thread on so many levels.

Art

Love

Friendship

Personally, This is the best week STW has ever had for it’s feel good abilities.

🤗🤗🤗

Thanks for the kind words everyone. It means a lot to me, believe me

This place has a lot to answer for, thats for sure. This whole thing came from the illustrations I started doing for the Monday Night Pun Ride threads. This was the first one I ever did in this style, nearly ten years ago now 😳

Since then its fair to say its taken on a life of its own. to say the least. Its a real honour to do these commissions. I sort of see myself of being entrusted to chronicle and illustrate all your adventures, if that makes sense. Because they are adventures. You lot really do give me the best material to work with.

For my part this is genuinely a labour of love for me. Debs (Mrs Binners) finds this hilarious because in her words ‘you’re a cocky bastard and its the only time I ever see you nervous’. I agonise over them before I send the first visuals through to their new owners. I genuinely feel its quite a responsibility to draw the people and places that are the closest thing to your hearts. What if they hate it? What if its not what they envisioned at all? We’re all desperately insecure us creative types, behind all the gobby bravado 😂

Anyway. Thats enough flannel from me. That all went a bit Gwyneth Paltrow, didn’t it? What I’m trying to say is thank you for trusting me with your most important memories and letting me do something I absolutely LOVE! And TJ’s was really special, for obvious reasons.

Heres the latest commission. Selva in Mallorca in the summer sun. A 1.5 metre wide panoramic print

Mallorca Selve image for Gemma V3 by bin lid[/url], on Flickr

I do a lot of panoramics. A format that doesn’t really translate to Instagram, but theres loads here

http://www.adamrowlinson.co.uk

Oh, and heres TJ’s picture in situ, having been cropped and straightened a bit in Photoshop 🙂

I am delighted with it.  The tone is right in that it makes a statement about our adventures without being too in your face or mawkish.  Both “in yer face” and subtle at the same time.

He looks like he’s nicked your wig

PMSL! ;0)