{"id":1280,"date":"2020-10-07T15:11:25","date_gmt":"2020-10-07T15:11:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/youngrascal.co.uk\/?p=1280"},"modified":"2023-07-11T13:05:38","modified_gmt":"2023-07-11T13:05:38","slug":"its-a-flavour-trap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/youngrascal.co.uk\/latest-work\/its-a-flavour-trap\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s a Flavour Trap!"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"1280\" class=\"elementor elementor-1280\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-0b93185 elementor-section-full_width elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"0b93185\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-651dd45\" data-id=\"651dd45\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-054c0c4 elementor-widget-mobile__width-initial elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"054c0c4\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>We all had a lot more spare time on our hands during lockdown, pondering on life, the meaning of it all, and whether there would ever be an end to the Covid pandemic. Working in isolation was now standard for all, not just for us home alone designer types. Some, I dare say have and still are struggling with it all, but for me, working from my own small studio has carried on as normal &#8211; I just have to talk more to those who live with me. Poor people.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>I kept myself busy. I spent the duration, with the exception of daily walks, sat before my Mac screens scratching out ideas with my graphic tablet, and experimented with my sculpture.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Over the course of one week I sculpted a cartoon pirate type character being enveloped by an octopus (it was a style I\u2019d never attempted before, so it was great fun to do). As it was a sunny day &#8211; not sure what day of the week it was, did anybody? &#8211; I took it outside, placed it on the garden table and recorded a small video of it. Pleased with the result I poured myself a small glass of Diplomatico rum (the best), raised it in honour to the squid like creation and sat in thought. How, and I don\u2019t how, the image of Admiral Ackbar from the Star Wars franchise skimmed my imagination. Pirate to Admiral I guess, maybe, who knows? But it got me thinking about my favourite tipple and the Admiral. I had messed around with Ackbar before, so I rummaged through my files, hauled him out, and started repurposing the piece. My \u2018now\u2019 vision was to create an old style bottle label, something that I\u2019d never done before. But I had to get the feeling right. It had to have presence.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>So I mixed the pomp of British Naval costume, a porthole before a sunset, attacking tentacles (as this admiral came from the fictional water world of Mon Calamari, it was the perfect visual pun) with a small barrel of rum and, the Calamrian Rum ad was near completion, with the exception of its title. This, frustrated me. I tried many, many fonts with varying names; \u2018Ackbar\u2019s\u2019, \u2018Admiral Ackbar\u2019s\u2019 \u2018The Admiral\u2019s\u2019, but finally went with, \u2018Admiral\u2019s\u2019 in a fine pirate styled, multi layered, drop shadowed stroked font. \u201cLooks good!\u201d I placed the merged contents on a star chart styled background with a gold patterned trim and, it was complete, ready to be wrapped around an old bottle, or slapped on a barrel.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>I\u2019m really very pleased with the depth and colour of this piece and, were an Admiral\u2019s rum to be made, in this galaxy or another, I might even give it a slurp.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Cheers!<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:image {\"id\":1281,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><\/figure>\n<!-- \/wp:image -->\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-93b207e elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"93b207e\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1820\" height=\"2560\" src=\"https:\/\/youngrascal.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Admirals-Rum-1.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-image-4006 wp-post-image wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/youngrascal.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Admirals-Rum-1.jpeg 1820w, https:\/\/youngrascal.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Admirals-Rum-1-213x300.jpeg 213w, https:\/\/youngrascal.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Admirals-Rum-1-728x1024.jpeg 728w, https:\/\/youngrascal.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Admirals-Rum-1-768x1080.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/youngrascal.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Admirals-Rum-1-1092x1536.jpeg 1092w, https:\/\/youngrascal.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Admirals-Rum-1-1456x2048.jpeg 1456w, https:\/\/youngrascal.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Admirals-Rum-1-300x422.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/youngrascal.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Admirals-Rum-1-600x844.jpeg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1820px) 100vw, 1820px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s not drinking until it&#8217;s Calamarian Rum!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6752,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[41],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>It&#039;s a Flavour Trap! 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