Filed under: Recent work | Tags: ambush gallery, drawing, ink, men, new work, paint, t-shirt, without walls, works on paper
Had a great time getting involved in the latest Without Walls show.
Was at Ambush Gallery in Waterloo a couple of weeks ago with some really good artists getting involved.
Check out their site here http://with-out-walls.com/
Everyone designed a T-Shirt to sell and also put some works up on the wall.
For the first time I had a go at building my own frames. It turned out pretty good.
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Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: cricket, cricket art prize, drawing, ink, new work, paint, works on paper
Heres’s my entry for the Cricket Art Prize.
Trying to capture some of what it felt like to sit in the slips for hours and hours on a Saturday afternoon.
The tiredness. The pasty-white sunscreen mixed with the bright red sun burn. The annoyance as a terrible batter hangs around after a catch gets put down.
Wanting to get home so you could meet everyone later at the pub.
Done with pencil, paint and charcoal.
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Filed under: Recent work | Tags: carnival, circus, concept, drawing, freelance work, ink, invitations, new work, sketches, wedding, works on paper
My big sis is getting married soon. How exciting. She asked me do design her invitations for her. The theme for the wedding is a kind of retro carnival thing.
Here are some of the early sketches. I really like the designs of those big chair swing rides. I started out with that but then we decided to do something else entirely. I chucked them up here anyway because I liked the sketches.
Then my sister decided to go with the other idea we had going. Having the bride and the groom depicted on the panels of Circus Caravan. You can see the original sketch and then what it looked like when it was finished.
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Heres some works from the Thirsty Artist show last week. Was really fun.
All done with pen and ink and a bit of brush.
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Filed under: Older Work | Tags: concept, drawing, gnomes, sketches, works on paper
I drew these gnomes for a job a while ago. Kinda forgot about them until I was looking for a receipt for something.
The idea was to turn the little gnome into a kinda modern inner-city gnome.
They are pretty rough as they were just concept sketches.
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I love T-Shirts. I have about 900 million.
A friend of mine is starting up a new clothes label and asked me to draw something to put on a shirt.
I’m not really sure whether he is pulling on a shirt or taking it off? Either way he looks pretty creepy.
Just for kicks I included the original pencil drawing that turned into the final inked piece.
Hopefully ill see the finished result soon.
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Filed under: Older Work | Tags: astronaut, boxing, drawing, ink, paint, works on paper
Here is something I did a while ago. It was for a poster show.
The whole was done for fun. I was kinda obsessed with boxers and astronauts at the time, so I decided to pit them against each other. The other 3 pictures are the side attractions that would have run alongside the fight.
The idea was to make everything look those old photographs that have been hand coloured. I used really watered down paint and different kinds of ink and watercolours.
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Here’s something I did recently that went up at my old university.
Its a man sitting at a desk. I used watered down acrylic paints and black ink.
I posted a few close-ups so you can see some of the details.
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Here is a selection of drawings from a recent show in Sydney.
The idea behind these came about when I was thinking about the advent of digital camera’s and how current events and gatherings are easily remembered as almost every minute of the occasion is photographed. Looking back at the older photo’s you might be lucky to have five photo’s of the entire day and more likely only one or two. I can find one photo for Christmas day in 1993 but 20 of a drunk night out 3 years ago in San Francisco. I had the idea of depicting the people in these older photographs as though they were aging and decaying, rotting away as our memory of the event gets less and less vivid. People’s skin becomes cracked and wrinkled and their heads skull like as they age like weird little Kodak Dorian Gray’s. Some people have become very distorted while some have turned into skeletons suggesting an even worse fate. The lines are faint as to suggest a ghostly impression of a event that it slowly slipping away from memory. If you squint your eyes the people disappear from the paper, highlighting the temporal nature of these snap shots.
The original drawings are really faint and unfortunately to see them properly on the computer monitor I had to darken them up a bit. In the flesh the pieces of paper looked almost blank and it wasn’t until you got up close you realised what was on the paper.
I think you’ll still get the idea.
