Nail Art: Blur by Julian Opie

Today is Mother's Day here in the UK and, after many hints in the form of links, my lovely husband bought me a set of Nail Art brushes. This means I now have the tools to turn some of the crazy ideas in my head into works of (nail) art.

I've been thinking about this design for a few days. Blur are my favourite band and this artwork by Julian Opie (with an E at the end!) is iconic. I remember going to the National Portrait Gallery in London and falling in love al over again, just like I did when I first saw it in the album cover from 2000.

I would love to bore you all with stories of how much I adore Blur and their songs, all the memories that they bring and how amazing it was to see them live, but I have a feeling you'll be more interested in the pictures. This time I will be ignoring my usual format as describing the entire process would take far too long.

Be warned, there are many, many photos! Make sure you click on them to have a closer look.

 

This is my homage to the band that will be closing the London Olympic Games this year. I hope they like it!

If you want to see the artist's work, click on each name: Graham, Alex, Damon and Dave.

The materials:

• Bundle Monster Nail Art brush kit
• OPI Jade in the New Black
• OPI Suzi Says Feng Shui
• OPI You Don't Know Jacques!
• OPI Your Royal Shine-Ness
• OPI Black Onyx
• OPI Alpine Snow
• OPI Ski Teal We Drop
• Nubar Classic Camel
• Nails Inc Fenchurch Street
• Mavala Acid Yellow
• Mavala Poetic

Oh, and this is a little clip I recorded live in Manchester back in 2009, for your viewing and listening pleasure: Trimm Trabb, a song which was never realeased as a single but my husband and I like it so much we actually played it at our wedding.

Happy Mother's Day!