I went to RBW last weekend and, as its name suggests, it was Rather Brilliant.

As is typical with my con reports I’m not going to produce a day by day diary, I’m just going to tell some anecdotes. I'm collecting these, but I'm not sure why.

Costumes

The theme for this convention was ‘Space Cowboys’ which has a huge amount of scope, and I was pleased to see that so many attendees got into the spirit of it by dressing up and wielding their modified non-lethal weaponry. It made the whole thing feel more cohesive, and I have to say that I have never seen so much participation in the theme. I think my costume went down quite well; I have never had so many compliments on my posterior in a single weekend. I know there are a few pictures of my get up floating about, but I've not seen any yet.

Play your cards Right

 agrajagVolunteered to do a stage-based event at this convention. The nature of this event morphed several times from the sublime to the ridiculous then back again before settling on a tried and tested quiz show format with a selection of rubbish prizes acquired from a local poundshop, as well as a few good prizes that one might actually want to win  agrajag was master of ceremonies and did a masterful job of keeping the energy up for two hours, and I was the hapless, glamorous assistant charged with resetting cards and presenting prizes. The event went very well and we got a lot of good feedback from it, although I doubt there will be a repeat performance.

Art

Naturally, I took a load of art with me for the art show. I'm in the process of uploading it to FA and it will appear here too. I sold all but one piece which I donated to <lj user="red_russell">, partly because I didn't want to take it home, but more because it seemed poetic given the subject matter. This sounds mysterious, but it really isn't, all will become clear when I get around to cleaning up the scan and posting it somewhere.

I also did a piece for the convention charity (In my gallery, it's called 'Outpost Crew'). This was quite an unusual work for me, firstly it's colour, secondly it's quite big and thirdly it's on canvas. If I have anything to do with it it I will never work on canvas again, the result is nice but by god it's a faff. I was hoping it might sell for £100-200, a good sum for the charity and a nice warm fuzzy feeling for me. So, imagine my shock when it went to the main voice auction and sold for a whopping £500! I could hardly believe it, my silly drawings aren't supposed to go for that much!

Boat party

Lastly I have to talk about the boat party, my god, that was awesome! Brilliant venue, great music and a fantastic high-energy atmosphere. Really, this one event made the weekend for me. Thankyou!

So, to sum up, brilliant con, long may it continue to grow.

~Theo